suttontom

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by suttontom 5mo ago
I know the bricklaying metaphor gets overused, but saying coding is solved and then seeing what kind of code ends up in CC or OpenClaw seems to me like building a retaining wall out of oddly shaped broken brick parts and wood and stones and
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by suttontom 5mo ago
I agree we can/should decide collectively. But when the vast majority of Americans have a place to live, air conditioning and heat, a refrigerator, enough to eat, etc. it's hard not to say that they're comfortable. As for ful
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by suttontom 5mo ago
How do you run a society based on who is dissatisfied? It seems reasonable to say that, even though there's a massive wealth gap, if the poorest are healthier, wealthier, and generally better off than they were a generation ago (that m
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by suttontom 5mo ago
How about the top 10,000? How about any wealth you personally have? At what point does it stop being OK for you to take people's wealth? When someone becomes a billionaire? This reminds me of when Bernie Sanders was asked why it's
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by suttontom 5mo ago
If someone regularly ignored critical instructions even though they were written down and had been told to follow them, that person would be fired.
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by suttontom 5mo ago
At this point this argument has crossed over into whataboutism.
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by suttontom 5mo ago
Customer Success is not engineering, or anything close to it. It's not even really technical.
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by suttontom 5mo ago
Wtf? A sub-agent is a tool you give an agent and say "If you need to analyze logs delegate to the logs_viewer agent" so that the context window doesn't fill up with hundreds of thousands of tokens unnecessarily. In what unive
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by suttontom 5mo ago
This is like asking why you'd advertise on YouTube to people who aren't paying for YouTube Premium.
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by suttontom 6mo ago
You're hearing a lot about the jobs problem largely because the media's job is to scaremonger. There have been multiple studies that have concluded AI's impact on jobs/layoffs is negligible: https://budgetlab.
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by suttontom 6mo ago
This is an absolute lie.
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by suttontom 6mo ago
Maybe this is obvious, but if my name were attached to well-known public OSS code, I'd definitely put forward more effort to ensure it's of as high quality as possible. Within a company you can write somewhat crappy code and have
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by suttontom 6mo ago
Possibly a result of a high Systemising Quotient (SQ)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathising%E2%80%93systemisin...
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by suttontom 6mo ago
The hypocrisy was most notable in experts who said those protesting against the lockdowns (outside), who were considered right wing, were risking spreading the disease, but then said the opposite when the protests supported a left-wing narr
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by suttontom 6mo ago
Google was calling itself an "AI-first" company beginning in 2016 or 2017. They designed and built TPUs nearly a decade ago and were using transformer models in products like Google Translate but didn't make a big fuss about
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by suttontom 6mo ago
Was that a good thing though?
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by suttontom 6mo ago
A combined approach seems pretty promising. Thanks, my original comment was quite flippant.
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by suttontom 6mo ago
That makes sense, thank you.
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by suttontom 6mo ago
Some people also call evaluations "tests". There are unexpected things that come along with new models, like the model in a workflow you'd set up suddenly starts calling a tool and never stops or decides to no longer call a p
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by suttontom 6mo ago
Are you being satirical?
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by suttontom 6mo ago
You would make a good technical writer!
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by suttontom 6mo ago
>Khan Academy recently announced an overhaul of its product that provides students additional academic practice. Now Khanmigo is incorporated directly as a way students can get advice as they’re working through specific problems. A spoke
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by suttontom 6mo ago
Would you trust an LLM to recognize a credit card number more reliably than a regular expression can?
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by suttontom 6mo ago
I've been waiting so long for it to become commonplace for people to equate AI with The Emperor's New Clothes. Hopefully it gains steam.
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by suttontom 6mo ago
What is with the constant use of "folks" in "queer folks"? Is it offensive to call them "queer people" now?
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by suttontom 6mo ago
How odd, are you under the impression that LLMs have self-awareness or understand their own internal mechanisms? Do you know that you can tell an LLM almost anything and, absent a tool, it will tell you that you're correct? By your log
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by suttontom 7mo ago
This is unfair and dismissive of many roles. Coordination in a massive, technically complex company that has to adhere to laws and regulations is a critical role. I don't get why people shit on certain roles (I'm a SWE). Our PgMs
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by suttontom 8mo ago
"Python" or Pynchon?
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by suttontom 8mo ago
If all you're doing is telling an LLM to do something in all caps and hoping it follows your instructions then it's not a "security model" at all. What a bizarre thing to rely on. It's like people have literally for
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by suttontom 8mo ago
At some FAANG companies, using AI is now part of the role profile against which your performance and compensation is assessed. So, yes, some engineers are technically getting a raise for using AI.

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