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by zjp 7mo ago
No there's an alternative to countersignalling LLMs by pretending to be dumb. Since LLMs reproduce all of the worst of English modernity, overrelying on the PMC mush register, the business casual of English, with all the agreed upon ca
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by zjp 7mo ago
At least detect my country by IP range and put "US" at the top of the country dropdown.
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by zjp 7mo ago
Always a great story. It's worrying that people are starting to turn to LLMs for indeterminate problems like interpersonal and relationship advice. A big difference between the whispering earring and LLMs is that ostensibly the whisper
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The growing corpus of problems that are 'easy' for entities which may not think(zjpea.substack.com)
2 points by zjp 7mo ago|0 comments
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by zjp 7mo ago
Imagine thinking 47 degrees in July is a bad thing? Do you like, like getting summer swampass in New York or wherever you live?
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by zjp 8mo ago
I want to be spared, so I am.
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by zjp 8mo ago
My project depends on over 150 external packages. We just do integration testing or manual testing. Update your dependency, check the feature that depends on it.
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by zjp 8mo ago
It depends on whether you mean programming (typing your solution into your text editor) or programming (formalizing your solution to a problem in a way that can be programmed).
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by zjp 8mo ago
I think it's better to say 'the artifact is not the product'. Code is actually very hard, because it is the act of formalizing vague problems. That's thinking. It can be separated from literally typing the code in, and s
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by zjp 8mo ago
Yes. Agents are good at solving densely represented (embarrassingly solved) problems, and a surprising and disturbing number of problems we have are, at least at the decomposed level, well represented. They can even compose them in new ways
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Embarrassingly Solved Problems(zjpea.substack.com)
1 points by zjp 8mo ago|0 comments
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by zjp 8mo ago
Going ass first up a tree is funny enough to catch on if you keep using it. It fills a real semantic gap in the idea space of taking great pains to do something the wrong way. I'll never forget reading it just now. Come on now though,
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by zjp 8mo ago
"English being my second language, I curse it everyday and wish it could be more like, say, Hungarian, in which such a thing as a spelling bee would be unthinkable." I love this about English! We are the most prolific word thieves
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by zjp 8mo ago
Or the respect one has for oneself.
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by zjp 8mo ago
I think we are in violent agreement and I hope that after reading this you think so too. I don't disagree that LLMs can produce novel products, but let's decompose Claude Code into its subproblems. Since (IIRC) Claude Code's
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by zjp 8mo ago
I hate aggressive autocomplete like that. One thing to try would be using claude code in your directory but telling it that you want it to answer questions about design and direction when you get stuck, but otherwise never to touch the code
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by zjp 8mo ago
I call these "embarrassingly solved problems". There are plenty of examples of emulators on GitHub, therefore emulators exist in the latent spaces of LLMs. You can have them spit one out whenever you want. It's embarrassingly
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by zjp 10mo ago
We do not agree on the system. There is a clear difference between not calling your coworker a slur, which is about prejudice or hatred, and not saying words like 'grooming', which is about whether the least reasonable person you
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by zjp 10mo ago
This is sophistry. Of course no one disagrees word choice matters. The quibbles over which words are the entire ballgame. "We all agree words matter, we just disagree about which ones" is true in the same way that "we all a
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by zjp 10mo ago
If your mind jumps to sexual predation whenever you hear the word grooming, you have bigger problems than word choice at work. Do you think these people have these little breakdowns when they see "Grooming products" on a sign at T
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by zjp 10mo ago
https://archive.is/EdrbL
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by zjp 10mo ago
I love how every Emacs veteran's opinion seems to be "don't do it kids", as if using it were smoking. I agree. The worst thing about being an Emacs user is that it can fall a little behind e.g. VS Code in features. But t
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by zjp 10mo ago
LLMs don't even write as well as people do. If you talk to them long enough, you'll notice they produce the same errors careless people do. Sometimes they wrongly elide the article 'a'. They occasionally mess up 'a&
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by zjp 10mo ago
There's another issue that's much more infuriating IMO: - You're in the middle of writing a sentence. - The phone is trying to guess how that sentence will eventually be constructed. - It goes back 3 words and changes one to
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by zjp 10mo ago
I like AI to the extent that it can quickly solve well-worn, what I've taken to calling "embarrassingly solved problems", in your environment, like "make an animation subsystem for my program". A Qt timeline is not
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by zjp 11mo ago
That's fine, it's what people from the east and south sides call it.
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by zjp 11mo ago
>What policies did the Democrats actually implement over the years? Roughly in order: Don't Ask/Don't Tell repeal. Dodd-Frank. Lily Ledbetter (extends the statute of limitations on equal pay suits). Making it clear that se
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by zjp 11mo ago
>"Extreme left" said by someone likely from the USA is slightly left-of-center basically anywhere else. This is a 2000s era meme that was started to try and get people to see reason and vote against Bush, but it is not true and
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by zjp 11mo ago
RIP Dr. ChatGPT, we'll miss you. Thanks for the advice on fixing my shoulder pain while you were still unmuzzled.
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by zjp 1y ago
That's a real dealbreaker. I've never seen an in-house media/nav system better than Apple's, and I don't expect GM's to be any different.

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