phil917

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by phil917 7mo ago
I would bet to be ready before the Superbowl ads
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by phil917 1y ago
So many of the writer's issues with students today are things I did myself a good amount when I was in college around 15 years ago at this point. I skipped classes all the time and I was often browsing the web on my phone / laptop
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by phil917 2y ago
Perhaps, but at that point I feel like I'm spending more time feeding the tool the right prompt and context, going back and forth with corrections, etc... when I could just write the code myself with less time and hassle. I've def
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by phil917 2y ago
I feel like anytime I try these "agentic" programming tools they always fall on their face. Devin was pretty bad and honestly soaked up more time than it saved. I've tried Cursor Composer before and came away with bad results
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by phil917 2y ago
"Project Padawan" looks fairly similar to Devin, at least from a user experience perspective. From personal experience, Devin was pretty terrible so we'll see if Microsoft does any better...
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by phil917 2y ago
Honestly, that demo was pretty weak. If 2025 is really going to be the “year of agents”, then they need to do better than this.
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by phil917 2y ago
I can't even properly put into words my hatred for AI generated "music"
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by phil917 2y ago
The AI hype bros on social media are the actual worst and have done more damage than anything else to how I feel about AI these days. The grift has been at unbearable levels for months now and it actually drove me to delete my X account rec
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by phil917 2y ago
Lol I missed that even though it's literally the first sentence of the blog, good catch. Yeah, that makes this result a lot less impressive for me.
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by phil917 2y ago
Yeah I agree that wasn't particularly mind blowing to me and seems fairly in line with what existing SOTA models can do. Especially since they did it in steps. Maybe I'm missing something.
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by phil917 2y ago
Quote from the creators of the AGI-ARC benchmark: "Passing ARC-AGI does not equate achieving AGI, and, as a matter of fact, I don't think o3 is AGI yet. o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences wi
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by phil917 2y ago
Direct quote from the ARC-AGI blog: “SO IS IT AGI? ARC-AGI serves as a critical benchmark for detecting such breakthroughs, highlighting generalization power in a way that saturated or less demanding benchmarks cannot. However, it is import
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by phil917 2y ago
Don't forget the massive population decline set to literally halve the population in the next 70 years...
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by phil917 2y ago
The more Sam Altman posts stuff like this, the more he comes across as a grifter hype man to me
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by phil917 2y ago
Oh my god I don't know why I never made that connection until now. That is exactly what it feels like!
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by phil917 3y ago
I saw a comment describing this increasing luddite response to new tech developments and it resonated with me. Essentially, the comment made the point that tech is advancing so fast these days that most people are unable to keep up with the
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by phil917 3y ago
Please no. Safari is the browser that gives our company the most pain by far in terms of development and user experience. And when I’ve personally tried using it on my various Macs over the years, I’ve always encountered bugs and glitches o
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by phil917 3y ago
I say something similar to my friends and colleagues all the time regarding my “professional” software projects. It takes 20% of the time to do 80% of the work. But that last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time. Essentially the core funct
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by phil917 3y ago
While I agree it's not some irrefutable data point, I think it does at least give some indication as to the current zeitgeist.
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by phil917 3y ago
I just canceled my Copilot subscription last night. I definitely never saw the productivity boost that I’ve seen so many claim. I actually feel like the suggestions seemed to get worse during my month of using it for some reason. Towards th
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by phil917 3y ago
I developed/published mobile games for awhile during and immediately after college. I think my games saw somewhere in the ballpark of 500,000 downloads and I made "OK" income from them for 1 - 2 years (roughly on par with a m
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by phil917 3y ago
Yeah that makes sense and it's why I'm forcing myself to try and use these tools. I feel like it can be a boon if I find the right use case in my workflow.
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by phil917 3y ago
I’ve heard many people say that but I have yet to try it with that particular task. I will give it a shot.
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by phil917 3y ago
I signed up for a Copilot trial a few weeks ago and so far my feelings on the tool are mixed. When a code suggestion is correct it’s nice but it honestly feels like a very rare occurrence so far. What often ends up happening is I will get s
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by phil917 4y ago
This has been something that's been bothering me more and more over the years. I often feel like I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants that came before me. Occasionally, I do still get that feeling of satisfaction when I&#x
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by phil917 4y ago
I think the System Settings app can be improved but I think the hate is a little overblown. How often are you really in the system settings anyways? I'm really enjoying Stage Manager so far as well.
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by phil917 4y ago
This is some of the most beautiful pixel art I've ever seen.
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by phil917 4y ago
The most frustrating thing about Google for me these days is searching for recipes. Every web page that should have an extremely straightforward, straight to the point list of ingredients and instructions now has to use every fucking SEO tr