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by wokwokwok 23d ago
Your (many) replies on this topic are being down voted for a reason; please either post substantive comments or stop.
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by wokwokwok 2mo ago
It’s remarkable (but not reassuring) how carefully they avoid saying “part of the Atlassian family” in any promotional material for some reason.
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by wokwokwok 7mo ago
On the other hand, the parent post is entirely correct . What, I ask, is the point of having laws and rules if you can just ignore the ones you don't like? Its just a name, who cares? Not me. …but, if you break the law, you break the
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by wokwokwok 7mo ago
I really like the idea of agent coding patterns. This feels like it could be expanded easily with more content though. Off the top of my head: - tell the agent to write a plan, review the plan, tell the agent to implement the plan - allow t
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by wokwokwok 8mo ago
This is the way. The practice is: - simple - effective - retains control and quality Certainly the “unsupervised agent” workflows are getting a lot of attention right now, but they require a specific set of circumstances to be effective: -
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by wokwokwok 8mo ago
This is irrelevant to the point. Using nano banana does not require arcane prompt engineering. People who have not learnt image prompt engineering probably didn't miss anything. The irony of prompt engineering is that models are good a
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by wokwokwok 1y ago
How can a question that is: 1) clearly technical 2) reproducible 3) has a clear failure condition Not be a suitable candidate for S/O? Did we step into a dimension where only "How do I print('hello world')?" is a va
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by wokwokwok 1y ago
How about making it a site where only people who answer questions can even be eligible to be moderators? What if moderators had to actually have karma from recently answering questions or they lose mod privileges ? Wouldn't that be
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by wokwokwok 1y ago
You’re being down voted because you’re not saying anything meaningful. Yes, you can argue that [person] is [performing an action] because they believe, from their POV that [reason1, reason2, reason3]. > Or does [what person believes] not
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
You are not an expert in this field, and cherry-picking random articles in random journals does not make you an expert. > Should I pick some other experts to listen to? I think it's reasonably clear that you haven't spoken to a
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
If you're not prepared to listen to an expert, and that's what your dentist is on this topic , then nothing I, or anyone else can say, makes any difference to you. At some point, you have to accept that your random wikipedia page
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
Talk to your dentist. They are experts in this field, and, unlike “random person on the internet who spent 2 minutes on google”, have informed opinions on this topic. If you want a serious discussion on why fluoride is good or bad, that’s w
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
> However, what's wrong with allowing another app to post messages to my messages? > If I don't want it, let me turn them off. Can you it off for anyone sending you messages too? That's the issue; you not wanting to u
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
Because running a parallel process is often difficult. In most cases, the question becomes: So, how exactly is my app/whatever supposed to spin up a parallel process in the OS and then talk to it over IPC? How do you shut it down whe
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
There's no distinction to me. AI is hard; edge cases are hard. AI sucks at edge cases. Between AI for cars and AI for software the long tail of edge cases that have to be catered for is different, yes. ...but I'm sure the same wil
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
> My estimate is that 80-90% of the code was written by AI Nice! It is entirely reasonable both to do that and to be excited about it. …buuut, if that’s what you’re doing, you should say so. Not: “no lines of code directly written, just
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
"no lines of code directly written, just directing the AI" /skeptical face. Without fail, every. single. person. I've met who says that, actually means "except for the code that I write", or "except for ho
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
> As for specific examples NHS has some terribly overwhelming forms and processes - image search IAPTUS. Are those example where a chatbot helps fill out the form, or just examples of where forms are hard? My image search did not find an
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
> You would need to spend thousands of dollars to become a customer, if you are not already one. Can you be more specific? Like, where specifically would I have to spend money to see this. > Seems like the users don't mind spendi
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
I'm sure there's a time and place for these things, but this sounds very much like the echo chamber I hear at work all the time. Someone has a 'friend' who has a totally-not-publically-visible form where a chat bot inter
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
If you’re a research lab then yes. If you’re a for profit company trying to raise funding and fend off skepticism that your models really aren’t that much better than any one else’s, then… It would be dishonest , but as long as no one foun
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
> but that overwhelmingly doesn’t work. MCTS will be the next big “thing”; not agents.
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
I didn’t say they don’t work, I said there is an upper bound on the function they provide. If a discrete system can be composed of multiple LLMs the upper bound on the function they provide is by the function of the LLM, not the number of a
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
We already have agentic systems; they're not particularly impressive (1). There's no specific reason to expect them to get better. Things that will shift the status quo are: MCST-LLMs (like with ARC-AGI) and Much Bigger LLMs (like
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
> “Lighter” may be used as an alternative adjective to the word easy or easier That is, again, not common usage, there’s a word for easier to use; it’s “easier”. but whatever. It doesn’t matter; it’s just branding. My point however, is
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
How do you compose low level operations like “click here” into composable modules like: loginAsUser(user) id = createBooking(user) loginAsAdmin() approveBooking(id) ? Is it the same as selenium? Do whatever you want your self? That’s what I
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
How can a wrapper around selenium be lighter than it? A wrapper around an API is by definition heavier (more code, more functions) than using the lower level api. It’s not using less resources. It’s not faster (it has implicit waiting). It’
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
I'll be generous and just say, maybe people should just use llama.cpp and not ollama if they care about having nice things, if merging support for existing features is that difficult. It seems like it's probably a better choice ov
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
Nice. That said... I mean... > The journey to integrate K/V context cache quantisation into Ollama took around 5 months. ?? They incorrectly tagged #7926 which is a 2 line change, instead of #6279 where it was implemented, which mad
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by wokwokwok 2y ago
As evidenced by the reaction to Devin, no, it’s not real. There’s a limit, beyond which agent generated code is, in general, not reliable. All of the people who claim otherwise (like the Devin videos) have shown to be fake (1) or cherry-pic

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