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by davidclark 3mo ago
>The difference this time is pace: you could delay adopting “the cloud” for a couple of years and survive. With AI you might get a few months. It is weird that the author seems to understand that the pro-AI claims made by AI companies ab
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by davidclark 5mo ago
The described problem sounds so utterly not human though. If you give a human a programming task and tell them to use a specific programming language, how many times are they going to use a different language? I think the answer is very clo
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by davidclark 5mo ago
>[about the Grand Canyon] It looks like this. There, you’re done. You don’t need to go. I don’t understand how this person can have gone to all these places and be so cynical about them. The above quote is the kind of reaction I get from
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by davidclark 5mo ago
>LLM when it came out, was perfect as an interface between a system and a normal human. Statements like this make me feel like I live in a different universe with a different implementation of LLMs than other internet commenters.
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by davidclark 5mo ago
>Not convinced? >Below, what Perplexity Pro had to say. When will this be as socially embarrassing as sending someone a “let me google that for you” link?
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by davidclark 5mo ago
I don’t have an answer. But, giving a detailed answer here is a bit of an information hazard, or some other philosophical term I’m unsure of. If I did have a really good answer for this, it seems unlikely to be actually useful to any human
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by davidclark 6mo ago
The article claims: >He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional. Is that false? It also discusses a new policy: >Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted c
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by davidclark 8mo ago
The secret is that the author is also Claude.
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by davidclark 10mo ago
On the other hand, when people who claim success with AI share their prompts, I see all the same misses and flaws that keep me from fully buying in. For the person though, it seems like they gloss over these errors and claim wild success. T
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by davidclark 11mo ago
What about the reply in the link indicates to you that the person has empathy for marsf’s complaints and is willing to change anything at Mozilla in response to them? For the reasons I stated above, the response comes off as faking understa
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by davidclark 11mo ago
My guess would be the anger comes from implication that is a possible solution at all. This type of “hop on a call” request is not usually actually designed to “truly understand what you're struggling with.” (words from the post) Inste
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by davidclark 1y ago
I’d do it more if it wasn’t an annoying UX! I have message previews on lock screen turned off. If I get a message when my phone is sitting next to my keyboard on my desk, I unlock it to view the message. Might type a quick reply.
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by davidclark 1y ago
“Thinnest” should be measured by the thickest slice for a given dimension. I have an iPhone 11 which also has a camera bump and the experience of typing while the phone is on a flat surface is laughably annoying. For a company that prides i
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by davidclark 1y ago
I think the “crushing nihilism” pro-AI argument is what makes me most depressed. We are going to have so much fun when we do not communicate with other humans because it is a task that we can easily “filter out.”
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by davidclark 1y ago
The OP author shows that the cost to scrape an Anubis site is essentially zero since it is a fairly simple PoW algorithm that the scraper can easily solve. It adds basically no compute time or cost for a crawler run out of a data center. Ho
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by davidclark 1y ago
You should try to do some load testing of a real Erlang system and compare how it handles this scenario against other languages/frameworks. What you are describing is one of the exact things the Erlang system is strong against due to t
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by davidclark 1y ago
I don’t know Go, but that sounds like someone has simply written part of Erlang in Go.
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by davidclark 1y ago
Well written typespecs + dialyzer catches most things you’d want to catch with a type system: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/typespecs.html There is also pattern matching and guard clauses so you can write something like: d
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by davidclark 1y ago
> Let's unpack that a bit. I’m not accusing you of anything, just giving the feedback that this line makes your post sound like it is AI slop. This is an extremely typical phrase when you prompt any current AI with some variation of
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by davidclark 1y ago
The correctness of 8%, 16%, and 90% are all equally unknown since we only have one timeline, no?
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by davidclark 1y ago
> That PR, would have taken me at least a couple of days and up to 2 weeks to fully manually write out and test What is your accuracy on software development estimates? I always see these productivity claims matched again “It would’ve ta
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by davidclark 1y ago
Is this $900M ARR a reliable number? Their base is $20/mth. That would equal 3.75M people paying a sub to Cursor. If literally everyone is on their $200/mth plan, then that would be 375K paid users. There’s 50M VS Code + VS users
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by davidclark 1y ago
> It is important to note that ARC is a work in progress, not a definitive solution; it does not fit all of the requirements listed in II.3.2, and it features a number of key weaknesses… Page 53 > The study of general artificial intel
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by davidclark 1y ago
The “Based on…” prompt is simply a horoscope. This is a great piece about how LLMs use the same tricks as psychics to appear helpful, useful, and intelligent. https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
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by davidclark 1y ago
In the video, François Chollet, creator of the ARC benchmarks, says that beating ARC does not equate to AGI. He specifically says they will be able to be beaten without AGI.
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by davidclark 1y ago
Have you considered the opposite? Reflected on your own biases? I’m listening to my own experience. Just today I gave it another fair shot. GitHub Copilot agent mode with GPT-4.1. Still unimpressed. This is a really insightful look at why p
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by davidclark 1y ago
Good example of why I have been totally ignoring people who beat the drum of needing to develop the skills of interacting with models. “Learn to prompt” is already dead? Of course, the true believers will just call this an evolution of prom
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by davidclark 1y ago
From a recent blog shared on HN, among a list of reasons they can’t or won’t use LLMs: >The training data for LLMs is stolen. I don’t mean like “pirated” in the sense where someone illicitly shares a copy they obtained legitimately; I me
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by davidclark 1y ago
I’m not sure anyone I know could make an em dash with their keyboard off the top of their head. [meta] Here’s where I wish I could personally flag HN accounts.
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by davidclark 1y ago
>If you were trying and failing to use an LLM for code 6 months ago †, you’re not doing what most serious LLM-assisted coders are doing. Here’s the thing from the skeptic perspective: This statement keeps getting made on a rolling basis.

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