steno132

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by steno132 3mo ago
My first time using Grok. I'd been so used to using AI models that declined to do things I told them, like tagging people in a video feed, helping me "optimize" my taxes or managing my Twitter bot farm. Grok just did these th
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by steno132 3mo ago
But practically AI inference requires substantial local computing resources. It's not some web app, it's a order of magnitude more compute needed
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by steno132 3mo ago
Agreed. I feel like Alphabet (who wrote this post) has kind of lost track of what they're espousing here. Self driving cars were the "monkey" 10 years ago but now they are largely derisked. I'd like to see Alphabet worki
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by steno132 3mo ago
Seems like you tore through some outdated Jira tickets, which is cool, but what was the impact of your work? Hard doesn't mean impactful. In fact that's one of the biggest mistakes I see junior engineers make! But glad you got tha
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by steno132 3mo ago
This is a great initiative. Postgres was written in the 1980s and we can't afford to have our most utilized workloads running on a software written before most of us even existed. LLMs make it possible to rewrite Postgres and we should
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by steno132 3mo ago
What I'm saying is that Postgres was built for a long gone age. We need a extensible database written in Rust which can serve as a foundation for any data system. We don't need a relic of the 1980s serving our most critical worklo
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by steno132 3mo ago
Take a example. You could be a hunter gatherer, you could grow all your own crops from scratch, you could forsake all modern medicine and rely on superstition - would you be considered a wise person? You figured out things a lot of people d
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by steno132 3mo ago
My view is, if you're going to use the service - you should give the data. It's like using Gmail and expecting them not to train their AI models on your data - how can you expect that when they're giving you a secure, reliabl
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by steno132 3mo ago
Exactly, thank you, we are on the same page! It's great to be able to use our own devices and not have their compute coopted by a third party. I'd rather not have intensive compute needed shifted onto my personal machine which I w
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by steno132 3mo ago
What's wrong with the data being used for something else? Someone is providing digital intelligence to us, saving us many hours a week, so the least we can do is provide them a little data so they are able to improve their service. It
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by steno132 3mo ago
GPT1 was released in 2018, so yes, since then.
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by steno132 3mo ago
Practically if you're running a small personal automation project you're not going to want to waste a lot of time configuring and tuning a local model. You want to build the automation and move on. If you're building a automa
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by steno132 3mo ago
This is dumb. Don't do hard things, do things which have a high ROI. I could try to swim across the Pacific Ocean, walk across Siberia or consume a family size portion of McDonalds in a single sitting. All those things are hard. All th
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by steno132 3mo ago
Test driven development is one of the worst ideas nowadays in the LLM age. We have models that can consistently write expert level, usually bug free code for you and rapidly fix even complex bugs in your codebase. The token cost and tech de
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by steno132 3mo ago
I don't get this obsession with smaller models. I've been using Claude and GPT models for years and have had zero issues with them. I see absolutely no benefit to me as a end user for a local model which is going to take up more o
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by steno132 3mo ago
This is just narrow thinking. Say Claude did increase the bugs in rsync by a negligible factor. So what? You've saved a significant amount of time for a decent number of humans, and if those humans are working on other projects, the ov
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by steno132 3mo ago
I would argue that for all but the largest tech companies you only need a single data system which is Postgres. Message brokers, analytical databases all can be built on Postgres. Unfortunately, Postgres as it's built now lacks any sem
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by steno132 3mo ago
It's really hypocritical for the US to cooperate with Russia on space, even take their help on repairing the ISS, only to sanction them and even their trading partners for buying their oil. It's a hot take but I do think the US sh
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by steno132 3y ago
Java developers tend to produce more value since they can write the code in a more concise way using Lambdas, functional interfaces, record classes, etc. Overengineering like in your example above can be done in any language, but shouldn&#x
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by steno132 3y ago
Yes, SIMD is possible. But what about the other more obscure hardware features there's no nice library for? It's much easier to use those in Rust than Go.
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by steno132 3y ago
See, this is a problem I see many junior engineers struggle with: Excessive desire to make one's own life easier at the cost of customers. Yes, your codebase is nice and elegant and maintainable. But you haven't shipped as many fe
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by steno132 3y ago
Agreed. We should make life easier for our users. That's why a language like Python or Java, with a faster development time, where we can fix bugs faster and ship features faster, is vastly preferable.
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by steno132 3y ago
For all the hate: Elon ships. And OpenAI ships. People claim OpenAI is closed, that they are controlled by Microsoft, that they don't care enough about safety... But the fact is, Anthropic, Google Brain, even Meta -- OpenAI blows them
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by steno132 3y ago
Elon’s arguably the greatest founder in history. Either him, or JP Morgan. He doesn’t need to be more like a physician, physicians need to be more like him.
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by steno132 3y ago
I've said this before and I'll say this again: Space is not a amateur game. I see a lot of young SV types thinking they want to build a deep tech space company. And they can. But it requires a couple years of deep training in of a
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by steno132 3y ago
I once said that "just as there's no founder like Elon, there's no Java expert like Andrew (project author)" Andrew's Java skills are at a different level. I only briefly met him once, but he used to be a core contr
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by steno132 3y ago
Hard disagree. What's the last major feature Twitter shipped before Elon? Keep in mind they had 8000 employees Just in the last one year, we've gotten: Twitter Notes, long form video, checkmarks for everyone, subscriptions for cre
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by steno132 3y ago
Twitter Notes, long form video, checkmarks for everyone, subscriptions for creators, edit tweets, see # of replies and likes on a tweet And that's just in 1 year
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by steno132 3y ago
Elon was (sadly) right. His cuts were painful but they produced a much leaner and more productive company at Twitter. They actually ship now. Nat Friedman once said on Twitter that tech companies are 2-5x overstaffed and everyone knows this
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by steno132 3y ago
Exactly. He's mercurial, he doesn't think things through properly but how many founders have created a $1 trillion company? Let alone SpaceX, Boring Co, Neuralink, and X.ai

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