strange_quark

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by strange_quark 6d ago
Yeah it's very funny that this article is talking about Flash, a tool that let semi-technical non-programmers cook up insane websites (hey, that sounds familiar!).
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by strange_quark 13d ago
For $100 billion we could pay ivy-league level tuition for a million people. You don’t think investing that much in education would yield some good research or companies?
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by strange_quark 13d ago
Reminiscent of the infamous Death Star tweet last year right before GPT-5 was released.
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by strange_quark 15d ago
Agree. Even Zitron's predictions about AI peaking are arguably correct if you step outside the silicon valley bubble. People I know who don't work in tech who use AI at work are doing the same stuff they were a couple years ago: t
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by strange_quark 21d ago
The big bet is that the regulations are going to be so onerous that it pulls up the ladder from anyone other than the well-funded players. It's classic regulatory capture. They aren't very subtle about this, it's the whole po
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by strange_quark 21d ago
They wanted this to happen. They've already gotten at least 3 separate news cycles out of this. Look how powerful our AI is [ignore our recklessness].
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by strange_quark 22d ago
At this point why not just say they expect a bajillion dollars in revenue? Would be just as factual of a statement.
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by strange_quark 1mo ago
The problem is the tools. The tools encourage you to hand over all control to the AI, taking the user out of the drivers seats resulting in slop. If we were more honest about where the utility of using LLMs for coding, we wouldn’t be burnin
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by strange_quark 1mo ago
Yeah, this will never happen until governments step in and cause these companies real pain. I mean just look at Crowdstrike. They caused billions and billions in economic damage due to their incompetence, and nothing happened. In fact, thei
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by strange_quark 2mo ago
It's even more concerning that not only did they setup a bad insecure test environment, but nobody realized what was going on for 5 days?! Neither nobody at OAI looked at what their test was doing, and HF didn't realize that they
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by strange_quark 2mo ago
Bad take. What you're describing already exists. > Some will be like nurses, and some will be closer to a medic and a smaller set will be like doctors. Each with increasingly required knowledge and experience to fulfill a needed rol
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by strange_quark 2mo ago
Feature velocity is another that's extremely easy to game. My company is trying this right now: instead of measuring PRs or lines of code, we are measuring number of customer facing features shipped. Well guess what? Everything is now
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by strange_quark 4mo ago
Sure they’re fine at that sort of rote find/replace job as long as it’s relatively straightforward. But it only really works if you do the hard parts yourself then tell the agent to go and do the rote part. Even then I’ve had it turn t
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by strange_quark 4mo ago
100% agree with everything you said. To your point, I don't understand why every acquisition like this isn't treated as a total failure on the part of the AI companies. If Claude is so good and software engineering is a dead caree
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by strange_quark 4mo ago
What does profitable on inference mean? As far as I can tell, none of these companies have rigidly defined it, let alone it being a GAAP number. And yeah, if you subtract out all your R&D, payroll, sales, marketing, and other overhead,
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by strange_quark 4mo ago
Unless they're going to offer offer an insane buyout, like 1+ years of pay + benefits + some accelerated vesting, nobody who doesn't already have something lined up is going to take this offer. It's much better to stay with o
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by strange_quark 4mo ago
I seriously question if you’ve ever actually been to Costco. The produce is generally fine but everything else is good to great quality. I always load up with a huge wedge of parmigiano reggiano, Spanish olive oil, Barolo wine (all Kirkland
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by strange_quark 4mo ago
I think there's also a certain permission structure that once one sufficiently large org does a big round of layoffs and doesn't get punished, a bunch of others will run the same playbook. We've seen this before -- back in 20
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by strange_quark 4mo ago
I've found them super hit or miss for debugging. I've gone down several rabbit holes where the LLM wasted hours of my time for a simple fix. On the other hand, they're awesome for ripping through thousands of log lines and th
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by strange_quark 4mo ago
Organized labor
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
What rapid improvement has occurred, because in this six month AI coding fever dream we've been living in, I really haven't seen anything new in awhile, both in terms of new ideas for AI coding or in new consumer products or servi
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
I've had a similar thought. A super refactor feature would be amazing, but wouldn't fit into the current zeitgeist of agent everything. Hopefully as the hype starts to die down and prices go up, we'll get some of these smalle
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
I hate the calculator argument. Kids still need to learn how to do basic arithmetic by hand. There's a reason that CAS calculators are banned on standardized tests. Even in college, I had classes where profs would force us to do comp
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
Yeah it’s super weird. I know a guy that works there, really nice person outside of work, but the way he talks about his job is so weird. They make corporate expense software but they LARP like they’re on the bleeding edge of tech. My guy y
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
I guess it depends how you define fascinating. I think there's certainly aspects of ML that I find fascinating, but I don't think that LLMs specifically are actually that interesting. In fairness, I'd be lying if I said that
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
> I think LLMs are the most fascinating new piece of computer science to come along in at least the past decade. Agree to disagree. > The academic field of computer science pretty much started as an exploration into whether machines c
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
> I don't need computer science professors to like LLMs, but I still want them to be able to poke at them with a stick without feeling like they are violating their principles regarding energy usage and unlicensed training data. Why
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
I don't get why it's so hard for you and others in this comment section to understand why people hate AI so much because it's not just the theft and environmental destruction. A college professor, especially one at a liberal
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
> In fact I see this pattern a lot. People use LLMs for stuff within their domain of expertise, or just ask them questions about washing cars, and they laugh at how incompetent and illogical they are. Then, hours later, they will happily
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by strange_quark 5mo ago
CFOs or VPs absolutely benefit by hyping their company up to private investors by allowing tokenmaxxing to go on unchecked. Tender offers, acquisitions, and aquihires all exist. Or just good old fashioned resume padding by saying you "

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