skybrian

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by skybrian 6mo ago
I like using them for coding, but I'm wary of making software that depends on an unreliable, expensive remote API. I'd rather have the agent write code and have no runtime dependency. It might be nice to have something simple and
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by skybrian 6mo ago
My understanding is that it's due to better drilling techniques. The industry learned a fair bit from fracking and they're learning more from experience as they apply it to geothermal. No particular breakthrough, but there's
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by skybrian 6mo ago
If you declare specific error types and callers only write handlers for specific cases, then adding a new error breaks them. If you just declare a base error type in your API, they have to write a generic error handler or it doesn't ty
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by skybrian 6mo ago
That will help locally, but for a published API or a callback function where you don't know the callers, it's still going to break people if you change a union type. It doesn't matter if it's inferred or not.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
The LLM's do quite a lot of reading. The question is what to feed them. (What counts as good context?)
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by skybrian 6mo ago
I think the lesson is to be careful about introducing incompatibility via the type system. When you introduce distinctions, you reduce compatibility. Often that’s deliberate (two functions shouldn’t be interchangeable because it introduce
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Sure, since Google is both a supplier and a competitor, it’s both vendor finance and hedging. Also, it increases their investment in AI, in general. Arguably, too much of this kind of hedging is anti-competitive. But that doesn’t seem to be
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by skybrian 6mo ago
That’s a bit strong. A coding agent doesn’t know , but they’re pretty good at debugging problems. It can speculate about possible fixes based on its context.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
The risks are different, but there's no getting around that the value of any investment is based on future cash flows and that's speculating about the future. To the extent that Google and Anthropic are competing for AI business,
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Context: a few weeks ago, Anthropic signed a deal to buy "multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity" from Google and Broadcom [1]. There have been several previous deals, too. Some people call this sort of thing a "c
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by skybrian 6mo ago
It may be doubtful, but it seems like it would be worth looking into to see if you qualify for a refund?
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by skybrian 6mo ago
You knew what the price was when you paid for it. You weren't misled. What's the injustice? Yes, it's a windfall for the business, and it would be nice for them to pass it on, but unless they promised to do it, that wasn&#x
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Also true of any other refund a business might get for any other expense the business was overcharged for. Not sure why anyone is surprised.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
It doesn't seem obvious. How can you tell?
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by skybrian 6mo ago
That assumes discovering a security bug is random and it could happen to anyone, so more shots on goal is better. But is that a good way to model it? Ir seems like if you were at all likely to be giving dependencies the extra scrutiny that
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Most apps aren’t standalone and the services they depend on are nontrivial to build. For example, maybe you could vibe code a guitar tuner app, but not a ride share app.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
For me it’s so my coding agent keeps running when I close my laptop lid and it goes to sleep. VM in the cloud because I’m too lazy to set up a computer to be running as a server all the time.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Their first location (PDX) is on Amazon I believe and not accepting new customers. They’ve said it’s much more expensive for them than the others. Their other locations are listed here: https://exe.dev/docs/regions
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Sometimes “better” means “customized for my specific use case.” I expect that there will be a lot of custom software that never appears in any app store.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
From the announcement, I'm getting only a vague idea about what this is. It sounds like this Agent might run in some kind of sandbox with access to files? It would be nice if there were some documentation for the environment it runs in
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by skybrian 6mo ago
To make this a fair comparison, you'd also need to include how much they paid you to write the script, how long it took, and how much energy you used.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
This already exists. I’m a happy user of exe.dev VM’s. They have a coding agent called Shelley ( https://exe.dev/shelley ) that works fine in a web browser on my laptop, tablet, and phone. I can close my laptop at at any time
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by skybrian 6mo ago
There are plenty of people running Linux. The Framework laptop looks pretty sweet. Raspberry Pis are popular and cheap. It's not mainstream but it doesn't have to be. You could use an iPhone and another computer for hacking.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
"It won't fix everything" doesn't seem like much of an argument against it, though?
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by skybrian 6mo ago
This time it passed the piano keyboard test: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_69e7ffafbb048191b96f2c93758e3e40 But it screwed up when attempting to label middle C: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_69e8008ef62c819199
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Educating billions of nontechnical users is far harder than technical fixes. It’s not going to happen at scale, so that’s basically an excuse to do nothing. Mobile phones are mostly for nontechnical users. There are some accommodations for
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by skybrian 6mo ago
I suppose if it’s being actively exploited, the next step would be to make users wait a day, like the plan to change how Android side loading works.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Instead of putting secrets in the same VM as the agent where they could be exfiltrated, they should be in an http proxy outside the sandbox. [1][2] [1] https://fly.io/blog/tokenized-tokens/ [2] https://
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by skybrian 6mo ago
As a sales pitch this is unconvincing. It's easy to save data a file. Why this file format?
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by skybrian 6mo ago
> Get rid of the unused on-street parking spaces and you immediately increase a suburb's density by something like 5%-10%. As you say, only for new construction. The lack of new construction is itself the problem.

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