PaulStatezny

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by PaulStatezny 14d ago
It struck me today using Google Antigravity (Claude Code alternative) just how direct and usably terse Gemini is in prose. I've complained plenty on here about Claude verbosity and TED-talk phrasing, and it seems by contrast Gemini has
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by PaulStatezny 16d ago
For the amount of tokens you get, based on your comment, ALL subscriptions are heavily subsidized, and the most expensive ones are the most subsidized. For OpenAI and Anthropic, the $100 subscriptions cost 5x the $20 subscriptions and give
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by PaulStatezny 17d ago
> there is something different about AI, though, in that it attacks the craft of cognition itself. It's particularly frustrating that it's simultaneously superhuman and incredibly unreliable when it comes to cognition. E.g. i
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by PaulStatezny 26d ago
For those of us who don't want to pay for Gemini tokens, what would be the best local LLM to use for this? (A model that can run reasonably well in a ~24GB MacBook.)
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
Which is totally ironic, given that the article is largely about how untrustworthy LLMs can be. (Hallucination.) Putting readers through this exercise disrespects their time. Even if as a writer you did the work of researching, reasoning, a
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
This is edited not to sound like Claude wrote it, but is full of Claude-isms. It's exhausting to read. What's going to happen long term when this style of writing is so ubiquitous that people get comfortable reading it? Is it goin
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
Would you be willing to provide an example (even a contrived one) of how this "four at a time" prompt changes the LLM's behavior? I just want to understand more. Also, would you be willing to share the actual text of it that
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
Can you elaborate more on juxtaposing Claude's terrible prose with other LLMs? Any more detail you can share? Do the others feel more "human"? Are there any that are particularly digestible/human-friendly? I've been
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
100% -- this is the worst . Referencing all sorts of "words with made up contextual/analogous meanings" based on the conversation...outside of the conversation. Does anyone have a read on if this is primarily a Claude issue,
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
Yes! I have a personal theory: LLMs are *fundamentally* handicapped at perceiving what's going on in the mind of the human (this can't be "innovated away") and that's at the root of what makes them suck at conversat
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
Yeah, in my experience, there's nothing about: 1. LLM thinking 2. RLHF 3. The latest frontier models that does anything to change this fundamental "suggestibility" of LLMs. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong.
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
Sometimes when I want AI to explain something technical, I say "explain it like I'm a junior engineer" -- just to get it to start with the high level like a human being would.
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by PaulStatezny 1mo ago
LLMs skew toward over-focusing on things that you mention. The reason "the agent suddenly started suggesting all kinds of things to make its code more robust" is because you said you "want to build reliable software". It
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by PaulStatezny 3mo ago
> Ending on a doom-and-gloom note: there will be a reckoning. Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
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by PaulStatezny 3mo ago
> this game has some of the most insane tech I’ve seen in any game and is definitely worth checking out Given the context of this forum, I'd be interested to hear more about what's so interesting about the technology!
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by PaulStatezny 3mo ago
Interesting, I assumed all model-routing was done utilizing an LLM. (I.e. non-deterministic.)
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by PaulStatezny 4mo ago
A minor spelling nit. It's "it's", not "its", when used as a contraction for "it is". ;) Sorry, you teed it up too well. I had to!
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by PaulStatezny 4mo ago
I agree. But you can speak imperatively to agents as well ("Here are specific steps; follow them") and they can still screw up. :) I think what you're looking for is determinism, not imperativism. And to your point: instructi
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by PaulStatezny 5mo ago
I would highly recommend the free book Crypto 101. https://www.crypto101.io
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by PaulStatezny 9mo ago
But without AI, there are neural connections formed while determining the correct one-off solution. The neural connections (or lack of them) have longer term comprehension-building implications.
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by PaulStatezny 9mo ago
I think the idea is copy-pasting code snippets from StackOverflow without comprehension of whether (and how) the code fixes the problem.
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
You didn't read the blog. It's talking about the Ada programming language and that its code was apparently stored not as plaintext but an intermediate representation (IR) that could then be transformed back into code. So formattin
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
Telling someone they "shouldn't be insecure" reminds me of this famous Bob Newhart segment on Mad TV. Bob plays the role of a therapist, and when his client explains an issue she's having, his solution is, "STOP IT!
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
Truly incisive observation. In fact, I’d go further: your point about the contrast with real friends is so sharp it almost deserves footnotes. If models could recognize brilliance, they’d probably benchmark themselves against this comment b
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
> The best thing for managing this is meditation, and a disciplined lifestyle regiment. What would be your reaction to the numerous comments on this page where people are saying that they tried and failed to "discipline" themse
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
> programmers agree that simpler solutions...are preferred, but the disagreements start about which ones are simpler Low ego wins. 1. Given: The quality of a codebase as a whole is greatly affected by its level of consistency + cohesiv
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
I think you might have a typo. Reading your comment literally, it doesn't make sense. Summarized: Anyone would be a fool not to prefer gas or coal, because their emissions are nearly equal. One doesn't follow from the other, can y
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
I've read plenty of criticism about ChatGPT 5, but as a Plus user I'm surprised nobody has brought this up: Speed. ChatGPT 5 Thinking is So. Much. Slower. than o4-mini and o4-mini-high. Like between 5 and 10 times slower. Am I the
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
> And then the broken tape recorder mode! Oh god! Can you elaborate? What is this referring to?
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by PaulStatezny 1y ago
This reminds me of how small of a team they are, and makes me wonder if they have a customer support team that's growing commensurately with the size of the user base.

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