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by wonnage 7mo ago
Cost is never a good moat.
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by wonnage 7mo ago
The AI labs do it as thinly disguised marketing. Anyone trying to stand up for ethics in the way of revenue is quickly pushed aside
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by wonnage 7mo ago
Boilerplate has been with us since the dawn of programming. I still think LLMs as fancy autocomplete is the truth and not even a dig. Autocomplete is great. It works best when there’s one clear output desired (even if you don’t know exactly
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by wonnage 7mo ago
Even the mechanical skill of painting gets a lot harder without an example to look at. Most people can get pretty good at painting from example within a year or two but it’s a big leap to simply paint from memory, much less create something
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by wonnage 7mo ago
This might’ve been true in 2012 but definitely is not the case today “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”
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by wonnage 7mo ago
It’s telling that OP worked at Amazon because this pretty much sums up the culture there - new grads churning through and burning out in two years while a few seniors stick around and perpetuate the cycle.
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by wonnage 7mo ago
I think telling it to run those in a subagent should accomplish the same thing and ensure only the answer makes it to the main context. Otherwise you will still have some bloat from reading the exact output, although in some cases that coul
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by wonnage 7mo ago
This seems misguided, you have to cache a prefix due to attention.
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by wonnage 7mo ago
Ironically this ends up with Chinese H1Bs remaining loyal while Americans have to fall on their sword
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by wonnage 7mo ago
What a uniquely American view of the world - yes the only reason you have free speech is by threatening to nuke out of existence the rest of the world lmfao get a load of yourself
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by wonnage 8mo ago
You should be glad they came around instead of lamenting why it didn’t happen earlier
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by wonnage 8mo ago
Consider the converse of your statement I believe in surveillance, but Flock is just the tip of the iceberg and rolling out mass public surveillance is just as likely to backfire as it is to lead to changes. More importantly, once you give
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by wonnage 8mo ago
Eh, it’s more like they attached themselves to the Romans for marketing purposes. Same with the Holy Roman Empire
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by wonnage 8mo ago
As long as you stay far away from Wayland, flatpaks, and nVidia drivers
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by wonnage 8mo ago
Word segmentation has been a longstanding problem in CJK languages too. Coupled with the terrible text selection in iOS it makes it really hard to select substrings.
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by wonnage 8mo ago
Hate to break it to you but most AI tools are vibe coded hot messes internally. Claude Code famously wears this as a badge of pride ( https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude-code-i... ).
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by wonnage 8mo ago
engineer who was too lazy to write docs before now generates ai slop and continues not to write docs, news at 11
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by wonnage 9mo ago
It may be a joke in the same way that brogramming was a joke and somehow became an enduring tech bro stereotype
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by wonnage 9mo ago
I see this sentiment of using AI to improve itself a lot but it never seems to work well in practice. At best you end up with a very verbose context that covers all the random edge cases encountered during tasks. For this to work the way pe
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by wonnage 9mo ago
I think it's mainly that JS has a terrible developer experience when it comes to parallelism and shared data, which these other languages don't need to worry about. Most build tools are pretty amenable to being parallelized but wi
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by wonnage 10mo ago
You could send that link to an unsuspecting user and steal their cookies, make API requests to send messages on their behalf, etc Apparently one of the other linked posts shows how you can also gain RCE, since the docs are statically pre-re
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by wonnage 10mo ago
Sad that obvious AI slop like this gets to the front page
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by wonnage 11mo ago
It’s kinda funny that the “not …, but…” + em dash slop signifiers translate directly to Chinese “不是。。。而是。。。” and double-width em dash
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by wonnage 11mo ago
It’s not like people are piling into AI at the expense of other jobs, tech hiring and wages on general seem down relative to a couple of years ago. Hard to see the link between either effect and AI Also weird that Dutch disease wasn’t menti
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by wonnage 11mo ago
But what about an ML person roped into writing an AI assisted blogpost about security
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by wonnage 11mo ago
Driving a massive truck in the city is stupid too and most short flights should be replaced with high speed rail. And AI wastes a monumental amount of resources.
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by wonnage 11mo ago
They all have optional ide integration, e.g Claude knows the active vscode tab and highlighted lines.
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by wonnage 1y ago
TDD is testing in production in disguise. After all, bugs are unexpected and you can’t write tests for a bug you don’t expect. Then the bug crops up in production and you update the test suite.
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by wonnage 1y ago
LLMs are notoriously bad at reflecting on how they work and I feel like humans are probably in the same boat
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by wonnage 1y ago
Wow, dragonfly terminated relatively quickly for Claude but sent ChatGPT into an infinite loop that was even worse than seahorse

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