csallen

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by csallen 3d ago
That's why I don't believe most AI hate I read on HN and I don't believe much AI hype I read on X.
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by csallen 3d ago
Don't underestimate the power of motivated reasoning. Certain people don't like AI coding for various ideological reasons, and so they will, not coincidentally, consistently fail to find it productive or helpful.
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by csallen 5d ago
> Inside just about every company on the planet are conversations this week revisiting the idea of giving these labs access to ANY data This claim is just so dramatically far from the truth that it's hard to believe y'all are
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by csallen 6d ago
> This PR stunt by OpenAI may go down in history as the thing that finally broke them for good. ~0% chance of this happening
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by csallen 6d ago
I really really really really REALLY don't like this way of thinking, and I hope that fewer and fewer people adopt it.
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by csallen 7d ago
I disagree, this is an unreasonable and almost certainly incorrect thing to assume happened in this case. The fact that one hates XYZ is not a good reason to turn one's brain off and lose the ability to think rationally about XYZ. In f
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by csallen 7d ago
> Nobody using Muse the tool knows or gives a fuck who Muse the band is, the band itself is twice their age. Muse is incredibly popular. They're in the middle of a tour right now, too. Just saw them live two weekends ago. I'm s
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by csallen 7d ago
This comment and others like it are wild to me. Since when was the default to assume malicious activity and victimization, and then to ask for proof otherwise? Obviously we should do the reverse. There should be evidence of theft rather tha
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by csallen 8d ago
My Samsung TV has some stupid voice assistant inside of it called Bixby. Not only is it useless, it's extremely annoying. I've had multiple experiences where it muted the show I was watching, so that it could try to listen more cl
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by csallen 8d ago
> The existence of existing harmful norms does not, ex ante, justify introducing additional harmful norms The point isn't to justify anything. It's to put things into perspective, and give people a more informed and holistic
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by csallen 14d ago
It's just incentives in general. Humans are self-motivated creatures, and in the absence of meaningful consequences they'll often do what they're incentivized to do, even if it harms others. The internet is uniquely devoid of
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by csallen 17d ago
I use Claude Code, primarily writing web applications and JavaScript. I'll have it use various frameworks. It's built apps for me using React, Ember, Astro, etc. I don't restrict myself to frameworks I'm particularly fam
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by csallen 17d ago
I don't think that people are attracted to pretend problems for the sake of pretending. I think it's more that people are attracted to tractable problems. We like to follow certain paths that are well-worn, where the next step is
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by csallen 17d ago
I'm skeptical of this. I have yet to build a codebase using AI that I wasn't able to subsequently understand after taking the time to do so, esp. when aided by AI that will tirelessly answer my questions. I mean, LLMs don't a
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by csallen 20d ago
I can't speak for the OP, but I don't think their point was that they're against the self-interested nature of unionizing. I read it more like they're against trying to stop, hinder, or prevent the use of new technology,
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by csallen 25d ago
I think phones were similarly hated, but diluted over a ~15 year period as they were gradually introduced to society. AI is happening much faster, practically all at once. And I think the extent of the hatred in part is also due to how wide
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by csallen 25d ago
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by csallen 26d ago
An analogy should not be judged on whether or not it can realistically happen, nor whether it can be manipulated in some way that capitalizes on the differences. Because the point of an analogy is not to provide an realistic or identical si
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by csallen 27d ago
It's funny, I was just thinking that the one thing I hate most about the terminal is that its monospaced fonts and overly-long lines are a nightmare for reading. So the fact that somebody designed a blog reading experience to mimic thi
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by csallen 1mo ago
Why are some days blue and others are gray? Doesn't seem to correlate to cloudiness or precipitation
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by csallen 1mo ago
I think I'm happy about the first two. The third I suppose I care less about, just because I've kind of become used to it from decades working on the internet where many businesses/tools/apps are more like services and l
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by csallen 1mo ago
I'm trying to understand your point of view, but it kind of just sounds like you're against learning how to use tools efficiently? I mean, agentic coding software is hardly the first tool to exist where learning some idiosyncrasie
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by csallen 1mo ago
I had a similar situation set up where I would have two models come up with their own independent diagnoses and plans to fix problems. Then I would have them each read the other's plan. But I would tell them each something like this, &
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by csallen 1mo ago
I vaguely recall some of the recent math breakthroughs being less about parallelism and more about serial compute. A lot of, "Keep trying," "Try harder," "Try another way," etc. Regardless, I think both things
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by csallen 1mo ago
Maybe having the optionality is better? I could imagine a world in which it does what you say, and people wish it didn't, so they have both the option to get the fast and slightly worse answer + the option to ask for reviews to get slo
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by csallen 1mo ago
I don't know why you got downvoted, but I find myself wanting to say some version of what you just said over and over again. People write extremely lazy, straightforward prompts and expect the LLM's intelligence to take care of al
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by csallen 1mo ago
People underestimate the importance of speed on quality of thought, because people underestimate just how much quality is a result of simple iteration. When an LLM thinks, it typically just makes one pass. It outputs tokens from top to bott
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by csallen 1mo ago
> I think smart-watches are much like Alexa. What the user wants to do with it is almost totally at odds with what the company is selling. Alexii are mostly kitchen timers, song players, and light switches. No one is a "power user&
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by csallen 1mo ago
> In what bubble ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork are established? I don't know anyone using it regularly and I'm in a bubble of people using lots of AI tools. I have lots of highly-educated knowledge worker friends who aren&#x
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by csallen 1mo ago
Digital clocks usually show am/pm, whereas analog clocks don't, so a frozen digital clock is only right once a day

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