jaggederest

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by jaggederest 4d ago
Do you have any analytic basis to make that assertion? I haven't found that to be true, it'd be more accurate in my experience to say that LLM code has different issues than the code humans write.
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by jaggederest 4d ago
I think of it as a tradeoff between creativity and specificity. Every instruction you give reduces creativity, and at best, increases specificity (I imagine a lot of prompts like "make no mistakes" do literally nothing but pollute
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by jaggederest 4d ago
I've gone back over most of my contributions to open source using LLMs and honestly, even though it was my best work at the time, there are big gaps that they find right away. The myth that we've been shipping perfect code for yea
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by jaggederest 5d ago
I feel like I may have communicated poorly. I mean that, ultimately, any recursively self improving intelligence would be limited by the power cord, and as such, the idea that it would permanently escape human control seems somewhat silly.
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by jaggederest 5d ago
Need a sheriff agent, who surely won't be bribed by the criminal agents and descend into corruption...
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by jaggederest 5d ago
Money can be exchanged for goods and services. I think the real constraint is actually physics, nominally energy, which is what a big chunk of the operational cost comes down to. I'm already basically assuming the next 20 years of fab
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by jaggederest 5d ago
Even better, use some kind of local-ci runner that does deterministic builds from a dependency graph. No changes, no build, massive parallelism if you want it
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by jaggederest 6d ago
hoist by our own strategic export controls, rip
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by jaggederest 6d ago
> Nothing prevents anyone from opportunistically pre-generating and timestamping millions of permutations of fake kompromat and then selectively revealing the one that turns out to be useful after the fact. If you're doing server-si
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by jaggederest 6d ago
Cutting the ziptie is half the fun! Just be glad it's not shrink wrapped or clamshelled ;)
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by jaggederest 6d ago
Proper flaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbxMyytWw60 Ziptie once coiled, attach label for what format / length. Bag cables with the same connectors. If you have more than fit in a gallon ziploc you should probab
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by jaggederest 6d ago
Kintsugi is another reference. I think the Japanese cultural appreciation of made things with genuine flaws, wabi-sabi, is another good one. At this point I believe that, ironically, writing (and other arts broadly) may be one of the last f
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by jaggederest 6d ago
Nothing fancy, just metabolic syndrome, I'm afraid.
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by jaggederest 6d ago
It wouldn't, but you could validate that a particular picture was created at a particular time, and had not changed, for example, especially with metadata that you may not want to share but that establishes certain parameters like gps
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by jaggederest 6d ago
General knowledge is unpredictable. If you want to treat human diseases, explore the natural world, because a huge portion of the pharmacopea we have is in some way directly derived from general knowledge - the taxane family is derived from
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by jaggederest 6d ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110792 My trial of the all potato diet was directly responsible for identifying a significant health issue and improving my life. It also really, really did not feel
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by jaggederest 6d ago
And, as with many things, as soon as you stop forcing yourself past the point of ease and fluency, you somehow both enjoy it more and also are more effective.
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by jaggederest 6d ago
I agree that AI isn't human, but why does that necessarily mean it's a problem? The analogy I use is watching an octopus juggle - just because it's better than a human can ever be, definitionally, doesn't mean it's
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by jaggederest 7d ago
Yeah to be fair I'm all for the 1/sqrt(2) aspect ratio, I just think it's funny that it's treated as some kind of holy design constraint when they're all over the map on phone sizing :) And the extra irony is I&#x27
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by jaggederest 7d ago
And honestly you could have a similar antitampering oracle that was at least obscured, in terms of "we've detected tampering but won't tell you how or why", which is frustrating but I have to imagine that 99.9%+ of image
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by jaggederest 7d ago
Given the whole private cloud bit, I am assuming they keep the private keys server side and never let them out.
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by jaggederest 7d ago
in this thread many people have clearly never developed for iOS Here's just the screen sizes, not even taking into account actual resolution: iPhone (2007) 3.5" 74.0 × 49.3 36 cm² iPhone 5 4.0" 88.6
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by jaggederest 7d ago
Yeah the biggest task these days that I do manually is curating the documentation. AGENTS.md in every major directory, and a variety of reference docs that are explicitly referenced in those files. # See DOC-ITEM-NAME DOC-ITEM-NA
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by jaggederest 7d ago
The other thing that I think a lot of people run into is that they launch it into a completely human-built system with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and expect run #1 to be perfect. You have to change the system so that the AI unde
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by jaggederest 7d ago
I think this really was a relevant issue around a year ago, give or take, maybe a year and a half now. But with current models you actively have to sabotage the context to get this kind of behavior, or dramatically underspecify (3 words ver
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by jaggederest 7d ago
Clear context, revert the commit, change the prompt or documentation, try again.
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by jaggederest 7d ago
At this point it very dramatically is more reliable and predictable than any human I've worked with. Do you know anyone who actually reads and adheres closely to all of the documentation every time it's changed?
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by jaggederest 8d ago
I've been seriously considering getting a tattoo saying "commit to the bit". I find that's both one of my strengths and something I value a lot. It's a kind of anodyne to this problem - do your analysis, make the be
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by jaggederest 8d ago
So, if I'm building, say an iOS app, I have a) the code itself (swift/react native), b) the internal test suite (unit tests), and c) the e2e test suite with something like XCUITest that drives the physical development phone, plus
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by jaggederest 9d ago
Yes I'm using the entire consultancy stack - define values, etc, and work your way down the "where do these not match reality on the ground and need change", but for little robot people instead of (arguably less messy) humans

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