sramam

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by sramam 3mo ago
> Key things I like about Cursor (and I recognize I'm dating myself a bit here) What a world we live in - "dating oneself" is measured in weeks/months! :)
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by sramam 7mo ago
These examples are going to be lagging indicators of the underlying sentiment. Just because it cannot be done today, doesn't mean there is not a real appetite in large enterprises to do exactly this. Without naming names, I know of at
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by sramam 8mo ago
What fraction of the remaining population would be able to pay for these services?
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by sramam 11mo ago
I work in enterprise IT and sometimes wonder if we should add the equivalent energy calculations of human effort - both productive and unproductive - that underlies these "output/cost" comparisons. I realize it sounds inhuman
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by sramam 11mo ago
Interesting - have you tried sending the image and 'hallucinated' text together to a review LLM to fix mistakes? I don't have a use case of 100s or 1000s of hand-written notes have to be transcribed. I have only done this wi
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by sramam 1y ago
I think there is a difference between type system or Language Server completions and AI generated completion. When the AI tab completion fills in full functions based on the function definition you have half typed, or completes a full test
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Things I Learned About Information Retrieval in Two Years at a Vector DB Co(leoniemonigatti.com)
4 points by sramam 1y ago|0 comments
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by sramam 1y ago
Aren't the insufficiencies of the LLMs a temporary condition? And as with any automation, there will be a select few who will understand it's inner workings, and a vast majority that will enjoy/suffer the benefits.
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by sramam 1y ago
do tools like cursor get a special pass? Or do they do some magic? I'm always amazed at how well they deal with diffs. especially when the response jank clearly points to a "... + a change", and cursor maps it back to a pro
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by sramam 1y ago
I know very little in this field, but does this mean they the LED color is serving as debug/log messages for the training process? It sure seems so to my naive reading, and seems so clever. We use different LED lights to indicate
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by sramam 2y ago
This is so funny! However it can't even be called hallucinating. Imagine the incident "postmortem": But the AI was trained on White House press briefings Made my day...
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by sramam 2y ago
Have you looked at https://moondream.ai/ ?
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by sramam 2y ago
Interesting take. Completely agree that product requirements document is a good mental models for system description. However, aren't bug-reports+PRs approximating a chat-interface?
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by sramam 2y ago
That is a fair point. This was the final technical screen so definitely something worth doing in my case. The reason I posted a reply was there is a lot of negativity around AI in the hiring process. This was an excellent example of using A
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by sramam 2y ago
I recently completed a take-home assignment with the following instructions: <instructions> This project is designed to evaluate your ability to: - Deconstruct complex problems into actionable steps. - Quickly explore and adopt
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by sramam 2y ago
vramework looks really well thought out. Is it in use by anyone yet?
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by sramam 2y ago
> using a different--and, ideally, new to me--language for each problem Perhaps this is why?
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by sramam 2y ago
I concur that asking devs how they use AI is a great idea. Recently, I shared a code base with a junior dev and she was surprised with the speed and sophistication of the code. The LLM did 80+% of the "coding". What was telling wa
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by sramam 2y ago
Isn't this shortsighted in the sense that it removes all incentive for the creators to create? A pre-click quality signal is more interesting and fair I imagine. Though I don't know how one can build a solution that is not game-a
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by sramam 2y ago
Very interesting. Thank you getting into the details. Do you chunk the text that goes into the BM25 index? For the hypothetical answer, do you also prompt for "chunk size" responses?
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by sramam 2y ago
In the enterprise, the cost of failure to ones career/reputation is unreasonably high. pg's reference to "most skillful liars in the world" stuck out to me. The extreme conservatism employed by managers to prevent failu
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by sramam 2y ago
This is so cool. Question (caveat: first export to treesitter and tools like this): Is there a reason the example demonstrates the use of depth as a variable instead of it being built in? Nesting level of a particular "type" is ge
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by sramam 2y ago
I have always wondered if projects like this would be better off having a pay-as-you-go-model. One example: - Minimum account balance to start: $10. - $1/use - Then top-off as you need - no balance expiry (outside service g
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by sramam 2y ago
Doesn't that depend on what context a person knew you at - personal or professional? The personal side typically will center on emotional aspects of being human. However what you do with your intellect is also a major part of being hum
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by sramam 2y ago
This looks fantastic. Just the notion of a hyperlinked code-playground is fantastic. Not to mention the content of the book. And a side project at that? Wow. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
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by sramam 2y ago
You are arguing the difference between the letter and spirit of the law.
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by sramam 2y ago
I am torn between marveling at the satire of this comment and crying at the truth it reveals
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by sramam 2y ago
Have you considered LiteLLM?
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by sramam 2y ago
This looks fantastic! Thanks for building. Given that single projects are not that large, is there a reason you chose Postgres? I imagine using sqlite would reduce the installation complexity of the solution.
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by sramam 3y ago
I wonder if the 5-6% is an accurate estimate. Some back-of-the-envelope math: - K-12 enrollment in 2021 was 49.4MM [1] - Assuming even distribution across 13 grades, that's 3.8MM / academic year. - 1MM ~= 25%, though if one factor

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