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by wrs 8mo ago
What confuses me is that no revolution is required. All we had to do to avoid this was to vote. Voting would still (probably) work.
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by wrs 8mo ago
Since the conclusion is that context is important, I expected you’d redo the experiment with context. Just add the sentence “The car I want to wash is here with me.” Or possibly change it to “should I walk or drive the dirty car”. It’s inte
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by wrs 8mo ago
The original “chain of thought” breakthrough was literally to insert words like “Wait” and “Let’s think step by step”.
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by wrs 8mo ago
The conclusion I draw is that LLMs need a human expert with some taste and agency to empower/supervise them. Just like human dev teams do.
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by wrs 8mo ago
We don't know if, on average , paying API prices for Claude Code is cheaper or not, so we don't know if they're operating it at a "loss". That math doesn't make sense in any case since it would be a "loss
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by wrs 8mo ago
I started a new LLC in December and applied for an EIN (company taxpayer ID, required for doing essentially anything else, like opening a bank account). Normally this is done online and takes two minutes. This time the online process failed
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by wrs 8mo ago
Claude Pro = claude.ai, and they made no changes to that arrangement. Both claude.ai and Claude Pro are products built on top of the Claude API. You are free to buy access to the Claude API itself, with or without the other two, but the p
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by wrs 8mo ago
LLMs have limited working memory, like humans, and most of the practices that increase human programming effectiveness increase LLM effectiveness too. In fact more so, because LLMs are goldfish that retain no mental model between runs, so t
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by wrs 8mo ago
Go backed out of their strategy on MacOS and started using libc (libsystem?), because when Apple says something is internal and may change without notice, they really mean it. It may be a better risk with Microsoft, but it’s still a risk.
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by wrs 8mo ago
You’re saying Republican politicians are demanding to be interviewed by Steven Colbert? And even if they were, that would matter? (I would think Mr. Colbert would love to have a bunch of R politicians lined up to skewer on his show.)
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by wrs 8mo ago
Who do you think makes the price of SPY change?
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by wrs 8mo ago
Microsoft and OpenAI had to define it in their agreement, and settled on “AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits”. Which tells you where those folks are coming from.
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by wrs 8mo ago
"Seeing LLM-signals" == "reading shallowly", so I think I covered that case.
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by wrs 8mo ago
There’s plenty of action. Actions have amply demonstrated that the purpose of the tariffs is to extort other concessions from countries, or simply to punish them for perceived insults against our leader. This is pretty obvious based on how
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by wrs 8mo ago
If you’re judging my writing so shallowly, I don’t think I’m writing for you.
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by wrs 8mo ago
The legal remedy is impeachment. That was tried twice, and in subsequent elections “the people” reacted by moving us even farther away from being able to use it. There’s no constitutional problem here; there’s a people problem.
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by wrs 8mo ago
I haven’t used Zulip in a while, but can’t you reorganize messages/topics after posting? I remember that as being one of the biggest advantages over Slack for exactly this reason (the Slack equivalent is “I wish I’d known to reply in a
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by wrs 8mo ago
Very important distinction here you’re missing: they don’t know things , they generate plausible things . The better the training, the more those are similar, but they never converge to identity. It’s like if you asked me to explain the S
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by wrs 8mo ago
Well, pixels on a screen are a totally different mindset from network protocols or program control flow, but nobody’s surprised when one person can work within all of those. Brains are big. So yeah, it’s just a matter of degree. (It’s the T
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by wrs 8mo ago
I had the same reaction — yes, in fact I can at least explain all of those examples at an impromptu whiteboard talk level, and for many of them I can go a lot deeper. But I hate not knowing how things work, and I have a pretty good memory
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by wrs 8mo ago
The electronics terms parallel and series are about static physical connections (things are connected in parallel or series — the more grammatical form would be in a series). The software terms parallel and sequential are about the temp
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by wrs 8mo ago
I have no idea why you used the word “certainly” there.
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by wrs 8mo ago
Well, note that the previous post was about how great the Rabbit R1 is…
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by wrs 8mo ago
"I'm still a _______ guy, and I always will be." No matter what trademark you put in the blank, this is not a healthy thing to say.
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by wrs 8mo ago
I didn’t even give Claude (Opus 4.1) the registers when I did this for a recent ESP32 + ST7789 Rust project. I think I literally just said “make a driver with a double frame buffer for the ST7789 on SPI1, with DMA updates“. And it did it.
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by wrs 8mo ago
On the cxdb “product” page one reason they give against rolling your own is that it would be “months of work”. Slipped into an archaic off-brand mindset there, no?
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by wrs 8mo ago
Are you prompting the LLM in an interesting way? Brian Eno set up a bunch of tape loops of different lengths with a few notes each and let them run until something interesting happened. Washed Out slowed down some Italo disco and sang over
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by wrs 8mo ago
If the reason you were making music wasn't that you enjoyed making music, perhaps stopping is the right choice for you. If that was the reason, then AI is irrelevant. I do enjoy making music, and I don't do it "by hand&quot
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by wrs 8mo ago
A library OS is an OS that is linked directly to your program instead of being a separate program accessed through a syscall to kernel mode. About the same as a “unikernel”, but a more recent term. Basically it lets your program run directl
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by wrs 8mo ago
The new slop can be much harder to recognize and reject than the old "I ran XYZ web scanner on your site" slop.

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