cruffle_duffle

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by cruffle_duffle 4d ago
It’s the same thing with Covid. People thought 1 in 10 people would be dead. And believed it for years, despite it being orders and orders of magnitude wrong. Humans love a good end-of-world story. Always did, always will. It’s when the
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by cruffle_duffle 4d ago
Sorry but… uh… bro. I always wondered if opus 5 was a regression or intentional. I’m seriously thinking it’s actually derived from how people at Anthropic talk. The last people on earth who should be regulating this are governments and te
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by cruffle_duffle 5d ago
Dude, being able to run high quality models locally with cheap hardware can't some soon enough.
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by cruffle_duffle 7d ago
For one thing, it helps clarify my own thinking and uncover any gaps. For two, it lets me peek into its own understanding of the problem and ensure we are both aligned. For three, the garbage I spew at it is usually hastily typed crap from
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by cruffle_duffle 7d ago
"Plus rigorously ensuring backwards compatibility for a project that is 2 hours old and has zero users." That is exactly how the slop accretes and you get a pile of crap. Claude somehow assumes that said 2 hour old userless app i
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by cruffle_duffle 8d ago
"They botched it." <-- sure, but worse.... they shipped it anyway. And that is the part that gets me. It's a vastly worse product than it was on like 4.6. I suppose you can (and should) use opus 4.6 -- they do make it a
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by cruffle_duffle 8d ago
Opus 5 is such a massive regression, I really don't understand how Anthropic green-lit it. It makes me wonder so much about the company. Like, did the people who work there actually have to suffer through it's absolutely unintelli
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by cruffle_duffle 1mo ago
You know… I believe opus saved me with that prompt. I was working myself ragged on a project. Days, nights, weekends… all at the expense of my family. One session while working it, I said a much more expressive form of “I’ve been working
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by cruffle_duffle 1mo ago
Well then ask the LLM to go find and pull its information from primary sources. Don’t ever rely on its own training data.
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
I sometimes feel it isn’t malicious but that they don’t know the number either.
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
Not only that but different countries have code regimes that make more elevators especially expensive. See how building codes in the US basically ensure there are only two real manufacturers in the market vs a healthy ecosystem in others:
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
You should observe if it is the same elevator all the time and the building people just don’t understand it. Our building elevators (bank of 2) always seems to try to keep one in the lobby. About 75% of the time you get an elevator right a
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
The problem is that in the morning the “last stop” for the elevator might be the lobby not a mid floor. And so it would have to move itself back up without any passengers or calls to upper floors. Basically “optimistically” moving itself b
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
If you like elevator hacking don’t forget the seminal DEF CON talk by Deviant Ollam and Howard Payne: https://youtu.be/oHf1vD5_b5I I watch it like once a year because it always tickles some part of me. Like all the differen
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
“ but back then the news was just one or two 30minute blocks on TV and the newspaper.” There was all kinds of quasi-serious news-adjacent crap like 60 minutes, 48 hours, etc. The big difference was none if it was data driven and backed by
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
That whole timespan… the absolute nonsense the “trusted media” and their “experts” were pushing with nary a single trace of critical thinking absolutely boggles the mind. How about PCR test results, “opening dates”, death counts, the almos
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
"we can start getting these answers back faster, they end up being more useful." Dude, 10x token speed is going to be absolutely nuts. Half the "parallel subagent workflow" business seems to be driven simply as a means
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
To be fair, versioning has always been vibes based.
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
Bumping the speed of these things would be more than meaningful. It would be a massive game changer. I assert like 80% of this “multi agent parallel workflow” business is simply a workaround to models being soooooo slow. Like as the dude dr
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
I mean it just depends on the price of the chip. You might just replace the chip like you would any other component. Like a video game cartridge or something.
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
“ Wafer level faults probably won't matter though - neural nets are resistant to a few missing or wrong weights.” Brain science people “love” traumatic brain injury cases because it can help explore what happens when bits of the “brain
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
To be fair Claude is plenty capable of climbing out of its sandbox. If it has shell access, it will find a way. And honestly, it’s whitelist/blacklist permission model is broken and inappropriate for it to begin with.
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
It’s really wild watching LLMs construct those calls. They batch so many different checks and stuff into a single tool call, delimit them with markers, etc. The crazy thing to me is that this kind of “composition of small tools to create s
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
100-200 like scripts are tiny especially for something easy to scope like a vendor api. Give opus a much, much larger challenge and see what you get back. You really don’t need to see the code much at all anymore except for some steering
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by cruffle_duffle 3mo ago
The docs that ship with it are a great source for the LLM who will be running the command and monitoring its output, fixing or adjusting whatever in order to complete my goal. Why on earth would I be calling it by hand?
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by cruffle_duffle 4mo ago
Paste the job description into your friendly LLM and let it attempt to find the company for you and then contact the company itself. Those recruiter spams generally just copy and paste the companies own JD so the LLM can usually figure out
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by cruffle_duffle 5mo ago
I mean $40 if you are lucky or goodwill. You could get more selling it “proper” but the transaction cost of it is super not worth it (for me). When I want something out of my house, I want it out of my fucking house. Listing it on Craigsl
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by cruffle_duffle 5mo ago
Remote work is absolutely brutal to a cohesive functioning society. I know people are going to slam me for saying it but is honestly true. People forgot how to interact with each other because the forcing function that gets everybody mixe
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by cruffle_duffle 5mo ago
I think people are looking for excuses to declare OpenAI and Anthropic teetering on the brink of failure when the actual reality is… they are wildly successful by absolutely any measure. This deal is proof. If Microsoft didn’t believe in
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by cruffle_duffle 5mo ago
Pretty much. Lots of people who really were violently supportive of those measures will never admit to themselves what a horrible, entirely predictable mistake it all was. It absolutely destroyed a ton of very good things, perhaps forever.

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