skybrian

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by skybrian 8mo ago
A problem with this line of reasoning is that the people killed by your hypothetical bombs are likely not the ones responsible for the previous attack, even if they do live in the same country. Warfare is in general a very poor system of ju
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Finding a thinning seems like a restricted version of a diff algorithm where you only delete things? The thinning is a diff represented as bits. This isn't very compact, but you could run-length encode it.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Maybe if you have 100 browser tabs or something silly like that?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Not a fan of OpenClaw but if you're going to do that, why not on a service that gives you multiple VM's? https://exe.dev/docs/use-case-openclaw
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I was looking there because the high-level documentation doesn't seem detailed enough to understand how it works. Maybe some intermediate-level explanations are needed?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
What toolchain do you use to build your apps?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
At a high level this sounds great. But looking into the details about how the component model will be implemented, it looks very complicated due to concurrency: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob&#
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by skybrian 8mo ago
There was a well-specified design doc and Chrome implemented it. It worked. Sometimes that's all you need to get a defacto standard. This new standards process is making some useful improvements, though.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Your reaction is worse than the article. There's no way you could know for sure what their writing process was, but that doesn't stop you from making overconfident claims.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I have a design doc subdirectory and instead of "plan mode" I ask the agent to write another design doc, based on a template. It seems to work? I can't say we've looked at completed design docs very often, though.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Sounds interesting, but I'm not quite getting the relevance for people writing code with an agent. Should I be doing evals?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
If two customers crawl the same website and it uses crawl-delay, how does it handle that? Are they independent, or does each one run half as fast?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
So what do you do? Do you define roles somewhere and tell the agent to assign these roles to subagents?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
How do you define visibility rules? Is that possible for subagents?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
If the problem is when the joke lives on amusing undergrads long after you've tired of it, that just makes it worse.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
If you can remember where you read it, could you share a link?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
> Almost certainly, any reasonable depreciation schedule of the cost of training [...] Maybe not? This is an argument that has to be made using numbers. We can't do the estimate without the numbers.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I mean, I like puns but they're a flash in the pan. Jokes get old after a while and you don't want to embed them in something fairly permanent like a building name.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
What did he say?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Coding agents gain a lot of power from being able to download specialized utility programs off the Internet, using apt-get or whatever. So it seems like running in a VM is going to be more popular? A limited plugin API is interesting in som
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Other languages (such as Go) try to keep objects on the stack rather than the heap to avoid putting pressure on the garbage collector, increasing performance. (This seems more important from a practical perspective than supporting continuat
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Broadly speaking, the “freedom of users” is often protected by competition from competing alternatives. The GNU command line tools were replacements for system utilities. Linux was was a replacement for other Unix kernels. People chose to i
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by skybrian 8mo ago
We should be more specific about what’s surprising. The US being able to engage in a very one-sided air war is not surprising. The Gulf War went similarly well and so did the 2003 invasion of Iraq, at first. I think it’s surprising that att
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I imagine a reasonably intelligent coding agent would notice that an RSS feed already exists and use it. Possibly transformed if it's not quite the format you want?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Maybe, but on any given subject, most of us haven't done any investigation at all. An article written by actual journalists based on what sources tell them beats whatever our uninformed opinions are on the subject.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
There doesn't seem to be any reporting in the blog post linked to by this tweet? Here's the news story it seems to be based on: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthrop...
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I don't know about solved, but I've seen some interesting ideas for making it safer, so I think it could be improved. One idea is to have the coding agent write a security policy in plan mode before reading any untrusted files: h
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by skybrian 8mo ago
It seems like that could be done in the editor if you auto-reformat on load and save. (Assuming there's an agreed-on canonical format.)
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by skybrian 8mo ago
You'll need to give it another metric to improve on.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I'm not sure "true" reasoning is really necessary. Coding tasks have a lot of guessing what the problem might be and then investigating. Under those circumstances, a hallucination is just a guess that didn't work out.

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