svara

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by svara 9mo ago
That's one way to look at it, as just the next iteration of subredditsimulator. The qualitatively new step leading to emergent behavior will be when the agents start being able to interact with the real world through some interface and
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by svara 9mo ago
You're right it isn't fair to reject someone's scientific argument just because they seem unfamiliar with how professional science works. We shouldn't have believed the study more if it actually had been in Nature. I d
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by svara 9mo ago
It does not require more explanation: publication bias means null results aren't in the literature; do enough small low quality trials and you'll find a big effect sooner or later. Then the supposed big effect attracts attention a
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by svara 9mo ago
> They're from a major peer-reviewed study published in Nature, the highest-impact journal. No, the domain name is nature.com because it's in a Nature Publishing Group journal, Scientific Reports , which is their least prestig
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by svara 9mo ago
This is proven. You can prove it yourself easily. Take a novel from your bookshelf, type in any sentence from the novel and ask it what book it's from. Ask it for the next sentence. This works with every novel I've tried so far in
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by svara 9mo ago
Basically mirrors my experience. Interestingly, when you point out this ... > IDEs/agent swarms/fallability. Both the "no need for IDE anymore" hype and the "agent swarm" hype is imo too much for right now.
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by svara 9mo ago
I'm a fan of AI coding tools but the trend of adding ever more autonomy to agents confuses me. The rate at which a person running these tools can review and comprehend the output properly is basically reached with just a single thread
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by svara 9mo ago
> Make them give you problems, instead of ready-made solutions Yes, this is one of my favorite prompting styles. If you're stuck on a problem, don't ask for a solution, ask for a framework for addressing problems of that type,
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by svara 9mo ago
> (...) grew up with (...) feels fairly natural (...) Really all there is to that discussion.
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by svara 9mo ago
This really makes no sense because you can just listen to the man himself (and there's a lot of material).
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by svara 9mo ago
> BYD started selling these [prismatic LFP] cells as grid-level battery packs to compete with Tesla, and they are a truly astonishing 53% cheaper per MWh than Tesla’s. What? Wow!
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by svara 9mo ago
Now calculate the necessary rate of fuel burn and fuel requirement for a given trip; tensile and tear strength needed for the balloon material and seams. Tbf they probably didn't do all these calculations, but should have. They risked
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by svara 9mo ago
> many times fundamental architectural issues cripple any attempt at prompting my way out of it, even though I've been quite involved step-by-step through the whole prototyping phase. This doesn't make sense to me. Surely if yo
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by svara 9mo ago
Don't "vibe code". If you don't know what architecture the LLM is producing, you will produce slop.
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by svara 9mo ago
I suspect that's neither a skill issue nor a technical issue. Being "a person who can code" carries some prestige and signals intelligence. For some, it has become an important part of their identity. The fact that this can n
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by svara 9mo ago
> but I think they always implicitly assume that LLMs are more useful for the low-intellectual stuff than solving the high-intellectual core of the problem. Yes, this follows from the point the GP was making. The LLM can produce code for
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by svara 9mo ago
We've been hearing this a lot, but I don't really get it. A lot of code, most probably, isn't even close to being as challenging as a maths textbook. It obviously depends a lot on what exactly you're building, but in man
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by svara 9mo ago
Civilization is literally built on what you're saying being wrong. It's not wrong because of physics or biology, but because civilization made it so. Like so many cultural achievements, it's true when you can count on the per
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by svara 9mo ago
You can go back to the ancient Greeks to explain what is wrong about that. Literally two thousand years of civilization were spent on combating the pockets in which people live by that principle.
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by svara 9mo ago
I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription because of Gemini 3, so obviously I'm having a different experience. That said, I use Opus4.5 for coding through Cursor. Gemini is for planning / rubber ducking / analysis / search. I
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by svara 9mo ago
> If all an engineer did all day was build apps from scratch, with no expectation that others may come along and extend, build on top of, or depend on, then sure, Opus 4.5 could replace them. Why do they need to be replaced? Programmers
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by svara 9mo ago
> If superhuman intelligence is solved it'll be in the form of building a more healthy society (or, if you like, a society that can outcompete other societies). Maybe so, but the point I'm trying to make is this needs to look n
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by svara 9mo ago
It's worth thinking about, but why hasn't this already happened? Or maybe it already has, and if so, what about AI specifically is it that will make it suddenly much worse?
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by svara 9mo ago
I'm mostly a fan of AI coding tools, but I think you're basically right about this. I think we'll see more specialized models for narrow tasks (think AlphaFold for other challenges in drug discovery, for example) as well, but
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by svara 9mo ago
> The sad thing is: They'll never learn how to think. Drawing a sense of superiority out of personal choices or preferences is a really unfortunate human trait; particularly so in this case since it prevents you from seeing developm
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by svara 9mo ago
I've also not had great experiences with giving it tasks that involve understanding how multiple pieces of a medium-large existing code base work together. If that's most of what you do, I can see how you'd not be that impres
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by svara 9mo ago
From the way you describe it, our process does not sound that different, except that this > If AI were a thing that could reliably pluck the abstract ideas from my head and turn them into the corresponding lines of code, i.e. automate th
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by svara 9mo ago
I do read it. In my experience the project will quickly turn into crap if you don't. You do need to steer it at a level of granularity that's appropriate for the problem. Also, as I said, I've been coding for a long time. The
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by svara 9mo ago
> And when I ask them about it, they answer something like "oh but programming is the boring part, now I can focus on the problem solving" or something like that, even though that's precisely what they delegate to the AI.
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by svara 9mo ago
You wrote out a fantasy here that says more about what content you seek out than anything else.

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