samdjstephens

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by samdjstephens 3mo ago
I can see the value in a protocol here, but the issue is these efforts are only as good as the industry adoption that they gain: who is using this? MCP came from Anthropic, A2A from Google so they had big tech backing from day 1. As a devel
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by samdjstephens 4mo ago
Many or even most software engineers are experts in their own codebases though, which means a large proportion of engineers are getting high value out of AI. What’s not clear to me is: if writing more code per engineer is possible, does tha
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by samdjstephens 5mo ago
> Curious about your definition of these terms. Likewise - I think sometimes we ascribe a mythical aura to the concept of “intelligence” because we don’t fully understand it. We should limit that aura to the concept of sentience, because
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by samdjstephens 6mo ago
> The broad consumer reach of ChatGPT creates a powerful distribution channel into the workplace They mention this line in different forms a couple of times in the article. It’s clear they’re pretty rattled about Anthropic’s momentum in
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by samdjstephens 6mo ago
Interesting - the first thing my mind went to was the DoD supply chain risk designation, and wanting to boost metrics to calm investors nerves
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by samdjstephens 6mo ago
I really like this too - having the previous plan and implementation in place to create the next plan, but then clearing context once that next plan exists feels like a great way to have exactly the right context at the right time. I often
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by samdjstephens 6mo ago
I suspect it has something to do with a) the average quality of code in open source repos and b) the way the reward signal is applied in RL post-training - does the model face consequences of a brittle implementation for a task? I wonder if
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by samdjstephens 7mo ago
Maybe. Another potential, more positive, timeline is that semantically ablated content filling everyone’s feeds turns people off, and slowly kills the social feed paradigm.
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by samdjstephens 9mo ago
Politics is accruing and deploying political capital within an organisation - or less abstractly, building relationships and using them. What you’re describing is a particular form of manipulative and divisive politics which is performed by
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by samdjstephens 9mo ago
If LLMs stopped improving today I’m sure you would be correct- as it is I think it’s very hard to predict what the future holds and where the advancements take us. I don’t see a particularly good reason why LLMs wouldn’t be able to do most
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by samdjstephens 11mo ago
kg is the SI unit for mass, I think that would be why
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by samdjstephens 11mo ago
It seems to me that MCP and Skills are solving 2 different problems and provide solutions that compliment each other quite nicely. MCP is about integration of external systems and services. Skills are about context management - providing co
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by samdjstephens 1y ago
Definitely take that point. But this valuation is perhaps more about how much that traction, brand and data is worth to OpenAI, who cannot buy Copilot. $3bn doesn’t seem so disproportionate in that context especially given the amount of mon
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by samdjstephens 1y ago
Just consider what it fundamentally is: a company at the leading edge of a product category that has found absurdly strong technology/use-case fit, and is growing insanely fast. Looking for a moat in the technology is always a bit of a
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by samdjstephens 2y ago
Yeah it's very interesting... It appears to lead itself astray: the way it looks at several situational characteristics, gives each a "throw-away" example, only to then mushing all those examples together to make a joke seems
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by samdjstephens 2y ago
It’s about demand isn’t it? TSMC have red hot demand, it’s not hard to understand their urgency in setting up new fabs, wherever they may be. Intel don’t have the same incentive - their incentive is to take the money (because, why wouldn’t
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by samdjstephens 2y ago
There’ll always be an advantage for those who understand the problem they’re solving for sure. The balance of traditional software components and LLM driven components in a system is an interesting topic - I wonder how the capabilities of f
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by samdjstephens 3y ago
Sure, if there’s only one long lived large feature branch and everything else is trunk-based style development. If another large feature branch is merged then your regular rebase turns into a horror-merge.
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by samdjstephens 4y ago
If you follow the authors advice to its logical conclusion then all changes to the code base are narrowly focussed tweaks - where does the longer term thinking come into this? If I’m implementing a new feature, should I also disregard the n
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by samdjstephens 4y ago
What are your axioms on what’s important, if not the continued existence of the human race? edit: I’m genuinely intrigued
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by samdjstephens 5y ago
Interesting, I wouldn’t say that I’ve found it difficult to run in even a small team. The problem I’ve always had with Airflow has been with non-cron-like use cases, for example data pipelines kicked off when some event occurs. Sensors were
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by samdjstephens 5y ago
I think it’s deeper than that - these companies place product/engineering at the centre of the business, rather than at traditional companies that still see it as a cost centre.
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by samdjstephens 6y ago
Agree 100%. There's a race to the bottom when it comes to preparation times. One recipe says it takes 20 mins vs one that says 45 mins - which recipe are you going to choose?
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by samdjstephens 6y ago
> No, but there's such thing as a "somewhat objective album ranking". I wouldn't disagree with that, I'm sure all of the various versions of this list by RS are "somewhat objective" > Not when it has
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by samdjstephens 6y ago
Is there such a thing as an objective album ranking? Especially when you consider the shifting landscape of music over time. Actually forget the shifting landscape of music, consider the shifting landscape of people - theres been signific
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by samdjstephens 7y ago
According to a quick search - Monzo had 3 million customers as of Sept ‘19 [1] vs Metro Bank’s 1.7 million in May ‘19 [2]. [1] https://monzo.com/blog/2019/09/16/three-million [2] https://www.m
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Ask HN: Team structure: Specialists vs. Generalists?
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by samdjstephens 8y ago
To add to that - 5.75h free time might seem like a decent amount (although you didn’t account for things like washing, cooking, shopping which eat up much of the remaining time) but much of that time is after work when I’m normally fried f
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by samdjstephens 10y ago
Fuck you Walter!!!