disfictional

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by disfictional 16d ago
I agree that intelligence at cost is exciting right now, especially if you view AI as a tool. The clock is ticking on subsidized tokens and cheap or free local inference will be the future. I think people want AI to be an oracle for predic
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by disfictional 16d ago
Currently, I'm using custom instructions plus reinjecting the writing cues Opus 5 ignores most frequently via a UserPromptSubmit hook. Again and again, I'm reminding the model what voice I want. Again and again, Opus 5 ignores it.
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by disfictional 3mo ago
> Even a correct guess leaves you worse off than not committing. Similarly, this is also confusing. If I scaffold a highly-likely feature and everything lines up, I ship the feature faster. My team isn't guaranteed to grow or even m
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by disfictional 4mo ago
I misread the title as "write bitter error messages", and that resonated with me deeply.
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by disfictional 7mo ago
The key to the essay is that "ordinary people will be fine." Software Engineers will be highly impacted, though not in the way most commenters seem to think. Management isn't going to arbitrarily decide that, "AI can do
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by disfictional 8mo ago
As someone who spent a year writing an SDK specifically for AI PCs, it always felt like a solution in search of a problem. Like watching dancers in bunny suits sell CPUs, if the consumer doesn't know the pain point you're fixing,
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by disfictional 9mo ago
LLMs as a body double for executive dysfunction is a great insight. I see chronic examples of corporate-sponsored executive dysfunction: striped calendars, constant pings and interruptions, emergency busywork, fire drills. It's likely
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by disfictional 9mo ago
Laziness, or job search, or parenting, or health issues, or caregiving, or something else. It's not a binary stay-current-or-you're-lazy situation, it's that the entire industry is moving to shorter timelines, smaller teams,