takwatanabe

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by takwatanabe 6mo ago
We build and run a multi-agent system. Today Cursor won. For a log analysis task — Cursor: 5 minutes. Our pipeline: 30 minutes. Still a case for it: 1. Isolated contexts per role (CS vs. engineering) — agents don't bleed into each othe
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by takwatanabe 6mo ago
Knowing fundamentals gives you deeper intuition about the technology, at every layer. When compilers appeared, you no longer needed to understand assembly and registers. But knowing how assembly and registers actually work makes you better
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by takwatanabe 6mo ago
Right. At Opus 4.6 rates, once you're at 700k context, each tool call costs ~$1 just for cache reads alone. 100 tool calls = $100+ before you even count outputs. 'Standard pricing' is doing a lot of work here lol
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by takwatanabe 6mo ago
As a psychiatrist, this problem reminds me of something we studied for a long time. Patients get worse in areas we are not measuring, but the numbers we record still look normal. We learned that checking results catches things that checking
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by takwatanabe 6mo ago
The coffee machine example is interesting. That's procedural memory in neuroscience. You don't memorize each machine. You abstract the steps. Grind, filter, add grounds, pour water. Then you adapt to any machine. LLMs can't
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by takwatanabe 6mo ago
I know Sonnet 4.6 has a 1M context window. I use it every day. But in my experience with Claude Code and Cursor, performance clearly drops between 20k and 200k context. External memory is where the real fix is, not bigger windows.
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by takwatanabe 6mo ago
Yeah, fair enough. I leaned on Claude to clean up my English. I normally write in Japanese. The clinical stuff is mine though, I run a psych clinic in Japan (link in profile). Should've just written it messier.
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by takwatanabe 6mo ago
The post-it note analogy is good, but as a psychiatrist, I'd frame it differently: LLMs are essentially patients with anterograde amnesia. They can reason brilliantly within a single conversation — just like an amnesic patient can hold