lelanthran

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Nike's End of Men(houseofstrauss.com)
11 points by lelanthran 2d ago|1 comments
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by lelanthran 3d ago
> Assuming the LLM never got anything wrong or otherwise had to be re-prompted, that means your devs were reviewing 130 SLOC per hour, It's possible, I think, but humans cannot do repetitive mental work (like reviewing code) constan
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by lelanthran 3d ago
> We are going from the era of manual, line-by-line mental model transcription to one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architecture and algorithms. Why? What makes you think your data structure design, arch
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by lelanthran 3d ago
> There are two choices, go to the slaughterhouse (probably losing your job due to inability to compete internationally and getting nothing in return), or take the different option, which is less bad, and might even be good (probably los
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> The idea of a distributed botnet of AI using the compute of its victims to continue its inference is pure science fiction given how LLMs actually work. An attack like this doesn't really need the exploited computers to run inferen
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> "durrr it's just matrix multiplications" mfer so is your brain. Where did you read this?
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> How can they be higher quality than models they were distilled from? The word "distillation" is not specific to AIs, has been in use for 100s of years, and does not mean the same thing as "dilution". It means "
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by lelanthran 4d ago
TBH it doesn't need to completely solve a problem. I can use GLM to do in 2 hours what would have previously taken me a week.[1] Switch to Astra or Fable might take that down to 1 hour, maybe. The difference is not so big when you lo
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> I don't think this adds up. The AGI blocks will have AGI kill bots and those that don't will have nukes. Doesn't matter how much "intelligence" you have stockpiled when nukes start raining down on you.
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> I wonder when they will give up on the gaming market because that could take down several publishers and developers. It really shouldn't: the most money in games are those games that don't require high end GPUs.
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by lelanthran 4d ago
All the models converged, in every single generation since 2022.
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by lelanthran 4d ago
Problem is conflict of interest: the studies are mostly from the providers of the biggest models, or someone who received free tokens to do the research.
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> I must have been unclear. My point is 3. Okay, in that case you're still being irrational and illogical, expecting people to go to the slaughterhouse quietly. Of course they are going to protest. Whether it makes a difference be
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> I spent hundreds of hours on this, so there is still some friction. I'm afraid your hundreds of hours of prompting will reduce to "clone this product, here are 200 screenshots of every screen." I don't understand wh
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> I always see these LinkedIn or X guys making $500k ARR or $1m ARR within months; how the fkk do they get that many customers without spending on ads? First, as others have pointed out, that ARR is an amplification number. Second, if i
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> If you make 200 connections on linkedin every week and send them a message, some % of that will convert to meetings and sales (the exact % depends on your audience, message, and how urgent the pain you're solving is) Doesn't
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by lelanthran 4d ago
It doesn't matter when you post it; some kid with a $200 claude sub (or cheaper) is going to clone it for far cheaper than you, and sell it for far cheaper than you. There's no friction to what you produced, so why do you think th
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> So it is not like we will ever be left without things to think about. None of what you wrote, especially this line, makes me think you know what "eating the seed corn" means.
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by lelanthran 4d ago
> So if you really believe AI is gonna devalue your skills, you'd rather want data centers to be built in your country This makes no sense. It's just as true for the reverse assertion "If you really believe that AI won&#x2
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> If you still believe LLMs are "autocomplete", your cache of understanding about them needs invalidating and regenerating. Autocomplete in a feedback loop is still autocomplete, no? Doesn't the process look like this:
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> Data center opposition is one of the rare areas that has bipartisan support. This is true. Although, I think resistance to datacenters is just a symptom of the majority of people being anti-AI. You have to be really dumb not to view a
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> You cannot still read and understand an AI written proof at the current skill level of the AI being applied, because they're orders of magnitude longer than human written proofs even when they don't need to be, and spend most
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> How? Coding capabilities keep improving, there is no break So? The upper end of the S-curve is also a line that still rises.
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by lelanthran 5d ago
Odd. I (and many others) have been saying for months that we don't know which part of the s-curve we are on. I guess now we do.
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> They’re doing it as a way to undermine the industry leaders and attract people to their brands. I'm not seeing a problem here; don't all companies have this goal?
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> left to its own devices it does produce less than optimal code, but if I just spend a few minutes explaining how some pattern will improve the code, But that requires actually reading the output, which I am pretty certain only a roundi
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> People keep saying that "models are just compilers, and I don't see you complsining about compilers". Which is such a bullshit argument At what point do we normalise the message "This is a stupid line of reasoning a
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> But for me, I'm switching to the weaving loom for speed and efficiency. Poor analogy - the loom was deterministic. LLMs are not, they are probabilistic. I made a page I can point anyone to because I keep seeing this "LLMs ar
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> The harness instructs them to behave this way. Also this approach saves tokens. The scripts allow to edit files in bulk, and most of the session cost is in cache reads (e.g. for 300K context each command costs the same as 30K input tok
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by lelanthran 5d ago
> Even on personal projects, if I go through a few major features without reviewing the code, I always end up doing massive revisions that steal hours of my time and fill me with rage in the process. Where LLMs excel is in code-level bug

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