kierangill

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by kierangill 11d ago
Mine as well. Thanks for the callout. It has been added.
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by kierangill 11d ago
My revolt is against the cognitive stress of reading generated text. A trope typically indicates I’m in for an uphill read. I recently read this William Zinsser quote that inspired a nickname for this: Clotted Claude [1]. > Nobody has ma
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by kierangill 1mo ago
I’m happy to see attention in this area of research. I don't see this referenced in the paper, but a related paper worth reading: "The Medium is the Message: How Non-Clinical Information Shapes Clinical Decisions in LLMs" [0]
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by kierangill 1mo ago
Instead of compaction, has anyone seen a successful implementation of pruning? That is, the agent looks at the conversation history and removes any low-value messages. For example, sometimes context will be taken up by a side tangent, tool
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On Claude's Clotted Writing Style(blog.kierangill.xyz)
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by kierangill 3mo ago
I work at a telemedicine company. We’ve benchmarked a few frontier LLMs on public medical imaging datasets. One test included high-quality and high-consensus otoscopic images. We didn’t anticipate the models to do well on something so niche
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Agentic Development Stole Our Flow(blog.kierangill.xyz)
4 points by kierangill 6mo ago|0 comments
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Remember Clippy(rememberclippy.com)
6 points by kierangill 6mo ago|4 comments
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Doctronic Is Now Accepting New Patients (and Unsafe Instructions)(mindgard.ai)
1 points by kierangill 7mo ago|0 comments
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by kierangill 7mo ago
Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatrics. Blueberry is the most affordable option amongst our comp
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by kierangill 9mo ago
Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatrics. Blueberry is the most affordable option amongst our comp
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by kierangill 9mo ago
Agreed here. A key theme, which isn’t terribly explicit in this post, is that your codebase is your context. I’ve found that when my agent flies off the rails, it’s due to an underlying weakness in the construction of my program. The organi
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Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases(blog.kierangill.xyz)
307 points by kierangill 9mo ago|119 comments
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Show HN: Generate Storyboards with Nano Banana from the CLI(github.com)
2 points by kierangill 10mo ago|0 comments
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Limits and Strengths of LLMs in Engineering(blog.kierangill.xyz)
6 points by kierangill 1y ago|1 comments
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by kierangill 1y ago
I applied in early 2021. Getting rejected from any company carries a sting, but I was grateful to have gone through the process. I didn’t realize at the time, but Oxide’s application process was the best form of interview prep I’ve done. Th
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Dead Zone Dragging(steveruiz.me)
2 points by kierangill 1y ago|0 comments
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by kierangill 1y ago
Past the basic setup, what are people doing to grease the tracks for these tools? That is, how are people organizing their context and codebase to help the tooling guide themselves to the right answer? I have some half-baked thoughts here [
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by kierangill 1y ago
This is buried in a footnote, but worth clarifying: "How Life Works" offers much more than just the history of our understanding of biology. Oxide and Friends has good coverage on the book here https://oxide-and-friends
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How Hype Works; What LLMs have in common with genetics(blog.kierangill.xyz)
5 points by kierangill 1y ago|1 comments
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by kierangill 1y ago
Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatrics. Blueberry is the most affordable option amongst our comp
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by kierangill 1y ago
Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatrics. Blueberry is the most affordable option amongst our comp
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by kierangill 1y ago
> but why does this have to be the case? From the essay’s context, I take it to mean “is benefitted by” rather than “must absolutely”. Maybe my world view is distorted by Zinsser but I see this as an authorism. A writer can choose to tra
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by kierangill 1y ago
I’m a sucker for when the form serves as an example for the author’s idea. > If it were, it wouldn't be good, because the rhythm of good writing has to match the ideas in it, and ideas have all kinds of different shapes. Sometimes t
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by kierangill 1y ago
Love this post. Writing on programming languages has changed how I think about _programming_ in general. I often think about this quote from TAPL. This framing of “safety” changed how I design systems. > Informally, though, safe language
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Sequencing for Value(engineering.blueberrypediatrics.blog)
15 points by kierangill 1y ago|3 comments
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Technical Debt Financing(jackdanger.com)
3 points by kierangill 1y ago|1 comments
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by kierangill 1y ago
Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatrics. Blueberry is the most affordable option amongst our comp
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Refactoring Our Calendars(engineering.blueberrypediatrics.blog)
7 points by kierangill 1y ago|0 comments
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by kierangill 1y ago
Also, if you haven’t read the linked Oxide RFD#3 [1], I recommend doing so. It has shaped much of our hiring process. > But how does one assess candidates for such positions? This is an age-old question without a formulaic answer: design

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