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by zingar 5mo ago
I find misapplication of anti-smell techniques a pretty cheap indicator that I’m looking at LLM garbage. I think they’re not really usefully engaging with that stuff yet.
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by zingar 5mo ago
How do you have the “modify LLM state from within” working? I can have it modify my config but I don’t know how to get it to eval and improve arbitrary elisp.
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by zingar 5mo ago
Absolutely baffled too. I was expecting that they preferred the vim philosophy of small tools that do one thing well, but no. So you like modal editing, well you’ve got it right there in emacs. Why that of all the potential gripes you might
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by zingar 5mo ago
I’d like a concrete example on how you’re actually controlling emacs with LLMs. Is ECA the part that does that?
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by zingar 5mo ago
I think there’s a weaker claim that holds true: we were able to ignore lots of content based on the superficial (and pay proper attention to work that passed this test) and now we are overwhelmed because everything meets the superficial cri
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Why software fundamentals matter more than ever [video](youtube.com)
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by zingar 6mo ago
Chess players learned to exploit chess computers’ weaknesses in the beginning too, but they can’t any longer. This version of the robot might not learn continuously, but the next will be better.
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by zingar 6mo ago
We have confidence in the extra code a compiler generates because it’s deterministic. We don’t have that in LLMs, neither those that wrote nor read the code.
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by zingar 6mo ago
What's your hypothesis about the relationship between TODOs and action?
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by zingar 6mo ago
How the neural networks produce such surprisingly human characteristics is an open question with a ton of research going into it. Explaining this is a bit more than what one smart person can achieve.
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by zingar 6mo ago
I have the same experience of reversing intentional steps I've made, but with Claude Code. I find that committing a change that I want to version control seems to stop that behaviour. Long context as disadvantage is pretty well discuss
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by zingar 6mo ago
Interesting that what you're talking about as ASI is "as capable of handling explicit requirements as a human, but faster". Which _is_ better than a human, so fair play, but it's striking that this requirement is less ab
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by zingar 6mo ago
The work where I've done well in my life (smashing deadlines, rescuing projects) has so often come because I've been willing to push back on - even explicitly stated - requirements. When clients have tried to replace me with a che
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by zingar 6mo ago
Fascinating. This is invisible to me, what anthropomorphising did you notice that stood out?
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by zingar 6mo ago
The article makes it seem like the author expected this without emptying context in between, which does not yet exist (actually I'm behind on playing with Opus 4.7, the Anthropic claim seems to be that longer sessions are ok now - woul
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by zingar 6mo ago
> Maybe we should just commit the signature change with a TODO I'm fascinated that so many folks report this, I've literally never seen it in daily CC use. I can only guess that my habitually starting a new session and getting
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by zingar 6mo ago
I think the author is looking for something that doesn't exist (yet?). I don't think there's an agent in existence that can handle a list of 128 tasks exactly specified in one session. You need multiple sessions with clear co
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by zingar 6mo ago
Also the exact model/version if you haven't already.
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by zingar 6mo ago
"It's more powerful and easier" is a great claim, but I need examples in this opening page to convince me of the pain I could save myself or the awesome things I'm living without.
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by zingar 6mo ago
Any chance of a blog post covering what you saw?
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by zingar 6mo ago
Hard perhaps but it feels a lot easier now than three years ago. Or so my backlog of personal projects outside of my most familiar stack would suggest.
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by zingar 6mo ago
Parent is not making a claim about benevolence, merely about a soft power incumbent that is about to be replaced.
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by zingar 6mo ago
And (d) not worry about toddler agents wrecking your single point of failure beefy desktop
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by zingar 6mo ago
Optimising to keep the coding going 24/7 feels like a local optimisation trap. The amount of code that can be written by coding agents in normal working hours dwarfs what humans can productively describe and assess. My efforts will be
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by zingar 6mo ago
Who are the early access users who were providing the problems that are fairly likely to have elicited concerning behaviour? (Apologies if this is in the article, I can’t see it)
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by zingar 6mo ago
How is evil mode support?
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by zingar 6mo ago
Hmmmm… seeing this workflow makes me wonder if I can do this with Ruby (the integration between agent and repl)
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by zingar 6mo ago
You’ve correctly identified that naming isn’t sufficient for all communication. Name the things that stay constant in the code and explain the things that vary with a particular implementation in version control messages. Version control as
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by zingar 6mo ago
The claim is astonishing, given emacs’ continuous use and open source scrutiny for decades. Edit: and turns out to be a problem with git, not emacs. OTOH it’s really just the core that has been used so widely and so continuously for so long
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by zingar 6mo ago
I don’t understand the connection to the post, could you elaborate?

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