jdcasale

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by jdcasale 5d ago
I've been thinking a lot about what it would look like to support verifiable/auditable guarantees around data exfil/capture for this class of use. I don't think it's enough to pinky-promise that you aren't send
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by jdcasale 6d ago
Yeah I'd written some rust ~ 10 years ago when the language was very different and that led me to believe that it was a 'great within it's niche' sort of thing for a long time, but after spending the last couple of years
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by jdcasale 7d ago
The barrier to entry was the point, it's what created community. There is really no such thing as a durable community without entry and exit friction. But games that rely on community are thus generally less scalable and profitable tha
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by jdcasale 21d ago
I think that within the next year or two we'll have the ability to put a frontier-class model on our desks, and I like the idea of playing around with that today to get ahead of it. I could be wrong, I often am. I'm not optimizing
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by jdcasale 21d ago
Also (in case this isn't obvious) I'm 100% a fan of the decision to _not_ tightly couple to the kafka wire protocol. Kafka's apis are full of landmines and gotchas, and you can do much better from a UX perspective if you&#x27
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by jdcasale 22d ago
I'd consider a 1tb machine at 20k, but I'm not going to pick up a 256gb one at all. 1TB fits a frontier-ish model in memory without massive quantization, which is a very interesting capability for a non-rack piece of compute.
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by jdcasale 22d ago
Fwiw the only two times I've used kafka in my career have been for traffic on the order of GBs/sec. And the folks I know who have relied on streaming pipes for genuinely realtime stuff built bespoke systems with RTT on the order o
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by jdcasale 1mo ago
The previous comment didn't say that Starbucks doesn't suck (they probably agree that it does -- I've never met anyone who really likes coffee who doesn't agree that modern at-scale Starbucks is awful), they just asserte
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by jdcasale 4mo ago
It's both. The US has generally resorted to propaganda rather than addressing the self-inflicted structural conditions responsible for the erosion of our dominance. China also conducted a broad, sustained, large-scale campaign of IP th
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by jdcasale 7mo ago
Without weighing in on whether this is true, I'll point out that LLMs could both be better writers than most people and also be bad writers. Writing is a difficult skill that many (most?) educational systems do not effectively teach. M
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by jdcasale 8mo ago
The math is obvious on this one. It's super well-documented that model performance on complex tasks scales (to some asymptote) with the amount of inference-time compute allocated. LLM providers must dynamically scale inference-time com
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by jdcasale 8mo ago
There have been a host of civil servants purged from a litany of federal services for this reason. You don't have to look very hard to find them. Example: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/10/g-s1-87947/fb
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by jdcasale 8mo ago
For what it's worth, I have lived in, and currently spend a lot of time in, both places. You're both very obviously wrong. There is a serious problem in the US. There is also a serious (though different) problem in the UK. The pro
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by jdcasale 1y ago
Anyone on earth can completely and totally ignore football and it will have zero consequences for their life. The money here (in the AI realm) is coming a handful of oligarchs who are transparently trying to buy control of the future. The d
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by jdcasale 1y ago
The sycophancy is obviously intentional. People are vulnerable to it, and addiction is profitable. It has nothing to do with the nature of LLMs and everything to do with user engagement metrics.
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by jdcasale 1y ago
I am also struggling to see the difference between this and language-level support for an arena allocator with RAII.
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by jdcasale 1y ago
I'd keep in mind that internet usage of 96 (I was there) bears no resemblance whatsoever to internet usage of today. The level of predatory sophistication of today's attention economy makes any sort of comparison between the two m
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by jdcasale 1y ago
As opposed to taking like 30 seconds to install cargo and rust? I get that the elegant thing to do would be to bootstrap this, but in practice does this actually cost you anything, or is this a purely aesthetic concern?
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by jdcasale 1y ago
You have misunderstood something here. I (like a very large plurality, maybe even a majority, of devs) do not work for a consulting firm. There is no client. I've done consulting work in the past, though. Any leader who does not take i
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by jdcasale 1y ago
"If you asked a junior developer to refactor a rust program to be more idiomatic, how long would you expect that to take? Would you expect the work to compile on the first try?" The purpose of giving that task to a junior dev isn&
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by jdcasale 1y ago
I recently tried Cursor for about a week and I was disappointed. It was useful for generating code that someone else has definitely written before (boilerplate etc), but any time I tried to do something nontrivial, it failed no matter how m
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by jdcasale 1y ago
Another excellent point.
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by jdcasale 1y ago
Without commenting on the (important) political or reputational considerations here, I want to talk a bit about the operational risk presented by this practice. There is a somewhat sizable "So what? Signal is e2e encrypted. Nothing bad
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by jdcasale 2y ago
This assertion is sharply undercut by the facts. I have an incredibly hard time believing that you're engaging in good faith here. There is literally zero evidence whatsoever that Russia cares about 'equality for ordinary people&#
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by jdcasale 2y ago
I got a little carried away with this response and it's a little off-topic, but I figured it might be worth posting anyway. I think this has to do with the nonlinear growth in the human-facing complexity of the world over the past 30 y
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by jdcasale 2y ago
Fwiw, my experience from growing up in deep red America was that anti-intellectualism was staggeringly strong there. People would actually define their beliefs in opposition to those of people they perceived to be 'smart'. The way