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by zmmmmm 5mo ago
> Technology amplifies power and until we collectively redefine and enforce a value system that benefits us all The fallacy is believing that some kind of invisible hand will guide it to automatically produce an equal outcome and therefo
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by zmmmmm 5mo ago
I'm being heavily consulted to advise management on culture change towards AI. And my number one message is this: make the number one, first and potentially only beneficiary of AI use the individual staff members themselves. If they ha
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by zmmmmm 5mo ago
It is hard to judge culture during a period of serial downsizing because it will always be toxic in that context. But what you tell aligns with what I have inferred over a period of many years observing, even during times when they were gro
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
nice ... i think i get the idea - it's effectively the same / similar benefit as batching, but you're batching against your own speculated future path. Which would be pointless if you didn't have a high probability path
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
> it's fast to check that they are actually correct with the main model because you can run the checks in parallel. Can you give an intuition as to why it's faster? I would have thought regardless how many you run in parallel,
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
It's really weird, I'm seeing across the board that people who never believed in them before are suddenly all into good software eng practices (starting with writing a spec) because of AI. It's kind of fascinating that we nev
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
And structured APIs are about 1e9x more expensive than not invoking an LLM in the first place compared to using deterministic code to do something ... it's not like any of this is rational based on compute.
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
> The honest move is to admit you wanted code, then write code This war will never end ... because there are genuine tradeoffs on both sides. YAML being a bad data description format isn't actually central to the question of whether
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
I was surprised how long some of these skills are. They are pages and pages long with tables and checkbox lists and code examples, etc. Curious how normal that is - it would only take a couple of these to really fill the context alot.
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
I think it's the smoldering ruins of the OS vendor self interest collapsing in on itself. There's not a single good universal UI. The best is the browser and it is reasonably successful but the sandbox makes it specifically unsuit
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
I've been switching across all different models this week with OpenCode and Pi - we're in an interesting place now because the open models are definitely "good enough" for a wide range of coding tasks and MUCH cheaper. T
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
Agent is currently defined as "what I want it to mean given whatever I am talking about". Personally, for me it embodies a level of autonomy. I define that as, an AI model with potential to interact with something external to itse
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
I think it omits the real reason I want to run the harness in the sandbox: I barely trust the harness more than the LLM, at least at this point in time. They are so rapidly evolving along with the underlying models, that I don't think
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
You might like to try some Pi [0] [0] https://pi.dev/
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
You've just flashed a future before my eyes where now the IT security team is forcing 50k tokens of security prevention context mandatorily into every prompt we issue. Harks back to the days when half your system memory and CPU was dev
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
It might be just our region, but for a long time we couldn't access current frontier models at all. Only old GPT4 level models. Meanwhile, Anthropic is rolling out access to every model within 24 hours of announcement to Bedrock.
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
Availability through Bedrock has been a major driver in use of Anthropic in my org. And I am betting there is actual margin in it as well. I wonder if this is directly linked to the split up with Microsoft. Just from my anecdata, OpenAI is
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
This article is full of incoherent logic and conflation of different AI risks with one another.
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
Pandoc lives in a different tier because it gives you arbitrary filters so you can do any transformation you want on the intermediate JSON format. And it converts anything to and from that JSON format. So I prefer Pandoc based systems becau
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
> all of those choices have been made and agreed upon Have they really? I have a few apps deployed on k8s and I feel like every time I need something, it turns out it doesn't do that and I'm into some exotic extension or plugin
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
The question is, how do we outsiders differentiate Stockholm syndrome from something truly being awesome?
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
I think you do a good job capturing an actual microcosm of the real problems here at an emotional level - why people "hate" it. (a) loss of fulfillment (b) lower quality of output and nobody will care so the world will just "
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
It is hazardous to swim against that tide currently from a career perspective - people rapidly categorise you as generically anti-AI even if you try to express a reasonable nuanced view. It's pretty toxic.
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
To me the bigger point is, the nature of humans is they seek out signals of value, and we will rapidly hone in on whatever unique attributes still differentiate something from being AI generated and those will become what people value. Or t
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
there are plenty of people who basically believe this is the end of the human economy - there will be nothing left that isn't done by AI in the future. Even the bits left that humans do will be human facades on AI driven activity (like
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
It feels like Anthropic is everybody's insurance policy against someone else winning the AI race. So you have Amazon, Google, Microsoft basically every major tech company pushing their own tech hard but simultaneously ensuring they hav
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
> I can't trust the news, none of it. Not CNN, not Fox News, nothing This view gets echoed here on HN a lot. I find it very strange to be honest, because I tune in to CNN and I see lots of bias in the commentary and editorial, but w
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
Seems like it would interact very badly with the time based usage reset. If lots of people are hitting their limit and then letting the session idle until they can come back, this wouldn't be an exception. It would almost be the defaul
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
It would signal quite a fundamental pivot if their "Pro" plan excludes coding but supports personal productivity (Cowork). Quite surprising given most people attribute Anthropic's success to their elevation of coding above ev
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by zmmmmm 6mo ago
Yes I was interested in that too. It suggests that in writing our own guidance for we should follow a similar style, but I rarely if ever see people doing that. Most people still stick to "You" or abstract voice "There is ...

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