alchemism

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by alchemism 3d ago
That’s not how enterprise data controls operate in e.g. AWS Bedrock or Databricks - where they use models - sorry to inform you.
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by alchemism 4d ago
Right, in 5 years time the economy will be entirely vibecoded by pension fund and family office bankers. No one will be employed at all
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by alchemism 4d ago
The thing about gold rushes, and market manias, is that the outcomes are irrational.
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by alchemism 4d ago
Even if all the changes are “good” not shoddy, awareness of changes will still require layers of cognitive filtering. One human PM clerk will not be able to oversee all of the products, one developer will not be able to oversee all changes
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by alchemism 4d ago
Start with a scoped read-only permission set. Writing to production is another matter entirely…
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by alchemism 4d ago
Any organization that vibecodes a significant amount of software in-house instead of buying it will not be reducing developer headcount. I'd bet on it. The CTO or EngDir will not be able to run 10x10 agent-cli sessions, or review 50 vi
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by alchemism 8d ago
I’d suggest adding emdashes to your filter list.
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by alchemism 9d ago
“Context Injection Library” might be more accurate than Skills per se.
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by alchemism 10d ago
It is all fun and games on-prem until it’s time for the annual support contracts.
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by alchemism 10d ago
Back in Socrates time, masters of rhetoric used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci to memorize long texts without reading or writing. Something was definitely lost as something was gained.
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by alchemism 11d ago
You would need to give it AWS credentials and MCPs for that. I’ve been sending agents into prod env for over a year now.
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by alchemism 12d ago
See: Kiro by AWS
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by alchemism 12d ago
They took a page from AWS on whatever the hell a Kiro token is supposed to represent.
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by alchemism 13d ago
I think of this book often in the LLM age.
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by alchemism 14d ago
That’s also what happens at around ~1200 micrograms
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by alchemism 15d ago
I’m doing a ssh mush, vintage style.
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by alchemism 15d ago
Caviar is better in the sky, it turns out.
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by alchemism 15d ago
“Fake it ‘till you make it” is not a venerable mafia saying, if you catch my meaning.
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by alchemism 19d ago
I second this. It’s now supremely easy to have a session hook which writes an atomic CHANGELOG along with ADRs for consequential decisions.
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by alchemism 20d ago
It has some vintage. Kubernetes deployments (containers) may have sidecars.
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by alchemism 21d ago
Mmmmhmmm. Ah yes 1921, the year both the Klu Klux Klan (and European Fascism) metastasized in society. All immigration controls come from a rather interesting, dark place; shifting of the Overton Window, and all that.
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by alchemism 24d ago
“It is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than find the Kingdom of Heaven.”
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by alchemism 24d ago
If it helps I intended “empty” in a positive Zen sort of way, not as in an abyss. The humanness is in the listener, not the inner talker.
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by alchemism 24d ago
And behind the screen on the horizon, framed in a stone arch, was the lights of the ongoing Elliniko megatower construction project, which already dwarfs every structure in the country. It was another layer onto what you described.
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by alchemism 25d ago
The highlight of my summer was Blade Runner Live At the Acropolis. The movie was shown in the ancient theater with a live orchestra performing Vangelis. They may have a global tour of it in some places this fall.
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by alchemism 26d ago
I tend to think of it in reverse: not that LLMs are intelligent, but that humans are more empty than we…think we are.
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by alchemism 27d ago
Don’t use a calculator, either.
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by alchemism 27d ago
If I’m answering your question, and you are not directly paying me for being an information desk, you are definitely getting the AI reply.
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by alchemism 27d ago
Half the audience perceives it as AI anyway. Does it matter if you spend the time or do not spend the time to write it? The result is the same.
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by alchemism 1mo ago
This seems the right place in the discussion to mention The Gervais Principle, a legendary piece of business writing if you haven't heard of it. https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-

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