ianbutler

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by ianbutler 1mo ago
> Very recently, I've started avoiding produce from Taylor Farms Good thing I was paying attention to the news when that mess started. This is very obviously not the type of situation and behavior marginalia_nu and then I were comme
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by ianbutler 1mo ago
> Reality sucks and sometimes you have to do something about it or else you're the problem. But ARE you doing anything about it? Because unless you're actually taking action it's basically just self flagellation to the ben
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by ianbutler 1mo ago
What are you doing to fix the issues though? Has the knowledge of the issues increased your agency in a meaningful way such that you've taken actions to improve things or are you just enjoying living in a perpetually outraged state for
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by ianbutler 1mo ago
I see researchers, tech people and my friends. This is a problem with how you curate your social media.
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by ianbutler 2mo ago
I don't think this is really entirely true. Everyone who isn't a FAANG or Frontier Lab seem to be absolutely starving for good talent. It's far more often that I hear "we interviewed someone we thought looked good and th
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by ianbutler 2mo ago
> But long-context is a trap, because performance still falls dramatically after 150k-200k context. I often see this repeated, and it is not true task to task. I work on this daily and we have several tasks where long context is advantag
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by ianbutler 2mo ago
It's nice to see a strong long context open weights model that is multi-modal. There are many applications that will benefit from the strength in audio here and until z.ai and co work in visual this could be very strong for general age
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by ianbutler 2mo ago
There's a setting that stops fallback to Opus 4.8 if you would like to avoid that behavior. Config -> Switch models when a message is flagged -> false That should stop it entirely when a message is flagged and then you can come b
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
2025 is such old news that this just isn't relevant. METR already redid the study at a later date and now finds a likely 18% speedup "For the subset of the original developers who participated in the later study, we now estimate a
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
Most of the best engineers I know leave faang because the work at faang sucks. It is not orthogonal. The majority of faang work is not highly impactful work like trivially because the amount of work outstrips the amount of interesting work
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
> Turns out for most people, there's not much better to do during your 9 to 5 than solving problems for half a million a year. Lol. I don't know I was talking with a guy yesterday who left a FAANG clearing 1.4 million / yr
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
> I strongly believe that you cannot evaluate how good a system design is if you don't implement it by hand. Fwiw we both agree that LLMs should not design systems. I do the design, but otherwise I don't get how this is true, t
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
Sorry definitely mis-remembered on my part, its about 3 months https://x.com/yaroslavvb/status/2067367657272422584 https://x.com/voratiq/status/2067667800643268928 https://are
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
We love our open source models. GLM 5.2 came out recently and the timeline for closing the gap to closed source shrank to something like 2 weeks by popular measurements. Edit: Mis remembered the timeline I saw not 2 weeks, 3 months, but sti
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
Idk man my system design game is better than its ever been because I put in the effort to use these tools and recognize they can't do software design better than I can and because I've increased the scope of what I'm building
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
Tool use typically follows this curve. If you want to preserve a skill you have to actually preserve it. This isn't inherently bad by itself, tools enable us to do much more than we can without them and its a point of contention whethe
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
As someone who lived in New York for over a decade and grew up in the general area, there is not a single person who would think its normal if you're trying to strike up a conversation on the subway or even really when walking down the
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
Most new builds don't even use evaporative cooling afaik, this will probably be closed loop. The implications being you're not risking the local water table and overall consumption is lower, a lot lower.
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
https://www.usenym.com/ Everyone is working on personal agents but their identity model is wrong. They act as you, risk your reputation, your data and more. Nym is a personal agent that has (and can make) all of its own acc
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
https://www.usenym.com/ Everyone is working on personal agents but their identity model is wrong. They act as you, risk your reputation, your data and more. Nym is a personal agent that has (and can make) all of its own acc
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
I'll own it.
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
I didn't intend it that way, but I guess I can see it now. The point they made had not crossed my mind (as evidenced by my response of how I usually make projects, it wouldn't have) So to me the OP was complaining about something
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
> See how that works? Don't get cute. Now to answer substantially, no frankly unless I'm legally required to I don't credit things. I usually specifically go for licenses that let me do whatever I want. I don't think
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by ianbutler 3mo ago
So basically what a normal person is going to do initially?
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by ianbutler 4mo ago
People here hate hearing this. You're entirely correct though.
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by ianbutler 4mo ago
Right and words matter. Valuable is a relative term that asserts a measurable quantity and they're trying to assert something non relative and not measurable. I don't take issue with their point. Just that we can use a stronger wo
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by ianbutler 4mo ago
First I'll say the disambiguation of discerning intent as the driver behind whether something is slop or not was very interesting. But, I'll take one point in their article a step further you can just say "Humans are invaluab
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by ianbutler 4mo ago
gaming is all about simulation after all
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Mythos for Offensive Security: XBOW's Evaluation(xbow.com)
3 points by ianbutler 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ianbutler 4mo ago
Eh fair enough!

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