generallyjosh

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by generallyjosh 6mo ago
Did it make any mistakes on your taxes? Personally, I know coding pretty well. So when I'm using it for coding, I can spot most of its mistakes / misunderstandings I would not trust using it on a complex domain I'm not super
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
Well, you said: The potential of the current crop of LLM/AIs will stop at being a very powerful tool to search large volumes of text using free-form questions. I do think that pretty clearly contradicts with what a lot of people who ma
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
Hey you can try it if you like. That's one of the beauties of the current moment, nobody REALLY knows what works best, just a whole lot of people trying stuff And no, I wouldn't ever give it a year of changelog.md. I give it a sho
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
Larger models need more hardware resources to run And, depending on effort settings, they do more 'thinking', i.e., use more rounds of inference to generate longer internal chains of thought Both very good reasons to prefer a smal
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
The problem isn't giving MORE context to an agent, it's giving the right context These things are built for pattern matching, and if you keep their context focused on one pattern, they'll perform much better You want to avoid
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
I'd assume it probably depends how large and varied your logs are? But, my guess, I could see an algorithm like that being very fast. It's basically just doing a form of compression, so I'm thinking ballpark, like similar amo
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
I think what most people are worried about is that, as you say, AGI won't necessarily have our biases/biological drives That might also mean it has no drive for self-determination. It might just be perfectly happy to do whatever h
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
You say this as though it's a pithy point. Might as well say humans are just a better search tool - it's true in the exact same sense you're using. All humans do is absorb information, then search through our memories and app
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
The whole point of an economy is to generate value. Very, very different than caring for people Feudalism was the dominant economic system for millennia. The point is to extract value for the upper class. Peasants only matter as a source of
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
There are lots of intelligent people looking at AI and imagining its potential Are you just saying that you're more intelligent than them? You can see clearly, where all the steam engine technicians can't?
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
Openclaw isn't new (and the actual project never made itself out to be new) It's a nice packaging, of a whole bunch of preexisting things. Agentic AI inside a nice sandbox container, running the model on a cron schedule, and with
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
I do strongly agree on the framing, but I'd argue with the conclusion Yeah, it really doesn't matter if AGI has happened, is going to happen, will never happen, whatever. No matter what sort of definition we make for it, someone&#
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
I'm finding the latest models are pretty good at debugging, if you give them the tools to debug properly If they can run a tool from the terminal, see all the output in text format, and have a clear 'success' criteria, then t
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
One of the first skills I made for Claude was a research skill. I give it a question (narrow or really broad), and the model does a bunch of web searches using subagents, to try and get a comprehensive answer using current results The impor
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
I do think there's value in trying out fully vibe coding some toy projects today (probably nothing real or security sensitive haha). The AI will get better at compensating, but I think some of it's weaknesses are fundamental, and
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
That mirrors my experience so far. The AI is fantastic for prototyping, in languages/frameworks you might be totally unfamiliar with. You can make all sorts of cool little toy projects in a few hours, with just some minimal promoting T
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by generallyjosh 7mo ago
All we can do is try our best to look at the world with clear eyes, and think about where the industry's going over the next couple years Not how we want things to be, but how they actually are and will be I don't think AI for pro
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by generallyjosh 8mo ago
IMO, documentation becomes much more important if we're planning to hand off coding to the LLMs You can ask it about the code, sure, and it'll try to tell you how it works. But, what if there's a bug in the code? Maybe the LL
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by generallyjosh 8mo ago
I do think there is some actual value in telling an LLM "you are an expert code reviewer". You really do tend to get better results in the output When you think about what an LLM is, it makes more sense. It causes a strong activat