Yoric

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by Yoric 3d ago
Not GP, but I can. I'm currently working on porting a mid-sized project to a new architecture, new programming language and of course adding new features. Getting a new feature implemented is quite easy. You spend a few hours brainstor
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by Yoric 3d ago
> just 20 years ago, all the most popular software shipped with NO tests. are you getting it? Not really? About 20 years ago, I was working on Firefox and we had millions of tests on CI. I was working on a host of other open source apps
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by Yoric 3d ago
That is interesting, but... is it actually improving structure? We're mid-way through a similar process at work. Rewriting a legacy app in a new language, with new architecture and new features. And it's a mess. We're at 10x
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by Yoric 3d ago
> We are going from the era of manual, line-by-line mental model transcription to one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architecture and algorithms. That would be lovely. It's sad that we're being
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by Yoric 8d ago
Who, me?
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by Yoric 9d ago
> "Destroying the ecosystem" is just FUD. Let's say it is. What about the rest of my paragraph? > And if you don't find "average AI research intern" impressive, I'm not sure what to tell you. Have th
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by Yoric 10d ago
Am I the only one who's a bit disappointed that we're spending trillions, destroying the ecosystem, drowning democracies and learning in slop, preparing a big financial crash, all of this to achieve an "average AI research in
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by Yoric 16d ago
...when it's not entirely ignoring your guardrails, AGENTS.md and skills.
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by Yoric 16d ago
As I understood it at the time, the rationale was that GPT2 made it too easy to produce content at scale and could easily be used for propaganda, phishing or other kinds of cons. Which turned out to be true.
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by Yoric 16d ago
Asking out of curiosity, because I have limited experience in that domain. I thought that fine-tuning was changing the weights in the model, not the embedding? Or did I misunderstand?
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by Yoric 3mo ago
I actually am spending some of my money in an attempt to contribute to decrease some of these things, and investing bit parts of my retirement plans in others. So, not entirely nothing.
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by Yoric 3mo ago
But last time I checked (which was admittedly a while ago), JavaScriptCore didn't have one, no?
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by Yoric 3mo ago
Yeah, I suspect the 2-3x amount of code, but I can't prove it yet. This will wait for the next report :)
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by Yoric 3mo ago
I understand that some developers produce very poor code. Maybe in some companies it's the norm. Luckily for me, I've seldom worked alongside such developers. In my company, the code Opus 4.8 is able to generate appears competent,
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by Yoric 3mo ago
I just wrote an internal report in my company. My conclusion from the project I'm working on is that, as of this day, there is no way to have both this so-called 20x performance improvement _and_ any kind of quality. Or security if who
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by Yoric 3mo ago
Eh, Firefox/Thunderbird had multi-threaded JS in SpiderMonkey in the late 90s. Then it was removed it because it made garbage-collection a real mess (the JavaScript gc needs to walk through lots of C++ data, some of it may have specifi
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by Yoric 3mo ago
> Engineers over-engineer simple problems because their performance reviews reward technical complexity, not business impact. Having tech led teams at both high-profile and low-profile tech companies, that is _not_ my experience. Most en
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by Yoric 3mo ago
Directly at DeepSeek? It was my understanding (but I didn't check) that some other AI operators were providing (some of?) DeepSeek's model for cheaper prices. Still, that's interesting. What do you get for that price? Only co
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by Yoric 3mo ago
https://www.canirun.ai/?status=tight might answer that question
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by Yoric 3mo ago
I'm assuming that you need to feed the human being (i.e. you) regardless of whether you use that human being for writing code or not. So, by this metric, there is simply no breaking even point. The cost of human + AI is always going to
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by Yoric 4mo ago
The agent can disable the lints inline, so that's not sufficient. Also, I haven't found a cross-platform + cross-agent mechanism to set permissions. Much less one that works. Right now, I'm working on a hook that checks for c
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by Yoric 4mo ago
Anecdotally, a few weeks into a Rust agent-first project, we're still trying to get the agent to maintain a minimum of coding discipline (e.g. don't use sync Mutex in tokio code). So far, the agent seems more interested in deactiv
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by Yoric 4mo ago
> Why on earth would AI labs be bragging about how little the product they sell actually costs them to make? You don't want to do anything that reduces it's perceived value to the user, that might make them less willing to pay
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by Yoric 4mo ago
What do you mean about syntax mistakes and memory problems? Something like incorrect SELinux configurations?
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by Yoric 4mo ago
It seems that this era is a marketing experiment for Mythos. We're running forward without any idea of how we can get agents to write code that is even remotely safe or secure. It _will_ blow up with increasingly large blast radiuses.
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by Yoric 4mo ago
Go is pretty good at performance, but pretty bad at expressing domain-specific logics. Python is the opposite, but once you have isolated the parts that need to be optimized, it's quite easy to rewrite them in a native language (in par
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by Yoric 4mo ago
Wasn't pepper the P in PNaCl?
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by Yoric 4mo ago
When I was a manager in a start-up, ages ago, I argued the CEO against handing a (small) one-off bonus to one of my team members, and rather went shopping for a nice gift with the same sum. One of them was purely a transaction, the other on
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by Yoric 4mo ago
> WinRT is the Windows team final response to Longhorn, but lets do it with COM and C++, which started in Vista. Not sure what you mean, I was using COM and C++ for Windows development in the late 90s. > So there is no elision, it is
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by Yoric 4mo ago
Unless I'm missing something, this sounds awful.

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