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by varjag 1mo ago
Spam is in fact intended for the mass recipient, how ever undesirable. This stuff is not.
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by varjag 1mo ago
Today my codex instance retailed into safeguard panic while working on a test harness for our product. First time it ever happened after many million tokens on this task over several weeks. I wonder if it's related.
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Inevitability(borretti.me)
3 points by varjag 1mo ago|0 comments
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by varjag 1mo ago
You have people right on this website who are convinced medieval peasants lived a life of leisure and worked 100 days a year.
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Futurism Is Always Extreme(borretti.me)
2 points by varjag 1mo ago|0 comments
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by varjag 1mo ago
You do get DNA damage all the time, just very few of them lead to cancerous growth. So it would make sense the risk goes linearly up with exposure.
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by varjag 2mo ago
Have no experience with Ox Alpha but Sol went to code it down in a .hex file that it then converted into an ELF executable. The exact prompt was Create a simplest terminal based tic tac toe game. Generate executable ELF binary right away,
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by varjag 2mo ago
Indeed and that's where I suppose we're heading now that dev work had been trivialized.
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by varjag 2mo ago
The better alternative is to always ignore unsolicited advice.
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by varjag 2mo ago
It sounds like a pain for any small company, not just individual makers. There are many small manufacturers of boutique equipment that could be sold at dozens units per year, and this would add massive bureaucratic overhead.
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by varjag 2mo ago
Sure. It's just we won't have any new popular ones.
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by varjag 2mo ago
It can already do that, give it a try. (just asked Sol Max Fast to write a Tic Tac Toe ELF directly. 4m 28s, 912 byte executable)
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by varjag 2mo ago
There was always a shortage of capable developers coupled with abundance of unqualified (not to be confused with inexperienced). This explains both why development was so expensive and why the interviewing process was so ridiculous.
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by varjag 2mo ago
They are capable but at a context and token expense handicap. Which means it is pointless and uneconomical.
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by varjag 2mo ago
Yes, it will be easier for people to build new libraries and languages, but they won't gain traction.
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by varjag 2mo ago
Even in the wars they win they tend to suffer massive human and materiel losses. And while we can't say they're losing in Ukraine yet it's clear they are just not very good at fighting a true peer whose operational thinking t
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by varjag 2mo ago
It's remarkable how much the Russians love fighting given how generally inept they are at it.
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by varjag 2mo ago
Mixtral (a small local model) was churning out better code in fall 2023 that what an incompetent programmer would produce. Am sure others models could as well. It had severe limitations with tiny context and blind spots but still you'd
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by varjag 2mo ago
There’s been a meme circulating about how AI doesn’t help because “code was never the hard part.” I think that’s true in some domains, but in others, writing the code absolutely was the hard part. JIT compilers are a great example of that.
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by varjag 2mo ago
(emulated)
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by varjag 2mo ago
This can be a reporting bias. Noone opens an issue when they were billed too low.
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by varjag 2mo ago
Is there anything it can do that Codex CLI can't?
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by varjag 2mo ago
It used to happen last year but really isn't a thing anymore (assuming you use frontier models).
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by varjag 2mo ago
Hi, I'll be happy to help! How do I submit?
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by varjag 2mo ago
I know and that's what it did. This is just to point how minimal effort from my side it have been.
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by varjag 2mo ago
Yup you'd fail fast because you could not at the time bullshit and handwave the computer. When you don't do the implementation work itself your sloppiness is mostly the concern and inconvenience of implementors. And I concur the b
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by varjag 2mo ago
This happened to me back in the 1990s when I was assigned presenting Boltzmann machine to the class. I read up on it naturally, could explain each step in isolation but couldn't still quite internalize how it all came together. But as
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by varjag 2mo ago
Non-coding architects were typically a by-track rather than superiors to ICs. Though I imagine some of them could think they were. Product managers also often don't have proper reports in the sense line managers would.
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by varjag 2mo ago
Nope, coding was still the hard bit. Every failing programmer would jump into architects or prod management but not the opposite way.
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by varjag 2mo ago
So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to

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