alganet

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by alganet 10mo ago
For version control, people should just use fossil. https://fossil-scm.org/ No server infra needed. Issues/Wiki/Discussions all built-in. Customizable web interface. Adapter to export to git. Single-file (also an
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by alganet 10mo ago
You're beating a dead horse here buddy. Show me a social platform that is not complete bullshit. You can't. I do agree with it, LinkedIn is bullshit. But c'mon, this is all the web is now.
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by alganet 10mo ago
Today's marketing decisions are tomorrow's deprecations.
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by alganet 10mo ago
A businesss decision would be great. What would suck would be a marketing decision.
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by alganet 10mo ago
I think this boilerplate thing got lost in translation some time ago. We dislike _the presence_ of boilerplate, not the time spent writing it. If another thing writes it for you, it implies that _now boilerplate exists_, and it sucks. It ma
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by alganet 10mo ago
It is very likely that agent tooling will get better at doing asynchronous things and being aware of the user interacting in parallel, without git, and probably within a single session. It's feasible, and it makes more sense than separ
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by alganet 10mo ago
> Markdown Lacks the Structure You Need The problem is, I always need more structure. Give me some YAML and time and I'll make hell (not a metaphor, I'll concoct hell itself on it). Markdown keeps me honest.
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by alganet 10mo ago
You're right. It's all about solving problems. Maybe we need a word that, when applied to mathematical concepts, describes how simple, easy to understand and generally useful a solution or idea is. I wonder what that word could be
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by alganet 10mo ago
It's funny because I'm evaluating LLMs for just this specific case (covering tests) right now, and it does that a lot. I say "we need 100% coverage on that critical file". It runs for a while, tries to cover it, fails, t
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by alganet 10mo ago
> "Take a look at those tests!" A math module that is not tested for division by zero. Classical LLM development. The suite is mostly happy paths, which is consistent with what I've seen LLMs do. Once you setup coverage, a
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by alganet 10mo ago
We had upstarts in the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s and the 2010s. Some game, some website, some social network, some mobile app that blew up. We had many. Not funded by billions. So, where is that in the 2020s? Yes, code is a detail (ideas too)
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by alganet 10mo ago
On Windows, it behaves like a malware. Suddenly flashing command prompt windows when you interact with it. Not very nice (also, lazy, since you don't need to do that flashing if you're a legitimate app).
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by alganet 10mo ago
Instead of tools for humans, and a separate set of tools for machines, we should just make tools for humans+machines. The agent should look at my README.md, not a custom human-like text that is meant to be read by machines only. It also sho
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by alganet 10mo ago
If plain open-source local models were able to do what Claude API does, Anthropic would be out of business. Local models are a different thing than those cloud-based assistants and APIs.
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by alganet 10mo ago
You mean generally? Yes, sure. As long as sloppy concatenated micro-messages don't end up in the main branch, I'm game.
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by alganet 10mo ago
Squashing works great for bisecting. I like rebasing! It works great for bisecting, reverting (squash messes that up), almost everything. It just doesn't play well with micro commits (which unfortunatelly have become the norm). The for
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by alganet 10mo ago
I prefer working with the one commit per PR philosophy, linear history and every commit buildable, so I always force push (to the PR branch, but never to master). Been doing it for ages. Bisecting this kind of history is a powerful tool.
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by alganet 10mo ago
It works quite well for me. I don't use it as inspiration. It's like I said: code that is not reviewed yet. It takes the idea of 50 juniors working for you one step ahead. I manage the workflow in a way that they already made the
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by alganet 10mo ago
What Í'm doing a lot is vibe coding and stashing. Not even a public branch, just git stash the whole thing the LLM writes. Also, I stack the stash. When I vibe code, I pop it, let it work on its own mess, then I stash it again. One pro
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by alganet 10mo ago
Reviving a dead PHP bytecode vm for embedded systems: https://github.com/alganet/PHL --- Bootstrapping from an x86 image that is mostly source text (based on live-bootstrap): https://github.com/alganet&
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by alganet 10mo ago
In situations like this is better to ask the agent to write a short document about how to run the project. Then you read it and delete useless parts. Then you ask the agent to follow that document and improve it until the software builds. B
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by alganet 10mo ago
Windows Task Manager is already gamified. You find the process you want to kill, then it starts jumping around and you can't click it. You try to find it by typing, but there are 20 other processes with that name that are selected firs
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by alganet 10mo ago
"Not made here syndrome" might actually not be a syndrome.
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by alganet 11mo ago
"too big, please break it into smaller self-contained PRs" [ Close with comment ]
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by alganet 11mo ago
"behave in a human way" is a vague reference to a more specific, non-psychological idea that I presented earlier. I just explained that to you. Either we discuss this in terms of the imitation game thought experiment, or we don&#x
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by alganet 11mo ago
We're discussing behavior in a context of a test (in the lines of the imitation game as defined by Alan Turing). It's not a psychology exercise, my dude.
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by alganet 11mo ago
The super-AI is going to have power. Deployed everywhere, used by millions, etc. You have two choices: - It can potentially lash out in an alien-like way. - It can potentially lash out in a human-like way. Do you understand why this has no
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by alganet 11mo ago
sqlite complies to avionics-grade test suites? damn
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by alganet 11mo ago
Please refer to my original comment. Look for the quote I decided to comment on, the context in which this discussion is playing out. It starts with "For the “do you detect an injected thought” prompt..." If you Ctrl+F for that qu
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by alganet 11mo ago
The article says "By default, the model correctly states that it doesn’t detect any injected concept.", which is a vague statement. That's why I decided to comment on the paper instead, which is supposed to outline how that

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