boron1006

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by boron1006 5d ago
You have misunderstood. I have a the cure for cancer. Simply kill the host. Does it work? Yes. Have you learned anything from it? No.
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by boron1006 5d ago
> Nothing is stopping these folks from continuing to study the problems My understanding is they are? And literally everything in this world is based around incentives. If you say “well you can continue to work on understanding, but your
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by boron1006 5d ago
To be honest I didn’t get that much outrage here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662116 It seems like a lot of the issue here is that these problems aren’t interesting in and of themselves, but they lead down intere
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by boron1006 14d ago
Do you work with other, potentially unmotivated devs/managers a lot? I wonder how much of this is an incentive issue. I don’t think refactoring itself is as much of an issue than working with 2-3 other engineers that DGAF and a manager
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by boron1006 1mo ago
My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date. He just accepts anything that Claude says as truth. He vibecoded over 60,000 lines of code in 3 w
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by boron1006 1mo ago
It’s a good question and I don’t doubt they’re useful. But I mean they’re not good enough to do the things I need them to. Not enough that any difference can be chalked up to “taste”. Put it this way, if you hired a very good handyman to bu
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by boron1006 1mo ago
I don’t like the term taste, but the problem that I have is that LLMs don’t seem to work “good enough”. They seem to be able to solve the immediate problem, but stacking this on the scale of 3-4 devs over 6 months or so doesn’t seem to prod
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by boron1006 1mo ago
This is true but also false. In my experience (scientific programming) AI is a giant multiplier for people with specialized knowledge. But it’s also a giant devaluer for that same knowledge as people with no idea what they’re doing can clog
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by boron1006 2mo ago
What I’m saying is that it often uses metaphors in ways that are subtly wrong or don’t make any sense.
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by boron1006 2mo ago
Or in a way, nothing at all.
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by boron1006 2mo ago
I think that’s just a fundamental tradeoff though. Being able to run Jupyter cells independently is a feature until it’s not. I’d say for most of my one-off work, it’s fine. But for stuff I want to share it’s not.
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by boron1006 2mo ago
I just dont think LLMs are very good at judging importance or summarizing code. I tried experimenting with what is ultimately a treesitter based approach - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook And really liked it. Defi
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by boron1006 2mo ago
I guess I’m thinking a lot of companies seem to be getting Claude code subscriptions. It usually takes some time and effort for an org to switch away from one solution. In the meantime a lot of workflows get more and more tied to Claude in
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by boron1006 2mo ago
I think anthropic with its enterprise strategy and google with its integration in everything have a bit of a moat. But I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours. I haven’t used it since. It’
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by boron1006 2mo ago
Yeah I hope the links are helpful
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by boron1006 2mo ago
I posted about my project below - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. T
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by boron1006 2mo ago
Codebook - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the c
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by boron1006 3mo ago
This has always been the fun part of programming to me. I know most people hate it, but I really don’t mind being on-call (ok I hate being woken up) and fixing weird bugs that users run into. All these small edge cases that people run into
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by boron1006 3mo ago
I do think people are seeing useful results, but it’s at least several orders of magnitude less than what is claimed. My metric is: how much code that I create today do I depend on in 3 months (incl learnings and one off data pulls etc.) an
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by boron1006 4mo ago
More generally, I think it’s more specialized knowledge. If you have particularly specific knowledge in pretty much any domain, combining that with AI can lead to huge gains.
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by boron1006 4mo ago
> Sounds terrible, but is it? Yes > It incentivises high-impact research It incentivizes work that sounds impressive to laymen. Actual work tends to be technical and might not sound super exciting. If 20 years ago, a politician had to
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by boron1006 4mo ago
It doesn’t apply to what this repo is doing. Also the 70 odd single author preprints seems to suggest the author is in some deep AI psychosis: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Logan-Nye-2
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by boron1006 4mo ago
Well the √t stuff looks like nonsense or way overblown, existing tools already do similar things, there’s pretty much a single commit with no follow up commits etc etc.
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by boron1006 4mo ago
Lots of bad smells in this repo.
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by boron1006 4mo ago
Tech “decision makers” are feckless lemmings. If the trends tomorrow change, then their decisions will change.
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by boron1006 4mo ago
At least where I am we can’t and shouldn’t know all the requirements of a project beforehand^. Every project is an iterative learning process between the users, product and engineers. The problem is if everyone uses AI to replace their thin
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by boron1006 4mo ago
At least for some people I know it’s not necessarily because there’s pressure from leadership, but because it’s funny that the org spends like $15,000/mo writing HP fanfic or whatever
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by boron1006 4mo ago
> Claude is a phd level mathematician , I am not I’m going to guess that this is Gell-Mann amnesia more than anything, and it’s going to get a lot of organizations into a lot of weird places.
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by boron1006 4mo ago
This isn’t foolproof either and plenty of people can talk convincingly about running projects that they had little to nothing to do with.
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by boron1006 4mo ago
But “your software” isn’t bringing value anymore if people don’t use it. The things that the software does might have value, but the marginal utility of your software is effectively 0.

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