alex_sf

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by alex_sf 5d ago
I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people.
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by alex_sf 6d ago
The models will only get better and inference cost will go down. I don’t see any reason to think the same thing that happens with all tech won’t happen here.
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by alex_sf 6d ago
I take the specifications from the customer and type them into the AI
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by alex_sf 6d ago
> It’s either a maintenance issue. e.g., Opus recommended and implemented a fix for a database corruption crash. This was ~400 lines of code with many moving parts. I reviewed, and found out Android Room library already handles this reco
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by alex_sf 9d ago
Whatever values you stick in there are about as accurate as the scale is, so.
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by alex_sf 1mo ago
Intelligence per unit of compute will almost certainly keep increasing. That doesn't mean having more compute isn't still way, way better.
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by alex_sf 3mo ago
My agent is currently doing the work of ~6 senior engineers, based on ticket closures. These are not trivial tasks: all of them involve a mix of code, judgement, executing remote commands in a production environment, etc. This is at a well
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by alex_sf 4mo ago
> 1. that closed source models are more efficient than open source Not a reasonable assumption for a variety of reasons. > 2. Deepseek is served at a profit and not a loss Not a reasonable assumption either. > Why do you need to kn
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by alex_sf 4mo ago
It's silicon valley and they are trying to aggressively grow. Your baseline assumption should be the exact opposite.
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by alex_sf 4mo ago
There's no reason to think that the latest frontier models have similar inference costs to open source models. It would be more surprising if the surrounding architecture hasn't significantly diverged. If it _hasn't_ signifi
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by alex_sf 4mo ago
The price a company charges, _particularly_ a high growth VC-backed one, is a poor signal for their costs. That blog post is not very compelling either. Without knowing details of the architecture, comparing the various frontier models to
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by alex_sf 4mo ago
I mean, they do (and did). If you aren't shipping, you'll be out eventually.
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
"shape" too, at least with gpt5.5, is coming up constantly.
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
> It is in the same way that educated guessing is. I guess (heh) it depends on your definition of 'educated guessing'? Looking at the problem, considering a solution, discarding it, trying another and testing, iteratively, is
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
This isn't brute force.
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
Open models, in actual practice, don't match up to even one or two generation prior models from Anthropic/OpenAI/Google. They've clearly been trained on the benchmarks. Entirely possible it was by mistake, but it'
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
Which is why compilers decimated the software industry.
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
The same way companies already deal with any cost.
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
Most people just want something that looks nice. I understand it’s deeper to someone really into it, but the rest of us are fine with it.
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
Everytime I've tried a local model, and I have tried lots for a couple years now, they just seem like they were overtrained on benchmarks. They consistently perform dramatically worse than even older models from Anthropic/OAI&#x2
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
> Europe is behind because we do not have good leadership. The decisions taken by leadership, no matter what level you look at - local, company, national, supranational - are rarely in the best interest of Europeans. Our markets - housin
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
This isn't buried or hard to find, but in good faith: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ODNI-Un... https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/congressional-t
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by alex_sf 5mo ago
> Saying "Accidents happen in war" is absolutely a way of saying "Accidents are acceptable in war". Bridges fall down sometimes. I don't think it's acceptable. It's a statement of fact. There are alw
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by alex_sf 6mo ago
It's both.
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by alex_sf 6mo ago
If goods aren't being sold, then the price will drop.
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by alex_sf 7mo ago
That's not worth 45k. It's barely worth anything for a typical website, tbh.
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by alex_sf 8mo ago
Tbf, there is no one with a ‘serious DevSecOps background’. It’s an incredibly strong hint that the person is largely a goof.
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by alex_sf 8mo ago
> Ralph loops are also stupid because they don't make use of kv cache properly. This is a cost/resources thing. If it's more effective and the resources are available, it's completely fine.
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by alex_sf 3y ago
> If you are not too tired, drunk or using any substances, and not speeding, your chances of causing a serious traffic accident are miniscule. You realize that like.. other people exist, right?
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by alex_sf 3y ago
> Would you sign up for such a system if you can volunteer to participate in it, with now those random killings being restricted to those who've signed up for it, including you? I mean, we already have. You volunteer to participate

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