collinmcnulty

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What we owe reviewers in the age of AI(carbonandsilicon.substack.com)
1 points by collinmcnulty 2d ago|0 comments
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by collinmcnulty 11d ago
It says “to those with Known Traveler Numbers”
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by collinmcnulty 11d ago
I wouldn’t describe any of those jobs as “cushy”.
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by collinmcnulty 11d ago
> I'd imagine it must be pretty relaxed/cushy, albeit probably at the lower end of market comp for software jobs in particular. Based on what?
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by collinmcnulty 19d ago
Which is why foreign student visas are being handed out in greater numbers, right? Right? Oh. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/international-student-enroll...
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by collinmcnulty 20d ago
A total ban is nonsensical. If you’re concerned about noise regulate the sound level. If you’re concerned about energy use, tax it and put the money raised into a solar subsidy. But the idea you can have a heat pump and can’t have an AC is
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by collinmcnulty 26d ago
My concern is that even if the LLM can turn your colleague's bad writing into something more coherent and actionable, is that something actually what your colleague meant to convey? It could be clear and still detached from the reality
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by collinmcnulty 28d ago
Then don't use an agent for high stakes tasks. If you can't drive and accept the responsibility for avoiding a fatal collision, don't drive the car.
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by collinmcnulty 29d ago
Artists have to eat, it doesn’t make them not artists. Games are not hard to classify as art. You may not like the art or think a lot of it’s not very good, but they are art, because art is not the exclusive domain of “auteur driven passion
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
Do you work in this field or are you just reading that? I’ve been out of the game for over five years now, but as far as I can tell from people I know still in that world, if you’re going to make more than like … 3 of a part, casting is goi
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
Relatedly, I fully expect the software business to fail to learn from (nearly) literally every other industry how to operate when your marginal costs are no longer zero. It drives me nuts the number of people in software who think that peop
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
Good catch! One of my own biggest pet peeves too
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
In 25 years, those panels will still be producing 80% of their starting value. Imagine what you can do with 25 years of energy independence.
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
11, and I wish I'd bought 15
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
I've long thought that any country should buy solar panels from any other country that's crazy enough to sell them to you at a subsidized price. It's not like buying oil; once you have the panels, that energy independence bel
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
Levelized cost of electricity. All the costs that go into producing from a given source (capex and opex) divided by the total power generated.
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
I got really sad reading Good Omens where Pestilence has retired because of all the progress of medical science and thinking "if only". Funny enough, Pratchett has Famine doing exactly what's working for Pestilence today, con
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
I don’t think he actually lost the practice room. The person speaking was not the owner.
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
In many industries, if you can't do something safely, you simply can't do it at all. Maybe yeah, if you can't build a sufficiently strong automated system, then you need human moderators across a huge number of locations. The
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
The video of the prototype invention has the effect of making people think they don't need to be concerned about ramps and doorknobs and ADA enforcement because some teen in a garage has just solved this problem forever. People who nee
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by collinmcnulty 1mo ago
Do you think that its possible to raise the bar for junior engineers such that "you have AI now, so I need you to own farther up the review chain yourself"? I feel like I could answer either way. No, you need reps on projects to h
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
> can be released when the copyright expires But it ... won't be? The companies have no motivation to do so. The copyright on lots of these books are surely already expired, so if they wanted to they could be putting these up now. I
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
I think the lede is a bit buried here. The key point is that when renewables levelized cost is cheaper than the marginal cost of other sources (and I'll add, particularly when its below the fuel-only cost) the ability to economically d
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
Yes, exactly that. Tons of crime is committed using only in-person communication. Should we all have microphones in our homes? Do detective work, flip sources, follow the money.
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
The story about the woman recording her dates is getting extrapolated into too much. Her friends told her it made people uncomfortable and that she should stop. This is not a trend.
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
I think it is a huge mistake to believe that there is a “true” nature of the models. They are artificial, everything about them is a construct. This is like asking the true shape of the clay without the potter’s influence.
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
It doesn’t truly feel anything. It will adopt whatever tone it’s prompted to.
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
This reply helped me think more about what I want. I do my thinking when crafting the prompt, and I want to be able to do several passes. So the first draft I like to dictate and be able to live edit with my voice, but then I want to do a s
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
Yes, because it is the actual dimensions of the real shirt.
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by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
What I want is a 1940s style “taking dictation” where the words I say go through a step where the goal is to create the text Im imagining. So if I say “… very significant, actually just significant…” what Claude Code receives is “…significa

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