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by themgt 3mo ago
For sure. You cannot have "only higher level thoughts" without doing lower level work. Spend 3 days a week writing Ruby on Rails and 2 days hand rolling x86 assembly. Every web dev I know has been doing this since long before LL
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by themgt 3mo ago
Even with a large database servers (10s of CPU cores, 100s of gigabytes of RAM) bottlenecks arise pretty quickly. Err, do they? For what percent of real world use cases? The database can scale to handle more traffic by adding replicas. A
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by themgt 3mo ago
It's sort of insane though, you not only have dozens/hundreds of stochastic agents running on your machine, but you cannot even inspect the instructions those agents are working off of? I've gone in to look at Claude subagent
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by themgt 3mo ago
Yet one is technical and the one you actually got a negative opinion about a programming language supposedly isn't? Yes, on the one hand here's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" and on the other hand
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by themgt 3mo ago
> I’ve never been in a situation that says “We’ve not think of that, we need to get back to the drawing board” And you're somehow able to post on HN from within the time crystal?
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by themgt 3mo ago
Hard-coded to use his relay server and then asking for donations for bandwidth? https://github.com/schollz/croc/issues/931
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by themgt 3mo ago
OK. Anyhow ... if there's a cognitive task you are personally superior to Fable at, let us know.
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by themgt 3mo ago
To meta-unpack a little bit ... it is strange to me that Fable is far more capable of discussing these questions than apparently 99% of humans. Along with being more capable at quite a lot else than most humans.
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by themgt 3mo ago
What's strange to me about these comments is they're timeless. They could have been written in 2026 or 2016 or 1966. Like, afaict, for many on HN going from ELIZA->Fable 5 just didn't cause any update to priors regarding t
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by themgt 3mo ago
Zig is getting that Elm, etc vibe. Genius/visionary BFDL who's also personally incapable of leading the project towards healthy long-term viability. Say what you will about Matz or José Valim, I don't think they'd ever w
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by themgt 3mo ago
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by themgt 3mo ago
What I have been doing in many places—the octopus thought experiment, stochastic parrots, the phrase “synthetic text-extruding machines”—it’s all about trying to make vivid to people who aren’t in the business of building language technolo
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by themgt 3mo ago
Yeah I went looking: https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki/blob/main/src/agent...
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by themgt 3mo ago
Forgetting? I think you mean to say your advice was auto-compacted to keep our context small and deliver better results.
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by themgt 3mo ago
afaik there's somewhat painful economics. Not sure back-of-napkin but something like: • 150-500B: Sonnet • 0.9-2T: Opus • 3-5T/10T: Fable / Mythos So if bigger model is "smarter" but you effectively wi
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by themgt 4mo ago
This is exactly it - the ultimate skill now is to be Rick Rubin with an LLM. Not a comfortable transition as a coder.
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by themgt 4mo ago
"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Que
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by themgt 4mo ago
I will just say, if you are any good at programming and have experience using agents, you're in the top 0.1% of the world in adoption of a critical new technology. It may seem hopeless as a programmer , but imo you'd be much bett
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by themgt 4mo ago
I just tested GLM 5.2 out via Z.ai in pi for a little one-off project that was already scoped. It actually did a relatively decent job starting out, and figured important things out from context. But the reasoning traces became increasingly
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by themgt 4mo ago
It's not like the job market was that much better before AI infested every single corner of the market, but it supercharged all of the worst aspects of everything. I've seen people supposedly smarter than I advocate for just givi
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by themgt 4mo ago
instead of people’s vibe checks and pelican SVGs. Right, what happened is everyone went to Fable and asked it to make the very best bicycle pelican SVG, no mistakes. And Fable's bicycle pelican SVGs were such timeless masterpieces, w
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by themgt 4mo ago
This was never the question. The question was, will the export controls slow them down in the short/medium term to the point where it will give US companies an advantage? I mean, I remember listening to the Biden people back in 2022
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by themgt 4mo ago
That’s not what your quotes said. They said bigger models = plateau in intelligence, nothing about more data or increased hallucinations ... I’m pretty sure #1 is well known Well known in a multiverse branch where Fable was a dud?
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by themgt 4mo ago
Great, got it. I'll update my running "how computing works" chart with this new information: | implementation = reality | magic | |-----------------------------------| | 999,999,999,971 (+1) | 0 |
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by themgt 4mo ago
That said, I can't wait for LLMs to stop being AI and start being just another tool. From a horse's perspective, the internal combustion engine is just another tool for making scary noises and powering horse trailers to take me
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by themgt 4mo ago
Putting something in a spec does not automatically make it true. Terrible news for computing.
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by themgt 4mo ago
Just to self-promote, we've got a very early stage project with a lot of similar ideas at https://quidities.com/ - feel free to signup / reach out if you have real world use cases anywhere in this space - we'
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by themgt 4mo ago
This "vaguely nationalistic world view around tech" is a direct consequence of the US government ... The EU was build on the principles of collaboration ... But this only works if it is reciprocal. This sounds great but doesn&#x
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by themgt 4mo ago
My favorite gerrymandering story was when I learned an ~800 student local college had been split down the middle, so students were in different congressional districts depending on their dorm building.
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by themgt 4mo ago
I submitted separately, but this Axios report has some details that call a lot of the speculation in this thread into question, i.e. that this wasn't much of a "jailbreak" at all and that it's not Anthropic-specific - th

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