taurath

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by taurath 4d ago
It’s Different This Time(tm)
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by taurath 5d ago
Can’t sell Gemini if they were to make Search good. Streaming services already adding in ads to “ad-free” tiers they’ve now named “premium”. Quality of life on the internet has gotten shitty while Reality Classic stays mostly the same, thou
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by taurath 5d ago
I find this explanation has a lot of applications for programmers within companies. It’s one thing to get your LLM to give an answer, it’s another to bring a group of people into shared understanding of a domain.
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by taurath 6d ago
I have home projects like this too, and those techniques can make things well, it can also rabbit hole in ways that are less productive sometimes. I’m constantly trying to push my comfort level and find what I can delegate and what I need t
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by taurath 6d ago
Quality code is easy to make changes to. What makes terrible code terrible is that changes become harder and harder to make over time. LLMs haven’t solved this, but the marketing acts as if it has, and many engineering orgs seem to have ins
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by taurath 6d ago
When the code is shitty it becomes harder and harder for the models to make changes and this grinds progress down to a halt - this has been my experience with “factories” trying them and doing refining steps every few months. I sincerely do
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by taurath 6d ago
Closed loop systems consume like 40% more power, and aren’t recycled - they’re filled with refrigerant. We’re talking in the southwest where the river is running dry, most power plants are natural gas plants and they use water for cooling (
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by taurath 6d ago
It is actually consumed water.
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by taurath 6d ago
Linkedin, Amazon and others have gotten around this by adding a "new" feature, default on. I've gone into privacy settings where everything is unchecked, except a newly added checkbox. This is apparently enough to hold up the
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by taurath 8d ago
> I can’t wait to have an agent navigate and summarize my options for me You must gave no idea how susceptible agents are to marketing! I used agents in conjunction to my own research on a niche item lately and while it was helpful for s
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by taurath 8d ago
The moment code gets written and read back, the decisions made are often treated as gospel by frontier LLMs, even if it was just something that the LLM optimistically created itself. This seems to be one of the core alignment problems to me
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by taurath 8d ago
The waste overall for data centers is beyond terrifying. Enough water for 1.2 billion people. It’s like all the GenX and Boomers looked at the challenges younger people will face and decided make it as bad as possible start kicking them in
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by taurath 9d ago
> What data is actually being collected about the user, and what is done with this data? This question implies that the answer could be something other than the maximum amount of data collection and monetization of that data they can get
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by taurath 9d ago
I watch my frontier models fail to make the simplest tradeoffs in tasks daily. I watch zealots sputter out after the initial burst of activity. I fear for my loved ones when the bills come due and we don’t have an ROI on it, and any model t
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by taurath 9d ago
Meanwhile a huge portion of management and leadership in software companies are encouraging everyone to de facto stop looking at code and let the LLM and a bunch of boundaries handle this for you.
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by taurath 10d ago
I can’t help but think the effective outcome of using this is gonna be a ton of language quirk usage, mass functional chaining, and single letter variables. Optimizing for fewest LOC is probably slightly more bad than more LOC, and both are
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by taurath 10d ago
Taking a profit means you have to show numbers and the sooner you show numbers the harder it is to take people’s money.
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by taurath 12d ago
I am a software dev and use LLMs daily but that’s not what I’m talking about, I’m talking about vibe coded products built new. I find LLMs much less useful at things that are not already built. I’ve watched initiative after initiative fail
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by taurath 13d ago
They were loaded before owning real estate next to Stanford. It isn’t some mom and pop they were upper crust > Rahim co-founded the Amidi Group in 1980, a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic
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by taurath 13d ago
Where are these products, I would like to see them
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by taurath 13d ago
I find it regularly incapable of doing the most basic things - maybe the idea is to think in terms of more detail? It’s kind of like saying what’s the point of poetry when a dictionary exists
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by taurath 15d ago
> If many people hated their products, they wouldn't use them You do understand how drugs work right?
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by taurath 15d ago
The Spotify model is basically just Amazon’s team-owned KPIs and independence, put into a UI so you can really see how much their app is conways law. This is why all the sections of Amazon.com are barely coherent. AWS does this too but it’s
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by taurath 15d ago
IME Claude gets worse about a week or two after a new model comes out, and then continuously a little worse as time goes on. It’s especially bad when a new model comes out. I assume it’s just to increase the delta so people will spend more
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by taurath 15d ago
> Not a role requiring Fourth Amendment dogmatism: We will teach you our regulatory agility as long as you can ship code faster than regulatory oversight. This seems like the kind of statement that should get a company’s founders and boa
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by taurath 15d ago
It’s so interesting that the example training given is game boy advance emulator as such a large task, when misalignments and task veering happen so regularly in smaller bits.
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by taurath 16d ago
If it’s on here, it’s automatically not cool enough to be the next thing. I’d bet that whatever the next thing is can and will explicitly exclude the VC tech crowd. Yall get that tech is considered like the evil empire to be toppled right?
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by taurath 16d ago
Fiduciary responsibility seems to mean that one has no choice but to follow orders if under threat - something that is worth remembering when it seems that corporate power is larger than state power. Also shows how a lot of people making mo
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by taurath 18d ago
There are arguments against rent control as an analgesic, but it being a disincentive for landlord/investor altruism isn’t one of them.
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by taurath 20d ago
The size of the stick here is in direct proportion to your proximity to power.

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