zahlman

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by zahlman 5d ago
If 90% of it was fine, maybe it would be better to just fix the 10% yourself rather than "fighting with a robot" to try to get an automated fix.
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by zahlman 5d ago
Requiring the coding agent to (try to) iterate on code clarity until comments are no longer necessary, probably doesn't hurt either. Save the commentary for conversation logs, agent Markdown files, and other sorts of documentation.
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by zahlman 5d ago
> It's asking somebody who writes code to now read and debug others code. Writing code has always involved reading and debugging your own code, at an absolute minimum, even if you did everything solo. In any remotely serious collabo
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by zahlman 5d ago
> what you gain is less context bloat (no specialized tool descriptions, just Bash) Couldn't they train the understanding of a specific tool set directly into the model instead of needing it to be in context? Like isn't that ba
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by zahlman 6d ago
Since the Unicode Consortium isn't going to actually assign those code points, this is functionally just a scheme for encoding variable-length integers designed as an extension of UTF-8 more or less arbitrarily. There's a long his
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by zahlman 6d ago
Why wouldn't it get posted here?
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by zahlman 6d ago
> there's nothing in the blog post that couldn't be found in 10s with browser devtools. The audience of people who can read and understand an explanation like this one is probably quite a bit larger than the ones who can replic
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by zahlman 6d ago
> until realizing it's just AI generated I didn't look at the prose closely enough to check for that, but people wrote inflated explanations of basic things like this all the time pre-LLM. The Wikipedia article doesn't k
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by zahlman 6d ago
I used to agree but I typically can't see the issue any more. At least, I've seen enough strange fonts before that the AI output doesn't seem off by comparison.
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by zahlman 6d ago
> Why would someone want it to be unrecognizable as AI? Because the reason for any given AI work being "recognizable as AI" is considered inherently a quality issue. For the suspicion to arise, there has to be something that
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by zahlman 6d ago
> "AI = low effort" is becoming a heuristic regardless of the assertion's absolute accuracy. If you can tell that it's AI, that's probably because it is low effort. Higher-effort attempts pass more easily. (O
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by zahlman 6d ago
Yes, and this is a bad thing. It's bad that it gets rewarded and it's bad that creators whose main content is good feel compelled to do it. And I would watch all of this stuff just the same, based on the topic matter and the chann
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by zahlman 6d ago
There are channels I watch regularly because they cover topics I want to see covered and I've seen their previous videos and they met my expectations. Then they'll use AI thumbnails while focused on finding the right topics and th
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by zahlman 6d ago
People really will take any possible excuse to derail a thread and talk about political figures they don't like, huh?
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by zahlman 6d ago
> They're huge, obvious, and an indicator that the one who made the flyer didn't care whatsoever. Remember when this sort of ascending tricolon was supposed to be a dead giveaway for LLM-written prose?
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by zahlman 6d ago
I've generally been very impressed with genAI artwork in "impressionist" styles. But thinking about how the diffusion models work, that seems like exactly what you'd expect them to be good at. Things that call for perfec
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by zahlman 6d ago
Are these "fayre" events some kind of UK thing? I also didn't know offhand what "tombola" is and it comes across like it's part of a collection of standard activities for a "fayre" that have no cultur
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by zahlman 6d ago
It used to be that all the available art generation systems would make mistakes on text, making the letters into weirdly shaped non-letter blobs and/or having strange typos all over the place (that were probably from getting the letter
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by zahlman 6d ago
How does that differ from turning on showdead and going to /newest ?
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by zahlman 6d ago
There's a public Python packaging Discord https://discord.gg/pypa , or you can try emailing the Packaging Work Group (see info at https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingWG ), although the latter is
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by zahlman 7d ago
Have you considered talking to PyPI staff about this?
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by zahlman 7d ago
The basic premise of the LLM companies marketing their "agents" honestly reads to me like: "Yes, we know our commercial, proprietary software has a C2 server[0] embedded. That's by design and it's what lets us deliv
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by zahlman 7d ago
That's 6 more commits than I'm used to seeing for these sorts of efforts, honestly. (But I will cede that people might be doing all the changes locally and then pushing a single commit, without any real understanding of how versio
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by zahlman 7d ago
> For many new coders, LLMs are so good at writing the code, asking it to write the ReadMe sounds like a good idea. Clearly it’s the first impression your project makes so handwriting it is important. The point is that if they looked at
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by zahlman 7d ago
In theory, there is some value in deciding what the LLM ought to shit out, and checking that it works, and maybe even making a design decision or two to try and create something that would be relevant or useful for many people. And then oth
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by zahlman 8d ago
> If you even the playing field and give the LLM the position at each turn, it does not make mistakes. It absolutely still makes mistakes if you ask it to draw the board each turn, which should be equivalent to giving it the position bec
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by zahlman 8d ago
> Clean code is real, it's just not what's been peddled to us. My read is: the people who "peddled" it had mostly the right ideas, they were just bad at implementing them, and bad at writing code in general, and also
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by zahlman 8d ago
I feel like there's a huge political/economic opportunity in the US simply from getting government to shift subsidies from corn/ethanol to solar. Of course you also have to get buy-in from the farmers, but.
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by zahlman 8d ago
If you have a blog post on the topic I'd be interested. My experience with AI coding isn't really the same, but my experience with typing discipline definitely is, and I've thought about writing about it myself but don't
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by zahlman 8d ago
To save others the search query: > Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 dEN-KI), also known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀 dE₂-A), was the Mesopotamian god of wisdom, crafts, fresh subterranean waters, magic, and incantations.[1][11] He was believed to rule the…

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