taurath

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by taurath 6d ago
What a terribly enshittified website. Probably took all its content from free community members too
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by taurath 7d ago
Yknow, I guess you’re right, human creativity really has no place in your world.
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by taurath 8d ago
I have artist friends - asking AI to draw something similar to subjects they've drawn ends up making, line for line, the exact image they created, hallucinated alongside a couple others. They spent decades getting good at their craft.
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by taurath 8d ago
Depends what you’re doing. Constraints are different between projects, and advice given for how to utilize AI rarely takes that into account. Don’t sling when you need to craft, and don’t craft when you need to sling. Knowing the difference
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by taurath 10d ago
They’re not giving any details about why or how. If they were the moral people they say they are, and believed what they say about it killing humanity they would stop unilaterally. These are the “rationalists” but they act like the fundamen
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by taurath 11d ago
How’s messages? Oh still 2008?
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by taurath 11d ago
I haven't found anyone who isn't working for OpenAI/Anthropic, or isn't selling a solution. There seems to be very little organic takeup - either out of budgetary reasons, or more likely ineffectiveness relative to ephem
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by taurath 12d ago
I’d love examples of it actually working but right now all it’s seemed to be is hype.
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by taurath 13d ago
It’s Different This Time(tm)
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by taurath 14d ago
Can’t sell Gemini if they were to make Search good. Streaming services already adding in ads to “ad-free” tiers they’ve now named “premium”. Quality of life on the internet has gotten shitty while Reality Classic stays mostly the same, thou
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by taurath 14d ago
I find this explanation has a lot of applications for programmers within companies. It’s one thing to get your LLM to give an answer, it’s another to bring a group of people into shared understanding of a domain.
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by taurath 15d ago
I have home projects like this too, and those techniques can make things well, it can also rabbit hole in ways that are less productive sometimes. I’m constantly trying to push my comfort level and find what I can delegate and what I need t
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by taurath 15d ago
Quality code is easy to make changes to. What makes terrible code terrible is that changes become harder and harder to make over time. LLMs haven’t solved this, but the marketing acts as if it has, and many engineering orgs seem to have ins
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by taurath 15d ago
When the code is shitty it becomes harder and harder for the models to make changes and this grinds progress down to a halt - this has been my experience with “factories” trying them and doing refining steps every few months. I sincerely do
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by taurath 15d ago
Closed loop systems consume like 40% more power, and aren’t recycled - they’re filled with refrigerant. We’re talking in the southwest where the river is running dry, most power plants are natural gas plants and they use water for cooling (
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by taurath 15d ago
It is actually consumed water.
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by taurath 16d ago
Linkedin, Amazon and others have gotten around this by adding a "new" feature, default on. I've gone into privacy settings where everything is unchecked, except a newly added checkbox. This is apparently enough to hold up the
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by taurath 17d ago
> I can’t wait to have an agent navigate and summarize my options for me You must gave no idea how susceptible agents are to marketing! I used agents in conjunction to my own research on a niche item lately and while it was helpful for s
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by taurath 17d ago
The moment code gets written and read back, the decisions made are often treated as gospel by frontier LLMs, even if it was just something that the LLM optimistically created itself. This seems to be one of the core alignment problems to me
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by taurath 18d ago
The waste overall for data centers is beyond terrifying. Enough water for 1.2 billion people. It’s like all the GenX and Boomers looked at the challenges younger people will face and decided make it as bad as possible start kicking them in
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by taurath 18d ago
> What data is actually being collected about the user, and what is done with this data? This question implies that the answer could be something other than the maximum amount of data collection and monetization of that data they can get
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by taurath 18d ago
I watch my frontier models fail to make the simplest tradeoffs in tasks daily. I watch zealots sputter out after the initial burst of activity. I fear for my loved ones when the bills come due and we don’t have an ROI on it, and any model t
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by taurath 18d ago
Meanwhile a huge portion of management and leadership in software companies are encouraging everyone to de facto stop looking at code and let the LLM and a bunch of boundaries handle this for you.
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by taurath 19d ago
I can’t help but think the effective outcome of using this is gonna be a ton of language quirk usage, mass functional chaining, and single letter variables. Optimizing for fewest LOC is probably slightly more bad than more LOC, and both are
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by taurath 19d ago
Taking a profit means you have to show numbers and the sooner you show numbers the harder it is to take people’s money.
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by taurath 21d ago
I am a software dev and use LLMs daily but that’s not what I’m talking about, I’m talking about vibe coded products built new. I find LLMs much less useful at things that are not already built. I’ve watched initiative after initiative fail
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by taurath 22d ago
They were loaded before owning real estate next to Stanford. It isn’t some mom and pop they were upper crust > Rahim co-founded the Amidi Group in 1980, a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic
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by taurath 22d ago
Where are these products, I would like to see them
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by taurath 22d ago
I find it regularly incapable of doing the most basic things - maybe the idea is to think in terms of more detail? It’s kind of like saying what’s the point of poetry when a dictionary exists
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by taurath 24d ago
> If many people hated their products, they wouldn't use them You do understand how drugs work right?

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