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by trjordan 9mo ago
I'm interested in why Claude loses it's mind here, but also, getting shut down for safety reasons seems entirely foreseeable when the initial request is "how do I make a bomb?"
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by trjordan 9mo ago
There's something about this that's unsatisfying to me. Like it's just a trivia trick. My first read of this was "this seems impossible." You're asked to move bits around without any working space, because you&
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by trjordan 9mo ago
They mention this at the end of the article: > And here is the delicious part: you can give the whole setup to the students and let them prepare for the exam by practicing it multiple times. Unlike traditional exams, where leaked questio
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by trjordan 10mo ago
The verification asymmetry framing is good, but I think it undersells the organizational piece. Daniel works because someone built the regime he operates in. Platform teams standardized the patterns and defined what "correct" look
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by trjordan 10mo ago
This is a really good article. Don't get caught up in the tone of "anti-politics" or "slow is good." It's describing a brand of politics and impact that is just as mercurial as product development if you do it
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by trjordan 10mo ago
> the gap to GPT-4o, Gemini 2 ... is shrinking fast Are you ... aware that OpenAI and Google have launched more recent models?
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by trjordan 11mo ago
Sure. I lost 20lbs in the last 12 months. I agree it’s worth working on, but not that it’s worth stressing about.
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by trjordan 11mo ago
Appreciate it. The Apple-Watch-measured version came up to 44 since I’ve started running. I’ve been pleased. None of my markers are high enough to trigger a doctor to care.
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by trjordan 11mo ago
Between this and http://myticker.com (posted recently), I want to share a theory of mine: 1) the internet is mostly made up of spaces where the median opinion is vanishingly rare among actual humans. 2) the median internet opini
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by trjordan 11mo ago
If you're thinking about, e.g. upgrading to Django 5, there's a bunch of changes that are sort of code-mod-shaped. It's possible that there's not a codemod for it it that works for you. Tern can write that tool for you,
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by trjordan 11mo ago
For sure. One of our first posts was called "You Have To Decide" -- https://tern.sh/blog/you-have-to-decide/ And my process now (and what we're baking into the product) is: - Make a prompt - Run it
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by trjordan 11mo ago
I don't think we ever get away from the code being the source of truth. There has to be one source of truth. If you want to go all in on specs, you must fully commit to allowing the AI to regenerate the codebase from scratch at any poi
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by trjordan 1y ago
My conversation "Design a schema like Calendly" --> Did it "OK let's scale this to 100m users" --> Tells me how it would. No schema change. "Did you update the schema?" --> Updates the schema, tel
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by trjordan 1y ago
It really seems like all the next big leaps in AI are going to be fine-tuning fit-for-purpose models. Everything past GPT5 has been ... fine. It's better at chat (sort of, depending on your tone preferenc) and way better at coding&#x2F
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by trjordan 1y ago
100% agree. If you care about API design, data flow, and data storage schemas, you're already halfway there. I think there's more juice to squeeze there. A lot of what we're going to learn is how to pick the right altitude of
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by trjordan 1y ago
There's plenty of changes that don't require deep review, though. If you're written a script that's, say, a couple fancy find/replaces, you probably don't need to review every usage. Check 10 of 500, make sure
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by trjordan 1y ago
LLMs absolutely produce reams of hard-to-debug code. It's a real problem. But "Teams that care about quality will take the time to review and understand LLM-generated code" is already failing. Sounds nice to say, but you can&
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by trjordan 1y ago
Right -- the stereotypes of "selling" or "telling" or "persuading" are unhelpful in a lot of contexts. Even in direct selling, many people don't want to feel they're being sold to! At a minimum, they
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by trjordan 1y ago
This is a very HN sort of sentiment. How can I be persuasive without being gross? I had a bit of a moment when I first became a PM. (I've done a bunch of things, engineering / sales / founding, but PM only sort of recently.)
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by trjordan 1y ago
Everybody is different, but the biggest reason I struggle with this right now is the pace of modern life. Doing hard things is hard, and that means I won't be thinking about the other stuff I have to do. I'm more apt to miss a tex
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by trjordan 1y ago
I feel like the main missing point of every "coding will go away" articles (which this mostly, but not fully, is) misses that applications of any reasonable complexity are not fully defined anywhere but their code. That drives eve
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by trjordan 1y ago
I was talking with somebody about their migration recently [0], and we got to speculating about AI and how it might have helped. There were basically 2 paths: - Use the AI and ask for answers. It'll generate something! It'll also
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by trjordan 1y ago
AI sloppiness of this blog post aside, it's a reasonable observation. If you're thinking about how to integrate AI into your system, it's worth asking the question of why your system isn't just ChatGPT. - Do you have uni
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by trjordan 1y ago
This article is right insofar as "development velocity" has been redefined to be "typing speed." With LLMs, you can type so much faster! So we should be going faster! It feels faster! (We are not going faster.) But your
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by trjordan 1y ago
OK, so I love this, because we all recognize it. It's not fully just a tic of language, though. Responses that start off with "You're right!" are alignment mechanisms. The LLM, with its single-token prediction approach,
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by trjordan 1y ago
This is almost certainly what happened. Google's AI answers aren't magic -- they're just summarizing across searches. In this case, "Israel" + "Jordan" pulled back a video with opposite views than the auth
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by trjordan 1y ago
Not exactly. Black holes are not lopsided, for instance. There isn't anything on "one side" of them, once the matter has crossed the event horizon. Rotating black holes are pretty well modeled as a spinning ring: https:&#x2F
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by trjordan 1y ago
It only spawns a single sub-agent (called Task iirc), which can do everything Claude Code can, except call Task(). This is different from a lot of the context-preserving sub-agents, which have fully different toolsets and prompts. It's
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by trjordan 1y ago
This is all true, and we've prototyped a number of these things at my current startup. You need to be pretty considered about implementing them. For a counter-example, consider Claude Code: - 1 long context window, with (at most) 1 sub
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by trjordan 1y ago
One of the funny things about LLMs and modern AI is that "the ability to recognize a cat" isn't a trained behavior anymore, as described here. It's an emergent property of training it to predict a lot of things, and cats

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