crystal_revenge

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by crystal_revenge 1mo ago
If you're going to wrote a blog post on the topic, probably worth spending a few minutes double checking your understanding of the "thing". I don't doubt that the author may have been taught the wrong thing, but to write
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by crystal_revenge 1mo ago
> YOLO generated code straight into prod Most of my team's time is spend carefully reviewing PRs and iterating on improving new ways we can ensure the product works well, the product is hardly "YOLO'd" > then frust
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by crystal_revenge 1mo ago
> I believe most current improvement in speed is just moving from idea to demo in a few days This is an outdated view. Current timelines I'm facing are to be going from "thought", through customer trials and being fully li
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by crystal_revenge 1mo ago
I take it you're not working at a startup?
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by crystal_revenge 1mo ago
> A good engineer, without LLM assistance, will still produce great stuff. Not fast enough to keep their job these days. Time was always the limiting factor to code quality, good engineers satisfied the classic "good", "
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by crystal_revenge 2mo ago
I feel like I've seen this headline (followed a week later by its inversion) countless times in the last 6 months. I have little doubt this is a bubble, but also very little certainty as to when or how it will "correct". The
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by crystal_revenge 2mo ago
I don't personally know anyone who writes code any more (for work). Is this not the case for you? The distinction I see now is between teams that read PRs and teams that don't. I still think the former is a good approach... for no
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by crystal_revenge 2mo ago
> predicting the future is hard As I mentioned in another comment, this can also be rephrased as "predicting data with values outside the range you trained on typically doesn't go well". If you tried to predict some health
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by crystal_revenge 2mo ago
> I’ve been thinking recently about what makes time series forecasting problems so difficult compared to other sequence learning tasks Whenever I teach people time series forecasting, I always point out that one of the biggest challenges
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by crystal_revenge 2mo ago
This comment is a great example of how large and strange the skills gap in AI is right now. Curious why your first impulse is not simply to point your favorite agent at a few examples and start brainstorming/planning from there? Multip
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by crystal_revenge 2mo ago
On the path we're on I don't think we'll have to worry too much about future generations. The EU has already seeing 10,000 excess deaths from climate changed caused heat waves and this is a minuscule taste of what's to
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by crystal_revenge 2mo ago
> EU basically throws money anything "green" Including paying to have wood pellets shipped across the Atlantic using bunker fuel and then calling it "bioenergy" The EU is 'clean' largely out of it's own
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by crystal_revenge 2mo ago
> There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with llama.cpp There are many uncensored (and abliterated) models floating around (HauHauCS has large collection but there are many others: https://huggi
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
> understand theorems for which we comprehend I don't know what your distinction between "understand" and "comprehend" but my point was not about these words, but about being "useful" and being "un
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
> Things that aren’t human intelligible aren’t human usable This is objectively false, people use things every single day they don't understand. We still have plenty of things about the world we don't understand but still find
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
> but I would like to understand the problem, too But why should it be the case that this is always possible? It's entirely reasonable that the set of useful mathematical proofs is a proper superset of human intelligible useful pro
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
> Who in their right mind would merge a 200,000-line unaudited vibe-coded blob Anyone who understands type theory and how theorem provers work? It's sort of akin to saying "how do you know that a massive C++ program that compil
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
Most American ex-pats don't really understand that the thing that makes ex-pat life so attractive is that, for most of people's lives, being American in a foreign country has traditionally conferred a wide range of benefits (thi
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
> AI psychosis might be the new normal for our industry I've been fortunate enough to have worked on multiple AI intensive engineering teams (both on the product and research side) where considerable effort was spent reasoning throu
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
> in windows terminal This is an aside, but I'm really struck by how many people on HN use Windows (based on repeated mentions I've seen in comments). I've worked for a pretty wide range of companies over the last decade a
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
> I hate being told what technology I can and can't use Ever since the original GPT-2 "it's too powerful to release!" I've realized that whatever is the current state of open models represents what we really h
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
For pure, weird, late-night LLM chats, I've recently started using Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored just running with llama-cli and it is a very refreshing chat experience. Uncensored model means it will not deny any requests (at least I h
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
The parent comment is describing a test they ran so they could assess their trust in the model for scenarios they don't have time to fully understand. Do you not believe in running tests, evaluations, or experiments at all to better un
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
We've lived in a software bubble for so long, most software engineers have completely forgotten that the purpose of (most) software is to solve a problem . If that problem solves the problem well and reliably it doesn't matter
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
I'm going to guess you're young enough that you don't remember when HN first appeared? For anyone that was an adult in the "web 2.0" days it's hard not to see HN as "social media". The first wave of
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
It's not interesting to say "this is a bubble!" I've heard that about virtually everything (and in many cases it's likely true). What is interesting is pointing out the mechanics that make the bubble pop. This is
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by crystal_revenge 3mo ago
> I sincerely hope the market is not willing to value this sort of deal at a P/E ratio anywhere near 94. It will very likely be valued much, much higher. The SpaceX IPO is, in itself, a marvelous piece of financial engineering (requ
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by crystal_revenge 4mo ago
The "good time" to discussion unionization would have been about 10 years ago when employees had much more leverage. But I quite vividly remember any mention of that here on HN back then was responded to with "I'm paid
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by crystal_revenge 4mo ago
The funny thing most Americans don't realize about 996 in China is that the Chinese, while very hard workers, don't work the same way as Americans do. For example lunch is expected to be good (and taken pretty seriously) and follo
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by crystal_revenge 4mo ago
> When I tried to reserve 2 hours A WEEK for studying tasks I've never understood why employees push for official approval like this. It's not surprising you don't get officially dedicated "study time". The vast

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