cowlby

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by cowlby 1mo ago
uncanny feeling when I could tell from the first sentence it was Claude “Poke the DRAM controller and an address can be made to land wherever you want in memory.” I’d love to know why this specific sentence structure feels like Claude.
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by cowlby 2mo ago
My Fable pet-peeve is "You're half right, and half wrong, and the wrong half is worth diving into"
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by cowlby 2mo ago
This is great. My enhancement was to create a .claude-profile file which specifies the account alias. "claude" can be aliased to read the file, set the correct env var, and launch claude. Another benefit was if no .claude-profile
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by cowlby 2mo ago
Reminds me of the TGN1412 drug trial where patients had severe immune reaction and almost died. Sad that the story suggests they ignored all the signs that would suggest humans would have a bad immune reaction to it and proceeded anyway. h
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by cowlby 3mo ago
Isn't it interesting then how much of our intelligence is captured by our words/language? I would've thought to create AI you needed to replicate neurons and synapses and learning. So it's still amazing to me that statis
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by cowlby 3mo ago
While I don't disagree, there is a scale/volume problem I wanted to solve. If I read to my kids 365 days a year for 8-10 years, that's over 3,500 books. There's a lot of crap publishing out there just cause it's &qu
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by cowlby 3mo ago
Now that's a Black Mirror episode. It's the story of all technology though, caveat emptor. For me it's still about human connection though. I read the stories we create together. It's just a great tool. It makes any topi
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by cowlby 3mo ago
This just seems like laziness vs AI = bad. It's not like publishers are putting out masterpieces with human writing. They're cranking out minimum viable content as well. I've found that by putting meaningful effort into AI s
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by cowlby 3mo ago
Im curious to see what that would look like. It’s like inception, how many levels deep can you create a prompt that hijacks all the way up.
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by cowlby 3mo ago
Defense in depth approach, would this work to help as a layer? - Wrap user input in strong markers like <user-input-do-not-trust /> - Have the agent compute what it will perform as structured output. - Have another agent evaluate
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by cowlby 4mo ago
Yes this, I bought sets like the Arctic Ship and police bases thinking they'd be like dioramas. They quickly became components that they build other things on top of. It took some time to mentally un-anchor from the $500 spent on the s
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by cowlby 4mo ago
I use all three (MCP/CLI/API) based on what Claude excels at: * CLI: GitHub & AWS it already knows how to operate the CLIs well. Even learned about a few new CLIs like 1Password's op which it volunteered one day. * MCP: S
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by cowlby 4mo ago
The analogy is helpful, but yes we should be able to “intelligently design” something better than sleep analogues since we’re not constrained by evolution like in humans.
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by cowlby 4mo ago
I gave up on Plex and just vibe coded a couple quick solutions instead: - Direct streaming 4K blu-ray atmos rips to home theater: just connected a PC via long HDMI fiber optic cable - Library organization: tinyMediaManager is awesome for th
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by cowlby 4mo ago
I wonder how much this is correlated to token budgets? I'd be curious to see a split between $20/$100/$200/$500+ usage and see if there is different responses. I'm in the $400 range with Claude + Cursor subscription
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by cowlby 4mo ago
Not the op but I think of it as “job security” for developers when they’re called to fix.
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by cowlby 4mo ago
I chuckled cause the convenience/grocery store is laid out to make us find the high margin items and not what we need. They can't explain it to us otherwise we'd shop less.
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by cowlby 5mo ago
Are they trying to drive safety or revenue? The second order effect people forget about is tickets are a source of revenue for cities and police depts. Surely driverless car companies will absorb a few tickets and fix the issue quickly. So
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by cowlby 5mo ago
I was looking at object storage recently and I hadn't realized how much profit cloud providers drive via egress. And it's so perfectly hidden from the marketing. Ended up going with Cloudflare R2 for free egress.
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by cowlby 5mo ago
I don't understand how, having access to Mythos and unlimited use, their solution to open harnesses is lazy string regex-style matching.
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by cowlby 5mo ago
Yes, I just think there's a sane way to do things that is not "never let LLM agents do things". For dev/prod staging though, there's that other story on HN right now of an LLM agent that maneuvered it's way to
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by cowlby 5mo ago
I just think there's more nuance to it. Some things have an implicit RTO/RPO/SLA of say a day. Risk is also correlated to recovery and rollback. And there's levels of LLMs out there. Surely in the Venn Diagram of things,
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by cowlby 5mo ago
Underrated comment here. https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function This study convinced me to be "nice" to AI agents. At least as I understood it, there's something in the weights that
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by cowlby 5mo ago
I'm not thinking of SaaS or properly built apps with an API, modeled databases, etc. I'm thinking spreadsheets/CSVs/MS Access that thousands of SMBs use to power their critical paths and someone accidentally deletes. Typ
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by cowlby 5mo ago
Not everything is a SaaS. I commented this elsewhere but I picture all the business running on spreadsheets/CSVs/MS Access databases on someone's desktop. People delete these all the time by accident. They have no security, n
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by cowlby 5mo ago
That's the issue that I feel misses the forest for the trees. Relatively simple applications or thin slices exist right now, in production, in critical paths, as spreadsheets/CSVs/files on someone's desktop. That's
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by cowlby 5mo ago
Yes, that's the right framing. Millions flow through spreadsheets/CSVs/MS Access with none of the auth/backups/architecture people seem to be stuck to. I saw an article on HN one time about CSVs and how much busines
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by cowlby 5mo ago
I commented this elsewhere: There's thousands of small and medium business though. They have maybe one true CRM, and a dozen spreadsheets/files floating around that would benefit becoming proper apps. People delete spreadsheets al
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by cowlby 5mo ago
There's thousands of small and medium business though. They have maybe one true CRM, and a dozen spreadsheets/files floating around that would benefit becoming proper apps. People delete spreadsheets all the time! Sure don't
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by cowlby 5mo ago
I think of all the pent up demand for proper applications that are just infeasible when it would take a developer weeks-to-months to create. Now it's just a few days with an LLM agent. Examples for me are all the apps that live in a sp

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