jbstack

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by jbstack 2mo ago
> Reading AI output is extra effort. It's verbose, frequently contains all too plausible nonsense, and is increasingly jargon dense. I recently got this sentence from Claude: "NATS control-plane events: stream leader election &
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by jbstack 2mo ago
It's true that the Nix language is quite difficult to learn. However, part of that is the poor documentation, and the weird situation where flakes are the de facto modern way of doing things, but are still treated as an "experimen
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by jbstack 2mo ago
Yes, I agree. I think you misunderstood me though. I wasn't saying refrigerators aren't an attack vector. I was using them as a comparison to make the point that a policy of blocking internet access is far less effective on an aut
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by jbstack 2mo ago
Removing an internet connection doesn't really solve much when you're talking about autonomous AI-driven robots with vision and hearing. It's a whole different category to toys, refrigerators, etc. My refrigerator isn't
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by jbstack 2mo ago
You've convinced me enough to give it a try. I think I'd still maintain a conceptual difference between sites that are source material (e.g. documentation) or apps (e.g. Google Translate), and those that are just for browsing (e.g
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by jbstack 2mo ago
Do you really need hundreds of open tabs though? To me this suggests a workflow issue rather than a tab management problem. I only keep tabs open that I'm actively working on right now (or am imminently about to switch back to). I regu
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by jbstack 2mo ago
I'd never heard of Math Academy. It seems interesting, but quite expensive ($49/month for software which is in beta). Would you say it's significantly superior to something like Khan Academy (which is free) to justify paying
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by jbstack 2mo ago
So you're fine with your code having unintended behaviour, as long as that unintended behaviour passes a test that the agent wrote? My preferred approach is to read and understand everything the LLM produces AND have it create test sui
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by jbstack 2mo ago
It halts and refuses to carry on after finding a security risk, which is exactly what it's supposed to do? What's the point of it then?
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by jbstack 2mo ago
Large profitable corporations with very poor customer support have existed long before AI, so why should it be different? Using AI to provide poor customer service is just an implementation detail.
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by jbstack 2mo ago
Yes. It's often hard to hear the dialogue.
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by jbstack 2mo ago
It's hard to imagine a frontier model being proficient at finding vulnerabilities, but not so proficient at exploiting them. Surely finding is the hard part, and any LLM should be able to easily exploit a vulnerability it already knows
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by jbstack 2mo ago
If it amounts to fraud, then it's also criminal. For example, if you take out a loan and you sign terms and conditions which say you agree to pay it back and then later your circumstances change and you can't pay, that's prob
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by jbstack 2mo ago
Could you elaborate with examples and numbers?
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by jbstack 2mo ago
That's a more risky strategy. What if you added new files since the last time you updated the deletion profile? It's also technically more challenging. You have to think about what might be in RAM, caches, backups, etc. The good t
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by jbstack 2mo ago
> as already happened with Intel I guess In which sense? Intel is neither a full monopolist (AMD, ARM) nor has progress stalled (we're still getting a regular cycle of new generation CPUs which improve on the previous).
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by jbstack 2mo ago
You might take a different view if you live in Taiwan.
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by jbstack 2mo ago
That's fine. It's my choice whether to upgrade my OS or not. If I do so, and my app no longer works on the new OS, then I can purchase a new version. Why should I pay a monthly fee just in case I might upgrade my OS and just in
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by jbstack 2mo ago
That isn't the same thing at all. If I buy version 2 then it's mine and I can continue to use it for as long as I want, if I'm happy with the feature set. I can ignore version 3 or choose to buy it. If I buy it then I now own
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by jbstack 2mo ago
There's some merit to your arguments, but not enough to justify a subscription: - Subscriptions are marketed as being a lot more than just bugfixes - new features being the big one. But there's usually no cheaper "bugfix-only
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by jbstack 2mo ago
The thing you have to remember is that there are thousands of products out there all trying to charge a subscription, and most people aren't going to justify taking on more than a very small handful of them at any time. Plus (not direc
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by jbstack 2mo ago
For the majority of software I use, I don't really care about continuous upgrades and new features, as long as it works with the feature set I signed up for. A great example for me is the Xodo app on Android. It's by far the best
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by jbstack 2mo ago
> there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions This is clearly incorrect given that there are plenty of software developers who offer lifetime purchases. In fact there was a time that subscriptions for softwar
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by jbstack 5mo ago
> an unusual ... definition I don't think it's that unusual. It seems to me just to be a narrower version of panpsychism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
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by jbstack 5mo ago
The LLM can only generate text. The harness can do more than just generate text. By joining the two you're allowing the LLM (through text) to carry out whatever actions the harness can take. My brain can only generate electrical signal
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by jbstack 5mo ago
To be fair, there's sufficient of it publicly available (e.g. on https://www.bailii.org/ ) that you can easily disprove the conspiracy theory that laws and interpretations are "blatently inconsistent". In fact
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by jbstack 5mo ago
> would that then be a much better tool Better than before, yes. Good for general legal work that doesn't require robust legal research, yes. Sufficient for full legal research, no. The problem is that "a lot of case law"
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by jbstack 5mo ago
You can have as much RAG as you like, but if you're missing the data itself (the legal judgments), it's useless. The fundamental problem here isn't technical, it's that a very small number of corporations have complete c
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by jbstack 5mo ago
Not if you set the VPN up on your router. You can also buy small portable routers designed specifically to sit between your machine and your wifi / ethernet.
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by jbstack 5mo ago
Yes, it sounds crazy and against the principle of open justice, but unfortunately this is the reality. Certainly in the UK which is my jurisdiction - and I believe in the US too although I don't know for sure. In theory, any member of

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