ChrisLTD

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by ChrisLTD 9d ago
Forties isn’t old. You might not have the energy reserves of a younger person, but you shouldn’t feel like your brain is mush.
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by ChrisLTD 10d ago
Yeah, that conclusion was nonsense. Perhaps hedging so he doesn’t sound like a crank?
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by ChrisLTD 10d ago
History is replete with counter examples for good and ill
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by ChrisLTD 16d ago
Something else they want to price us out of?
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by ChrisLTD 20d ago
> AI agents are just software, after all. I wasn’t going to understand them by reading prompt guides. I had to use them for real work, see where they failed, change the prompts, tools, or environment, and try again. AI agents are just so
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by ChrisLTD 20d ago
I'm not sure how you can be confident the things "you" built won't crash if you're not at least scanning the code that you're generating.
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by ChrisLTD 20d ago
Some people like doing DIY plumbing and related tasks around their own homes. Work might not be "fun" in the traditional sense, but it can be satisfying to build and fix things.
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by ChrisLTD 1mo ago
Would you say that the government telling those people that they should be afraid of vaccines will help or hurt in this case?
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by ChrisLTD 1mo ago
> Yet, we all trust these things. We trust them - in large part - because we know that professionals took the care and responsibility to build the foundations correctly. And if the foundations failed in some way, those same professionals
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by ChrisLTD 1mo ago
> upper management who are already eliminating these assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker software jobs en masse Is there any proof of this?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
> I fully admit that we have been surpassed by the machine in the ability to entertain. Why though? Daily here on HN, posts are pilloried for being AI generated and full of AI tropes. AI generated content might be drowning out human gene
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
This is certainly overstating the difference between compiled code and the source code. If I write an if/else statement, I understand what the computer is going to do when it's evaluated even if I don't know or see the litera
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
There are other benchmarks for that
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
"Our AI makes your workers X times more productive" "Our AI takes the drudgery out of X, Y, and Z"
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
The datacenter antipathy is odd, but then again so are the AI corps' marketing strategy of making everyone afraid for their jobs and the future of the species.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
If Linux doesn't qualify as open, then what does?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
and if you're an author that lives outside the United States?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
If the US implements export controls and China doesn't, it would kill the market for OpenAI and Anthropic.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
Why would this law make things worse? What would your proposal be for fixing what you’ve identified as the underlying problem?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
You have to start somewhere, no? We have laws against stealing and murder and folks don’t usually go around saying they should be removed from the books because some people still steal and commit murder.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
So why do you recycle? Based on your argument, you're just wasting your own time or "shooting yourself in the foot".
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
I've been using Parakeet Multilanguage locally, and it's super snappy
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
It's illegal to build dense cities like Manhattan in most of the United States. And while most people want to live in a Manhattan'esque area, plenty (like me) do.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
If anything the first movers would theoretically be the first to destroy their own labor markets and economies.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
The Supreme Court gave Trump immunity, stymieing Democratic attempts at holding him accountable for crimes he was accused of in his first presidency. Holding him accountable this time would require some workaround for the Supreme Court.
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by ChrisLTD 3mo ago
Yeah... Sonnet becomes the new cheap model, and some Fable class model becomes the more expensive/better one.
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by ChrisLTD 3mo ago
Their valuations don't make sense as just programming tools, period. Forget about if they are still human driven.
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by ChrisLTD 3mo ago
It's decent at rote coding tasks, but I haven't seen these things be reliable enough outside of that specific task to make the claim that it can do the work of any information worker.
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by ChrisLTD 3mo ago
What would it mean to be incompatible with the other 5.x models?
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by ChrisLTD 3mo ago
Startups and early stage businesses have always had less intelligence (when intelligence would be measured by the number and quality of their employees) than larger businesses. That hasn't stopped them from succeeding before.

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