AYBABTME

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by AYBABTME 8d ago
In most of my multi-agent workflows, I always end up asking them to create a group-chat system to coordinate and post updates. I thought this was such an obvious day-0 discovery that I assumed it's a well known and understood pattern t
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by AYBABTME 20d ago
I think they're doing this so they can have months of advanced notice of how the protocol will look, to post-train their models to be the only ones with the ability to interact with this protocol on the day it becomes public. It's
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by AYBABTME 2mo ago
I don't get how this is unique to GPU clusters. As a general rule, underwriters are not qualified to operate and maintain the assets they underwrite loans for. That's why houses, cars, equipment, ... go at auction at a fraction of
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by AYBABTME 2mo ago
The better parallel is "why did Google make Kubernetes open-source" or "why do large for profit entities engaged in competition, use open-source as a strategy against their competitors"? "Commoditize your complement
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by AYBABTME 3mo ago
I wrote "lightweight polices" not policies. The police presents itself as benign looking in a public context. Enforcement of day to day offences is done mechanically by machines. A state trooper doesn't stop you on a speed ch
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by AYBABTME 3mo ago
Something missing as cultural context is that deepfake, involuntary "porn", and all sorts of abuse of personal image, are a rampant and omnipresent problem in Korea. Many things are great here, but the sexual landscape when it com
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by AYBABTME 4mo ago
TLA+, P, Lean... formal methods and previously esoteric testing methods (property based, mutation... testing) should become the default. I think it's the only way we can really reap the benefits of agentic coding. I wrote about this a
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by AYBABTME 5mo ago
That's a lot of very large jumps to come to the conclusion that Bun isn't going to turn out well.
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by AYBABTME 5mo ago
The problem IMO is that they filled GitHub with Microsoft folks who just don't have the engineering self-sufficient hacker culture that is required to balance the "attraction park" vibe that GitHub paired it with. So now it&#
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by AYBABTME 6mo ago
This reduces writing to one concept: thinking and the writing is just a byproduct. But writing is also presentation and also communication. There is nothing wrong with speechwriters. Various authors spilled out their thoughts in rough forma
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by AYBABTME 6mo ago
Everything you say is probably true and I agree... and yet. What matters is not just what you plan to do, but what your opponent thinks you'll do. The US in general believes that China wants to invade or control Taiwan in some way. Thi
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by AYBABTME 6mo ago
I mostly agree with everything you say, I just see the balance lying elsewhere on the spectrum. I think China is on it's way to securing its energy supplies with renewables but not quite there, and that the US is taking this window of
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by AYBABTME 6mo ago
(1) China is more sensitive to shipping and oil shipments (and derivatives) than the US. It hurts both but China much more. The US is hurt in so far as high gas price are bad for elections, a small price to pay for strategic advantage. (2)
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by AYBABTME 6mo ago
I think this analysis is missing the big picture. (1) reducing oil shipments to China is good posturing for the US; hence Venezuela and Iran ahead of 2028. These are shaping operations. China suffers more from these conflicts than the US. (
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by AYBABTME 7mo ago
This right now today is making the case for OSS AI and local inference. 200$/m to get rate limited makes a RTX 6000 Pro look cheap.
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by AYBABTME 7mo ago
Let's say 100k files is 300k syscalls, at ~1-2us per syscall. That's 300ms of syscalls. Then assume 10kb per file, that's 1GB of file, easily done in a fraction of a second when the cache is warm (it'll be from scanning
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by AYBABTME 7mo ago
If a human asked me this question, I would be confused by the question as ambiguous since it suggests something odd is implied but underspecified. I think any confident answer either way by AI is lacking in pedantry.
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by AYBABTME 7mo ago
For some reason, I always found the arguments for "it's better to not know" for these tests to be strange and slightly infantilizing. But of course this must not be the end of it, and there might be some more well thought out
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by AYBABTME 7mo ago
I think it's a mistake to believe that this money would exist if it was to be spent on these things. The existence of money is largely derived from society scale intention, excitement or urgency. These hospitals, machine shops, etc, co
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by AYBABTME 7mo ago
the rebuke is that lack of chaos makes people feel more orderly and as if things are going better, but it doesn't increase your luck surface area, it just maximizes cozy vibes and self interested comfort.
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by AYBABTME 9mo ago
It feels like we're doing another lift to a higher level of abstraction. Whereas we had "automatic programming" and "high level programming languages" free us from assembly, where higher level abstractions could be
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by AYBABTME 9mo ago
Hydrocarbons can be synthesized. edit: let me elaborate. My point is that the chemical complexity (manufacturing uses) can be reproduced, and the energy storage density also can be. So really the gift of hydrocarbons under the ground is mor
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by AYBABTME 9mo ago
You can chose to see it as astroturfing, or see it as people actually thinking the superlatives are appropriate. To be honest, it makes no difference in my life if you believe or not what I'm saying. And from my perspective, it's
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by AYBABTME 9mo ago
The fact that as many engineers are on payroll doesn't mean that "cloud" is not an efficiency improvement. When things are easier and cheaper, people don't do less or buy less. They do more and buy more until they fill t
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by AYBABTME 9mo ago
In this year of 2025, in December, I find it untenable for anyone to hold this position unless they have not yet given LLMs a good enough try. They're undeniably useful in software development, particularly on tasks that are amenable t
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by AYBABTME 10mo ago
My guess is that it's tuned to do tool calls properly and return structured data, which are two things you need when writing an agent loop.
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by AYBABTME 10mo ago
There's definitely a method to using them well. It took me 6 months of trial, giving up, trying again, refining my approach, ... to eventually get fairly good results in a consistent manner. It's useful to know what the LLMs are g
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by AYBABTME 10mo ago
AI is increasing the capacity of existing employees and I think we're all still discovering, everyday, better ways to leverage it even more. So when the question comes of hiring a new teammate, the value they'd bring to the table
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by AYBABTME 10mo ago
And yet despite being largely obsolete in the specifics, gang of four remains highly relevant and useful in the generalities. All these books continue to be absolutely great foundations if you look past their immediate advice. I wagger the
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by AYBABTME 10mo ago
I think this depends a lot on the region. I find that forecast quality differs widely from region to region. My guess is that it's a matter of (1) some regions have less advanced models available to them and (2) some regions have funda

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