jonfw

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by jonfw 2mo ago
> If all companies are using the same "frontier" LLMs, and if they are competitive The answer is that all companies will not be using the same frontier LLMs competitively This will be yet another technology that will benefit f
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by jonfw 2mo ago
Investors can be very generous if they see opportunities for market capture of the next big thing
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by jonfw 2mo ago
TL;DR: AI generated blogpost on using personal AI productivity tools to develop personal AI productivity tools
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by jonfw 2mo ago
Mobile support?
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by jonfw 2mo ago
It is not obvious to me that determinism is a requirement for an abstraction
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by jonfw 3mo ago
wheels are so much simpler that it seems much easier and more cost efficient to solve the "transporting a wheeled robot up the stairs problem" than it does to go fully bipedal.
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by jonfw 3mo ago
Just like math is learned by solving equations, software engineering is learned by writing code Due to technological advances, solving equations stopped being a marketable skill, but understanding mathematics is as important as ever. Softwa
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by jonfw 3mo ago
You are not stuck between public API pricing for frontier models via Claude and self hosted. Remember that there are other LLM providers, open models, and previous gen models, that are way cheaper that frontier Claude and still way better t
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by jonfw 3mo ago
One token of GPT seems to go farther than an opus token in my experience, those books are a little cooked
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by jonfw 3mo ago
If you're interested in keyboard navigation of websites, consider a browser or extension with link hinting support! It worked really well in my experience a few years ago, although I've since became much more of a mouse guy and st
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by jonfw 4mo ago
We are discussing a gas tax, and there is a strong correlation between gas consumption and weight, which implies more taxes for trucks and SUVs
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by jonfw 4mo ago
I think that this has the benefit of both raising a non trivial amount of money as well as reducing housing demand from the wealthy in a supply constrained market
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by jonfw 4mo ago
I used to work with a guy who would always say "if you're looking for trouble, you are going to find it" When I hear that "we found X bugs using some new tool", where the standard for bugs is low and doesn't ne
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by jonfw 5mo ago
Humans can certainly be self improving, both on an individual basis and in aggregate. In humans, it seems that improvement in a new domain seems to follow a logarithmic scale. Why wouldn’t this be the same for an AI?
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by jonfw 5mo ago
Easy to say that! Some problems are legitimately hard to solve though. Github is likely seeing usage patterns that have never been seen before and I bet some of these failure modes are novel If you are at the limits of your architecture you
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by jonfw 5mo ago
> Could be. But 99% of the repos are static garbage with no PR nor actions. But the 1% of repos that do have PRs and actions are likely going to be seeing enormous increases in volumes I have been a part of two very large companies with
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by jonfw 5mo ago
> If I can use an open source highly effective LLM locally, and have it do all of the things ChatGPT can do And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle! We are miles off from open models having parity with what the AI labs
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by jonfw 5mo ago
With a good CLI, an agent may be able to do something outside of the scope of it's skill fairly easily, by running help commands or similar. With even a well written API it is not as easy. I suppose that curl + API docs could replace a
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by jonfw 6mo ago
I dislike that the conversation about wealth is increasingly tied to comparisons with the wealth of others. Just because I am not likely to join the class of billionaires, does not mean I can not become wealthy! I prefer to measure wealth i
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by jonfw 6mo ago
I totally agree that republicans are irresponsible with the deficit. But americans don't seem motivated by the deficit, they seem motivated by inflation. Inflation and the deficit don't have a 1:1 relationship. For the same dollar
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by jonfw 6mo ago
Generally speaking, people thought that government spending led to massive inflation, and the republicans have stronger rhetoric around cutting government spending.
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by jonfw 6mo ago
Whatever your political affiliation and thoughts on the war, I hope we can all agree that it would an awful thing to base our foreign policy on the US election cycle.
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by jonfw 6mo ago
I'm sure claude does great at that, but it would be objectively better, for a large variety of reasons, if claude didn't have to keep syntax examples in it's context.
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by jonfw 6mo ago
If you are not terrified of your production terraform, you are doing it wrong!
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by jonfw 7mo ago
Rather than saying that microsoft bashing has ramped up, I'd say that it is getting closer to it's standard levels. Microsoft experience a sort of reputational resurgence in the tech world these past few years with some commitment
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by jonfw 7mo ago
Yes, you are on the money. A cloud service provider needs to maintain reliability first and foremost, which means they won't have a runtime dependency on their billing system. This means that billing happens asynchronously. You may use
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by jonfw 7mo ago
> Decades ago companies would train new hires out out college, but that trend ended in the 90s. Decades ago engineering salaries were a fraction of what they are today, developing countries did not have computing and educational infrastr
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by jonfw 7mo ago
This is very much a tangent, and was asked in bad faith, but I’ll answer anyways! One of the interesting things about working on distributed systems, is that you can reproduce problems without having to reproduce or mock a long stack trace
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by jonfw 7mo ago
Keep cattle, not pets! The advice that used to apply for managing large numbers of machines also applies to managing coding agents. If you rely on monitoring the behaviors of an individual coding agent to produce the output you want, you wo
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by jonfw 7mo ago
“I have a PR from <feature-branch> into main. Please break it into chunks and dispatch a background agent to review each chunk for <review-criteria>, and then go through the chunks one at a time with me, pausing between each for

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