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by selridge 8mo ago
This is correct. They will A/B test titles AND update the title w/o warning over time, often 3-6 times per article post publication. They used to change the URL a bunch of times after publication! Seems crazy because it is but the
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by selridge 8mo ago
This is the way. Gl; hf.
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by selridge 8mo ago
And being willing to be wrong and to be misled; finding ways to contain that or build forcing functions against it. In a strange way that's exciting, because it forces me to learn. And sometimes forces me to confront whether stuff I ha
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by selridge 8mo ago
We DEEPLY do not. That's not, IMO, a "skills go down" position. It's respecting that this is a bigger maybe than anyone in living memory has encountered.
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by selridge 8mo ago
We do automate lots about flying, not just take-off and landing. It's why a 4-engine aircraft in the 1960s required flight crews of 6-8 people just to fly the thing when they can be routinely flown with 2-3 today.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Precisely, especially because habits have been bound up in the high (and difficult to measure!) cost of code. We got precious about it, really.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Here is what I said: “ This shift is an analogous to how we took having to do computer arithmetic out of the hands of programmers in the 80s. There used to be a substantial part of programming that was just a computer arithmetic. Now, almos
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by selridge 8mo ago
Who is this we, kemosabe?
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by selridge 8mo ago
Looks really cool. Thank you for sharing!
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by selridge 8mo ago
I said this situation is reminiscent of how we took computer arithmetic out of the hands of programmers in the 80s and you gave me a big lecture about how easy it was to make your own sine function which concluded in you explaining that eve
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by selridge 8mo ago
"Oh, IEEE 754 double precision floating point accuracy?" Ok, so we do agree! You DON'T want to go back to a system where everyone had to do their own arithmetic just to make a program! That's fabulous. I'm glad that
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by selridge 8mo ago
>This is exactly why API-level access matters more than consumer subscriptions for production workloads. Consumer plans are subsidized with the assumption of interactive, low-volume usage. The moment you programmatically route through th
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by selridge 8mo ago
On whose arithmetic? You’re just showing me the blackboard approximation. How about just on x86? What are the bounds and how do you know?
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by selridge 8mo ago
It's just a category of an error of a piece. You can't conclude anything reliably from their choice of electron over native apps. You can't. You can ASSERT things like the author does, like "The state of coding agents ca
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by selridge 8mo ago
He's quite good sometimes. But we don't always need to reach for that kind of writing if we struggle. If you want something from that era which is written by a young man who is trying to set the world on fire, you should try: htt
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by selridge 8mo ago
Was it a good thing for anyone writing software which included those things to need to not only work out how they are on a blackboard but how they are on the real machine in question? And how they are on the next machine over? Do you yearn
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by selridge 8mo ago
I mean the article is pretty short. And what it implies presents itself in the subtitle! It opens with a "fact" (a link to the author's own tweet) which says: "The state of coding agents can be summed up by this anecdote
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by selridge 8mo ago
Markedly better than six months ago.
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by selridge 8mo ago
We are in this super weird space where the comparable tasks are one-shot, e.g. "make me a to-do app" or "check these binaries", but any real work is multi-turn and dynamically structured. But when we're trying to sh
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by selridge 8mo ago
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing. It's a lot more sophisticated than what I did w/ Ghidra + LLMs.
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by selridge 8mo ago
I also did this approach (scripts + home-brew cli)...because I didn't know Ghidra MCP servers existed when I got started. So I don't have a clear idea of what the comparison would be but it worked pretty well for me!
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by selridge 8mo ago
>While end-to-end malware detection is not reliable yet, AI can make it easier for developers to perform initial security audits. A developer without reverse engineering experience can now get a first-pass analysis of a suspicious binary
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by selridge 8mo ago
They are compute constrained and they have tens of millions of dollars of free cash flow. They could’ve written that app in COBOL for God sake. What are we to presume from the fact that they did not do that?
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by selridge 8mo ago
> "Did you check?" is the most expensive question, and one of the most feared in my experience in tech circles. Here it’s a climb-down. Writing tests to validate translation is orders of magnitude less work (and less likely to
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by selridge 8mo ago
That’s hard. Sometimes you will do that and find it prompts the model into “strategy talk” where it deploys the words and frame you use in your .md files but doesn’t actually do the strategy. Even where it works, it is quite hard to specify
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by selridge 8mo ago
What does any of this have to do with choosing an electron app over a native app? What does any of the malaise about discord have to do with their choice of runtime? It is an untested hypothesis that if discord had a native app, all the pro
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by selridge 8mo ago
Oh damn. Dilbert dude died. Pour one out for someone other than him who deserves it.
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by selridge 8mo ago
> LLM prompts and responses, if not automatically logged, can easily be automatically logged. What will you do with what you’ve logged? Where is “the prompt” when the chat is a chat? What prompt “made” the software? If you’re assuming th
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by selridge 8mo ago
Is teams bad because it’s an electron app?
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by selridge 8mo ago
And how does the answer to your question bear on the claim I’m making?

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