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by visarga 2mo ago
> I’m sticking with gemini for now given the 20TB cloud storage and youtube premium that comes with it I used to have the Google One with Gemini and Drive space and YT Premium separately for my family. A credit card expiration lapse lead
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by visarga 2mo ago
> That forces people to look beyond the walled garden. Every time I get "you used your quota, come back in 3 hours, or 2 days" -> that is experimentation time with their competition, leading to changed service plans. When th
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by visarga 2mo ago
What you are saying is impractical, we cannot uninvent AI or force all countries to abandon it, a simple laptop is sufficient compute to run it. Licensing to access AI cannot be implemented. Why stop at AI, maybe we should license people to
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by visarga 2mo ago
> Who wants to take 101: Hit Approve all day on your 20 claude terminals? Obviously put all 20 in tmux sessions and have a monitor agent do the approvals.
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by visarga 2mo ago
> they don't care about the negative effects [...] rush to secure whatever advantages they can, regardless of the negative externalities I think we don't yet know the long term view - what is harmful or damaging in the long run
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by visarga 2mo ago
Should have let the kids use AI during exam too, later in life they will be solving tasks with AI not manually. Just make the test questions difficult enough even with AI. I see our current approach like a driving school training its studen
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by visarga 2mo ago
> I don’t mean to imply that making things with these tools is lesser, or that it doesn’t require some skill, but it is fundamentally different to programming. Exactly, it is a skill, and it is different from programming, but in the age
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by visarga 2mo ago
> There’s no reliable record of human intent. Prompts are discarded I agree, but I just log all user messages in a chat_log.md and review them regularly with an agent to detect deviation from user intent. I find it bonkers most coding ha
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by visarga 2mo ago
Yeah, great logic, that way they are sure there are no extra copies around.
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by visarga 2mo ago
If AI is so great it can do your job it is good enough to provide for your needs directly by automation. Just buy a robot and a plot of land and you don't have to worry about jobs.
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by visarga 2mo ago
App Store is a wasteland, I don't think there are more than 100 good apps in millions. All want in-app-purchase, none is fair to give me an upfront price. I don't want for example my kids being bugged to buy apps that cost $100&#x
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by visarga 2mo ago
Say you invent a crap product, and shove ads under my nose to bug me while I want to buy a decent product. Why should I accept that? Just get your products reviewed by trusted reviewers, if you can budge them maybe you deserve a bit of atte
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by visarga 2mo ago
No wonder Amazon sued Perplexity to forbid agents on their site, agents could cut through the crap and find what users wanted instead of what Amazon peddles. They even won the suit. I think our only hope against platform enshitification is
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by visarga 2mo ago
I think the Opus 5 formula is to be the little professor treating your ideas like an essay for grading, or like a buyer analyzing merchandise for purchase.
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by visarga 2mo ago
I would download it if I could, no question about it. And 64GB more RAM if I am at it.
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by visarga 2mo ago
It is probably skill loss on one side and gain on another. In a few years it is going to matter even less if you can code manually. The hard part now is understanding what agents do. How can you gain a bit of confidence in their work? I thi
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by visarga 2mo ago
Medium term it could lower the price of memory and compute.
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by visarga 2mo ago
It is indeed well written but I feel it has LLM smell, not that is a bad thing.
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by visarga 2mo ago
> When folks like uncle Bob says they don't review AI code, I can only think they are burnt out or being unprofessional. Indeed it saves some time writing the code, but overall, I think we just moved concerns from one place to anoth
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by visarga 2mo ago
my idea is "skin is all that's left"
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by visarga 2mo ago
I think a product should answer a specific need, it cannot be fully defined internally, it is an expression of some need in the environment which makes it a legitimate product. A product with no viability soon ceases to be a product. Genera
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by visarga 2mo ago
> I can't wait to never see a reasoning button ever again. I hope to see a memory-less mode that is not incognito. Want fresh contexts sometimes, but also want to keep the chats saved in history. Memory can spoil some creative work,
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by visarga 2mo ago
AI helps you but also your competition, and gets factored in by investors while customers can use it to find better deals. The whole market is different even if a company did nothing. Whatever you can cheaply do with AI is not a moat, if th
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by visarga 2mo ago
Sent to solve one task, came back with half of it solved and 2 more problems.
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by visarga 2mo ago
> does anybody relate to this grown interest to plants and bird distinction with age I have a similar interest but mine is about passively assimilating foreign languages while watching movies. Every time I grok a new expression it feels
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by visarga 2mo ago
What happens is that your competition uses AI, your investors factor AI in, and your customers use AI agents to find what they need and can switch providers with greater ease in the agentic era. So even if a company does nothing the economi
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by visarga 2mo ago
> Why does this “just work?” Nobody really knows, but it clearly does. We know language has to be learnable by every human, so it needs to be really independent of any specific brain development particularities. If it was not accessible
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by visarga 2mo ago
The system prompt part is surely cached across all users.
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by visarga 2mo ago
Many people make the mistake to think LLMs are stochastic parrots, but they are more like pianos, you play the keys and they make music, if you don't bring no new spices to the soup no wonder it comes out bland.
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by visarga 2mo ago
Don't just focus on the model, half the turns in a session belong to the human, it's an instrument that depends on how well the user wields it. It does not need to produce the novel insights, just to support the user to have them.

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