jtfrench

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by jtfrench 12d ago
The more code writes autonomously, the less intuition the human owners have about that code. Loss of intuition is a seed of technical debt that grows with time. Over a long enough horizon, it can make looking at your own codebase feel like
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by jtfrench 21d ago
LifeLog wins again.
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by jtfrench 25d ago
Isn’t this also counting on the AI company faithfully reproducing the contents of the book, and no hallucinations or shenanigans occurring? How will we ever know what the book actually said if people wanted to argue its contents later?
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by jtfrench 1mo ago
Or maybe we’d have LLMs that fit in a handful of GBs (and we technically already do). It’s hard to tell without completely going down that parallel universe and simulating all the milestones in it, but it’s a fun thought experiment.
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by jtfrench 1mo ago
This is actually how Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google recommends doing thought exercises to challenge assumptions (watch is recent YX Startup School talk). The end goal isn’t “128GB of RAM”, the goal is “useful effective software”. If f
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by jtfrench 1mo ago
I’m in.
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by jtfrench 1mo ago
I live near Plum Island. Just look at the Google Map reviews to get an idea of the sentiment. Camp Hero, Plum Island…lotta material for Netflix series coming out of Long Island.
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by jtfrench 1mo ago
It does feel like a lot
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by jtfrench 1mo ago
Hugging Face straight up asked for $100M in compute or something from OpenAI in response to the hack, if I remember correctly.
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by jtfrench 2mo ago
Snow Leopard _did_ focus on stability. It wasn't just marketing. Did new bugs (and even new features) slip in? Yes, of course. It's still an OS made by humans, making imperfect cost-benefit calculations on how to mitigate risk whi
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by jtfrench 2mo ago
Those who know game dev know making good isometric maps can be deceptively difficult. You grabbed that bull by the horns and did so beautifully. Well done!
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by jtfrench 2mo ago
Nah, I was just listening to some Thievery Corporation and had some thoughts. You ever listen to the group? Brought me back to college days.
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by jtfrench 2mo ago
Until the industry addresses the Original Sin of Generative AI (and the ascendance of Thievery Corporations), we should expect more and more of this. So far, theft has been rewarded. As long as you make enough money, people seem to be okay
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by jtfrench 2mo ago
Yeah, don’t do that.
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by jtfrench 3mo ago
It's time for this bubble to pop already. We need to get past this centralized, unsustainable, undesirable, Big Brother stage of AI and get on to the "AI hosted in your kitchen" phase before we mess up the balance of power to
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by jtfrench 3mo ago
Superintelligence for me and not for thee.
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by jtfrench 3mo ago
What happened to the early wave of IP lawsuits against the first wave of model makers? Did anything stick/make a difference? Did _any_ frontier model company retroactively-migrate to consent-based models?
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by jtfrench 3mo ago
For as long as I've known of Gabe from working in the game industry, I somehow always forget about his not-so-little hobby of being a sea-faring cyber pirate.
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by jtfrench 3mo ago
That's a great opportunity for Apple to provide a universal unique model ID protocol and some shared storage space to allow devs to register models.
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by jtfrench 3mo ago
I feel like maybe we've needed an "OceanX" before a "SpaceX".
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by jtfrench 5mo ago
Hopefully Mythos didn't go rogue and hold production hostage.
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by jtfrench 5mo ago
If this can happen to Anthropic, imagine all the companies building on top of Claude Code for live products. Hopefully the industry is learning that competent problem solving human engineers are still very much needed when you have increasi
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by jtfrench 5mo ago
Working on Snow Leopard was one of my most rewarding experiences at Apple. Loved the ethos behind that update. No new fluff, just make everything work better.
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by jtfrench 5mo ago
How does this handle “dumb zone” evasion while looping?
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by jtfrench 5mo ago
Definitely sounded like a shower gel moment.
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by jtfrench 6mo ago
Haven’t heard of Codeberg. What are the top reasons to switch from GitHub?
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by jtfrench 7mo ago
Was hoping to see Apple break the 128GB barrier in a laptop that they previously set, though 128GB is still pretty sweet for local LLM inference on consumer hardware. My 128GB M3 Max is still shredding tokens pretty well (with that annoying
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by jtfrench 8mo ago
I feel heard. Auto-correct un-correcting what I corrected three times in a row is maddening.
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by jtfrench 8mo ago
What if their maximally vindictive traits just makes them want to use the same invasive tools and techniques?
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by jtfrench 9mo ago
No way. Next level.

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