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by pbw 3mo ago
This will happen for real. But then a JIT-like process will generate regular code for efficiency, on the fly in the background.
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The automation of jobs will never end(metastable.org)
3 points by pbw 4mo ago|0 comments
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The automation of jobs will never end(metastable.org)
2 points by pbw 4mo ago|1 comments
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There is no room: the sphere of automation(metastable.org)
1 points by pbw 4mo ago|0 comments
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by pbw 5mo ago
Rather than “the book explains how bread is made” say “the sheets of paper which make up the book have ink in the shape of letterforms which correlate with information about how bread is made”.
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by pbw 5mo ago
I’m going to give this URL to Claude, ask it to propose uses of state charts in my codebase. Yes, it already has this in its training data, but I find giving it a URL brings it to top of mind.
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by pbw 5mo ago
This is only 33 years after I took a networking class and learned all about IPv6 and the IPv4 address space crisis.
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by pbw 6mo ago
There's certainly a risk that an individual will rely too much on AI, to the detriment of their ability to understand things. However, I think there are obvious counter-measures. For example, requiring that the student can explain ever
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by pbw 6mo ago
This sounds good, but I wonder if AI has changed the calculus on conflict resolution. It can not only chase down the conflicting changes, but also read those commit messages and PRs to divine intent. It might be that git is "good enoug
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Technological Speed Limit(metastable.org)
2 points by pbw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Coding with agents feels like a chess simul(tobeva.com)
1 points by pbw 6mo ago|1 comments
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The Technological Speed Limit(metastable.org)
2 points by pbw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Movie site built on a game engine(movie-chain.com)
1 points by pbw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Coding with agents feels like a chess simul(tobeva.com)
1 points by pbw 7mo ago|0 comments
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Five Hundred PRs with Claude Code and the Future of Software Engineering(tobeva.com)
3 points by pbw 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Agentic Simul: What 500 PRs in two months taught me(tobeva.com)
2 points by pbw 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Agentic Simul(tobeva.com)
1 points by pbw 7mo ago|0 comments
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I Contain Multitudes: The Agentic Coding Simul(tobeva.com)
1 points by pbw 7mo ago|0 comments
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by pbw 8mo ago
I have mixed feelings about the "Do X in N lines of code" genre. I applaud people taking the time to boil something down to its very essence, and implement just that, but I feel like the tone is always, "and the full thing is
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by pbw 9mo ago
SO was built to disrupt the marriage of Google and Experts Exchange. EE was using dark patterns to sucker unsuspecting users into paying for access to a crappy Q&A service. SO wildly succeeded, but almost 20 years later the world is ver
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by pbw 9mo ago
Gary Marcus, ha! He's generally not entirely wrong, but boy, is he annoying.
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by pbw 9mo ago
This is food for thought, but horses were a commodity; people are very much not interchangeable with each other. The BLS tracks ~1,000 different occupations. Each will fall to AI at a slightly different rate, and within each, there will be
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by pbw 10mo ago
There's an HDR war brewing on TikTok and other social apps. A fraction of posts that use HDR are just massively brighter than the rest; the whole video shines like a flashlight. The apps are eventually going to have to detect HDR abuse
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The Futile Quest for Artificial Intelligence (2006)(archive.skeptic.com)
5 points by pbw 10mo ago|0 comments
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by pbw 10mo ago
Whether this exact approach catches on or not, it's turning the corner from "teaching AIs to develop using tools that were designed for humans" to "inventing new tools and techniques that are designed specifically for AI
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by pbw 10mo ago
Workday is a disaster, at least the version we have.
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by pbw 11mo ago
To capture the individual transistors on a modern CPU, you'd need an image tens of terabytes in size, and it'd have to be captured by an electron microscope, not an optical image. And even that wouldn't let you see all the la
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by pbw 1y ago
"I created the Alphanum Algorithm to solve this problem. The Alphanum Algorithm sorts strings containing a mix of letters and numbers. Given strings of mixed characters and numbers, it sorts the numbers in value order, while sorting th
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by pbw 1y ago
And you think the comparison to book reviews is equally bad? Both are from GPT-5.
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by pbw 1y ago
Essentially, Jenson's complaint is "When I ask an LLM to 'summarize' it interprets that differently from how I think of the word 'summarize' and I shouldn't have to give it more than a one-word prompt beca

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