swatcoder

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by swatcoder 10d ago
> it's just Claude working on the code, so the details matter less If you're not billed for usage, anyway. Otherwise, for the other 99% of folks, that attitude is of course a pit trap that captures code bases and makes them mai
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by swatcoder 16d ago
No, they use "the same cadence and cliches" because they inflate a short and ambiguous prompt into long and specific prose by making statistical assumptions about what best fills in the gaps. It's not a training problem, it&#
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by swatcoder 20d ago
Yes. The infancy phase of this technology is represented by the pursuit of making wildly grand, wildly expensive, all-purpose models that somehow discern a user's full accurate intent from a lazy, underdeveloped, vague idea that they a
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by swatcoder 21d ago
There's soooo much by way of experiments, explorations, tinkering, and even projects that you can't possibly pursue through a some SaaS API. The more reasonable comparison is against rented GPU's, while looking at tradeoffs i
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by swatcoder 21d ago
Compare to the cost of professional-grade tools in other trades and craft hobbies. Sure, $4000 can be a lot of if you're a casual hobbyist or are struggle to meet everyday lifestyle costs, but it's definitely not "insane&quot
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by swatcoder 24d ago
Well, there's certainly no objectivity in academic sociology or history, but there's a culture of trying to build narratives and justify viewpoints through richer collections of evidence: multiple testimonies, contemporaneous re
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by swatcoder 24d ago
I'm sure these are all entertaining and engaging and reveal some exciting insider details, but it's worth keeping in mind that memoirs like these are closer to fiction than most things we think of as "nonfiction". They&#
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by swatcoder 26d ago
Yeah, but as you're "going mad" at Facebook, you keep engaging with the site. You try to peer through the noisy results to see if any of them are actually a match, you try again with different terms, you give up and engage wi
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by swatcoder 26d ago
In my professional career, my clients value the depth of ready knowledge that helps me use my tools with particular insight and finesse -- a kind of knowledge that exams demonstrated far more effectively than homework when I was back in sch
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by swatcoder 28d ago
Well, it's unusual to "generalize" an idea if you only had two exemplars, one so old and so complicated that all your terms are specifically referent to it and often even hard to be precise about; and the other is both extrem
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by swatcoder 28d ago
Your description grants psychological characteristics like intelligence, will, and intent to the AI. The AI is an intelligent and willful agent that has some intent to take over the firm and is doing that by making strategic hiring decision
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by swatcoder 28d ago
Of course, the news isn't what 's being said but that it's being said. It suggests that they're worried that key talent may get lured away by better liquidity at Anthropic, Google, etc before they can secure the offer
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by swatcoder 28d ago
Over time, I've learned to accept that many people -- even very clever ones -- are incapable of holding a metaphor at arm's length. Once they accept the words of a metaphor as applicable at all, the metaphor collapses entirely int
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by swatcoder 28d ago
The software is "easy", it's the business and operations that are hard: scaling the infrastructure reliably; finding revenue sources with secure margins; deflecting regulatory and risks responsibility; billing and collecting
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by swatcoder 28d ago
In the event that the AI bubble doesn't burst, Stripe needs to have a stake in whatever's coming. They have time to explore and pursue specific strategies, but they just needed to make some big and compatible buy. In this particul
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by swatcoder 28d ago
> The people in support of these bans generally aren't interested in "good vibe coded" software. They oppose LLMs altogether on various grounds, not just the output quality. I think you're very wrong. I think many of
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by swatcoder 28d ago
Benchmarks are the BMI of model evaluation. They may have utility in trying to look at the whole landscape of models, but are very misleading when it comes to making 1:1 comparisons or in developing confidence at to how a given model will d
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by swatcoder 29d ago
Etsy still welcomes small craft artists and makers and provides a convenient e-commerce portal for them, but yes, it's the discovery that's been ruined. They originally broke through and defined themselves by insisting that vendor
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Maybe you were lucky to be raised into financial literacy and only circulate around other people who have, and so can only imagine -- with charity -- what other people must be thinking when they take loans. But others here have been truly n
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
So far, AI lowers the quality and increases the quantity of the media we experience. Blogslam has become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse. Bot operations on social media sites and forums have become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse. A
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
What I read is that you're self-conscious about your writing style and that you find the LLM processed version of your own stream of thoughts to be helpful to you yourself. Which is fine for you, but doesn't change that many peopl
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
Sure enough, the prompt is infinitely more expressive and interesting. AI writing is like the voice anonymizer they'd use in TV interviews when they wanted to hide the identity of the person speaking. The output is more adherant to con
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
> Most synths/controllers today don't come with a manual, and rarely provide all the information you'd need to create software to interact with it. They just expect you to use their shitty software, or worse, their mobile
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
As a founder raising those big rounds, you'd enjoy a lot of personal luxury and develop a gtowing network of opportunity. But the odds of your business catastrophocally collapsing on itself or being aggressively gutted in an acquisitio
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
> > bad engineers were always a liability > With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization. Yup, and that's going to be the comeuppance for a decade of aggresiv
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
> Prose? Don't care, I'm not writing literature, I'm delivering a message. If AI helps that be more clear and faster, great. What you've probably just never noticed is that voice is a critical part of communication
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by swatcoder 1mo ago
First, most tech companies of comparable size to your customers have negative margins and survive on investment cycles, and the tech companies that are bigger haven't offered human support to anyone in decades. (And indeed, everyone al
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
> Deeply embarassing What signals are you using for this assessment? Are they indicating embarassment? Do you honestly see their customers being concerned over this? Like lion tamers in a circus, Anthropic and OpenAI thrive on the thea
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
The late-Amazon process for this is to just send you whatever's marked as the hard drive in their warehouse, which may be that actual product, a counterfeit, or a brick in the hard drive's package. Later, when you want to try the
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
> you must uphold these rules at all times"? You need to let go of the idea that this is something LLM's can do. They can't. At best, they can bias towards rules conformance with more or less likelihood, but coverage and c

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