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by schrodinger 3d ago
This is a fascinating illustration that I can't help but agree with. However I feel like there's something more — that this part of my brain is a bunch of supportive background processes running without my real awareness. It'
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by schrodinger 3d ago
This is a great point, analogous to the https://boringtechnology.club/ philosophy I've come to love. There's no reason we need to make an incredibly intelligent shell execution engine that can identify patterns th
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by schrodinger 3d ago
I agree. If I were setting up an experiment like this, I'd have instrumented the hell out of it to see all actions taken in real time, and have a team of folks watching it. This team would have seen the anomalous GET requests to a Germ
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by schrodinger 3d ago
I fully agree with you, but would go one step further: I think it's clear that we need to pierce the corporate veil and ascribe responsibility to _people_, not just "OpenAI the entity", full stop. Executives should fear being
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by schrodinger 3d ago
You say this flippantly, but I think this is actually another very good example! We even do it for obviously unintelligent inanimate objects. A rollercoaster ran too fast for its tracks, killing 10 people. In that sentence, the roller coast
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by schrodinger 4d ago
Spoiler warning! I haven't seen 2001 A Space Odyssey and am sad to have learned that… can you edit to warn people?
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by schrodinger 6d ago
Apologies, I used to use appreviewtimes .com [dead], which scraped tweets and was pretty accurate, but is dead now. I posted what seemed to be a decent replacement, but will take your word it’s not. Edit: was going to update the earlier co
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by schrodinger 6d ago
Before and after LLMs.
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by schrodinger 6d ago
https://www.runway.team/appreviewtimes
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by schrodinger 19d ago
If anyone else finds that BitterLesson link difficult to read because it wraps full-width, you can type "javascript:" in your URL bar and paste: document.body.style.cssText='margin:auto;width:600px;' (Chrome str
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by schrodinger 21d ago
Easily solved by adding an interstitial whenever a URI becomes replaced and is therefore no longer immutable, and showing the history of what it used to point to as well (in case you're coming along from an old link). By default, after
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by schrodinger 1mo ago
Note: I apologize and rescind my previous comment about not arguing in good faith. My point isn't that home brewing makes alcohol easier to obtain; clearly it doesn't, as you pointed out. Rather, it provides a respectable rational
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AI makes weak engineers less harmful(seangoedecke.com)
5 points by schrodinger 1mo ago|1 comments
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by schrodinger 1mo ago
I find it hard to believe this comment is arguing in good faith.
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
How much more likely does becoming a home brewer make you to develop alcoholism, especially for someone who sounds a bit predisposed like Jim?
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
I agree with that — One of Go's biggest strengths is the flip side of an arguable weakness: it's not a very expressive language. The positive of that is that if you ask three people to write the same function, it'll most like
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
It's too late to edit, but in retrospect I realize that the first sentence of that comment sounded awfully snarky, and I didn't mean it to. I apologize, and please trust it was asked in good faith.
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
Fully agree with you, and I didn't make my point well — I should have been more clear. While Python and Node have undoubtedly seen a huge spike since the advent of mainstream AI, relatively recently I've begun to notice a small bu
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
Are you familiar with the Go standard library? It’s notorious for its comprehensiveness and how often you can write zero dependency applications as a result. And there’s a reason: the Go designers were huge Python fans, so leaned on its des
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
Quick tangent if you’re willing to humor me… I've been noticing that many new projects that would have been written in Python or Node a year ago are starting to be written in Go, Rust, etc. Theory: people realized there’s little benefi
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Zep: Building Agents in Go Without a Framework(blog.getzep.com)
2 points by schrodinger 2mo ago|0 comments
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
I must be misunderstanding something, because I can't imagine that training would-be predators would significantly reduce the rates of abuse. Perhaps I'm mischaracterizing it, and it's about training those around potential ab
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
I'm not a Catholic (nor religious at all), and do question whether schools truly are worse than churches in terms of how children are treated. But that's not the point. You made up a quote I didn't say ("demonization&quo
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
Where did you see apologies? I read it basically as “schools are even worse than churches and scouts yet are overlooked,” nothing apologizing for the churches.
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
I hear you. Coincidentally, I was actually called out just last night for a message with em dashes: “Are you AI-ing me? Em dash giving you away” It’s a pretty load-bearing (lol) example, yet it was clear in context it wasn’t serious. I’m be
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
Truly enjoyed this article, but hate to admit one thing: I'm so burned by AI slop that once I noticed this seems to have been "assisted" by an LLM, I got irrationally angry because I felt tricked. It hit me at the end, when I
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by schrodinger 2mo ago
I believe you and OP are in agreement — they were saying that the 2019 book had them, therefore the terms _do_ predate AI. Your point that AI was being trained on material than is load-bearing (lol) but in agreement with OP, not contradicto
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by schrodinger 3mo ago
Interesting! I'd love to hear what type of work you do where you can get away without any of those because frankly I think most of those are pretty garbage too. Postgres is decent for a free ($$$) database, although it's lack of c
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by schrodinger 3mo ago
If you're actively looking for a job, you should have some familiarity with the common dev stack when you're looking. Today you should be comfortable working on a Mac, know Bash / Zsh, a little bit of Vim for SSHing, git, doc
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by schrodinger 3mo ago
First come first served is capitalism in disguise. Someone will automate a tool that watches for these and jumps on them, and the person with the most resources, can get a close network connection, etc will "buy" it. Same with wai

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