netdevphoenix

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by netdevphoenix 8d ago
Yeah, you have to have some level of involvement. It's crazy that we are actually talking of 100% dev involvement to literally 0% involvement.
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by netdevphoenix 10d ago
It seems to me that chances of misalignment are a function of accumulated usage time. Eventually, it will happen.
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by netdevphoenix 10d ago
> Yes I still vibe unit test and integration test, False sense of security. What's stopping the agents from doing an elaborate form of "Assert.IsTrue(true)" in some/most/all of the tests since you are vibing it a
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by netdevphoenix 10d ago
Look at the COBOL devs. They are been called in their retirement years. You don't want that to be you. Life is short
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by netdevphoenix 14d ago
Because safety isn't a priority at OpenAI and they had (have?) been falling behind Anthropic in the LLM race? Big fans of the saying: move fast and...
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by netdevphoenix 14d ago
Arguably, if the website does not have a positive value and only negative, the logical thing is to shut it down and keep the Google Business profile imo. I assume she has been paying for the domain name all this years too or is it a subdoma
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by netdevphoenix 17d ago
> It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London That doesn't apply to private hire vehicle drivers afaik.
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by netdevphoenix 21d ago
> Food should be prepared with love You forgot about the sentient non-veg elements that also get added to it. Is that done with love too?
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by netdevphoenix 24d ago
> I can't tell the difference so what does it matter? Eternal September. Just like the usenet groups
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by netdevphoenix 24d ago
> it's advancing fast Actually, it (LLM models) has been advancing slower for a while. This is pretty much in the mainstream. And the current approach is facing all sorts of obstacles that are not exclusively technological. The comp
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by netdevphoenix 24d ago
> This is a very VC focused lens Just like mostly everything he writes about.
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by netdevphoenix 28d ago
> But yes, there is an interesting change in the past decade, where everything new must be over-hyped. Yep, the good old "Our tech is making the world a better place" has gotten old and a new approach was needed. If you are not
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by netdevphoenix 1mo ago
Difference is you are not a trillion dollar plus technology hyped as a harbinger of civilisational change.
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by netdevphoenix 1mo ago
> I'm of the opinion that we still have some discoveries on the mathematical side of the fence to go that will improve models further. That's assuming the infrastructure needed to develop models stays available financially and
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by netdevphoenix 1mo ago
Not exciting for anyone directly or indirectly invested in a frontier lab or its partners. And that is a lot of people, including you.
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by netdevphoenix 1mo ago
Isn't video generation expensive? Are you letting/making users generate series of videos without any plan? I think content depth and breadth would be good to check pre-generation at a minimum.
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
And that's fine. Not everyone has someone to vouch for.
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
> I don't want to be constantly worried about my own reputation. That is why you must think carefully who you vouch for. Like in a house party. If you bring someone who does not act well, it reflects bad on you. Ultimately, a shrink
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
Basically, any copyrighted material should do. This only covers not ablated LLMs though. Ultimately, a web of trust where someone whose humanity and integrity you trust AT THE COST OF YOUR OWN INTEGRITY vouches for an individual is likely g
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
> Having no principles itself eventually loses you a small minority of users... and those were your core supporters and evangelists If pleasing that minority doesn't help Firefox gain more users (looking at the numers, it sure hasn&
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
> Simple: allow those users to be lost to preserve the product. Lose the users lose the funding. Firefox can't live out of HN as its sole userbase. Have you checked how much it costs to build and maintain a modern browser? Plenty of
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
> We're choosing to call LLMs (and the little "harness" programs that query them in loops and execute their output) "AI", even though it doesn't make much sense. Most people are laypeople who have no idea wh
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
> When you used google 10x a day, you saw, at a minimum, 20 ads/day That's assuming a user with no ad-blocker which is an ever diminishing number of users
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
> Does anyone want to use a tool that is capable of disguising an ad as a geniune recommendation at anytime? It depends on the economics and usefulness of the tool. Google Search got away with it because it was useful AND trading zero co
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by netdevphoenix 2mo ago
> (I want to spend no more than $10k. And I want to run a model comparable to today’s SOTA.) The question is, will you want to run a model comparable to today's (meaning 2026) SOTA in 2028? Humans always want the latest shiny LLM mo
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
I would imagine no mainstream model allows this easily and at scale for obvious reasons.
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
I am calling it now. LLM hosting is the new web hosting. You will have a market of hosting providers offering you access to LLM compatible hardware (the Hetzners of the LLM world) as well as virtualised LLM access (the Heroku of the LLM wor
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
It's Proof of (human) Work. Much more useful than having a sticker saying "Done by a Human".
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
Yep, this tracks. Open source models seem to be getting more and more attention.
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
This was inevitable. The better question is if AI related hardware costs drop after the AI bubble implodes, will Apple drop the prices? My answer is negative.

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