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by zaphar 3mo ago
I do know quite a few people who use vim because they do enjoy the puzzle. So there are absolutely people as he describes. Saying that there aren't people like that just undermines your point.
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by zaphar 3mo ago
The article was not against a tool but a way of thinking. He didn't say anywhere that Sublime was better than Vim. He did say that he disagrees with the idea that a tools friction is a feature. I can take his entire thesis and use it
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by zaphar 3mo ago
The catch-22 here is that you still save money using Claude Code directly here if you are on one of their subscription plan due to how heavily they are subsidizing that. Using Pi means you are using the API which is both a more accurate pri
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by zaphar 4mo ago
I think it's quite fine to acknowledge that you pushed someone or some group of people to hard as a leader. A genre defining game is not the sort of thing that deserves wrecking someone. We may appreciate the game that came out the oth
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by zaphar 4mo ago
Web developers are not magically worse at this than native devs. See: much of the windows OS lately. The performance of a web view app is more to do with the quality of the devs than the platform it's built on.
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by zaphar 4mo ago
I'm aware. I worked on that specific project (assuming we are talking about the same one) back in the day. :-) There are certainly very large applications in that repo in the hundreds of millions of lines of code. But comparing the ent
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by zaphar 4mo ago
That's a monorepo with hundreds if not thousands of different applications. It's not even close to an apples to apples comparison.
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by zaphar 4mo ago
yes
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by zaphar 4mo ago
I think it's more that I was putting emphasis on a different piece of the puzzled than you and less that we disagreed.
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by zaphar 4mo ago
This framing I agree with.
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by zaphar 4mo ago
They have been able to "so far". This isn't to say that we shouldn't learn from them how to push the failure date as far into the future as you can. I just don't think you can truly make something incorruptible.
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by zaphar 4mo ago
Like a lot of things, bad actors only have to get you to fail the test of succession once while the company has to succeed at it every time. Time is not on any companies side here and the longer it goes the more failing that test of success
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by zaphar 4mo ago
The structure requires maintenance and that is done by an individual or individuals. The real reasons a good company stays good is because the leadership stays good. When the leadership begins to disengage or leaves or changes in some way t
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by zaphar 4mo ago
The correct solution for most users of Claude is to refuse to do things like: `performing logins, handling credentials on behalf of the user, etc`. It is not to find a way to hand your agent the keys to the kingdom. Guiding them toward solu
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by zaphar 4mo ago
Sure. But I'm also not going to assume they will just because this they seem to sort of mimic it now.
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by zaphar 4mo ago
They also survive because they invest those resources in some amount of mitigation ahead of time. They don't survive when they don't scale their mitigations along with the business.
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by zaphar 4mo ago
No they didn't? I use these continuously and it's pretty obvious to me that they do not at the level of a human except in the most surface level ways. Human's as compared to an LLM remain a special category. We have not in fa
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by zaphar 4mo ago
I am admittedly not an expert here but this does not at all sound like something that Apple can force Shopify to do. I was under the impression that when Apple does something like this it's primarily because the seller was positioning
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by zaphar 4mo ago
What does mapping your externalities have to do with honesty? Is this a poor attempt to suggest that no one can actually be honest because no one has a full understanding of the entire universe? Because that's just a lazy excuse for no
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by zaphar 4mo ago
It's not really a rule of thumb that "Tell others the truth, tell yourself the truth" means you have to barely scrape by. Plenty of people make good money that way.
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by zaphar 4mo ago
Feels to opposite to me. GPT-1 would have exploded the word count to about 10x and made it sound way more breathlessly influencer coded. GPT-1 would have written something that was 180 degrees opposite of what the post is communicating. Per
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by zaphar 4mo ago
The article shows off an strace TUI, and it's not like I can't see the benefits of making strace output more browsable. What I don't understand is why that must happen inside a terminal window where (for instance) all t
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by zaphar 5mo ago
You are asserting an insinuation that 538 never made. That is the disconnect here.
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by zaphar 5mo ago
Anyone who claims to know the correct strategy to be best positioned for the future is lying or misinformed. The most you can reasonably say is that for the moment an LLM in the hand of an non-expert or naive user is unlikely to produce hig
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by zaphar 5mo ago
Nearly every argument that hinges on the word "yet" is just an example of over-extrapolation[0] at play. 0: https://www.fallacyfiles.org/overxtra.html
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by zaphar 5mo ago
I have begun using the acronym TL;DP (Too long didn't prompt) For when someone sends a wall of text and I didn't want to waste tokens having an agent summarize it for me when the sender could have done that for me with their own a
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by zaphar 5mo ago
A hallucination is not an indicator of distillation...
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by zaphar 5mo ago
Statistical likelihood is a measurement of the known data at the time. If you engage with the content otherwise then it's on you if you have the wrong takeaway. No one who makes a prediction based on a statistical model is going to be
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by zaphar 5mo ago
Many of the chinese developers are just drafting off of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini though. Distillation is leveraging those models to achieve their leaps in training. It's not obvious to me that Anthropic and do the same. Someone ha
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by zaphar 5mo ago
This is so important. This is your job as a software engineer. It shouldn't exist on a roadmap or get added to tickets. It should just be done in the course of your work. If it does end up as a ticket that means you did something wrong

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