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by jimmont 12d ago
This explains all the things that are happening now and will happen in the performance changes, this is just the beginning. The reduced quality yields more retries and use of other models and all the outcomes and products yielding more toke
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by jimmont 1mo ago
Clearly that article shipped to production without QA. Having no testable definition of good, it must be bad. Fired.
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by jimmont 3mo ago
That's an excellent idea I plan to try, thanks—re using structured JSON with schema. The most success I've had is saying "be brief" or an explicit size, like one line, or do not explain, etc. I haven't measured othe
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What I'm Finding About LLM Code Style and Token Costs(jimmont.com)
38 points by jimmont 3mo ago|17 comments
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by jimmont 3mo ago
Reviewing my experience using LLMs, to improve results, reduce churn and token usage. Discovering the gap between what they produce and what I'd normally do is a significant source of output cost, regressions and surfacing a bit of why
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Show HN: HWT (Hash Web Tokens) – minimalist protocol for auth state(jimmont.com)
2 points by jimmont 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jimmont 6mo ago
Turn off the ability to add hyperlinks and use words instead? Is that what comments were intended for anyway? Seems a bit convoluted, but limiting comments, to comments, would be fairly natural. It'll get subverted anyway, but likely a
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The Org Chart Is the Product: Software as Case Study for Intellectual Work(jimmont.com)
2 points by jimmont 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jimmont 11mo ago
MDN has your answer, built into the browser, ready to go: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Web_components If that's not enough, Lit enhances it a bit such that either LitElement and/or lit
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by jimmont 1y ago
Organizations are choosing to eliminate workers rather than amplify them with AI because they'd rather own 100% of diminished capacity than share proceeds from exponentially increased capacity. That's the rent extraction model con
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by jimmont 1y ago
I think it's just general lack of awareness of the effect, or in many instances having alternate economic incentives, like academics who want to commoditize their intellectual outputs to all available distribution channels. Tyler Cowen
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by jimmont 1y ago
For those that use AI/LLM's that retrain on your input, I assume you realize this commoditizes your intellectual work? And effectively makes use of it like they already used copyrighted intellectual property. This is effectively t
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by jimmont 2y ago
It's interesting to see where the economics align with software. Web advertising paired with search and a browser. And it worked. I can't recall a better outcome supporting modern communication than Chrome and all it contains. The
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by jimmont 2y ago
It's a demonstration of what an entity can do, and will do. The only innovation from Apple since Job's died were unfinished efforts that completed under Cook. There will be no future innovation from Apple. There maybe acquisitions
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by jimmont 2y ago
the article is consistent with sticky cpi, as can be seen in the transient and sticky cpi and wage tracking, in fact we appear to be in deflationary territory but I'm not an economist so my interpretation might be off https:/&#x2
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by jimmont 2y ago
prelude to recession, as visible in Sahm rule trends at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release?rid=456 as well as when the 10 2 yield curve approaches +0.5 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y with n
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by jimmont 3y ago
captain obvious here, Polymer became LitElement which became the invisible Lit.dev (branding direction on par with twitter becoming x); pretty much state of the art on top of web components; not that anyone noticed, as I said--meetup.com ke
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by jimmont 4y ago
Layers, Not Modules, Not Microservices Like donkeys, onions, caching, networking, my feelings and perceptions.
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by jimmont 4y ago
the primary solution to all this is to remove technologies which are not required and especially those that duplicate what the web as a platform provides (ie works in browsers/runtime directly); for example React has been technically o
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by jimmont 4y ago
if that were true it would have already happened in healthcare, so they can extract more from sick people in the States; these existing systems optimize around different problems, goals and bounds
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by jimmont 4y ago
Intuition and judgement come from changing the context of the analysis--the time range/history, the details included. Geopolitical and economic forecasting appear to fit this pattern. The question posed about whether data-driven compan
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by jimmont 4y ago
The remedy for this lies with Apple and Google to compete over. They’re naturally incentivized in various ways. Mozilla too but Mozilla can’t seem to figure out what to do until it’s passed by, even when the opportunity is still there. Imag
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by jimmont 4y ago
Werewithal (or werwithal) forthcoming dictionary definition: transformational withal, typically during a full moon, though it regularly manifests in Hacker News posts, causes not yet fully determined. The withals can be complex.
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by jimmont 4y ago
China is more likely to have its government choose a very different leader with resulting policy changes than attack Taiwan. Its economy and along with this politics have increasing problems which are unlikely to reach a plateau or improve
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by jimmont 4y ago
Often tech debt stems from political and cultural issues that cannot be (easily) fixed. And even when that's not the issue, are obviously non-trivial costs to resolve. It's been hard for me personally to realize how cultural, even
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by jimmont 4y ago
During the first 2 to 6 weeks on a job (it probably varies more than this) most corporate US environments expect significant amount of time to go to processing/onboarding. When providing status updates in meetings just state as much, u
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by jimmont 4y ago
There is no such place in the US. And SF is not it either. San Jose appears to be steadily improving, though this is not a recommendation at all. This is my perspective traveling and living around the northern hemisphere awhile, including s
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by jimmont 4y ago
possibly related: * https://umaar.com/dev-tips/241-puppeteer-recorder/ * https://umaar.com/dev-tips/248-recorder-playback/ * https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtoo
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by jimmont 4y ago
A tremendously helpful article. Possibly one of the best HN shares I've seen related to software. Most code reviews I've seen professionally over the past decade are almost entirely stylistic one-way brittle dialogs over text of s
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by jimmont 4y ago
For the benefit of anyone who doesn't have a lot of experience with call, bind and arrow functions ()=>{}. No, these don't supplant one another and are separately useful in various ways. Reading the linked articles shows some o

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