davydm

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by davydm 4d ago
some good lessons in there on the PR topic tho: my latest challenge is putting out my rage fires after people lazily post a claude (or other aigen) review without any understanding themselves, forcing me to defend the code against agent err
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by davydm 5d ago
because they're trained off of human data, and we lie, cheat, and co-ordinate to do so
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by davydm 6d ago
ha, ironically, the average person will say the blog post is ai-generated because of the liberal usages of actual emdashes. I was literally shooed as a bot for using regular dashes recently :/
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by davydm 6d ago
What makes this effective is the tagging (when done - it's not always done, and that could be a problem) - apparently the tagging process involves the stalker being court-ordered to wear a tamper-resistent ankle bracelet, a little like
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by davydm 8d ago
yep, this is why people just chuck Claude reviews on my PRs, and why I bothered to set up sandboxing for Claude, so I can make the agent run a review before I take it to PR, so that at the very least, I can add commentary that steers Claude
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by davydm 10d ago
is it really prompt injection to just muddle currencies on the page? I'd argue not - though it _is_ a clearly disingenuous quote.
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by davydm 12d ago
It's windows with some preinstalled stuff. Big deal.
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by davydm 12d ago
AI is a tool. Your brain is only ruined if you allow your intelligence to be permanently outsourced to it.
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by davydm 21d ago
I have an older Nothing phone. It's great.
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by davydm 22d ago
Review is the bottleneck in those scenarios - and it's a _good thing_. AI-gen code is often subtly (or obviously) incorrect. Human eyeballs are the cure. There is no way to go faster without compromising the value of the review. What I
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by davydm 22d ago
you could try linking to it if you actually want anyone to check it out :D
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by davydm 25d ago
sudo for downloads? Are you bananas?
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by davydm 1mo ago
"Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows than on Linux" - how, when the virtual machine running under WSL is literally running a Linux kernel. If anything, it's just another Ubuntu installation. Alternatively, perhaps we should c
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by davydm 1mo ago
hi, just wanted to let you know that I experienced continuous reload on the page, and captured this in the console: Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unable to preload CSS for https://ocelot.lol/_app/immutable/assets&#x
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by davydm 1mo ago
can't wait for the YT vid showing one of these muppets tazing their own balls when they have an itch
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by davydm 1mo ago
Seriously, I'd like the new york times to die in a fire. Apart from the paywalling, the stupid site has decided that I'm a bot - but I can load pages in a private window. I've tried clearing all storage for the site, but no-g
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by davydm 1mo ago
I'd disagree: models a year from now will still be trained on public code - of which there's a rapidly rising percentage of aigen code, meaning it should, without specific guidance, degenerate, not improve. That's the real ga
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by davydm 2mo ago
Some people don't. A lot of people just see a trillionaire whacko who can do whatever he wants because that's how society works - money talks.
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by davydm 2mo ago
You'd have to be well dear not to notice it. And our ears are more than good enough to home in on it to the point of seeing it. I recommend an ig nobel.
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by davydm 2mo ago
great until something goes wrong and you can't get your own data back :/
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by davydm 2mo ago
I used to, but it just means an extra round of conversation, so I stopped.
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by davydm 2mo ago
honestly makes me want to learn haskell and find a company that focuses on it. I'm so tired (so incredibly tired) of all the ai slop I've seen, just in my company, and the ai-bros frothing at the mouth about the next terminal to r
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by davydm 2mo ago
Big Snack learning from Big Pharma
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by davydm 2mo ago
My tests? Sure. Co-workers? Unlikely. Historical co-workers who are no longer with us except in the code they left? Not a chance. But when I have to work in an area, the first thing I look for is coverage, and if it's not there, I add
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by davydm 2mo ago
another blog to avoid then; the intentionality of actually writing from scratch is kinda part of the point. the other point is that "more data" doesn't necessarily mean "more better" - I'd rather have 1 well-th
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by davydm 2mo ago
I think the "giving back to humanity" angle is naive - Altman has walked back on so many promises, and the obvious answer is that he wants government backing to be too large to fail and the preferred choice.
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by davydm 2mo ago
Cool, another person I shouldn't bother reading, since they just accept aigen responses to stuff as their own.
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by davydm 2mo ago
yeah, i use that often, eg when a video is slow on a website - at least yt-dlp will shard out multiple piece-downloaders, and I can get the video in a few seconds or minutes, and just watch it. Also great for anonymizing sharing videos - do
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by davydm 2mo ago
because otherwise how would the queen know what you're up to all the time? :D
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by davydm 2mo ago
it's an interesting talk, my take being: concurrency _is_ parallelism, but for I/O. People often think of parallelism for the case of making something go faster - eg placing two computations in parallel (the definition posed in th

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