bigmadshoe

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by bigmadshoe 4d ago
It isn't enjoyable to me. Middle managing a team of engineers is something people get paid high six figures for. That isn't my passion.
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by bigmadshoe 4d ago
If I can tell a hammer to build a house, go have lunch, and come back to a finished section, then yes, I'm not really building anymore am I?
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by bigmadshoe 4d ago
I completely disagree. The mindset that leaves you trapped is focusing on the destination and not the journey. I will never paint like Michaelangelo but it feels good to apply myself to the pursuit of painting, even if the resulting paintin
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by bigmadshoe 4d ago
Leading a collaborative effort can obviously be described as bringing the project to life. People want to feel like they are collaborating with LLMs and are still the visionary in the process. As the performance of these systems improves th
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by bigmadshoe 4d ago
If Claude is doing your job for you do you not worry that you won't be employed soon? Big tech eventually won't pay people to drink coffee and work on their personal projects while Claude does their work for them.
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by bigmadshoe 4d ago
You didn't bring anything to life. You just described it.
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by bigmadshoe 4d ago
A point is coming very soon where coding agents are not tools but are just your replacement. If you prompt a coding agent to make you something then go have lunch, you didn't make anything, it did.
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by bigmadshoe 4d ago
"But I don’t think you do love it. I think you love being praised for being smart. The pats on the head. That’s the most likely explanation for why your motivation for coding by hand has disappeared." I think you (and almost every
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by bigmadshoe 7d ago
It’s a tradeoff between privacy/freedom from government overreach and solving these crimes. This is fine as long as you and the government agree on exactly what constitutes bad behavior. Does the current regime in the US give you hope
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by bigmadshoe 10d ago
I don't think your definition matches the general consensus.
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by bigmadshoe 29d ago
Why do doctors need to be paid integer multiples more in the US than every other country on earth? This is not rhetorical, I mean it sincerely. And I’m aware that medical debt is a big issue, but it seems like a chicken-or-the-egg type prob
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by bigmadshoe 1mo ago
Why are people giving these n=1 comparisons like they mean anything? The worst offender is that pelican guy. These are non-deterministic systems and a single trial should not update your priors much at all. Of course it's significant t
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by bigmadshoe 1mo ago
I think that’s a fair point, and my response wasn’t to suggest that financing is inherently a bad thing. I was replying to the question “doesn’t everyone win from this?”, and I believe the realistic answer is that no, Apple wins and financi
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by bigmadshoe 1mo ago
Can you elaborate on this? I’m not an expert at all but this seems so far from true I’m struggling to understand if you’re serious. Wouldn’t we expect tens of millions of casualties, nuclear fallout rendering large swathes of countries unin
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by bigmadshoe 1mo ago
You think Amazon shouldn’t get in trouble for this because someone else did it first?
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by bigmadshoe 1mo ago
The downside is that it causes people to buy phones they can’t afford because it seems cheaper. People don’t reason about $50 per month the same way they do about $1200. The mistake in your comparison is assuming the target customers were g
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
It looks awful on mobile too. Barely readable in many parts.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
Sure, but none of this would be profitable in the context of a private enterprise.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
The Apollo program wasn’t for profit and if it was it never would have yielded a return on investment.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
I would hate to work on that codebase. We learn to parse code more quickly over years of looking at code written with the same conventions and style. There’s a reason why Google are so serious about following their style guides.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
I don’t think it’s morally consistent to “warn” about the consequences while devoting your life to bringing about those consequences as quickly as possible. If I was in that position of power and truly believed what I was saying, I would de
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
It’s the same thing as always: with the wind of years of unlimited VC money in their sails, people at major AI organizations genuinely believe they’re smarter than everyone else. “Why do we need to do things ‘by the book’ if we’re so smart?
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
One of the parent comments specifically mentioned “space engines”, not MMOs.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
The improved token efficiency would only account for the output and reasoning tokens occupying context, right? What about the user messages and other context like file contents? I’m not sure how these measure up in a long conversation
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
My bad, apparently it's prescription-only for children in particular.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
It's worth keeping in mind that melatonin is also prescription-only in many countries e.g. UK, Canada, Japan, Australia.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
The problem with that take is that the evidence for melatonin is quite poor outside of jet-lag and certain more serious sleep disorders, and there can be unexpected effects elsewhere in the body when supplementing hormones, e.g. increased r
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
Note the “but free from unnecessary inductive biases” part of my comment. By that I meant a decision to make each expert good at a human-defined thing.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
Good point! I thought you meant splitting them and then doing inference with some kind of learned router while keeping all the split models loaded at once. What you're suggesting is pretty sensible.
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
Bitter lesson is knocking. Mixture of experts is essentially what you’re describing but free from unnecessary inductive biases.

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