stuartjohnson12

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by stuartjohnson12 11d ago
I am absolutely mindboggled at the idea that you think the US should not guarantee safe drinking water everywhere for everyone. Unless this comment is pedantic legal snark.
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by stuartjohnson12 21d ago
If you look at the difference between AI in 1960 and AI in 2020, you probably won't see much much difference. If you look at the difference between 2020 and 2026, the difference is around 80% of the time I spent as a software engineer
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by stuartjohnson12 28d ago
The debate about ROI isn't about whether everyone is going to throw their hands up and stop using AI tooling - the debate is about where that value is going to be captured. It's pretty clear that using some degree AI assistance fo
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
When was the last time a formerly undigitised book that was printed but fell out of print suddenly became a success after being discovered in the last, say, 50 years? Is once in 100 years the sort of level of frequency we're talking ab
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
I pre-empted this - my argument does not apply to texts where the physical object is a major part of the historical value of the thing. No, I'm not saying to destroy one of the four remaining Magna Cartas that were meticulously copied
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
Well, you probably weren't going to go and find any rare, non-digitised books to physically go and read (unless you were going to, in which case, rock on), so we can start by benchmarking relative probability there. 1. At some level of
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
I think people are, on the whole, too precious about old things. In the case of books produced after major commercial printing began, I don't believe it is the paper that imbues the book with historical value. Indeed, I think there&#x2
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
fable on longer coding tasks with fable subagents will easily chew through hundreds of dollars in a single run.
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
you did screw up the words i regret to inform you
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
He did attack the argument - he argued reductio ad absurdum that classifying "democratic" as "open to everyone" wouldn't be a sensible definition, because the argument would set such a high bar for democracy that no
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
You don't need to speculate about whether a tech company with a monopoly over a major distribution channel will extract rent from it - it's incredibly profitable to do so.
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by stuartjohnson12 2mo ago
The complaint is that the offer is a great deal with no downsides for consumers, and this is likely to result in Cloudflare having a lot of power (which they currently don't have) as a market maker. This position as market maker would
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by stuartjohnson12 4mo ago
What the hell is going on in this thread? This isn't good. The "threats" don't make sense. Oh no, all the sensitive information in my package.json...
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by stuartjohnson12 4mo ago
I hate when people say this, as if there's any world in which I would want my AWS API gateway to do this, let alone accidentally. HTTP is littered with these footguns, differences between slashes and no slashes is a classic. A good pie
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by stuartjohnson12 4mo ago
I recently saw a funny video on TikTok of someone's proposal where the man was lunging weirdly far forward in order to present the ring. The comment section was full of AI-generated edits to this image which exaggerated it or changed t
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by stuartjohnson12 4mo ago
I do think that AI tools make creativity better and not worse. I grew up with Youtube poops, photoshop, garry's mod, and flash. Being able to go from idea to asset in a fast, throwaway capacity lets you nuance and remix jokes and medi
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by stuartjohnson12 5mo ago
one of my favourite genres of AI generated content is when someone gets so mad at Claude they order it to make a massive self-flagellatory artefact letting the world know how much it sucks
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by stuartjohnson12 6mo ago
and then all the serverless platforms will start using Astral's new rust-based runtime to reduce cold starts, and in theory it's identical, except half of packages now don't work and it's very hard to anticipate which on
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by stuartjohnson12 6mo ago
> No more generic AI slop. Just professional content that sounds human. irony
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by stuartjohnson12 6mo ago
It's from the rapid exploitation of an asset. If I have a cow, I can milk the cow or kill the cow. If a cow costs $1, maybe I can get $5 worth of milk over the cow's lifespan, or I can kill the cow immediately and get $2 of meat.
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by stuartjohnson12 6mo ago
It failed on Reddit because Reddit is maintained by a bunch of volunteers to whom Reddit provides woefully, woefully, horrifically underdeveloped tooling to automate their communities in a more nuanced way. Hacker News has three advantages.
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by stuartjohnson12 6mo ago
VHS, The Dewey Decimal system, punchtape programming, fletching, sailmaking
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by stuartjohnson12 7mo ago
Unfortunately you are replying to an AI spambot
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by stuartjohnson12 7mo ago
...and I usually come to doubt my own intuitions that this is the case when people say things like this, but my experience is usually that the LLM is doing more heavy lifting than you realise. > Distill - deterministic context deduplicat
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by stuartjohnson12 7mo ago
Absolute middlebrow dismissal incoming, but the real thinking atrophy is writing blog posts about thinking atrophy caused by LLMs using an LLM. It is getting very hard to continue viewing HN as a place where I want to come and read content
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by stuartjohnson12 8mo ago
It's only fair that Linux should pay 10% of the license fee for their software to Microsoft in exchange
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by stuartjohnson12 8mo ago
Lots of comments here from new accounts.
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by stuartjohnson12 8mo ago
Anecdotally, from the AI startup scene in London, I do not know folks who swear by Langfuse. Honestly, evals platforms are still only just starting to catch on. I haven't used any tracing/monitoring tools for LLMs that made me fee
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by stuartjohnson12 8mo ago
I think what people miss about indexing on social signals is that convincing social performance is hard. My suspicion when people say things like "ah but if you index on a social signal then everyone will just perform the social signal
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by stuartjohnson12 8mo ago
This is a huge break from the original post you made - take a step back and compare the two. The LLM is tricking you again into thinking that it wasn't trying to make a claim about the world. In the original post, the LLM was causing y

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