reedlaw

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by reedlaw 7d ago
Codex has the opposite problem. Instead of being overly proactive it's overly reticent. I have been preferring it lately, although my preference tend to switch every few months when a model or harness regresses horribly.
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by reedlaw 29d ago
I'm on my third mainboard trying to combat what seems to be an AMD platform issue that causes random freeze-then-reset events. It doesn't just affect Framework. If you search AMD Data Fabric Sync Flood you'll find a lot of di
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by reedlaw 1mo ago
I made https://constraint.fyi/ after getting frustrated on some of the harder Clues by Sam ( https://cluesbysam.com/ ) puzzles for which the color tags aren't enough to represent everything you need to t
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by reedlaw 3mo ago
What do you mean? I'm Gen X but remember all those things. It seems like a reasonable mashup of nostalgia.
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by reedlaw 3mo ago
Since the Renaissance got started before the printing press, maybe you mean the press fueled it? The idea that the church found printing dangerous seems like a conflation with events that happened during the Protestant Reformation. The Cath
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by reedlaw 3mo ago
Good instinct. I did both. The script came out later.
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by reedlaw 3mo ago
I did the malware check using Claude, providing it with the same list ( https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA ), and it did essentially the same things as this script does to verify. So either way should do the trick.
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by reedlaw 3mo ago
I also had an affected package installed, fortunately it was from the official repo before it was dropped and became an AUR package.
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by reedlaw 3mo ago
Yeah, the README looks like slop to me.
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by reedlaw 4mo ago
Codex is only slightly better, and that fluctuates so I switch back and forth.
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by reedlaw 4mo ago
I tried to create a hook that would detect when token usage was running out and write HANDOFF.md so I could switch to another agent and finish the current task. It never worked reliably. To make a hook for db queries, it would need to run b
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by reedlaw 4mo ago
I'm skeptical skills will outperform training given that Opus 4.7 already ignores a 720-byte CLAUDE.md telling it to use tidewave (a Rails MCP server with 6 tools) for db queries. When I asked a new claude session about a record it cal
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by reedlaw 5mo ago
Why do you say HashWithIndifferentAccess shows a lack of understanding? Like many Rails features, it's a convenience that abstracts away details that some find unpleasant to work with. Rails sometimes takes "magic" to the ext
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by reedlaw 5mo ago
Chinese omits articles, verbs aren't conjugated, and individual characters carry more meaning than English letters, but other than those differences I don't have the impression that Chinese communication is inherently more concise
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by reedlaw 5mo ago
Are you saying Chinese is more concise than English? Chinese poetry is concise, but that can be true in any language. For LLMs, it depends on the tokenizer. Chinese models are of course more Chinese-friendly and so would encode the same sen
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
I've come to the conclusion that Hacker News is the best aggregator out there. Substack knows my interests yet gives terrible recommendations. Youtube constantly recommends the same videos or exaggerates my interest in a topic based on
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
Claude has trained me on the use of the word 'invariant'. I never used it before, but it makes sense as a term for a rule the system guarantees. I would have used 'validation' for application-side rules or 'constrai
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
Then I would say this is another proof that LLMs lack intellect or ability to reason about universals. See https://michaelmangialardi.substack.com/i/186405810/test-4-p...
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
Why is Haskell irrelevant to the argument that LLMs can't reliably permute programming knowledge from one language to another? In fact, the purity of the language and dearth of training data seems like the perfect test case to see whet
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
This is the second endorsement I've seen today. I gave OpenSpec a shot and was dismayed by the Explore prompt. [1] Over 1,000 words with verbose, repetitive instructions which will lead to context drift. The examples refer to specific
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
Do you have examples of the task maturation cycle? I'm not sure how it would work for tasks like extracting structured data from images. It seems it could only work for tasks that can be scripted and wouldn't work well for tasks t
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
How do you even begin to define objective measurements of software engineering productivity? You could use DORA metrics [1] which are about how effectively software is delivered. Or you could use the SPACE Framework [2] which is more about
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
Plasma Bigscreen has been around for 6 years: https://itsfoss.com/news/plasma-bigscreen-comeback/
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
https://github.com/mickeynp/combobulate
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by reedlaw 6mo ago
Isn't this the premise behind Dilbert?
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by reedlaw 7mo ago
LLM-generated snippets of code are a breath of fresh air compared with much legacy code. Since models learn probability distributions they gravitate to the most common ways of doing things. Almost like having a linter built in. On the other
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by reedlaw 7mo ago
Whatever agent I tried would include thousands of tokens in tool-use instruction. That would use up most available context unless running very low-spec models. I've concluded it's best to use the big 3 for most tasks and qwen on r
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by reedlaw 7mo ago
This seems like a perfect use case for a local model. But I've found in practice that the system requirements for agents are much higher than for models that can handle simple refactoring tasks. Once tool use context is factored in, th
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by reedlaw 7mo ago
Maybe a better way to handle "minimize cyclomatic complexity" would be to set an agent in a loop of code metrics, refactor, test and repeat.
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by reedlaw 7mo ago
I don't know about Opus, but Codex suddenly got a lot better to the point that I prefer it over Sonnet 4.6. Claude takes ages and comes up with half baked solutions. Codex is so fast that I miss waiting. It also writes tests without pr

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