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by tombert 6mo ago
Any idea how much slower? Like are we talking half the speed? A quarter? 1%? Sorry, I'm just very out of the loop on some of this stuff and I'm trying to play a game of catchup.
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by tombert 6mo ago
Looks like you can buy tickets: https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/page.aspx?pid=196&t... I should check it out, it would be fun to see my house recreated as a model. I love projects like this; no delusions o
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by tombert 6mo ago
Outside of the PQ algorithms not being as thoroughly vetted as others, is there any negatives to shifting algorithms? Like even if someone were to prove that quantum computing is a dud, is there any reason why we shouldn't be using thi
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by tombert 6mo ago
You don't have to convince me. LLMs are neat, code generation is neat, but I do wish that people had learned type theory and instead used those. I'm not aware of djinn, but I do remember the "Type Driven Development" tha
605.
by tombert 6mo ago
Long story I don’t want to get into; suffice to say that while I am fairly close with my parents now, I was not at that particular time.
606.
by tombert 6mo ago
I'm writing the "assume" code by hand. Regular non-artificial intelligence, or the closest that I ever get to it, so no hypocrisy on that.
607.
by tombert 6mo ago
It didn't work on macOS either.
608.
by tombert 6mo ago
I've heard that story, though I always kind of thought it sounded like bullshit. Obviously I have no way to prove that, I guess I'm just usually skeptical of gamblers bragging about their big winnings. But yeah, even if it is tru
609.
by tombert 6mo ago
I have actually, for my personal projects. I have been writing a library called "assume" where you can specify a type signature, give it a prompt, and it generates a function on the fly in the background with Claude Code, so you
610.
by tombert 6mo ago
I didn't say that systemic equality didn't exist. Of course it does, you can feel free to go through my post history if you want to see where I've argued that very point in the past. There's a million reasons why there e
611.
by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, an issue with startups, especially extremely small startups, is that you often become very close with everyone. This isn't inherently a bad thing, it's good to like your coworkers, and when the startup does well it's k
612.
by tombert 6mo ago
I didn't go to an Ivy League school. I was a college dropout (dropping out from a perfectly-fine-but-not-remarkable state school) for the first decade of my career, and my degree now is from WGU, hardly some elite fancy school. I assu
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by tombert 6mo ago
I wasn't too upset with Bram's article, but I do think people should be citing specific claims, even in blog posts. If you make an assertion in a blog post, I have no idea if you got the information from a respected scientific jou
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by tombert 6mo ago
Gotta admit that I do like the name "tomtard", I might steal that. Yes, I'm the idiot in this conversation. Clearly the pinnacle of intelligence is someone going on Hacker News and interjecting a weird thing about how no o
615.
by tombert 6mo ago
I tried playing the demo, and it was just green bars for me. The walls didn't scale up or shrink, it was just a bunch of solid static green bars. The enemies did scale up and shrink as I got closer, and the minimap worked. Tried with
616.
by tombert 6mo ago
I think what's sad is to find a long post about being ripped off by a startup and then using it extremely tangentially as an excuse to try and tell everyone to feel bad for you. "Woe is me, I would try to do something to improve
617.
by tombert 6mo ago
Therapy is much more than just bitching about your problems, and I'm afraid that if you think that whining on Hacker News is going to do anything to help you, then you're either deluded or stupid. I also don't know what &qu
618.
by tombert 6mo ago
You pretty much got it. It's more obvious in verbal communication because of course it would be easy to tell by the tone of my voice that I'm being sarcastic.
619.
by tombert 6mo ago
> Write them by hand or generate them and check them in? Yes, written by hand. I think that ultimately you should know what valid inputs and outputs are and as such the tests should be written by a human in accordance with the spec. &gt
620.
by tombert 6mo ago
> are they still using it because they don't want to admit to themselves that they've completely lost control? I think this is the case, or at least close. I think a lot of people are still convincing themselves that they are
621.
by tombert 6mo ago
If you make the prompts specific enough and provide tests that it has to run before it passes, then it should be fairly close to deterministic. Also, people aren't actually reading through most of the code that is generated or merged,
622.
by tombert 6mo ago
We're already merging code that has generated bugs from the slot machine. People aren't actually reading through 10,000 line pull requests most of the time, and people aren't really reviewing every line of code. Given that,
623.
by tombert 6mo ago
It's one thing when it's the Associated Press, where they are trying to be a somewhat impartial source of news and reporting raw facts to the best of their ability; stuff like that probably should not have an opinionated tone at a
624.
by tombert 6mo ago
Oh I don't disagree with that. I am getting pretty tired of people making multi-thousand-line pull requests with lots of clearly AI-generated code and expecting it to be merged in. I think the better unit to commit and work with is th
625.
by tombert 6mo ago
Sure, but as I stated, even "professional" code is pretty bad a lot of the time. If it's able to generate code that's as good as professional code, then maybe it is solved. I don't actually think it's a solv
626.
by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, I'm just a little tired of seeing these pull requests of multi-thousand-line pull requests where no one has actually looked at the code. The solution people are coming up with now is using AI for code reviews and I have to ask &q
627.
by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, I mean, the Instinct Crossover has been my favorite smartwatch that I've used, and two weeks is a decent lifespan for these things, but I do kind of miss never having to worry about charging it.
628.
by tombert 6mo ago
No argument that I was extremely fortunate to have the people I was able to reach out to and get help from. My friend, my mom (though she didn't actually spend any money in this case, just called in a credit card for the hotel prebill
629.
by tombert 6mo ago
Certainly with current models I have found that the Venn diagram of "code that's hard for humans" and "code that's hard for computers" has actually been remarkably similar, I suspect because it's trained o
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by tombert 6mo ago
I actually think that might actually be a good path forward. I hate self-promotion but I posted my opinions on this last night https://blog.tombert.com/Posts/Technical/2026/04-April/Stop-... The tl;dr of

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