vikramkr

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by vikramkr 1mo ago
> "I joined this company after they'd gone a stretch without any developer, and the bug queue showed it." I think maybe if you're at a company like that, you should be very cautious in suggestions/timeline/e
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by vikramkr 1mo ago
"I stopped using software x for y" > Blog post clearly generated by software x
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by vikramkr 1mo ago
I find that I remember models being a lot better than they were, even when I remember them being not very good - because of a novelty factor ("whoa it can do that now?") mostly. And then I go back and look at them and its like, wh
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by vikramkr 1mo ago
With that amount of usage - do you use fable for subagents and workflows? It turns out that even if you set it to not auto switch to opus 4.8 on flag, it does auto switch if its a subagent and that's a lot less visible. I was trying to
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by vikramkr 1mo ago
Sonnet 5 is a trash model and stupidly expensive if you accidentally set reasoning tokens high - more expensive than fable - it absolutely should not be the default lmao. If the common coding tasks you use ai for is doable with sonnet or lo
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by vikramkr 1mo ago
"spending in fable 5 has plateaued" Bro if you want us to spend more on fable let us use our whole damn rate limit for it. Enterprise is a different ballgame obviously but for the subsidized Claude code users they literally cap it
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by vikramkr 1mo ago
The header mentions something about the best run so I assume they picked it. But this really reads like they write this section by section with AI (admittedly with a prompt that stops the most obvious tells - though there are a bunch of sem
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by vikramkr 1mo ago
Those damn invented terms are so annoying. We can't see their reasoning anymore unfortunately but I wonder if it's terminology they invent for themselves early in their reasoning token burn and by the time they're outputting
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by vikramkr 1mo ago
Was there a more recent refresh or is this the model from a year ago? The frontier models were barely functional and almost useless a year ago (gpt oss was pre opus 4.5!) - I would be very surprised if the original drop is anything more tha
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Sure but in this case we're the devs. We're in charge of that and would include them if we're making a gui instead of a tui and want keyboard accelerator mappings.
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Oh ffs is that why it suddenly started running into a ton of permissions errors trying to read and write files outside it's sandbox (I think the auto mode classifier blocks bash commands that would be allowed as read commands) and runs
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Always gonna exist during a period of rapid exploration and experimentation. The js/web dev world slowed down a lot and entered a steady state eventually - been years since react took over and nothing's displaced it since
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Find my exists for a reason. Idk when the last time I had my phone not on mute is. Years? How often do you hear ringtones in public anymore?
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
I don't think the marginal new user is anxious about approving messages - I think they're quickly annoyed by permissions prompt they don't understand and quickly get in the habit of approving everything or figuring out how to
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Yeah - the whole Claude did it thing here reads to me like blaming a grammar issue on an LLM. Yes they have their issues but this isn't one of them - they're not deterministic they aren't going to make the exact same bug as a
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Ai revenue or datacenter/compute revenue? There's a lot of circular financing right now and there's a pretty obvious bubble for sure but I haven't been able to figure out what exactly this guy's argument is after se
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Tbh I appreciate knowing immediately that no effort was put into writing an article and that no effort is worth being put into reading it. I genuinely (hah) think it's good that different llms have distinct voices when writing. It does
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Shout-out to anthropic for having their models have such a strongly distinct writing style and personality that you can recognize their work instantly! It's quite nice to have such an immediate signal that if I were to proceed, I would
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
There are some claudeisms here (it's not x, it's y) but it does read like they did at least one human pass on it. Or maybe this is opus 5 writing which is a bit less distinct idk. It doesn't feel as obviously generated slop a
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Liquid gasoline does not have anywhere near the energy of TNT, or even a battery for that matter. It contains basically zero releasable energy. It needs oxygen or another oxidizer to react with to actually release any energy. TNT and batter
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Jfc Claude's writing can be really intolerable sometimes. Trying to parse wtf this post is saying - I guess the author is trying to make a harness for local models, and tried to have codex/Claude code autonomously make the harness
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
It's a good quote from Feynman. I think you'll find if you measure your paper against that honestly, you'll see where it continues to fall short, as far less falls out than goes in. All the counterexamples find themselves bei
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
More directly the stuff about ranking different cultures on a scale of musical sophistication that ends in western harmonic music and dismissing obvious counterexamples as cultures that just haven't gotten there yet or just use other f
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Awfully dismissive of non western tonal harmonic systems for a universal theory of music? The whole idea that musical traditions that use less harmonic structures just haven't unlocked all the structures available is kind of absurd - t
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
This paper is from last year
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
I would be stunned if there was a single line of hand written code in the entirety of Claude code lmao. Or if more than 20% of the code had been read by a person at any point. Why would you expect your ai code harness to not dogfood?
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
No what I'm saying is that this is a case where one person already does have a hell of a lot of influence over every downstream project already and that has consequences
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Yes? Dynamic workflows are incredibly powerful - especially for massive rote migrations. They're also particularly nice when you want to stretch an expensive model like fable and you can have it orchestrate a bunch of sonnet agents or
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
Yeah. Just like how half the Internet shuts down every time there's an AWS outage, or how nothing gets done if the power or Internet is out
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by vikramkr 2mo ago
I mean - the models are impressive but also they're not perfect by any stretch. The fact that they're improving means there's room to improve

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