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by johnfn 6d ago
Wow totally missed this, thanks for sharing
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by johnfn 6d ago
I'd be happy to read a source as I am fairly confident that audio transcription -> facebook (or other) ads has never been true.
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by johnfn 6d ago
Models do not get nerfed. There has never been evidence of this. This would be trivial to prove if it were true, and such a proof would be a huge story and scandal to a news market hungry for a shred of a signal on AI's downfall. This
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by johnfn 7d ago
As a biker, I've had human drivers intentionally try to drive me off the road or hit me. Neither driver education nor higher test standards will solve that problem.
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by johnfn 14d ago
Are you claiming that an independent investigation is actually a marketing stunt?
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by johnfn 15d ago
Zitron is wrong, not "early", and the post has an extremely long list of examples.
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by johnfn 20d ago
The article claims that the finances fall apart because OpenAI won't hit the growth it wants. It's an interesting thing to say when using their product to write 100% of the article.
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by johnfn 20d ago
I really want to get in the mindset of people who are like "AI is totally going to fail! Haha! Now let me just use AI to write a piece about it..."
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by johnfn 24d ago
This article is so blatantly, obviously, painfully AI generated. The real "worrying trend" is this getting upvoted to the frontpage in the first place. If you want "proof" just chuck it into pangram.
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by johnfn 26d ago
How is this a "gotcha" question? "gotcha" implies there's some sort of trick. This is just... a question.
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by johnfn 29d ago
How is it different from any other installation method?
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by johnfn 1mo ago
It’s really fascinating to me how when the community dislikes certain content people always jump to conspiratorial justifications rather than the much more mundane “this content is not very good”. The first article is poor and all the comme
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by johnfn 1mo ago
I'm not sure how that changes the question -- just add `has_watermark(text) < 0.5`.
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by johnfn 1mo ago
Sure, but I imagined it'd be something like Anthropic handing over this API only to trusted third-parties, not everyone in the world.
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by johnfn 1mo ago
> We will soon be offering a watermark detection API. We’re in the process of working out the details of its implementation. Dumb question - doesn't this defeat the purpose of a watermark? i.e., anyone who wants to avoid detection c
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by johnfn 1mo ago
I remember when I raised this point like a year or two ago -- in response to someone saying that coding AI made all their work trivial I said something like "if you have multiple agents the work changes and becomes more managerial - do
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by johnfn 1mo ago
This does look pretty incredible, but don't forget that incredible token thoroughput can only necessarily solve certain bottlenecks. If your e2e tests take an hour, they'll still take an hour after Ultracode. If the agent runs a 1
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by johnfn 1mo ago
I think “soulless” crosses a line into unkind. Just say you don’t like AI generated text.
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by johnfn 1mo ago
> the one-word lines The funny thing is that there are no "one-word lines". This more or less cements the fact that it must be AI in my mind.
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by johnfn 1mo ago
Ouch, this seems unnecessarily harsh for a side project made for fun. This might be acceptable if this was a low effort single prompt to an AI but it’s pretty clear from the write up that that is far from the case. FWIW I thought this was r
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by johnfn 2mo ago
384 is a tad small. How does it perform on 1k/2k/4k..?
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by johnfn 2mo ago
AWS never "humblebrags" about an outage. No blog post looks as good as an extra 9.
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by johnfn 2mo ago
Companies post deeply embarrassing eng blogs all the time. See: every post about downtime or a security incident ever.
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by johnfn 2mo ago
> If their AI finished it, where's the release? `bun upgrade --canary`. You can use it today. Keeping a large release, like a total rewrite, on canary for a while to iron out bugs is a very reasonable software engineering practice.
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by johnfn 2mo ago
This is really good - miles ahead of almost all other math writing I have read. One particular thing I really liked was the explanation of the determinant. When I was in college I spent a very long time trying to get some intuitive explanat
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by johnfn 2mo ago
But surely at some point you need to stop, right? Most web developers are perfectly capable without understanding the intricacies of the file system or OS, even though the browser sits on top them. Most engineers don’t know assembly, or tra
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by johnfn 2mo ago
The response says "I also believe we can do better". How is that in any way "you're holding it wrong"?
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by johnfn 2mo ago
To be blunt the degree to which I take these projects seriously is basically the same as how extensive their eval suite is. A single guided refactor is better than nothing, but one success could just be a fluke. I want to see hundreds, if n
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by johnfn 2mo ago
Pangram said a bunch of reasonable things and responded very coherently to the point and you skipped over it and misinterpreted this one section.
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by johnfn 2mo ago
This issue is, like, exactly what the response from Pangram is talking about.

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