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by post_below 1mo ago
You make a lot of assumptions here... that I disagree with something about the article (aside from with its quality) and post rationalized somehow, that it has anything to do with em-dashes, that they just used AI for "post editorial p
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by post_below 1mo ago
You might not have noticed that essentially the entire blog post was AI written. There's even this bit where they discover a remarkable trick: > Each round trip to the database has a cost. For carts with multiple line items, we batc
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by post_below 2mo ago
Also, the hardest part on the reader imo: Language that conveys an unearned sense of importance and emotion in appropriate places.
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by post_below 3mo ago
I'm not sure they prefer it. I think tech companies have been pushing apps as the default solution for a long time and people accept it because they just want to do whatever thing is locked behind the app. If the default was something
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by post_below 4mo ago
I took a quick look at the source code and it looks like, yes, using /prompt during a session will rebuild the session with a new preamble/system prompt, causing a full cache miss on the next turn. So in that way it's not lik
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by post_below 4mo ago
It sounds like you're saying that /prompt changes the system message part of the session. Doesn't that cause a cache break and result in higher usage/cost?
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by post_below 5mo ago
This comment is pure LLM. I feel like we're right on the threshold where we give up and start interacting with slop like it's human written.
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by post_below 5mo ago
It's absolutely LLM prose, though not all of it. Maybe the author rewrote parts. The thing that concerns me is that even at a site like HN, where a lot of people are very familiar with LLMs, it seems to be passing. I hate to think this
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by post_below 6mo ago
I believe the argument is that LLMs are stateless. So if the session writing the code isn't the same session that wrote the spec, it's effectively a clean room implementation. There are other details of course (is the old code in
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by post_below 6mo ago
Assuming this isn't a hoax, this seems like a huge, probably unintentional, mistake by MS. If they genuinely implemented something like this, whatever they made from new customers via ads couldn't possibly make up for the loss of
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by post_below 7mo ago
The browser is very straightforward, about 300 lines implementing all of the various actions you'd want an agent to have access to in puppeteer: const puppeteer = require('puppeteer'); const browser = await puppeteer.launch()
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by post_below 7mo ago
I haven't been following the claws but I built something like this recently. Self hosted, runs through signal, supports group chat (with whitelisted accounts). I just finished setting up grocery automation to run on it: agent provides
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by post_below 7mo ago
You can expand it beyond novel applications. The models aren't good enough for autonomous coding without a human in the loop period. They can one shot basic changes and refactors, or even many full prototypes, but for pretty much ever
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by post_below 8mo ago
I don't follow the logic that "it hallucinates so it's useless". In the context of codebases I know for sure that they can be useful. Large datasets too. Are they also really bad at some aspects of dealing with both? Abs
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by post_below 8mo ago
Finding patterns in large datasets is one of the things LLMs are really good at. Genetics is an area where scientists have already done impressive things with LLMs. However you feel about LLMs, and I say this because you don't have to
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by post_below 8mo ago
And those weren't the only tells. Right now it's cringey but I have a sinking feeling that it's in the process of becoming normal. The post is on the front page after all. Which means people either can't tell, or don&#x2
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by post_below 10mo ago
As one of the lucky 1/10000, holy shit that was amazing. Thank you. To everyone else: I acknowlege that this post is not adding value but if you were one of the lucky 1/10000 you would understand that I have no choice.
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by post_below 10mo ago
The problem with this, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, is that the model's responses go into the context. So if it has to reinvent the wheel every session by writing bash scripts (or similar) you're clogg
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by post_below 1y ago
As a side note, despite its popularity, Texas hold'em is just one type of poker game. In most poker games (5 draw, 7 stud, etc..) you ante every hand.
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by post_below 2y ago
PHP 5 is as close to phased out as it gets at this point. No doubt it's still in a lot of legacy enterprise codebases (lots of breaking changes going from 5 to 7 or 8), but outside of that no one is using it.
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by post_below 2y ago
Some examples off the top of my head: - Many plastics contain known endocrine disrupters like BPA that have been shown to get into people's bodies and correlate with negative health impacts such as certain cancers, sex organ abnormalit
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by post_below 3y ago
The grocery chain has to spend money to buy the products. A better comparison might be a flea market or fair where the organizers take 27% of gross receipts from each vendor, even if the customer went to the vendors store outside of the f
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by post_below 3y ago
Maybe a rhetorical question but I think there are a few answers. One is that some people think that's what professional sounds like, this sort of dated, verbose corporate "believe us, we're big and competent" messaging s
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by post_below 3y ago
The first half of the post actually does refer to the message. Hyperbolically sure, but I don't think they're wrong. Here's a less hyperbolic interpretation: Women don't seem to like our banter, which is why they aren&#x
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by post_below 3y ago
I suspect they're referring to experiments like the famous "Rat Park". There is clearly a strong social and environmental component to addiction susceptibility, at least in rats. I don't know if I'd go as far as to
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by post_below 3y ago
It sounds like you're ultimately just saying that the 77% number doesn't feel right to you. I agree that it's an interesting challenge to try to determine which language a large number of sites are using for the backend, or a
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by post_below 3y ago
Ah I see... you can disable network waking, also the ability of Windows Update to wake the computer. That, combined with disabling wake in other areas, solves it on various Windows computers I've tried it on. I guess it's possible
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by post_below 3y ago
Maybe you're referring to whether or not the core ability to wake from sleep can be disabled? I've never tried to do that, so I can't say. In my experience you can reliably stop windows from waking in unwanted ways. I usually
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by post_below 3y ago
You can turn it off in Windows too, though it it takes a few minutes and requires some knowledge (or Googling).
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by post_below 4y ago
Most of the time, comments that don't add anything of substance to the conversation get downvoted or flagged at HN.

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