px1999

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by px1999 3mo ago
Initially I thought this was a useless/dumb idea. On reflection, I like it - it's weird. Old internet weird. Like someone with a couple hundred bucks and some time on their hands wants to do something they think is fun or funny.
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by px1999 4mo ago
My org now sends some portion of our requests to non-anthropic models because refusal has become common from Claude. The requests themselves aren't dangerous, we find that benign requests in biological science wind up being blocked se
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by px1999 6mo ago
Very well said. I think that "deciding what types of code can be reliably handed off to AI" might be missing from the list. It's orders of magnitude easier to nail 80% all the time than 100% all the time. I could see standa
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by px1999 7mo ago
Tools exist to be an energy/effort multiplier, so it's pretty intuitive that increasing that multiplier will make it easier to get more done. In practice it's pretty difficult to find the balance between yak shaving and pilin
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by px1999 8mo ago
Imo there's a huge blind spot forming between 6 and 8 when talking to people and in reading posts by various agent evangelists - few people seem to be focussing on building "high quality" changes vs maximising throughput of l
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by px1999 9mo ago
My org has built internal tooling that approximates this. It's incredibly valuable from a manual test perspective though we haven't managed to get the agent part working well, app startup times (10+ min) make iterating hard. Do y
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by px1999 9mo ago
This is really nice and a very original take. It feels good on mobile / other touch devices. I'd love to see it feel a bit more polished on desktop (maybe I'll give that a shot if I find a bit of spare time!) - I could see a
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by px1999 1y ago
Following this logic, why write anything at all? Shakespeare's sonnets are arrangements of existing words that were possible before he wrote them. Every mathematical proof, novel, piece of journalism is simply a configuration of symbol
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by px1999 1y ago
Consider this (possibly very bad) take: RAG could largely be replaced with tool use to a search engine. You could keep some of the approach around indexing/embeddings/semantic search, but it just becomes another tool call to a se
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by px1999 1y ago
The Umbraco CMS was amazing during the time that it used and supported XSLT. While it evaluated the xslt serverside it was a really neat and simple approach.
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by px1999 1y ago
I expect it will wind up like search engines where you either submit urls for indexing/inclusion or wait for a crawl to pick your information up. Until the tech catches up it will have a stifling effect on progress toward and adoption
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by px1999 1y ago
Except value isnt polarised like that. In a research context, it provides pointers, and keywords for further investigation. In a report-writing context it provides textual content. Neither of these or the thousand other uses are worthless.
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by px1999 2y ago
devoir de désobéissance is _duty_ of disobedience. If they choose to follow orders they know are illegal they can be personally liable.
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by px1999 2y ago
AMD's offer was more than fair. Hotz was throwing a trantrum.
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by px1999 2y ago
The business model doesn't matter. I can write something with Microsoft tech and expect it with reasonable likelihood to work in 10 years (even their service-based stuff), but can't say the same about anything from Google. That al
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by px1999 2y ago
Imo the con is picking the metric that makes others look artificially bad when it doesn't seem to be all that different (at least on the surface) > we use a stricter evaluation setting: a model is only considered to solve a question
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by px1999 2y ago
Specifically within the last week, I have used Claude and Claude via cursor to: - write some moderately complex powershell to perform a one-off process - add typescript annotations to a random file in my org's codebase - land a minor f
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by px1999 2y ago
This is great, but I wish there was a shorter and more to the point version for me to link folks to. Each of the ideas in here is solid, but there's too much writing around the core idea -- a sentence or two for each point and then a t
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by px1999 2y ago
The aftermarket for these things means that the cost winds up being split between multiple parties in a lot of cases. Anecdotally, most parents within my circle bought their Snoo used and sold it after use. I bought an unopened snoo from f
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by px1999 3y ago
My org uses codegen as a starting point for one of our test layers. It works for us probably because we sidestep the pain points you list - the environments we run in are pristine complete copies of known datasets, we remove as many sources
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by px1999 3y ago
A level of fear allows the introduction of regulatory moats that protect the organisations who are currently building and deploying these models at scale. "It's dangerous" is a beneficial lie for eg openai to push because the
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by px1999 3y ago
> Price discrimination is not illegal The Play store operates in many jurisdictions, including some where this is borderline or could be deemed to be illegal I hope that some of those jurisdictions start showing some teeth on this sort o
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by px1999 3y ago
But it's free and you didn't really answer the question. Were you looking for a soapbox to stand on?
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by px1999 3y ago
More interesting than the original statement is how many people seem to have a chip of their shoulder/take the statement as a personal insult. The professor is correct in that the majority of Web developers could get by without much th
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by px1999 3y ago
Thank you for writing this, it was really informative and interesting (as someone with little ML background).
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by px1999 3y ago
Manually, probably not (exceptional circumstances aside). Recording generally means transcription and the ability to do automatic summarisation and to query action items, which _are_ useful Also it means folks can be away or if someone didn
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by px1999 3y ago
Microsoft almost look to be building out a single copilot product across a bunch of their products (ie the eventual goal could be to share context between office365, Windows, sales, security, dynamics, Bing and github). If this were the ca
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by px1999 3y ago
Many people underestimate how much easier it is as a business to throw money at things than to actually solve possibly hard problems. "Database failover and scale to z1d.12xlarge" as a strategy is insanely cheap in comparison to
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by px1999 3y ago
I love this, and wish other projects would follow suit and not be afraid to say "no" to people asking for changes/fixes. The obligations that the industry places on open source project maintained by unpaid volunteers are unfa
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by px1999 3y ago
If you can do things yourself or with your staff, you probably don't need aws. But when the cost of you doing something (either direct or opportunity cost) becomes higher than that of using aws (or another cloud provider), you should

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