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721.
by skybrian 6mo ago
This is a company incentive to increase expenses. Maybe not as bad as Dilbert's "I'm gonna myself a new minivan," but still.
722.
by skybrian 6mo ago
It's generalizing from Bun (which might be especially tricky code) to other software that might not have the similar issues. There are lots of different kinds of software.
723.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Announcing the decision a week earlier wouldn't help anyone. Maybe he expected it to work (though he didn't say that), but there's no reason to make a final call before seeing that it did work.
724.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Seems like “if Poland gets too expensive” implies more competition for workers from other companies? Then one company pulling out wouldn’t be so bad.
725.
by skybrian 6mo ago
I don’t see how this helps someone who wants to create a website. You don’t have to use JavaScript on your website if you don’t want to and you can use a different format for your text files that translates to HTML. (Markdown is a popular a
726.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Training a model is more like evolution. The motivation to "cheat" comes from the evaluations giving it a higher score for "cheating." Change the game and the motivation goes away. There's no other motivation to be
727.
by skybrian 6mo ago
But that's not how the training works. Goodhart's law isn't magic. The original model is frozen, so it doesn't learn anything. The copies of the model are learning different objectives and have no incentive to be "l
728.
by skybrian 6mo ago
I don't see how laying people off isn't inherently and always a "cost-cutting exercise." If they had an unlimited budget, they probably wouldn't be laying them off, right? Maybe it's supposed to mean that it&#x
729.
by skybrian 6mo ago
LLM's can certainly emit "I" and "me" at the appropriate time. It doesn't seem all that different than representing other concepts as activations?
730.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Another way to make a distinction is between retirees and people who don't have enough money to retire yet. (The FIRE folks are looking to speedrun becoming an retiree.) This is a bit blurred by wealthy people who could retire and ye
731.
by skybrian 6mo ago
A side effect of higher prices in the California real estate market is that houses are often remodeled before putting them on the market, because the price bump is more than the cost of the remodeling. So, price per square foot may not be t
732.
by skybrian 6mo ago
I tend to get something working and refactor my way out, which does work and you can use a coding agent to do it, but it takes time. Maybe starting over would have been better, but I didn’t know what I wanted the architecture to look like a
733.
by skybrian 6mo ago
I mean, Cloudflare will help website owners ban scrapers unless they pay. It’s kind of what they do.
734.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Did Del Monte's investors and lenders lose money? It would be strange if they didn't.
735.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Watching the computer write text sort of reminds me of using a modem to call a BBS in the old days. This seems like going from 300 baud to 1200 - a significant improvement, but still pretty slow, and someday we will wonder how we put up wit
736.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Both Simon Willison and Antirez said that using LLMs helped them, so it's kind of perverse to read them and conclude the opposite. In particular, doing direct comparisons between metrics like that doesn't work. "Lines of code
737.
by skybrian 6mo ago
None of this would be needed if it were up to parents to only give their kids child-locked devices, and society backed up the parents on that by making it easy to turn on child locks, not selling unlocked devices to kids, etc. Also, you sho
738.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Sometimes people make an assumption that every codebase has a team (or at least a single person) devoted to maintaining it. Companies with large codebases may not be able to afford that, or don't think it's worthwhile. You could h
739.
by skybrian 6mo ago
A near-opposite strategy is when restaurants give you bigger entrees to justify higher prices. That has its downsides too.
740.
by skybrian 6mo ago
In SF Bay Area I often see Asian restaurants in the same plaza as an Asian grocery, so I imagine they have a deal with the grocery? (Or their distributors.)
741.
by skybrian 6mo ago
It sounds like they're missing the concept of sub-buckets that a team member can easily create for a small project.
742.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Why do they put everything into one huge bucket? Wouldn't the best way to clean it up be to create more buckets?
743.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Latency matters if you want programmers to be able to work interactively. We multitask because LLMs are too slow. That's happened before, with people submitting batch jobs in the mainframe era, people working on big projects that take
744.
by skybrian 6mo ago
I agree, and add: You don't need to put up a marketing page that tries to convince people to use your software. Instead (or as well), consider explaining all the reasons why someone should not use your software. More users, more prob
745.
by skybrian 6mo ago
They didn't make a clear argument in favor of that architecture and I'm not really convinced. On exe.dev the agent (Shelley) runs in a Linux VM, which is the security boundary. All the conversations are saved to a sqlite database,
746.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Ideally Roblox would be able to rely on the platform to tell them whether the device is child-locked or not. It would be up to parents to make sure their kids only have access to devices with appropriate locks turned on. Parents could rely
747.
by skybrian 6mo ago
It seems pretty reasonable to me that when you're not driving, the car is basically a taxi and the taxi service is to blame for any mistakes. The car manufacturer isn't just making cars anymore. It's providing a service. Perh
748.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Those profits, if they happen, will be delayed, so it means they aren't worth quite as much.
749.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Just about anything can be claimed to maximize shareholder profits in the long term. This is an illustrative example of how it's done. Whether it actually turns out that way is another question.
750.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Although most of the real-world data is probably boring, collecting more of it likely makes discovering rare edge cases more likely. But since they happen rarely, I imagine that after discovering them, they would then need to figure out how

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