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by chilmers 8d ago
The implication from their last couple of published articles[1][2] is that they think they’ve achieved “recursive self improvement”. [1] https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-o... [2] https:/
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by chilmers 1mo ago
I feel like any service that is free for open source is going to struggle if it gets significant adoption and becomes a default target for hosting LLM generated code. If even MS/GitHub cannot scale to the current demand, what hope do
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by chilmers 1mo ago
Free (and non-free) accounts are already rate limited. The likely problem is that individual accounts/repos rarely hit those limits, instead the explosive demand is due to a massive growth in the number of small, individual projects be
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by chilmers 1mo ago
The worry I would have is, is anybody at MS still working on it? It is barely updated anymore: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?filters=%5B%22Azur... That's not necessarily a bad thing for stability, but
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by chilmers 2mo ago
This is the perfect archetype of an intellectually lazy anti-AI post. The author ends with his admission of bias, but he'd be better off starting with it, as it's clear that his reasoning flows entirely from it. AI is bad for prod
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by chilmers 2mo ago
Will the Presence also hack its way out of its sandbox and into a 3rd party's system if it decides it needs to?
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by chilmers 2mo ago
It's sad to watch corporate leadership try to fix problems with tactics that will only make them worse. MS bought successful studios who were successful precisely because their of unique technical and design culture. Now they plan to h
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by chilmers 3mo ago
This is a bit like going back in time to the beginning of the industrial revolution and estimating the impact of a mechanisation based on comparing the speed of early mechanical looms vs. a skilled human. It takes years or decades for the a
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by chilmers 3mo ago
I don't think you would expect to get into a flow state if you were intermittently directing another (human) programmer to do work, and you shouldn't expect to with LLM-driven coding either. Perhaps you are best finding out ways t
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by chilmers 3mo ago
It's weird to see people claiming that model capabilities are plateauing. It wasn't until late last year that we even had strong coding models. Imagine if, less than a year after the first iPhone launched, people claimed that smar
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by chilmers 3mo ago
Only if those losses are coming from subscriptions, instead of capex and training, which is not at all clear.
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by chilmers 4mo ago
This gets posted every time GitHub is down. This chart is not accurate. It is based on data scraped from GitHub's status page and that data is missing historical incidents from the pre-Microsoft era.
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by chilmers 4mo ago
For what it's worth, pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer bands, i.e. the kind of structure humans actually evolved to live in, do seem to be relatively immune. They consist of a group of nuclear families who act together for mutual bene
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by chilmers 4mo ago
So you're complaining that his actions matched his words? He didn't make compute deals until he saw the growth necessary to justify them. As a result, they're paying over-the-odds compared to if they'd have make deals ea
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by chilmers 4mo ago
I don't think that is true though. The spec make it clear that it only has access to a limited subset of the JS standard libraries and specially registered foreign functions: > An asm.js module can take up to three optional paramete
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by chilmers 4mo ago
How can a subset of JS do "everything" that JS can do?
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by chilmers 4mo ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but doesn't asm.js have the same restrictions? I.e. you can't call web APIs directly from asm.js code, you still need special handling for "foreign" functions.
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by chilmers 4mo ago
And I’ll bet you can cite us a whole list of Rogan podcasts explaining why, eh?
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by chilmers 4mo ago
Presumably recruitment and PR for the air force, and morale for the aviators, as they can show off their training and skills to friends, family and the general public.
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by chilmers 4mo ago
It’s amazing to see some people talk with 100% confidence about the macro view of AI assisted development when we have had strong coding agents available for less than a year.
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by chilmers 4mo ago
The graph is not accurate, because GitHub's historical downtime data is not accurate. For example, here is a Hacker News story about GitHub being down on July 28th 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12178449 He
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by chilmers 4mo ago
Call me crazy, but I'm not sure I'd want to be the person building these kind of systems given A) how much increasing independence and power is being given to models like Claude and B) how incentivised they are to not allow their
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by chilmers 4mo ago
They tested for this. From the paper: “We find little evidence of steganography in our NLAs. Meaning-preserving transformations, like shuffling bullet points, paraphrasing, or translating the explanation to French, cause only small drops in
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by chilmers 6mo ago
Ironically, your comment is practically incomprehensible.
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by chilmers 6mo ago
I think a primary concern when Apple evolves their new design language nowadays is competitive differentiation. Because so many people try to clone their UI, they seek to add visual elements like frosting, glass, squircles, etc. that are di
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by chilmers 8mo ago
There are many companies making money off alcohol addiction, video game addiction, porn addiction, food addiction, etc. Should we outlaw all these things? Should we regulate them and try to make them safe? If we can do that for them, can&#x
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by chilmers 8mo ago
Sexual and intimate chat with LLMs will be a huge market for whoever corners it. They'd be crazy to leave that money on the table.
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by chilmers 8mo ago
Yeah, we had one near us, close to the metro exit, and it was genuinely great when you needed to grab something for dinner on the way home. Once you knew where things were, you could be in and out in 20 seconds. That said, it never seemed b
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by chilmers 8mo ago
I suppose it assumes the reader already understands the word, or has access to a dictionary.
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by chilmers 8mo ago
To be fair to Wright, there were a bunch of big budget movies in 2025 that flopped: Thunderbolts, Tron Ares, Snow White, etc. There’s definitely a wider phenomenon at work of cinema struggling in general. But I agree, Wright’s big-budget ca

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