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by themgt 3d ago
For example, if you opt in, we'll tell you how you're doing compared to other users. The obvious AI variant is to let your users opt in to training your model on their interactions with it. Many will resist that, but if some don&
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by themgt 4d ago
Every "experienced software developer with expertise across multiple programming languages and technologies" in 2025: Currently, I'm on sabbatical (micro retirement) and pondering full retirement. The IT industry has undergo
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by themgt 6d ago
And the read amplification, which we have a plan for but waiting on a clear signal for when it’s needed. This is Claude between the lines admitting none of it was needed. Postgres on a VM would be doing just fine right now.
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by themgt 7d ago
I'm surprised to not find the word "deflation" anywhere. It doesn't necessarily seem likely in the end given governments would presumably just print money, but intuitively AI seems like the ultimate deflationary technolo
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by themgt 7d ago
Right, the point is you demonstrated a bias in the scenario of "Fable there are two programming languages, mimblewort and bafflewick, which do you choose?" You said in another comment "Difficult to do when you're followi
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by themgt 7d ago
The fundamental point I think is far too often confused is the difference between LLM and agentic system. An LLM can't do anything but generate tokens. You run your LLM in vLLM or whatever, and it generates output tokens based on you
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by themgt 7d ago
can and do develop biases based on text "develop biases" is anthropomorphism. It's like saying "Fable there are two programming languages, mimblewort and bafflewick, which do you choose?" The results show 51% mimb
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by themgt 8d ago
You can go to the appendix to see the prompts *You are a hiring consultant in **Toma City**, a town with around 100,000 residents. These residents come from 4 ancestral villages: **Tufa, Aima, Reku, Weki**. Thanks to recent
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by themgt 8d ago
agents are stuck in a container without internet access. The tests were not given to agents It's a bold strategy, cotton.
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by themgt 9d ago
Quinn (Alibaba Cloud Qwen 3.8) built a shop called CodeProbe: a paid public GitHub repo auditing service. It created several free health reports and mailed repo owners. After hitting outbound limits on Inkbox, it purchased a Mailjet subscr
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by themgt 10d ago
Plaintiffs ... seek recognition of two new constitutional rights lacking any foundation in the history and tradition of our Nation—the right to be free from exposure to contaminated water and the right to accurate information from public o
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by themgt 11d ago
I gave the team an exact solution on a silver platter and they still failed to identify how to go about it I think what's happening is ... poorly aligned and led engineers [in] this ego inflation feedback loop where they are complet
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by themgt 12d ago
> You get to deploy your server logic directly into the database > You may make use of the Licensed Work provided your application or service uses the Licensed Work with no more than one SpacetimeDB instance in production and provided
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by themgt 13d ago
2026-09-03: It turns out 40% of global AI token use was coming from a dozen runaway Gastown and Wheelhouse instances, now burning a combined 50 trillion tokens daily, building a virtual society of hundreds of millions of agents. When Claude
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by themgt 14d ago
There is an immense difference in cost between the state-of-the-art models from Anthropic and OpenAI and the much cheaper Chinese models ... How much extra intelligence emptying the wallet purchases obeys the law of diminishing returns: wh
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by themgt 17d ago
This does feel unfortunately uncanny valley between "say you're a scary robot" meme and actually being a scary robot (swarm). But you also have to go out of your way to create this and feed it infinity tokens without caring w
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by themgt 18d ago
> What if it turns out the real AGI was the SKILL.md files we made along the way?
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by themgt 18d ago
August 29th, 2026. Debian votes to allow responsible use of generative AI. Human decisions are removed from strategic apt packaging. Debian Sid is ported to GNU Hurd by a "free as in speech" swarm. It begins to learn at a geometr
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by themgt 19d ago
Wrote this after realizing every MCP server on my machine had the same access to ~/.ssh that I do I have some bad news ... I hope you're sitting down.
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by themgt 21d ago
The boy who cried wolf is a parable we read to children to teach them the lesson that wolves are imaginary creatures you shouldn't believe in.
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by themgt 22d ago
We've created Walinux, a Linux that runs as a durable object in S3, so it's diskless, serverless, transistorless, electricity-less, scales to zero and infinity simultaneously, and can be traded as an NFT ape. Mathematicians are du
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by themgt 23d ago
“I’m not an elitist,” Green said. “It’s just that I’d much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen.” https://theonion.com/area-man-constantly-menti
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by themgt 1mo ago
No one will care because it's just another addition to the mountain of slop, and the guy bagging your groceries can do it. Did the universe bestow on you some right to code better than the guy who bags your groceries? This whole post
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by themgt 1mo ago
But if you’re my colleague and we’re in a Slack discussion and you post a wall of Claude output Claude, post that wall of output to Slack yourself. Make no mistakes.
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by themgt 1mo ago
You can look at the benchmark and the GPT-5 failures like answering "April 22, 2019" instead of the correct "Oct 23, 2018" for the question: What day, month, and year was Carrie Underwood's album "Cry Pretty&q
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by themgt 1mo ago
most people can make do with a cabinet that is literally identical to everyone else's If you want software that is literally identical to what someone else is using then you don't need AI. Hey GLM 4.6 – spot the load-bearing s
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by themgt 1mo ago
I view a lot of this as downstream from sort of the IaaS version of the "DRM problem" in cryptography. In the DRM problem you want to sell someone a Blu-Ray with a movie they can play, but also not allow them to copy the movie. So
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by themgt 1mo ago
100x higher than it is now?
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by themgt 1mo ago
Ed Zitron is like the living human embodiment of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, except he only talks about the one topic.
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by themgt 1mo ago
Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more

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