JBAnderson5

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by JBAnderson5 11d ago
To me, LLMs struggle with the most important aspect of technical writing - conciseness. As Einstein put it: “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
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by JBAnderson5 25d ago
I have a similar mental model to the climbing harness. I think of LLMs as horses and harnesses as the saddle, reins, etc that you put on your horse. You might configure your harness for an individual rider or you might hook together several
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by JBAnderson5 2mo ago
> Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. > it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free". How is two
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by JBAnderson5 2mo ago
Will they ever come out with a new mini? If they don’t, is it possible to buy a new 13 mini anymore? Or just replace the battery?
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by JBAnderson5 3mo ago
> Realistically, serving 300 users per GPU you'll spend a lifetime cost of about $133 per user, plus the datacenter/upkeep bill. What is the operational cost and when does it become more expensive than the upfront capex? The B2
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by JBAnderson5 4mo ago
I’m still waiting for another small form factor iPhone like the iPhone 13 mini before I upgrade. I find it a lot more ergonomic to use
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by JBAnderson5 6mo ago
Multiple times I’ve rejected an llm’s file changes and asked it to do something different or even just not make the change. It almost always tries to make the same file edit again. I’ve noticed if I make user edits on top of its changes it
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by JBAnderson5 7mo ago
> Now consider what the same analyst does with an LLM agent: "Show me all software companies with over $1B market cap, P/E under 30, and revenue growing over 20% year over year. Build a DCF model for the top 5. Run sensitivity
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by JBAnderson5 7mo ago
Why can’t you store your agents.md file in a database?
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by JBAnderson5 7mo ago
They built it as a railroady board game instead of a sandbox video game. The rumors from their experimental workshop test and latest announcement make me hopeful for a big update in the spring. Until then, it doesn’t feel worth playing it m
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by JBAnderson5 8mo ago
I’m currently working through the Linux from scratch project and think it would be cool if I got good enough to contribute to the Linux kernel or drivers.
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by JBAnderson5 8mo ago
I think part of the issue here is that software engineering is a very broad field. If you’re building another crud app, your job might only require reading a ticket and copy/pasting from stack overflow. If you are working in a regulate
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by JBAnderson5 8mo ago
I mostly agree with your assessment of the industry. However, I think there are still more new and useful products to be built. They are not “the next big thing” though. Big tech Management has been screwing this up in a couple of ways thou