smallerfish

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by smallerfish 4d ago
> Nobody is doing this. https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/ai-investors-anthropic-doom > In part because you can't simultaneously argue that something "is not going to happen" but also wil
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by smallerfish 4d ago
> It took 88 hours and who knows how many kwh to solve a problem that no other human has solved, and Humans have already solved breaching and destroying systems that can't be accessed over the internet (see Stuxnet). > that can
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by smallerfish 4d ago
Fair. That doesn't mean we should throw our hands in the air. The genie is out of the bottle, we know the nature of the threat, and we've spent 25+ years figuring out how to make distributed systems theoretically secure -- instead
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by smallerfish 4d ago
Isn't the "kill us all" concern met by keeping nukes & essential infrastructure airgapped? This is something that should be the case already, and is certainly urgent if not the case. Instead of doomerism and calls to slow
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by smallerfish 7d ago
We do use a drone when we know of a site where deforestation has taken place. The gap we're trying to fill is early detection of forest intervention, so that we can alert appropriate agencies (who are generally under-resourced) and get
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by smallerfish 7d ago
We're volunteer driven and currently rely on personal donations, so we're scrappy. We could probably justify somewhere in the region of $10k/yr. The jets/balloon angle is interesting, thanks - hadn't occurred to me,
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by smallerfish 7d ago
I wish Planet had better pricing for nonprofits. I co-run a conservation nonprofit focused on deforestation in Latin America, and our affordable choices are between 2 year old Google Earth imagery, 10m resolution Nimbo imagery (ok, but not
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by smallerfish 11d ago
Yeah and there's two ways to get there - planned and unplanned. It'll happen one way or the other.
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by smallerfish 18d ago
We need sufficiently severe penalties for vibe coding. First time out we break your legs, but if you come back with another vibed patch its around the back of the barn for you.
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by smallerfish 21d ago
> We’ve never had a technological revolution that didn’t yield more jobs a) How many technological revolutions do you count? b) Of these, which directly created jobs vs in which did the job numbers eventually recover?
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by smallerfish 24d ago
An LLM that could mutate its own weights might be closer to it. The various labs must have experimented with this, but it seems that it would be economically prohibitive to productize.
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by smallerfish 26d ago
I did the same this week. The speed is the first big contrast; I have a routine multi-step skill that I run several of per week. Opus 5 was routinely taking 2 hours to do it, while older Claude models took around 20 mins; Codex restored tha
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by smallerfish 1mo ago
I really wish these agents attem[pted less personality and were more mechanical. I find Opus 5 to be incredibly annoying. It's also significantly slower - repetitive tasks that used to take 10-15 mins now take around 40 mins. And, its
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by smallerfish 1mo ago
Having it write the initial draft can be educational if you read through as an editor and research and/or ask questions on everything you don't understand (and also work to eliminate slop construction and tics). Certainly not the
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by smallerfish 1mo ago
I am 100% for creating software that you find interesting with LLMs, but you need to do better product marketing to get anybody interested in trying it out. Two things: a) Write the copy yourself. "hinge", "saying it plainly&
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by smallerfish 1mo ago
Actually they did something like slash and burn agriculture, but they apparently rotated sites, allowing forest regeneration.
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by smallerfish 2mo ago
I've been hacking on my own task manager on-and-off for years ( https://the.do.zone ). It has no database; the primary store is the browser, and you can optionally sync to local file system (if using chrome), dropbox, or goog
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by smallerfish 2mo ago
> but without any lived experience perhaps that's an unreasonable expectation. I don't think that follows. We learn via our perception (i.e. our inputs from the outside world); our perception is mediated by some kind of filter,
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by smallerfish 2mo ago
I wrote a framework for my own use that uses Kotlin + HTMX - https://github.com/reubenfirmin/zoned . The goal was to see if I could create webapps that were fully typed, end to end. It uses Kotlinx.html, which provides
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by smallerfish 2mo ago
The voting system could be enough if downvoting was added. AI writing is not the problem - low effort is the problem. Low effort AI articles are full of tics which are obvious, if you've done a lot of AI writing. To write well with AI
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by smallerfish 2mo ago
How exactly would you do this? And over what time span would you expect it to be effective?
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by smallerfish 2mo ago
Anybody have a non paywall link to the paper?
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by smallerfish 2mo ago
Have you seen Real Engineering's analysis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpdUNMt2yg
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by smallerfish 3mo ago
Still perverse incentives. In this case the government is implicitly biased against startups competing against a giant.
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by smallerfish 3mo ago
AliExpress is less shady. If only they had customer service and a decent UI.
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by smallerfish 3mo ago
Ah that's why Opus has been so slow for the last couple of days.
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by smallerfish 3mo ago
It seems to respond to edits much better than the current production image model, which often stubbornly locks on to prior iterations of the images.
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by smallerfish 3mo ago
> When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it? I think we all do. The word is never the start. The word is just the
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by smallerfish 3mo ago
I'm OP in the thread and I don't agree with this. AI writing is fine, but you can't just stop on the first draft, any more than you can while AI coding (in fact, even less so - your coding is read by computers and to an exten
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by smallerfish 3mo ago
> I dropped eleven LLMs into a 2D battle royale and made them play 30 games. One won 43% of the matches. Three never won a single game. The cheapest model in the lineup beat the most expensive one by 27x on cost per win. Please learn how

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