ThePhysicist

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by ThePhysicist 4d ago
Yeah sure, let's go and vibe code your own e-signing solution with Claude. Sure you can do it, LLMs never say no but if someone with actual e-signing expertise would start probing the LLM about what it actually did I'm sure we wou
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by ThePhysicist 8d ago
Most experimental physics and other natural sciences are strongly driven by their theoretical siblings, i.e. in particle research nothing gets built without a solid theoretical foundation of what you expect to find (or where you expect exis
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by ThePhysicist 12d ago
Isn't there anywhere to "go" from here? In the last decades, introducing new high level abstractions on top of existing paradigms naturally had everyone move up the ladder and work at the next higher level, why should this be
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by ThePhysicist 16d ago
To be fair AI as we have it today wouldn't exist if everything was copyrighted and copyright was enforced very strictly across the web. Not sure if it's fair use and I get that it's not great if these companies try to monopol
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by ThePhysicist 16d ago
Damn, big security fuckup by Dropbox, how can they portray that as an issue with Lenovo's e-mail verification process? You should never allow linking of an existing account with a new login method without first confirming that the user
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by ThePhysicist 20d ago
Wall heating, it's like floor heating, just on the wall.
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by ThePhysicist 21d ago
I mean it's mostly about energy efficiency, a well insulated house is as easy to cool in summer as it is to heat in winter. Most heat pumps can also cool and new construction in most European countries like Germany is equipped with flo
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by ThePhysicist 22d ago
I mean I can deliver the same software in one month that I delivered in maybe 3 months before and for many things I don't need a dedicated frontend developer, designer or writer anymore. So for me it's the case!
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by ThePhysicist 22d ago
Seems hard to believe, I mean I'm not an AI absolutist but as a programmer it allows me to automate simple things like writing small patches or config changes in a matter of minutes where before I would have invested hours, so hard to
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by ThePhysicist 25d ago
Personally I feel a bit sad and annoyed sometimes, lots of folks I know that are working in some non technical roles e.g. lawyers in public departments or doctors in medecine come to me to show me their apps and tools and data science scrip
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by ThePhysicist 26d ago
Not sure if I do anything wrong but Codex with Sol made such slow progress on my work, I iterated several days to do a redesign of my UI and it kept making small piecemeal changes then stopping and asking me for confirmation again and again
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by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
Would really like to know how their watermarking technique works, and if they can use it to store arbitrary information in the text (I assume they can if only in a limited way). I assume if the text is long enough they could add all kinds o
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by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
Maybe those engineers that don't care about making their solution _good_ are actually the good engineers, have you ever thought about that??? There are exceptions where quality really matters but most software shops build CRUD web apps
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by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
I don't know, 12,000 USD a month is a steep price for having someone vibe code frontend features for me.
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by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
I don't know, I find AI still misses the mark so much for stuff that's not happening inside a well constrained framework with very specific guardrails and boundary conditions. Every time I have agents build something half complex
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by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
When will we see the end of ads disguised as tech opinion pieces?
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by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
Which manufacturer was that?
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by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
Coming up with solutions isn't so difficult, getting everyone behind one is the hard part. Obviously easier if you're one of the two biggest AI companies in the (Western) world.
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by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
I think Valve is just going to kill Xbox in a couple of years. Basically Microsoft is planning to make the next Xbox an "ordinary" Windows computer with a different UI as well as vendor-locked hard- & software. So essentially
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
There's this great blog post by Joel Spolsky from 2000 [1], where he essentially argues that controlling your environment makes you happy. He writes about his summer job in a bakery and how the dough mixers would be so unpredictable an
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
Interesting point about "letting go". I hear that quite a lot, which I find surprising. In IT, when new technologies like cloud computing emerge people always need to adapt their workflows, and for some that is challenging e.g. go
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
Oh for vibe coding small scripts it's great. Experience of people with AI can vary, I don't see what attitude has to do with this, at this point I have probably spent thousands of hours trying different strategies to leverage LLMs
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
Yeah I have a lot of experience writing software. My code is written mainly in Golang, but I had models write different code in Javascript, Rust, Python, Shell and other languages already. I used a variety of frontier models over the last y
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
I'm about to throw away multiple months of LLM generated code for one of my side projects. I was really careful writing design specs and it wasn't even a new code base the LLM worked on, but still after several months of AI change
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
DigitalOcean simply does this at a later stage and will then just cut you off, Hetzner is doing it from the start. Their obligations aren't so different, they just approach this differently. It's the same thing with Stripe, it&#x2
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
Takes me back to when I was working on Josephson junctions (JJ) as a student, I-V curves were the first thing we did when characterizing a junction. JJ I-V curves were tricky due to the hysteresis they have in the underdamped regime, so we
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
Congrats Sonali, Nick, Dave & everyone else! I had an incredible time with you all in NY more than 10 years ago, it was so cool, and I'm still thinking of it very fondly. Spent my days hacking away in the space near Canal Street an
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Poll: How much do you personally spend for LLM subscriptions each month?
5 points by ThePhysicist 2mo ago|4 comments
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
0-49 USD
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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
50-99 USD

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