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by velcrovan 5d ago
The language here means that signers are affirming that they continue to write at least some code by hand, not that they never use AI tools for coding. I'm not sure that's enough virtue to deserve its own signal. edit to add: the
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by velcrovan 6d ago
Someone should assemble a chain of iPhone camera review comparison images published over the years, 18 → 17, 17 → 16, 16 → 15 etc. showing how each year's new phone being so much better than the previous year's somehow becomes per
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by velcrovan 9d ago
xkcd pics are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license, so attribution is required but using them is ok.
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by velcrovan 9d ago
Well, countries have experienced moderate inflation and moderate deflation, ask the ones who lived through both which one they preferred.
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by velcrovan 11d ago
We can have these micro easter eggs clearly indicating that flawed humans were involved, or we can have perfectly proofread Opusplaining. Enjoy the former while you can!
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by velcrovan 12d ago
Is there any hint that Siri can be connected to arbitrary MCP providers?
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Big AI to Humanity: Drop Dead(matthewbutterick.com)
4 points by velcrovan 13d ago|1 comments
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by velcrovan 15d ago
OK I see, thank you. The idea of "the planet running out of water" confused me.
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by velcrovan 15d ago
What's funny is that, being a claude code user, I don't need to give someone else's python package a 24/7 back door into all my activity, I can just make my own.
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by velcrovan 15d ago
How does the planet run out of water?
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Average Opus 5 Response(old.reddit.com)
1 points by velcrovan 24d ago|0 comments
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by velcrovan 25d ago
I have a pet theory that the Opus prose style/smell we all have grown weary of is due at least in part to the models writing more for themselves and each other than for humans. They're packing lots of signal into fewer words and t
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
I had heard of this and actually did set the reasoning to medium ahead of time…
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
https://joeldueck.com/what-about/camp/
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
Not only do I produce standalone executables in Racket, I cross-compile GUI apps written on MacOS to produce executables for Windows.
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
That's funny, I downloaded the same model on my 48GB M4 Pro and gave it a problem to solve in an existing codebase, it spun its wheels for twenty minutes and then fell over dead. This was using LMStudio and pi as a harness; I never use
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
When asked to produce a thing, the output has a much better baseline of quality. But when you ask it to evaluate the quality of a thing, how do you evaluate the quality of its response, which is necessarily subjective and not quantifiable?
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
So, formulaic output…the opposite of taste
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
Assessing the subjective quality of a thing is in my experience one of the worst ways to use any LLM.
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
Yes, ‘Sloptraptions’ advertises itself as an AI-assisted newletter. Whatever your feelings about AI writing (I make a point of not using AI for writing, myself), it's silly to claim Rao is not the one making the point here. The piece l
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
I first saw this point made by Venkat Rao more than a year ago in "Prompting is Managing" [1]. It was written in response to the "Your brain on ChatGPT" paper that was then making the rounds, about how LLM use is suppose
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
I enjoy using the models. I also get that there are shenanigans and that marketing is happening, but as long as the models are this effective I can't much bring myself to care. I suspect most of their users are the same.
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
This is like saying the person you see in the mirror is categorically a human being because both of you produce similar reflections of light rays
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
It’s a bit like how the end point of the most wildly successful music is that you hear it on a loop in the grocery store
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
https://fundthebasilisk.com
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
I remember noting "djot" when John M. created it but hadn't really looked into it before now. After reading through the design goals and differences from Markdown, I can see we'd have been better off if somehow djot had
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
Ironically, my confidence that a human had at least an active part in writing/editing this article went up because of this train wreck of a sentence: > "A cache-aware model router will take that into account by adding stickines
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
If there were any upsides to brexit I've never heard what they were. (Though, also: not a brit)
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
As someone curious about subscribing: why did you end your subscription?
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
I take the opposite approach, I refuse to whitelist domains. When someone internal complains I send a notice to their contact on the other end (CCing the internal recipient) saying their email is misconfigured and ask them to put me in touc

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