swatcoder

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by swatcoder 5d ago
That's irrelevant from Amazon's perspective. If an agent is popular enough and has some fingerprint they can identify, they have a strong incentive to block it. Agents that scrape and digest web data are entirely anathema to brand
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by swatcoder 5d ago
If your work is analogous to digging a foundation pit or something like framing up homes in a development, that makes a lot of sense. But that's not the only kind of work many of us do, and analogies to things like finish carpentry, fu
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by swatcoder 9d ago
> At least Sam and Dario are aligned with a value set that is understood and clear What value set do you perceive that to be, and why would you take your perception of it to be any more sound than it would be with a politician? It's
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by swatcoder 9d ago
Making requests is inherently cheaper than delivering responses, even with caches. Efficiency improvements can buy a little time on a given resources but won't solve the problem of bot saturation now that everybody can spawn a custom b
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by swatcoder 9d ago
Sure, and that's a big shift in industry culture over the last several decades. While there had long been perfuctory white collar programmer analysts filling the ranks at some dry divisions at IBM, it used to be way more common to have
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by swatcoder 9d ago
For reasonably skilled people, it's often more just a matter of priority. A lot of people get wrapped up in pursuing compensation opportunities or prestige brands as their top priority, only to burn themselves out or wallow in a domain
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by swatcoder 10d ago
Unpredictability would be the wrong word. It's predictable, but noisy. When viewing them through the lens of sequence completion engines, you see their bias towards fulfilling narrative tropes they've been exposed to during traini
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by swatcoder 10d ago
I don't know, that reads exactly like an AI troubleshooter working through a plan without the implicit contextual understanding an experienced human might bring to either the actions or the communications. "Oops, we forgot to tell
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by swatcoder 20d ago
> it's just Claude working on the code, so the details matter less If you're not billed for usage, anyway. Otherwise, for the other 99% of folks, that attitude is of course a pit trap that captures code bases and makes them mai
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by swatcoder 26d ago
No, they use "the same cadence and cliches" because they inflate a short and ambiguous prompt into long and specific prose by making statistical assumptions about what best fills in the gaps. It's not a training problem, it&#
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Yes. The infancy phase of this technology is represented by the pursuit of making wildly grand, wildly expensive, all-purpose models that somehow discern a user's full accurate intent from a lazy, underdeveloped, vague idea that they a
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
There's soooo much by way of experiments, explorations, tinkering, and even projects that you can't possibly pursue through a some SaaS API. The more reasonable comparison is against rented GPU's, while looking at tradeoffs i
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Compare to the cost of professional-grade tools in other trades and craft hobbies. Sure, $4000 can be a lot of if you're a casual hobbyist or are struggle to meet everyday lifestyle costs, but it's definitely not "insane&quot
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Well, there's certainly no objectivity in academic sociology or history, but there's a culture of trying to build narratives and justify viewpoints through richer collections of evidence: multiple testimonies, contemporaneous re
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
I'm sure these are all entertaining and engaging and reveal some exciting insider details, but it's worth keeping in mind that memoirs like these are closer to fiction than most things we think of as "nonfiction". They&#
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Yeah, but as you're "going mad" at Facebook, you keep engaging with the site. You try to peer through the noisy results to see if any of them are actually a match, you try again with different terms, you give up and engage wi
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
In my professional career, my clients value the depth of ready knowledge that helps me use my tools with particular insight and finesse -- a kind of knowledge that exams demonstrated far more effectively than homework when I was back in sch
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Well, it's unusual to "generalize" an idea if you only had two exemplars, one so old and so complicated that all your terms are specifically referent to it and often even hard to be precise about; and the other is both extrem
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Your description grants psychological characteristics like intelligence, will, and intent to the AI. The AI is an intelligent and willful agent that has some intent to take over the firm and is doing that by making strategic hiring decision
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Of course, the news isn't what 's being said but that it's being said. It suggests that they're worried that key talent may get lured away by better liquidity at Anthropic, Google, etc before they can secure the offer
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Over time, I've learned to accept that many people -- even very clever ones -- are incapable of holding a metaphor at arm's length. Once they accept the words of a metaphor as applicable at all, the metaphor collapses entirely int
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
The software is "easy", it's the business and operations that are hard: scaling the infrastructure reliably; finding revenue sources with secure margins; deflecting regulatory and risks responsibility; billing and collecting
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
In the event that the AI bubble doesn't burst, Stripe needs to have a stake in whatever's coming. They have time to explore and pursue specific strategies, but they just needed to make some big and compatible buy. In this particul
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
> The people in support of these bans generally aren't interested in "good vibe coded" software. They oppose LLMs altogether on various grounds, not just the output quality. I think you're very wrong. I think many of
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Benchmarks are the BMI of model evaluation. They may have utility in trying to look at the whole landscape of models, but are very misleading when it comes to making 1:1 comparisons or in developing confidence at to how a given model will d
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Etsy still welcomes small craft artists and makers and provides a convenient e-commerce portal for them, but yes, it's the discovery that's been ruined. They originally broke through and defined themselves by insisting that vendor
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Maybe you were lucky to be raised into financial literacy and only circulate around other people who have, and so can only imagine -- with charity -- what other people must be thinking when they take loans. But others here have been truly n
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
So far, AI lowers the quality and increases the quantity of the media we experience. Blogslam has become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse. Bot operations on social media sites and forums have become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse. A
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
What I read is that you're self-conscious about your writing style and that you find the LLM processed version of your own stream of thoughts to be helpful to you yourself. Which is fine for you, but doesn't change that many peopl
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Sure enough, the prompt is infinitely more expressive and interesting. AI writing is like the voice anonymizer they'd use in TV interviews when they wanted to hide the identity of the person speaking. The output is more adherant to con

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