MattRogish

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One decision put Ruby into a downward spiral. It's not too late to fix it(rubyai.beehiiv.com)
14 points by MattRogish 8d ago|4 comments
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by MattRogish 2mo ago
My guess is they do something like "Hey dingus, make my app send emails" and then Claude or GPT just goes off and does a thing that makes it look superficially like it sends emails but it really only sends email exactly on Tuesday
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by MattRogish 3mo ago
Back in the olden days (2015-ish?) KLM was having a really, really cheap business fare sale JFK-AMS; I snagged it with Delta miles (if I recall correctly) - and flew there and back in their 747 in the upper deck (just to take the flight; di
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by MattRogish 3mo ago
We have some broad shapes - it’s a finite set of “things that are interesting to us” and the dataset is bounded. It’s not “Google Image Search”. But it is kinda like “we have a giant pile of PDFs, pictures, etc and the user wishes to run an
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by MattRogish 3mo ago
I calculate* the appropriate overlap and the slicer overlaps a certain amount of the previous slice. There is some post-processing assembly required, but it's trivial. [*] SWAG line height, trial and error to figure out the right amoun
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by MattRogish 3mo ago
I do OCR of images, and that's exactly what I do. I take one big image and slice it into many smaller ones, and send those to the LLM. Perfect every time, unlike using the whole image which resulted in hot garbage.
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by MattRogish 3mo ago
I'm not saying they are not trying - I'm saying we're inventing new problems faster than any Lab can: 1) Identify the gaps 2) Determine how to fix them 3) Implement a fix (especially if that fix is: identify and find experts)
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by MattRogish 3mo ago
I'd have to imagine there are wildly diminishing marginal returns to additional SFT/post-training passes. There are a bounded number of (useful) derivations/combinations of Duff's device. If Frontier Labs wish to reduce
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
Yes, for fun I tried to make a Mahjong solver and NONE of the SOTA frontier models could understand what they were looking at to determine tile occlusion/geometry to build the DAG. I had to spoon feed it an algorithm - here's how
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
Agreed, my vibes tell me 4.6 is a better coder than 4.7. 4.7 is a much better strategic thinker and maintains overall "better architecture" than 5.5. 5.5 is way better than either at coding, but more expensive. So I have 4.7 do th
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
The other thing I suspect is that "Just give me True/False" cuts off a large amount of the search space a modern-day LLM uses to help it answer questions (you can see it in reasoning traces but the act of writing the explanat
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
Also, this is why investors and CEOs are so in love with "LLMs are the route to AGI!" When some rich/powerful person says "I have to go to Davos, figure it out" their workers know so much context that no LLM is goin
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
Thank you; you’re right - context matters and now more than ever there are a ton of folks looking involuntarily. Grace is always needed, but now especially.
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
Yes! It reminds me of the tabs vs spaces argument. Yeah, you have your preference, but as long as everyone on your team uses the same convention it doesn’t matter The Rails apps I’ve programmed with LLMs seem to work a LOT better than arbit
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
This… was a mistake on both you and the interviewer. All interview questions - unless it’s impossible to twist your answer to fit this - is scoped to “… at work”. Nobody who asks “tell me about yourself” is asking you to talk about how you
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
"futurist for data platform" - whatever happened to that Shingy guy?
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
Yes, absolutely. People keep confusing single player vs. multiplayer and forgetting "jobs to be done". Photoshop files are the lingua franca of the design world. If you're working with designers, they'll likely give you
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Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image(github.com)
197 points by MattRogish 4mo ago|40 comments
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by MattRogish 4mo ago
“I intentionally wrote the example code the way a beginner might. More experienced users would probably reach for solutions like: Updating and checking the balance in a single UPDATE Using [check constraints]to ensure an account balance ca
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Where Are All the Data Centers?(wheresyoured.at)
33 points by MattRogish 4mo ago|13 comments
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by MattRogish 5mo ago
The major limitation is that macOS apps do not have to use the API and so there will always need to be a fallback to something like screen scraping for controls that don’t use it. Zoom Desktop app is a prime example of this. Many of the win
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by MattRogish 5mo ago
Same. Back in December the iOS app had a bug ( https://status.claude.com/incidents/6rrnsb1y0kbn ) in which buying a subscription thru the Apple App Store would not register with the backend, so you’d be charged but not
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by MattRogish 5mo ago
I find it interesting that all the trend lines start going negative around 2001. I wonder why that's not remarked upon? 9/11 itself was - obviously - epically terrible, but the impact of the event was recoverable. Our response to
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Agents and the Era of Overproduction(mattrogish.com)
2 points by MattRogish 5mo ago|0 comments
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LLMs and Agents: How do they Work?(mattrogish.com)
3 points by MattRogish 5mo ago|1 comments
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by MattRogish 5mo ago
"Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written" If you want to do this for fun or for learning? Absolutely! I did my CS Masters thesis on SQL JOINS and tried building my own new JOIN indexing system (tl;d
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by MattRogish 5mo ago
Yeah, the cost - both operationally and coding-wise - of running pgsql in some cloud dwarfs the cost of lost orders. "We'll just deploy less often" is tribal knowledge that will absolutely be forgotten at some point and maybe
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by MattRogish 8mo ago
On the one hand, I agree. The whole point of LLM-based code execution is, well, I can just type in any old language it understands and it ought to figure out what I mean! A "skill" for searching a pdf could be : * "You can se
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by MattRogish 10mo ago
The lesson from “big software projects are still failing” isn’t that we need better methodologies, better project management, or stricter controls. The lesson is "don't do big software projects". Software is not the same as b
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by MattRogish 1y ago
What strikes me immediately are the vibrant colors of the houses. Walk through most any suburban American neighborhood and you'll primarily see neutral shades of white, gray, beige, or the occasional muted blues and greens. Sometimes s

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