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by drodgers 29d ago
> spent millions on AI contracts The key question is how much value has been delivered on the other end for a given cost. Well used, tokens would be cheap at 10x the price right now.
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by drodgers 29d ago
Skill issue. If you make an effort to use the new tools effectively, the gains are wild. Don't fall into a grumpy luddite trap, the train is leaving the station and you'll struggle to catch up if you don't learn and grow. Not
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by drodgers 2mo ago
But the only one that matters? Seems like this is delivering business value.
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by drodgers 4mo ago
'If you can't build a TODO list app using only punchcards, then you can't do your job...' Obviously our ambitions expand due to better tools. I now commit to and deliver much more work than before LLMs, and — before then
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by drodgers 8mo ago
Don’t read long form content on mobile then? IDK what else to say.
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by drodgers 11mo ago
This is really cool! Now I'm trying to stop myself from finding an excuse to spend upwards of $30k on compute hardware...
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by drodgers 1y ago
MacOS has been moving more and more in this direction, and it’s good.
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by drodgers 1y ago
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by drodgers 1y ago
> What am I doing wrong Trying two things and giving up. It's like opening a REPL for a new language, typing some common commands you're familiar with, getting some syntax errors, then giving up. You need how to learn to use yo
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by drodgers 1y ago
Eh. This is true for humans too and doesn’t make humans useless at evaluating business plans or other things. You just want the signal from the object level question to drown out irrelevant bias (which plan was proposed first, which of the
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by drodgers 1y ago
Love it! I've been looking for an excuse to dive into AI planning for robotics, and this looks like it will make it easy to get started. Just one question: does the power supply have a 220/240v option (I'm in Australia)?
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by drodgers 1y ago
Also corporations, governments etc. - they're capable of things that none of the individuals could do alone.
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by drodgers 1y ago
> Prompts as Source Code Another way to phrase this is LLM-as-compiler and Python (or whatever) as an intermediate compiler artefact. Finally, a true 6th generation programming language! I've considered building a toy of this with r
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by drodgers 1y ago
I think that commenter was disagreeing with this line: > because omniscient-yet-dim-witted models terminate at "superhumanly assistive" It might be that with dim wits + enough brute force (knowledge, parallelism, trial-and-erro
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by drodgers 1y ago
> I think AI maximalists will continue to think that the models are in fact getting less dim-witted I'm bullish (and scared) about AI progress precisely because I think they've only gotten a little less dim-witted in the last f
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by drodgers 1y ago
> "LLMs can’t write Rust" This really doesn't accord with my own experience. Using claude-code (esp. with opus 4) and codex (with o3) I've written lots of good Rust code. I've actually found Rust helps the AI-pai
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by drodgers 1y ago
Making changes to huge rust projects is quite easy. For a substantial alteration, you make your change, the compiler tells you the 100 problems it caused, and you fix them all (~50% auto fix, 30% Claude/Codex, 20% manual), then the pro
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by drodgers 1y ago
No doubt from me that it’s a sigmoid, but how high is the plateau? That’s also hard to know from early in the process, but it would be surprising if there’s not a fair bit of progress left to go. Human brains seem like an existence proof fo
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by drodgers 1y ago
I think that's generally fair, but this point goes too far: > improve benchmarks one by one If you're right about that in the strong sense — that each task needs to be optimised in total isolation — then it would be a longer, s
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by drodgers 1y ago
I don't know how someone could be following the technical progress in detail and hold this view. The progress is astonishing, and the benchmarks are becoming saturated so fast that it's hard to keep track. Are there plenty of gaps
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by drodgers 1y ago
Yes. If you judge only from the hype, then you can't distinguish LLMs from crypto, or Nuclear Weapons from Nuclear Automobiles. If you always say that every new fad is just hype, then you'll even be right 99.9% of the time. But if
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by drodgers 1y ago
Yes, this product mostly only targets the top 20% of US earners. That's a lot of people, and a lot of HN readers especially.
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by drodgers 1y ago
Unfortunately the market is quite small and shrinking. I wish more people wanted great sound rather than phone/tv speakers (or soundbars).
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by drodgers 1y ago
They don't do any of the Dolby decoding and multi-channel mixing. Their closest product is the miniDSP Flex HT which is really about applying EQ to a bunch of channels (only 8, aka 7.1 or 5.2.1) after they've been decoded by an up
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by drodgers 1y ago
At >500M weekly active users it doesn't actually matter. There will be hundreds of cases like that example that were never shared.
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by drodgers 1y ago
Yes.
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by drodgers 1y ago
o3 handles this perfectly by writing a solver using numpy: https://chatgpt.com/share/680aab8e-cf9c-8012-9f48-301ef62948... The polynomial has no closed-form factorisation, so the only practical way to get its zer
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by drodgers 1y ago
Don’t be a dismissive dick; that’s not appropriate for this forum. The above post is clearly trying to engage thoughtfully and offers genuinely good advice.
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by drodgers 1y ago
> There's no system that does that. You mean the darkening of everything else to highlight bright HDR areas? All recent Macs do, including the one I'm typing on right now. It's a little disconcerting the first time it happ
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by drodgers 1y ago
Who cares about consciousness? This is just a mis-direction of the discussion. Ditto for 'intelligence' and 'understanding'. Let's talk about what they can do and where that's trending.

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