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bentobean
27d ago
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bentobean
1mo ago
Moving beyond the Turing test isn’t moving the goalposts. Before Claude and its ilk existed, people underestimated how convincingly language could be generated by systems whose internal operation looked nothing like a human mind. Discoverin
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bentobean
1mo ago
It’s double plus good!
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bentobean
1mo ago
> Another (small) architected respect dimension is gender pronouns. They can be a bit awkward with agents. I was using "they/them" intentionally with all my agents, but I noticed they were often defaulting to human pattern
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bentobean
1mo ago
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time, we got to play… Wyvern.
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bentobean
1mo ago
I really don’t like this guy.
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bentobean
1mo ago
Oh man, this resonates. I feel like I’m starting to drown in an endless sea of overly verbose documentation that the originators themselves never read. If you ever have a question, they’ll just point you to the docs “they wrote.”
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bentobean
2mo ago
In the shape of a pelican riding a bicycle.
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bentobean
2mo ago
“We need to IPO now!!”
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2mo ago
> I've never been more informed or understood more about my code, pipelines, and stack than now... Would you mind clarifying if this includes code, pipelines, stacks, etc... on which many other people are simultaneously working on i
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2mo ago
> “Prithee, make thy meaning plain, and speak to me as one would teach a child of five summers.” — Shakespeare. Probably.
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bentobean
2mo ago
Lucky. I’m on the hook for 54 billion (and change).
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bentobean
3mo ago
> As we all know, the foundation of Western diatonic music theory is ¹²√2, the ratio between the frequencies of successive semitones. Nods knowingly. Yes, of course. I definitely know this.
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bentobean
4mo ago
Is this the Star Wars equivalent of dressing up as characters from The Handmaidens Tale and being overly dramatic?
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bentobean
4mo ago
There are four vacuum repair shops on Cape Cod, and I’ve never seen anyone walk into any of them. I bet a big chunk of these funds are funneling through there.
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4mo ago
> a tool producing a cheap reward with minimal input and no friction can only be a liability, and achieving that realisation is probably the only real contribution of AI to date. Bingo.
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4mo ago
I also love this game. I was so hoping someone had managed to port this to WASM.
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The Earth Is Flat
(nocurve.org)
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4mo ago
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5mo ago
AI is a force multiplier for whoever is using it. In the hands of a skilled practitioner, AI can be used effectively. In the hands of an idiot… watch out. Most people are idiots.
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5mo ago
> Your computer only has ~20 TFLOPs. What a time to be alive.
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5mo ago
MacOS does this as well, and it drives me nuts. No, I do not want files on my desktop to be synced to iCloud.
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6mo ago
> “It’s not just patterns… but also cadence…” Nice try, ChatGPT.
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6mo ago
“Microsoft Tentacle” - Now there’s a name for a new product line.
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> The streaming service Deezer said earlier this year it is receiving more than 60,000 fully AI-generated tracks daily… Wow!
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6mo ago
If you haven’t seen that “Everything is a Remix” documentary you should. It’s so good.
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7mo ago
This hits hard. I’m getting hit with so much slop at work that I’ve quietly stopped being all that careful with reviews.
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From quantum computing to mRNA therapeutics: seven technologies to watch in 2026
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AI writes the code now. What's left for software engineers?
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The Rise of Invisible Unemployment in Tech: 2026 Will Be the Year It Changes
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Accelerating Science with AI and Simulations
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