gixco

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by gixco 8mo ago
Why is the go-to always "you must not have used it" in lieu of the much more likely experience of having already seen and rejected first-hand the slop that it churns out? Synthetic benchmarks can rise all they want; Opus 4.5 is st
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by gixco 1y ago
I once got a temporary F# role without any F# experience simply by having 7 YoE with C# and the knowledge that F# exists. As much as I'd like to do more with it, the "just use F#" idea flaunted in this thread is a distant p
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by gixco 1y ago
I feel like part of the mess of modern web development is the idea that most people actually need to "do something more complex than the basics". So much rehashing and effort spent trying to force MPAs into a SPA shape just beca
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by gixco 2y ago
I graduated before LLMs but after WolframAlpha and I essentially cheated my way through calculus I and II. Lenient grade weighting made 90s on the homework and 60s on the exams enough to slide through with a C. Funnily enough, now that it&#
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by gixco 2y ago
I didn't just look at the implementation, I tried it as well. I was hoping it would work, but the aggregating model mostly either failed to properly synthesize a new response (merely dumping out the previous responses as separate funct
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by gixco 2y ago
I saw a relatively new AI company already valued at over $1 bn publish a "new technique" recently, complete with whitepaper and all. I looked at the implementation and... it was just querying four different models, concatenating t