GoatInGrey

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by GoatInGrey 4mo ago
Some believe, though they hesitate to put it in writing where it could be openly challenged, that regulations are a dysfunctional aspect of governance and that solutions to systemic issues lie at the individual level.
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by GoatInGrey 5mo ago
March 2025, Anthropic was claiming that 90% of code would be written by LLMs in three to six months, and "essentially all" code within twelve months. This was one week after closing a Series E round for $3.5 billion. When they beg
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by GoatInGrey 5mo ago
The irony here is that even if one is extracting legitimate value from LLMs because they are that much smarter than their peers, the process of using LLMs to perform all of their skilled labor makes them less intelligent.
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by GoatInGrey 6mo ago
https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427 " Most people's mental model of Claude Code is that "it's just a TUI" but it should really be closer to "a small game engine". For
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
To be fair, Claude Code is vibe-coded. It's a terrible piece of software from an engineering (and often usability) standpoint, and the problems run deeper than just the choice of JavaScript. But it is good enough for people to get what
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
Me: I want to get my car's transmission fixed, the mechanic shop is 50 meters away. Would it be better to walk or to drive to a location 50 meters away from my front door? - Opus 4.6: <thinking> The user is asking whether to walk
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
No, what the other commenter described is narrowly scoped delegation to LLMs paired with manual review (which sounds dreadfully soul-sucking to me), not wholesale "write feature X, write the unit tests, and review the implementation fo
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
Even on codebases within the half-year age group, these LLMs often do perform nasty (read: ungodly verbose) implementations that become a maintainability nightmare. Even for the LLMs that wrote it all in the first place. I know this because
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
Functioning antitrust is really all it takes. The last significant US antitrust action was on AT&T in 1982.
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
For vibe-writing, the vibes aren't even that good!
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
It's the evergreen tradeoff between the short and long terms. Do I get the nugget of information I need right now but lose in a month, or do I spend the time and energy that leads to deeper understanding and years-long retention of the
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
In my opinion, it's this, though I think it's a second-order effect. I believe that the issue isn't so much that women are working, but rather that there is a shortage of household labor. This labor pool is what was tradition
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
To be blunt, I think it's a form of mania that drives someone to reject human-written code in favor of LLM-generated code. Every time I read writing from this perspective that exceeds a paragraph, I quickly realize the article itself w
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
> most people don't want to use I'm not sure if this was intended or not, but this is a common NIMBY refrain. The argument of "This thing being advocated for that I'm fighting against isn't something people want
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
I can concur that previous models would say "No, that isn't possible" or "No, that doesn't exist". There was one time where I asked it to update a Go module from version X.XX to version X.YY and it would refuse
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by GoatInGrey 7mo ago
The analogy can work if you're not looking for an HVAC at all and the HVAC guy is instead approaching you, unprompted, to explain that you need to buy this new system. Because if you don't, your business will become uncompetitive
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
There are many poor characterizations here. Besides data centers clearly not employing the average worker, there are real impacts. In Farmington, for instance, has a data center planning to drain 900,000,000 gallons of water per year from t
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
Pornographic use has long been the "break glass in case of emergency" for the LLM labs when it comes to finances. My personal opinion is that while smut won't hurt anyone in of itself, LLM smut will have weird and generally
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
The real but contentious answer is to change our street and urban design. You can only do so much to make a giant metal machine safe for children and small animals to be struck by. Reducing the frequency of cars and pedestrians occupying th
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
Think of it like dog ownership: if my dog hurts someone, that's on me. Property that causes harm is the owner's responsibility. If I program a machine and it goes out into the world and hurts someone who did not voluntarily releas
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
Possible, though you eventually run into types of issues that you recall the model just not having before. Like accessing a database or not following the SOP you have it read each time it performs X routine task. There are also patterns tha
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
Sure, but it's still useful insight to see how it performs over time. Of course, cynically, Anthropic could game the benchmark by routing this benchmark's specific prompts to an unadulterated instance of the model.
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
As phones replace desktop computers for non-technical users, leaving a concentration of "skilled" users, my suspicion is that the pattern will resemble the quote "Slowly, then all at once."
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
Many of these announcements are bluffs as many users here have pointed out. But real LLM-driven layoffs do happen, and from what I have anecdotally seen, they follow a pattern: leadership assumes the new LLM service will make human worker
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
I've sat on many meetings and gotten to trial many "AI products", and a good portion of them do have actual LLMs attempting to perform work. Though most of them are brittle wrappers of the big AI labs, with an aspirational
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
Ironically, it's worse. I just wrote another comment about this. Recycled plastics carry more toxic load and shed more (and more fragmented) microplastics into the environment. Recycled plastics only win out on carbon emissions. Moral
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
Recycled plastics actually produce microplastics more than virgin plastics do. Some studies on recycled polyester garments found that they dump an additional 50% more or so into the environment than non-recycled polyester fabrics. And those
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
I'm not taking any position on this, but some data to chew on concerning the US. There are roughly fourteen million cases of larceny in the US every year, and between three and four million cases of stalking in the US every year. Rate
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
To be fair, you'd likely ask that exact question if your X was stolen!
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
I believe there to be some merit to the notion that it is better for society if many of the generational cycles which lead to crime are broken. Sometimes that involves off-ramps from the road to incarceration. That said, the policy can be,

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