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by zamalek 4mo ago
From what I can tell, the "established wisdom" is to get Fable to plan and Opus to implement (for cost purposes). The problem there is that Opus could ignore whatever it likes from Fable's plan.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
> Basically, when you have a long session, you can see this by saying, ok, now moving onto another thing, blah blah blah I try to avoid > 200k contexts, as the 1M context is where I first saw the massive decrease in reliability. And m
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Wouldn't have helped, sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797883 Architectural decisions are not lintable.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
So would that solve (most recent example): The agreed architecture is to use signing between two micros, so that a third can orchestrate between them in zero trust way (and to prevent a distributed monolith). It just decides that we can tru
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by zamalek 4mo ago
> Can you just give an agent a desired outcome and let it work, unsupervised? Absolutely not. Ignoring instructions - whether in AGENTS.md or my prompt - is the worst of it, and it routinely happens. It just waives things that I explicit
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by zamalek 4mo ago
> a splat is static iff a single quantized value What is up with LLMs and "iff"?
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by zamalek 4mo ago
> For example, running ten programs at once with only a single CPU. Concurrency is effectively CPU scheduling with maybe some other concepts of communication between processes for coordination. This is called preemptive multitasking. Thi
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by zamalek 4mo ago
You misunderstood my comment. My hypothesis is that it did _neither:_ it accelerated along an axis, and American SOTA/frontier is now laggard (efficiency). Deepseek and Kimi are writing paper after paper with substantial architecture i
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Also, don't forget that we're only here because the clown-in-chief cut them off from GPUs - forcing them to make do with inferior hardware (and hence superior ideas). I have no doubt that any controls would only make China stronge
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by zamalek 4mo ago
I recently had to functionally migrate away from a codebase that had a ton of YAGNI. _Even with_ an agent it was a herculean task: how do you know if something is really used in a distributed system. I missed things, the agent missed things
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by zamalek 4mo ago
You can't make a clean-room implementation of an open source project using a frontier LLM because it has the original code in its weights.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
It has fixes and features not in the official proton, but most importantly, proprietary codecs.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Alternatively: Step 1: 30 minute conversation with AI on how to use AI. Step 2: fire everyone.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Unrelated to code, but along the same lines. I've been keeping track of the Reckless Ben case to fuel my unhealthy indignation, and we just had a like-for-like comparison between a human and an LLM. Human: well-scoped argument that doe
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Ghat's exactly what i have, did you read my comment correctly?
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by zamalek 4mo ago
That's a huge assumption, NVIDIA drivers are still hit and miss.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
People who are willing to spend $71 on not having to build it themselves. That's the premium according to GNs best-effort like-for-like build.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Note that the performance of the RTX 5050 is completely irrelevant if it doesn't work. While some say that their NVIDIA rig is working, that's a risk that's probably not worth taking for something that is expected to "ju
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Unfortunately many of these developers believe that kernel-level is mandatory (by virtue of believing that it actually works to prevent _all_ cheating, which we know it doesn't).
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Out-sourcing does still involve humans, to be fair. If the premise is that "humans prefer human output" then outsourcing would still be preferred, even if it is preferred less.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
> with Kerberos, etc, it all just works I worked with customer's AD environments in the 2010's and I remember whiteboards of figuring out customer Kerberos config. "it all just works" is not my recollection of that 3-
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by zamalek 4mo ago
I don't like anything Apple, I had an awful experience with MacOS (the laptop was great), iPhones and their 12 finger gestures (again, terrible software) aren't for me. WiFi and worsening slowness woes with the Google TV/Chro
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by zamalek 4mo ago
My biggest problem with Nextcloud is that it intentionally broke (at least twice by memory) on some updates, wanting me to run some oci command on the box. Remember that "for my family" also means "for my family when I'm
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Is anyone doing text diffusion in latent space instead of tokens?
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Dynamo is a fundamentally different DB to Postgres. If your problem fits into the dynamo approach (I'd argue that more problems do), then you should be using it. No all problems fit, though.
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by zamalek 4mo ago
$1000 in a month? What on earth are you doing in CI? We're on Warp build (50% cheaper instead of 33%) with 6 people hitting it pretty hard across a few repos and only reach $150/mo. That's with building rust - a worse case th
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by zamalek 4mo ago
> API is definitely being sold at a decent profit. Where do you get this from? Enterprise plans are being cancelled or limited all over the place (Uber, Microsoft). I doubt Anthropic would be leveraging a loss leader with their consumer
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by zamalek 4mo ago
Zig and probably Pascal have the same advantage, can't speak for Ada as I've never built it. C and C++? You've got to be joking. If the project provides static binaries, sure, but I don't want to have to worry about find
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by zamalek 4mo ago
> and no one knows why. I think we can make an educated guess as to why. Maybe we could get Claude to reverse engineer it to clean up its own mess.
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by zamalek 5mo ago
If the figures look softer than expected, keep in mind that it's local lay-men buying in - while foreign career investors are selling out[1]. Broadcom's earnings call may have kicked it off: the CEO started off mistaking last year

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