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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Anthropic has a vested interest in downplaying the harness relevance. In my experience harness really matters. More capable models are great, but current models are enough if you put some engineering effort into the harness.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
You have to do what I call "Manhattan Project" them. You can almost always evade the controls by carefully prompting them. It just wastes effort and time you should be spending doing other things in an LLM workflow. Essentially, t
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Anthropic made their models very averse to reverse engineering and vulnerability research chores. It is a difficult problem, but attackers will use models like GLM and defenders will be stuck with security engineering averse models.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Google is also a Cloud Provider. Cloud is now ~18% of Google. While it is an advertising juggernaut. Cloud is also rapidly growing, so the local models simply fit as AI research and dev and getting more people on Gemini models. They /a
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Don't LLMs work on attention though? The closer in their hyperdimensional space you can land your problem to their inherent understand the better they are at understanding your problem domain. RAG loops can be very slow and agents may
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
3 Flash is likely rather underrated here. It continues to impress me on few-shot tasks.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
On the other hand, just working at big tech doesn't mean you are especially great. Conformance and criteria other than raw skill matter. As you say, promotion games, etc... I would just lump all of that under conformance. So, you aren&
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
This assumes that every designer is on the bell curve at the big tech firms in the roles that can influence this. I am not defending modern UI/UX, but that is quite an assumption.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Adafruit sure has a lot of stories they are eager to tell lately.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Have not. For my workflows this was fine. Good to keep in mind thoUgh. I don’t plan to manage a truly distributed system with it. Plus my only reason to do so is professional and we rolled our own system here due to our size solutions like
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
LLMs are not deterministic. They do typically behave within pretty reasonable boundaries. Humans are not deterministic. They also typically behave within pretty reasonable boundaries. Engineering with LLMs and humans means understanding tho
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
That is the real truth people are voicing when they say Temporal is heavy. They are really saying: Durable, reliable, distributed workloads are hard and it takes effort to manage! And that is true. I know of no systems that make that genuin
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Autonomous C to Rust. Automated penetration testing and vuln validation.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Yep. Individual systems with yolo agents doing stuff in isolation. I could see how it can get complex. Most distributed systems are. No free lunches I guess. I am not sure what the alternatives are at scale.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Well, just my experience. I installed it, had my agents configure it and it immediately solved problems I had with very little friction. Dealing with long running, long horizon agentic tasks that need very high reliability so I don’t have t
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Practically yes, but much earlier if agents are touching that data in my experience. Tens of GB even if you design well.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
I told an agent to set it up for me for some local stuff. It is written in Go. It has a painless path to run on a local SQLite DB. My agents use it to organize and coordinate workflows. It handles retries and long horizon tasks fine. As far
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
I started setting up my workflows using Temporal. It deploys as relatively light weight local app. For an isolated local installation it uses SQLite. It makes the process of dealing with API retries and organizing workflows and tasks really
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
That is kind of the point. Doing something for no extrinsic reward. It is a part of practicing gratitude and expecting nothing in return (from the other person). If you experience genuine joy or happiness from helping others I think you are
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
A genuine relationship is not transactional. I never expect anything out of a friend, or anyone really. I will simply give them my time, advice, or help because I choose to with zero motivation beyond it making me happy to know I could help
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
AI Has empowered people to build things much more quickly. Not slop if you are even a little conscientious about how you use it. What it does not do fix the human structural problems. If you are solving the wrong problems you aren’t doing a
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Well. Start now. Treat it like an algorithm. Schedule reminders to text/email/call/follow up with people. My ADHD was hard. I would just forget about people and not because I don’t care about them. Then I would feel bad and d
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
Right, you design systems resilient to this in traditional software engineering as well. Agents are just... a little more chaotic at times :-D
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
They do still attenuate their latent space on prior conversations turns as authority. That is why I like pure design/review sessions and pure coding sessions, often at the same time. I can often keep design and review in the critic and
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
I almost always end with something like: “, but I am not sure, evaluate.” Or other things and avoid ever stating a preference.
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
That was my point. Validating actual behavioral tests. Not letting them cheat. They still will at times, but like, resd their code, fix it or send a reviewer agent to find and make todo list. If you give them a behavioral test skill it will
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
There is a great thing. Because the agents can do so much toil you can add things like formal verification, fuzzing, and other feedback mechanisms and quality gates to your projects cheaply. In a human written project you still needed those
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
What particularly gets me is if you use AI with a bit of engineering rigor, especially around design and testing my experience is the latest models are great to work with. They can structure performance and stability tests, implement 90%. H
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
I was in high school in the 90s in the deep south and was taught about the horrors of slavery. Has that changed? Not disagreeing about reconstruction. It established a pattern of letting conservatives get away with their malfeasance and “le
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by bitexploder 4mo ago
I replaced common grep with a semantic search wrapper for some projects. It was amusing. It has a response header that lets Claude know it is not using standard grep. Works fine. Have to out smart them ;)

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