imiric

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by imiric 4mo ago
> Creativity is connecting ideas from different domains and see if something from one field applies to another. That's true. The question is whether the produced pattern has any value. LLMs are incapable of determining this, and wil
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by imiric 4mo ago
Shipping is just a milestone. We all know that "AI" can produce code much faster than any human. Productivity should be measured over time and take into account the cost of maintenance, reliability, amount of issues, etc.
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by imiric 4mo ago
In the age of language like "unalive" being normalized, "logout" doesn't sound too far off.
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by imiric 4mo ago
> never ask a model for confirmation or encouragement; but you can absolutely ask it to critique something, and that's often of value. What's the difference? The end result is equally unreliable. In either case, the value is de
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by imiric 4mo ago
And yet you have certainly used and enjoyed software published by others free of charge, and your employer, company or favorite service has relied on it. Your career may even be entirely dependent on it. If you demand remuneration for all y
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by imiric 4mo ago
> There is currently no way to prevent this apart from not giving the LLM full control. It will not delete what it can not delete. But deleting something is just one action you might not want it to take. The recent "agentic" cr
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by imiric 4mo ago
This is missing the point. The issue isn't with the amount of guardrails in place to perform an action. Yes, it is obvious that there should be some in place before doing any critical operation, such as deleting a database. The issue i
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by imiric 5mo ago
> The major hurdle right now is actually pivoting LLMs from just generating code: integrating those tasks into workflows. Funny, I thought that the major hurdle is improving accuracy and reliability, as it's always been. Engineering
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by imiric 5mo ago
I'm tired, boss. This industry has become a parody of itself, and people are celebrating.
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by imiric 5mo ago
> I consider that to also be a wrongly held position, because you'd need proof either way. Proof that something doesn't exist? Ever heard of Russel's teapot? The burden of proof is on the claimer. > What exactly do we
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by imiric 5mo ago
> your extreme atheists aren't much different from your extreme believers; they both have strong beliefs about things they can't prove, and for some reason want to go off on them. You have a mistaken understanding of what athei
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by imiric 5mo ago
From what I understood, any color and material involved in high precision manufacturing requires careful design and thorough testing. They likely prioritize the brown color and material due to branding, so changing this to anything else req
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by imiric 5mo ago
Interesting. I'm glad companies like Noctua exist that put so much thought and care into their products. I don't even mind being advertisted to when that's the case.
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by imiric 5mo ago
There's no such thing, but all content publishing web sites should at the very least provide tools for users to self-moderate, which this forum heavily relies on anyway. Now that the internet is flooded by machine-generated content, wh
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by imiric 5mo ago
I'm exhausted by these shiny vibe coded projects that overpromise and underdeliver. Knowledge comes from doing the hard work, not from being spoon fed information. All these fancy graphs represent a tentative mental model produced as a
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by imiric 5mo ago
> likely straight up violates Claude's Constitution A company that goes against their self-proclaimed values... What a shocker.
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by imiric 5mo ago
> Don't ask this thing questions to which you do not know the answer. You will pollute your brain. So like any LLM?
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by imiric 5mo ago
The idea that a tool intended to replace all human cognitive work is the next level of abstraction is so fundamentally flawed, that I'm not sure it's made in good faith anymore. The most charitable interpretation I can think of is
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by imiric 5mo ago
> So this is proof of the models actually getting stronger (previous generations of LLMs were unable to solve this one). No, it's not. While I don't dispute that new models may perform better at certain tasks, the fact that s
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by imiric 5mo ago
This resonates a lot with me. Long breaks help. Take your mind off of things that bothered you. Do things you enjoy. Which may include tech work, but on your own terms. I wouldn't be surprised if you decide to not go back. The status q
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by imiric 5mo ago
As disturbing as the film "Midsommar" was, I found the concept of a human life being divided into 4 seasons of 18 years each pretty compelling. Not necessarily that life should end after Winter, but a person's contributions t
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by imiric 5mo ago
For crying out loud, why are we discussing and paying attention to articles and claims about a product that doesn't even exist yet ?! If this isn't a sign of a bubble, where marketing is more important than the actual product, I
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by imiric 5mo ago
> A password manager does not need a CLI tool. That's a wild statement. The CLI is just another UI. The problem in this case is JS and the NPM ecosystem. Go would be an improvement, but complexity is the enemy of security. Something
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by imiric 5mo ago
> Incus wants to own the VM lifecycle the way libvirtd does, and once you have that you're back to "two sources of truth" if you ever shell out. That's true. But I didn't want to reinvent what Incus or any hyperv
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by imiric 5mo ago
Ah, that's neat as well. I took a slightly different approach in that I don't want to use YAML as the authoritative source. Many projects abuse it, and end up creating a DSL on top of it with all sorts of hacks to achieve the flex
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by imiric 5mo ago
Very cool, thanks for sharing. I built something similar recently on top of Incus via Pulumi. I also wanted to avoid libvirt's mountain of XML, and Incus is essentially a lightweight and friendlier interface to QEMU, with some nice QoL
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by imiric 5mo ago
That's ludicrous hair splitting. If I have evidence that a crime has been committed based on my layperson understanding of the law, I will surely inform others before the case is even brought to courts. Journalists can and should do th
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by imiric 5mo ago
I can't say whether this was machine-generated or not, but the reason LLMs use these patterns is because they're often used by humans, which is what they're trained to mimic. LLM spam has now made it annoying, but there are m
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by imiric 5mo ago
A major reason for that is because there's no way to objectively evaluate the performance of LLMs. So the meme projects are equally as valid as the serious ones, since the merits of both are based entirely on anecdata. It also doesn&#x
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by imiric 5mo ago
This Mozilla?[1] The company whose 85% of revenue depends on an adtech giant? They're certainly doing better than others in this space, but their track record does not inspire confidence for anyone concerned about their privacy and dat

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