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by tibbar 8mo ago
I mean, yeah, probably, but also OpenAI literally can't afford to give away this for free. They are losing a lot of money. Open source AI will continue to be a thing and they will have to compete to give you something better than what
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by tibbar 8mo ago
Wait, you're completely skipping the emergence of reasoning models, though? 4.5 was slower and moderately better than 4o, o3 was dramatically stronger than 4o and GPT5 was basically a light iteration on that. What's happening no
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by tibbar 9mo ago
On the other hand: sometimes doing the thing is itself a bad idea. One reason I continue to insist on design docs and code review is that I'd rather find this out ahead of time rather than deal with the damage afterwards. In the GenAI
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by tibbar 9mo ago
Is Cloudera actually dead? The website seems alive and well...
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by tibbar 9mo ago
I'm building The Marketplace for Defense. (!)
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by tibbar 9mo ago
I just don't see the distinction. Looking at it from the other direction: most CS degrees will have you spend a lot of time looking at assembly language, computer architecture, and *nix tools. But none of these are mathematical inevita
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by tibbar 9mo ago
I mean, Siri has been bad for what, 15 years now? It does seem like a bt of an outlier.
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by tibbar 9mo ago
Sure, but we need to update our definitions of concepts/fundamentals. A lot of this stuff has its own established theory and has been a core primitive for software engineering for many years. For example, the primitives of cloud comput
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by tibbar 9mo ago
Why is this necessarily true?
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by tibbar 10mo ago
This bit: > Are you a trained psychologist? seems a bit confrontational, unless you yourself are a trained psychologist, in which case it would seem fitting to volunteer those credentials along with this challenge.
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by tibbar 10mo ago
I think it's intended as a response to a sibling comment.
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by tibbar 10mo ago
Timing and circumstance (especially the eyepatch.) It's basically a scene out of a movie.
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by tibbar 10mo ago
The combination of coincidences is striking: the CEO randomly decided to walk across the road, was wearing dark clothing, had an eyepatch on so he couldn't see one side of the road well, and was struck by a forklift while the operator
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by tibbar 10mo ago
But this is what essays have always been. Blog posts are a different though partially overlapping concept.
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by tibbar 10mo ago
Isn't this a strange fork amongst the science fiction futures? I mean, what did we think it was like to be R2-D2, or Jarvis? We started exploring this as a culture in many ways, Westworld and Blade Runner and Star Trek, but the whole
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by tibbar 10mo ago
I see a lot of people in tech claiming to "understand" what an LLM "really is" unlike all the gullible non-technical people out there. And, as one of those technical people who works in the LLM industry, I feel like I ne
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by tibbar 10mo ago
Yes, there are really two parallel claims here, aren't there: LLMs are not people (true, maybe true forever), and LLMs are only good at things that are well-represented in text form already. (false in certain categories and probably
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by tibbar 10mo ago
The problem with these metaphors is that they don't really explain anything. LLMs can solve countless problems today that we would have previously said were impossible because there are not enough examples in the training data. (EG, no
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by tibbar 10mo ago
It seems obvious to me that entities have emergent needs and plans and so on, independent of any of the humans inside. For example, if you've worked at a large company, one of the little tragedies is when someone everyone likes get
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by tibbar 10mo ago
This missed the mark - Bun optimized systems whose predecessors were often implemented as JS libraries with a high number of syscalls. V8 is super fast for web usecases but your typical webpack / react compiler as implemented in JS had
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by tibbar 10mo ago
Wow. That is ... too painful and true to life to really be funny at this point. But, ok, still funny. To be fair, I meant something a little different -- something like -- learn how to be a robot priest who can get it to follow the desperat
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by tibbar 10mo ago
This is not the picture I'm seeing on the ground. AI is eliminating certain classes of junior software positions. (Roughly: jobs where explaining a task to junior engineer is more work than asking Cursor/Claude Code/Codex to
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by tibbar 10mo ago
Yes. An interesting corollary is that we should pay close attention to what games we have an inherent advantage in, and double down. Much higher chances of reaping those power-law benefits. I speak, frankly, mostly to myself here: I am na
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by tibbar 11mo ago
I am having trouble thinking of situations where the only good outcome is being the top 1%. There are, to be sure, often power-law benefits to being exceptionally good, but to use your own example, being in the top 5% or 10% of wealth is no
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by tibbar 11mo ago
This reminds me of my further theory that everyone needs one 'heavy' and one 'light' technique. The 'light' technique is something that often works well as a heuristic and can be an effective unit of iteration.
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by tibbar 11mo ago
Yes. I like to think that all of the people above could have solved most of the same problems, albeit in wonderfully different styles, but what really guaranteed success was a commitment to just keep at it. Edit to add: Still, the styles ma
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by tibbar 11mo ago
Here are a few more. * The (brilliant) infrastructure engineer who described his modus operandi as 'I read stuff on Reddit and then try it out.' This engineer is now worth, as a conservative estimate, in the neighborhood of $50 mi
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by tibbar 11mo ago
I think this is true for engineers as well! I enjoy getting to know the "theme" of my favorite coworkers over the years. There was: * The fellow who always looked for the simplest hack possible. Give him the most annoying problem,

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