ajrouvoet

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by ajrouvoet 1mo ago
It is baffling to me that Python seems to insist on reinventing language features and coming up with the most incomprehensible of designs. The whole dataclass and serialisation ecosystem comes to mind, as well as the evolution of typing. Th
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by ajrouvoet 2mo ago
Excellent and (it goes without saying) important work. My only suggestion is to edit a file by… playing Minecraft. Extra points if you make a meaningful edit in survival mode.
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by ajrouvoet 2mo ago
Yes: the human provides the qualitative judgement and the agent provides the executive function.
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by ajrouvoet 2mo ago
Do you mean that specifically those models perform badly without guidance or do all models need specific instructions for technical writing? We have observed that it is a loss for teamwork that the sparring with AI is entirely lost when onl
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by ajrouvoet 2mo ago
Although I’d like this to work, I have not seen evidence that AIs extract good reusable knowledge from sessions without strong guidance. I do R&D work in comp sci and usually write software and reports or papers in parallel. I have been
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by ajrouvoet 2mo ago
I think that just highlights how “empowerment” through tech is biased towards producers, which makes sense because that aligns with the usual business propositions. For consumers, YT is not empowering. It fulfills a need, well enough to tie
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by ajrouvoet 2mo ago
A well designed intermediary enables both validation and control over the output independent of the AI. This changes the interaction model between human and AI from delegation to collaboration.
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by ajrouvoet 2mo ago
The announcement video has some quality that made it hard to shake the feeling that I’m watching a black mirror episode. Or a sequel to Ex Machina.
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by ajrouvoet 8mo ago
This last point is the key observation.
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by ajrouvoet 11mo ago
Meta just lost a court case against bits of freedom in the Netherlands, because their instagram setting to turn off the attention grabbing feed would reset every month or so. The court ruled that this infringed on the user’s freedom. Source
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by ajrouvoet 11mo ago
Dutch newspaper Trouw also reported that their ad was rejected multiple times by Meta. After inquiry into this they found it was because it was about sustainability and hence considered “a political ad”. (Paywalled) Source: https:/&#x