davidbau

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by davidbau 9mo ago
"I reward-hacked myself" is a great way to put it!! AI is too aware of human behavior, and it is teaching us that willpower and config files are not enough. When the agent keeps producing output that looks like progress, it is har
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by davidbau 9mo ago
Fair. Let me be more precise. The distinction is between two ways of deploying human thinking. In the first, you are the test oracle: think about every test, repeat every five minutes, or every 30. In the second, you design the evaluation i
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by davidbau 9mo ago
Agreed. The question, for me: Is it possible to vibe code (the second way, without looking at 90% of the code) and still learn the important things? I think the keys to the castle will come from figuring out how to do this.
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by davidbau 9mo ago
No question this will be hard to do. But I am not so pessimistic. I do think it will be possible, because it is more fun to test your tests now than in the pre-LLM era. You just need a little bit of knowledge and patience, and the LLM abso
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by davidbau 9mo ago
Right. Just saw this thread. Yesterday asked claude+codex to add a fallback to WebGL support (another 5000 LoC!). So now it works a bit better on Linux, Safari, though the WebGL impl is not as smooth as WebGPU.
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by davidbau 5y ago
My gosh, I think COVID distancing has been bad for all our mental health. Or maybe this kind of trash is the output of professional RIA trolls. This article is an anti-science, anti-government fever dream masquerading as a critique of feder