lewdwig

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by lewdwig 24d ago
I don’t think that something that feels like aura farming is an especially sound basis on which to choose your technology stack. If you’ve done a proper cost-benefit analysis and truly found that it’s not yet worth it for your use case, gre
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by lewdwig 6mo ago
The thing is I think that I didn’t make any conscious decision to hop on AI, it’s just that it’s quite addictive and my nerd ADHD took over. But we are nerds, we’re often naturally inclined to be early adopters. Others are naturally hesitan
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by lewdwig 8mo ago
I guess it’s reassuring to know Hanlon’s Razor holds for AGI too.
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by lewdwig 8mo ago
The standard skeptical position (“LLMs have no theory of mind”) assumes a single unified self that either does or doesn’t model other minds. But this paper suggests models have access to a space of potential personas, steering away increase
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by lewdwig 8mo ago
A language which is not 1.0, and has repeatedly changed its IO implementation in a non-backwards-compatible way is certainly a courageous choice for production code.
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by lewdwig 8mo ago
One thing that seems to mark most nerds is a tendency towards being utopian about tech in general but deeply sceptical of specific tech.
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by lewdwig 11mo ago
I don’t hate git either but you’ll meet very few people who will claim its UX is optimal. JJ’s interaction model is much simpler than git’s, and the difficulty I found is that the better you know git, the harder it is to unlearn all its qui
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by lewdwig 1y ago
To Broadcom you’re not a customer, you’re a mark, a patsy, stooge, a _victim_. Their aim is to establish exactly what they can get away with, how far they can abuse you, before you’ll just walk away.
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by lewdwig 1y ago
I have noticed that LLMs are actually pretty decent at redteaming code, so I’ve made it a habit of getting them to do that for code they generate periodically. A good loop is (a) generate code, (b) add test coverage for the code (to 70-80%)
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by lewdwig 1y ago
I’m sure this’ll be misreported and wilfully misinterpreted because of the current fractious state of the AI discourse, but given the lawsuit was to do with piracy, not the copyright-compliance of LLMs, and in any case, given they settled o
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by lewdwig 1y ago
TBH I’m surprised it’s taken them this long to change their mind on this, because I find it incredibly frustrating to know that current gen agentic coding systems are incapable of actually learning anything from their interactions with me -
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by lewdwig 1y ago
With code, I’m much more interested in it being correct and good rather than creative or novel. I see it is my job to be the arbiter of taste because the models are equally happy to create code I’d consider excellent and terrible on command
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by lewdwig 1y ago
Devops/SRE/Platform Engineering Downside: lots of Python, and Python indentation causes havoc with a lot of agentic coding tools. RooCode in particular seems to mangle diffs all the time, irrespective of model.
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by lewdwig 1y ago
There are nascent signs of emergent world models in current LLMs, the problem is that they decohere very quickly due to them lacking any kind of hierarchical long term memory. A lot of what is structurally important the model knows about yo
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by lewdwig 1y ago
I use Claude Code almost daily now, and I think I’d rather cut off my own arm than go without it, but I don’t delude myself into thinking that current gen tools don’t have significant limitations and that it is my job to manage those limita
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by lewdwig 1y ago
I have such a huge nerd crush on this guy. Witnessing the incredible skill of making even the most humble and obsolete of technologies seem like an absolute pinnacle of human ingenuity is always a pleasure.
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by lewdwig 1y ago
“Evil” is not a medical diagnosis but the classical understanding of evil does overlap quite strongly with the so-called “dark triad” of personality disorders of antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder and machiav
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by lewdwig 1y ago
I love Clojure, I really do, but it feels to me like what I once thought was its unstoppable march ground to a halt and then it kinda fell out of the nerd consciousness. I’m hopeful jank might be the shot in at arm Clojure needs to get goin
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by lewdwig 1y ago
I don’t think healthy scepticism is (or should be) controversial. But I find it interesting how willing certain people are to confidently claim that a model does or does not accurately model human cognition when we clearly still _barely und
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by lewdwig 1y ago
Structured concurrency is a notoriously hard problem. This is part of Zig’s 4th attempt to get it right.
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by lewdwig 1y ago
And yet C/C++ developers have mostly spent the last 30 years not using those tools which is why safer successors to C and C++ appeared.
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by lewdwig 1y ago
We exist in an era in which coursework as a medium of assessment has suddenly become nearly worthless. It does not surprise me that since this is the way things have been done for centuries they haven’t quickly rustled up some easy solution
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by lewdwig 1y ago
If Clippy struggles to account for current and future changes to the Rust compiler this to me raises an obvious question: why isn’t Clippy part of the Rust compiler?
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by lewdwig 1y ago
In general, they’re not. But if the only thing emergent theories predict is Newtonian dynamics and General Relativity then that’s a big problem for falsifiability. But if they modify Newtonian dynamics in some way, then do we have something
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by lewdwig 1y ago
The problem with emergent theories like this is that they _derive_ Newtonian gravity and General Relativity so it’s not clear there’s anything to test. If they are able to predict MOND without the need for an additional MOND field then they
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by lewdwig 1y ago
Well-designed benchmarks have a public sample set and a private testing set. Models are free to train on the public set, but they can't game the benchmark or overfit the samples that way because they're only assessed on performanc
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by lewdwig 1y ago
T3.chat supports convo forking and in my experience works really well. The fundamental issue is that LLMs do not currently have real long term memory, and until they do, this is about the best we can do.
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by lewdwig 1y ago
Ah the siren call of the ground-up rewrite. I didn’t know how deep the assumption of hard disks underpinning everything is baked into its design. But don’t public cloud providers already all have cloud-native event sourcing? If that’s what
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by lewdwig 2y ago
All that rather pathetic grovelling and kowtowing to Trump, for naught.
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by lewdwig 2y ago
Multiplication by 3 is actually a common operation, particularly in address calculations, where a shift and an add means multiplying the index by 3. Implementing this naively would add significant latency. But using this circuitry the LEA (

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