excentricus

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by excentricus 23d ago
Yeah sure, learning the internals of a technology that’s being actively developed will probably teach you things that remain useful for awhile even if your learning outcomes could end up being different than what he’s implying. Whether that
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by excentricus 27d ago
> Why not just use that other vendor's model for everything? This is what I think too. But, users’ psychology might be playing a role here. Anthropic has great advantage from being the first major player delivering functional agenti
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by excentricus 27d ago
“Talk is cheap, show me the prompt” is my go to request for dealing with people’s AI generated responses. Voice and tone varies, of course, depending on the recipient. It feels like prompt(s) is where the actual thinking can be observed the
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by excentricus 27d ago
That response is freaking ridiculous and does nothing but proving the very point of the issue. Even if that’s your genuine view of the reported issue, instead of posting a message full of word salad, you could just say something along the l
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by excentricus 27d ago
Very accurate (at least wrt my experience) yet so sad. It’s unfathomable how we ended up being maneuvered into accepting this as an “upgrade” to how we practice our profession, build things, solve problems. For many reasons, it doesn’t feel
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by excentricus 28d ago
this is great! i can’t wait to give it a shot. i recently had to stop using logi options, whatever the heck it’s called, because the app doesn’t start on my mac (sequoia). no error, no logs, nothing helpful can be found online. i gave up a
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by excentricus 1mo ago
> Anthropomorphizing these models is doing immeasurable harm to society in ways we probably can’t event quantify right now This is one of my biggest concerns about AI’s social impact. On top of that, models are positioned as superior to
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by excentricus 2mo ago
Yes! I had exactly the same experience. Quitting habits like smoking, drinking coffee, or playing video games has always been much easier during those periods, and it felt like it happened on its own. It was mind-blowing to notice that afte