scronkfinkle

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by scronkfinkle 5d ago
There is some sense of rose-tinted glasses of pre-LLM coding. A lot of human written code, particularly at the enterprise level, was of low quality well before AI automated it.
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by scronkfinkle 5d ago
I wanted you to be wrong, and to be able to make this an example of us over-reacting to certain trigger words created by AI, but unfortunately I just scanned the first couple paragraphs with pangram and it reported 100% AI, so you're p
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by scronkfinkle 5d ago
That's a valid take. The issue I'm wrestling with is the inevitable attempts to point a finger at who is responsible when bad things happen. If you claim it is on the tech companies to know if a child is online, then they will tak
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by scronkfinkle 5d ago
I think you may be misunderstanding a bit. There's no forced verification. It'd be more of an RFC that gives parents the ability to communicate their underage child is using the device without revealing or verifying any further
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by scronkfinkle 5d ago
I once heard someone suggest that this should be on the OS level and I'm slowly coming around to the idea. There should be some kind of OS level flag that can easily broadcast to products that a child is using the device. No ID verific
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by scronkfinkle 6d ago
But I don't want to use your CLI. I already have my own harnesses and workflows. The friction is too high to "just try out" a new model like this. It would be preferable if I can evaluate it over, say, open router like all th
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by scronkfinkle 6d ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this appears to require Devin to use? I'm disappointed to see I need to use a bespoke platform to interact with this agent, to the point that I probably won't be trying it.
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by scronkfinkle 8d ago
That is incredibly dismissive to people undergoing something that is causing them to temporarily have these thoughts and need intervention
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by scronkfinkle 11d ago
LLM's are a funny technology because on the one hand this is all undeniably impressive at the rate of what's changed from them, and yet despite that I find myself disappointed by the lack of breakthroughs for things I don't f
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by scronkfinkle 13d ago
In what way do they have a moat? A cursory look at https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-6-astra#intelligenc... it lands at 61, only a single point above glm 5.3 while costing significantly more. The only moat they
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by scronkfinkle 15d ago
Has anyone been able to get anything substantial done with Fable in the first place? I more or less had totally given up on using it since the alignment checks were so sensitive that it pretty much always threw me back to Opus.
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by scronkfinkle 15d ago
There's a couple different ways to look at this. From a charitable point of view to ubisoft, they do not advertise support for Linux. Instead they openly state it's a window's only game. So when a third party (i.e. Valve) mak
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by scronkfinkle 18d ago
Sometimes I wonder if the anti-immigrant rhetoric that has been growing more popular is a tactical tool used by individuals who don't actually believe in it but instead have accepted that they would rather be wealthy and destroy the pl
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by scronkfinkle 25d ago
It's becoming increasingly evident this is not how things are going to shake out. Even without frontier models, running Qwen 3.8 27B has demonstrated for me and others a "good enough" competency at general programming. Additi
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by scronkfinkle 29d ago
Maybe I am misunderstanding but I don't think this is true. Indeed you pay for the inbox, but it's not the primary domain. You can reply from any of the email addresses you created (which doesn't cost extra) and it automatica
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by scronkfinkle 1mo ago
I think of it more as "the automation of the stackoverflow engineer". In enterprise software, there has always just been a non-negotiable large volume of code that was required to be written. This has traditionally been offloaded
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by scronkfinkle 1mo ago
> So then you need to explain ARC-AGI-3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24621 I don't, we originally had the turing test which was designed to determine human intelligence by its ability to imitate us with natural
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by scronkfinkle 1mo ago
> A good sign that LLMs have reached human level for a much wider class of problems will be if they start proving theorems using methods that, like much of the very best human mathematics, are new and surprising but that with hindsight c
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by scronkfinkle 1mo ago
Fun game. Would be nice if there was a single player mode that simply prints the letters and at the end shows the longest word that was missed. That way you can play it offline and place a phone in the center of the table and people can pla
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by scronkfinkle 1mo ago
The impressive/surprising thing is your premise because we effectively can spin up an army of mathematicians now
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by scronkfinkle 2mo ago
> and writes entire operating systems from scratch ehhhh, we're not really there. Not saying it's impossible to reach in the future but large tasks like this are still out of scope for LLM's beyond demoing toy applications
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by scronkfinkle 2mo ago
I don't feel it's meaningful to berate the point anymore about the hypocrisy of the American labs. Now as the sentiment and effort from them to push for regulation increases so does my perception of how pathetic they are behaving.
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by scronkfinkle 2mo ago
so they distilled one of the best models in the world AND released it for free to everyone. Where can I send them flowers as a thank you?
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by scronkfinkle 3mo ago
Meanwhile non-frontend folks decide to call one thing "threads" and another thing "strings" and have them be completely unrelated to each other.
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by scronkfinkle 4mo ago
On the one hand, organizations are without question using LLM's well beyond what is actually necessary, and as reality kicks in they're forced to scale back accordingly. However at the same time, on intervals counted in months, we
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by scronkfinkle 4mo ago
The title seems misleading, and reading the article explains the reason more clearly. There's nonsense OKR's and objectives at these companies to burn as many tokens as possible. It turns out that when you make a metric out of tok
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by scronkfinkle 4mo ago
Solving one of the most famous Erdos problems that has remained unsolved for 80 years without using tools like lean but instead a giant reasoning block is quite a lot more than "kinda nothing"
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by scronkfinkle 4mo ago
Maybe I'm misreading but that is an absurd ToS in this context. So they're telling us they have a solution to a problem, but don't trust it enough to solve it? I tend to be averse to analogies but this feels like hiring an en
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by scronkfinkle 4mo ago
Calling the technology "text auto complete" is not productive to the discussion. Less than a decade ago the idea that a computer could take a fuzzy human-readable description and turn it into executable code was science fiction, b
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by scronkfinkle 4mo ago
+1, my wife and I have been working on a VORON 2.4 together and it's been a blast!

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