nathanfig

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by nathanfig 1mo ago
I hope open weights continue to gain traction for this reason too. But injecting information into outputs is a little different than Claude keeping tabs internally. The point is that we do not know what information is being shipped with the
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Ask HN: Does AI watermarking present a new attack vector?
4 points by nathanfig 1mo ago|6 comments
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by nathanfig 4mo ago
Yeah it's entirely possible the answer is: "You don't." But I haven't even seen people attempting to imagine life well-lived. Like with so much technology it's basically an afterthought.
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by nathanfig 4mo ago
I've been pondering the question: "What does it mean to live well with AI?" We are certainly scrambling for productivity with "token maxxing" and scrambling for entertainment with AI companions, but I haven't s
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You Cannot Defeat Entropy with AI(greenbluegray.substack.com)
4 points by nathanfig 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nathanfig 1y ago
I think that's a big part of what makes this era so much fun - the interactivity tailored to my capability. I feel like I'm 13 again discovering I can write HTML and feeling that giddy delight when I try something and it just work
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by nathanfig 1y ago
>> I haven’t had great luck with winding it up and setting it loose on a task Yeah there is real labor involved with trying to set up the right context and explain your goals and ensure it has the right tools, etc. etc. Sometimes the
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Yeah, the social problem of "how do we use technology well" persists.
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Can you elaborate? I might agree, I'm just curious what you mean.
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Yeah in fact I think we are going through some major upheaval in development practices because we haven't yet figured out what constraints to put in our use of AI, and so plastering it everywhere we trip ourselves up. It took a while t
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Because they are already useful for programming and unlikely to get worse!
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Sounds a lot like "nothing ever happens"?
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Reduced costs does not necessarily equal reduced wages, but I see what you're saying. As others have pointed out, making cameras more accessible made photography more competitive. It may be in the end that software developers make less
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by nathanfig 1y ago
And worrying. LLMs don't fed themselves, we need people to continue sharing solutions. I've contributed some popular answers on SO myself and am happy that an LLM can use that in its training, but rarely go to SO myself anymore.
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by nathanfig 1y ago
I'm finding 2.4% unemployment rate for software developers: https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope... Regardless of the true number, you're right that no amount of reasoning on pape
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Yeah, with current-state AI I foresee more such opportunities.
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Yes, if you built your career on FrontPage you have probably had a bad time. Many such cases. That said, even if the specific products like Cursor or ChatGPT are not here in 5 years, I am confident we are not going to collectively dismiss t
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Really! That could make for some really interesting stories. Fascinating to think of LLMs as a customer acquisition pipeline for developers.
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Claude made this point while reviewing my blog for me: the mechanization of farms created a whole lot more specialization of roles. The person editing CAD diagrams of next year's combine harvester may not be a farmer strictly speaking,
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Yeah I think the combine-harvester analogy is tempting because it's so easy to visualize how wheat can scale over a big square field and project that visual onto lines of code generated on a big square screen... forgetting that lines-o
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by nathanfig 1y ago
An interesting parallel because there were undoubtedly some people who worried we would lose something important in the craft of instruction-level programming, and almost certainly we have in relative terms. But in absolute numbers I am con
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by nathanfig 1y ago
I also remember this! Maybe a subconscious influence
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Thanks!
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Oh I should have known - yeah I was just being facetious
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by nathanfig 1y ago
Hi all - I write a lot for myself but typically don't share, hence the stream-of-consciousness style. But I thought this might be worth blogifying just for the sake of adding some counter-narrative to the doomerism I see a lot regardin
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Now might be the best time to learn software development(substack.com)
370 points by nathanfig 1y ago|361 comments
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by nathanfig 2y ago
At WHOI we frequently run into some of these issues. Ocean-going projects often have long periods of disconnect, or have just a tiny bandwidth-capped connections that are meant for sending home critical data and not for automated software u
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Multi input? Infilling? First generative audio model I've seen that starts to close the gap with image models.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Not quite; turn any GUI application into a Python command line program.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
I would love something that could do the reverse.

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