stillpointlab

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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
That does not match my own experience, which is why I wonder if Google has evidence of that. Consistently, lower intelligence models provide worse results in my own work. But I don't have evals on my side, just vibes.
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
That would be concerning if true, since they seem to have made a heavy bet on multi-modal as the way forward. I wonder if this counts as evidence against that hypothesis? That multi-modal is struggling to keep up with SotA and the best they
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
Does Google believe people want fast models because they have some sort of evidence of that preference? Or are they no longer capable of delivering a Pro model?
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
It gives me a warm feeling when companies invest in open source support in this way. Helping great projects get even better is somehow better than releasing yet another project.
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I agree, but I really started to feel it more with AI. Before AI there was a little more friction to starting projects. Now the friction from idea to MVP is near zero. So the temptation to take the easy path feels even stronger than it did
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I think that is true in fast moving and AI adjacent business, but less true in established players. Like everything. The main issue are businesses where the per-seat model is their entire business model. There is a balance between taking ad
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I just mean for me as a solo dev I guess. For example, github gives 2 users as part of a basic org and charges extra per seat, so if I want seats for individual agents so I can track them separately then I have to pay more. Same with Google
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
One thing I have been doing to avoid the feeling of starting 100 projects and finishing none, is to work on one big ambitious project. That way I don't have a bunch of half finished projects staring at me, each accusing me of abandonin
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
One advantage of code over many other use cases is that github is often the source of truth, so whatever is in Claude Code or Codex is ultimately replaceable. It's for this reason I am bullish on text formats in general. Or maybe sqlit
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
This is obviously the future, where this will all end up. But just like when I saw the demos for Google's "AI build the interface dynamically", I wonder how much of the demo actually translates to real usage. One thing that t
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
One thing that continues to give me pause is Fable's insistence on using my fist name in messages and docs. Like, I'll explain what I want to the AI and ask it to write out a spec or brief and Fable says "Jamie wants me to ..
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
Believe it or not, the diversity argument is the main source of hope that I have that AIs won't wipe us out. I mean, it hasn't stopped humanity from causing mass-extinction, but hopefully the AI will be more reasonable.
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
But the AI will have read this essay right? And this very discussion. And it will have over a 100 years to plan. I think any vision of AI that is smart enough to move planets but dumb enough to display the lack of foresight you describe is
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I mean, what seems more efficient: creating massive city sized domes that are self contained and controlling the entire environment to sustain human life, "magically" dispelling our atmosphere and boiling off our oceans, mastering
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I watched a let's play video recently where someone played your demo. Hope your final release goes well!
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I'm working on a platform for context management that includes apps that operate on structured text formats (e.g. YAML, JSON, XML, MD) and provides editors for structured text formats (code editing using codemirror, markdown editing us
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
Why would the SSE do that to Earth, when there are other close-by planets that it would have the same capability to terraform? I mean, leave us Earth and take Mars or Venus or something. As an aside, in my own "I'm 14 and this is
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I was investigating Durable Objects (DO) and had Fable walk me through where in my app they might be appropriate. One place had a dependency with billing (where I use a transaction now) and the proposed re-work to allow for concurrent editi
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
Each game itself is mostly throw-away (although a few have some impressive graphics bling which must have taken some effort). I've been watching a channel called "Idle cub" [1] and he posts a new game every day (well, almost,
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I've been watching a lot of let's play content on YouTube for incremental games (it's like an ASMR thing) and after watching a lot of these games it is clear that pacing a video game is a challenge. Sometimes the player finds
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
> We have long had the problem that there are more people who want to write code than people willing to review it. I think this is an important thing to mull over. The world is going to be a different place for those who wanted to write
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
It seems possible, in fact reasonable, to understand my observation as following from your assumed "correlation". I gave it context that it is having a conversation with an expert, it correlates it's output with the context.
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
I agree with this post's gist, and I've certainly noticed how LLMs change their interaction with me once I demonstrate some knowledge. I've often started a technical conversation very vaguely and only once I challenge the LLM
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by stillpointlab 2mo ago
Before I officially got into development as a career I had a manual labor job at a local business. They were debugging issues in their operations and brought in a consultant that wrote out workflows using FoxPro [1] a Database Management Sy
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by stillpointlab 3mo ago
That is a good point and I don't mind getting a bit philosophical when I point out that experience is distinct from rationalism. Underneath this there is an argument about empiricism vs. rationalism (or realism vs. idealism). The hand-
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by stillpointlab 3mo ago
It is comforting to find other people experiencing the exact same reality as me, since I see so much in this post that matches my own experience. It reminds me of all the recent talk about "taste". Architecture "quality"
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by stillpointlab 3mo ago
I was cleaning my office a couple of days ago and found stacks upon stacks of paper. I've had a habit for over a decade of taking printer paper, folding it half length-wise, and scribbling notes on it as I work. I use it like a tempora
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by stillpointlab 3mo ago
Today it is SQLite, tomorrow Linux? I'm not sure of the long-term viability of these brute force swarm approaches, but clearly the AI companies dig the marketing they get out of it. But the fact that they get so far at this stage sugge
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by stillpointlab 3mo ago
> but soon models may not need to be updated Which is why my original post mentioned the volatility in models. We aren't just doing research on frontier, there is a huge amount of research on quantization, distillation, etc. that is
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by stillpointlab 3mo ago
I think part of this thinking is in reverse. What I mean by that is people are saying something like "Imagine if 18 months ago a company started to create an ASIC based on GPT-4o (or whatever was good at the time). By today they'd

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