toddmorrow

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by toddmorrow 6mo ago
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4143101/pity-the-developer... I just wanted to note that the frontier companies are resorting to extreme peer pressure -- and lies -- to force it down our throats
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by toddmorrow 6mo ago
Another example I was simply unable to function with Continue in agent mode. I had to switch to chat mode. even tho I told it no changes without my explicit go ahead, it ignored me. it's actually kind of flabbergasting that the creator
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by toddmorrow 6mo ago
I get 10% veteran disability for it. the best time to file a claim is now because they'll change the rules soon and eliminate this benefit
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
yep. but I don't know what folder. maybe under logs. it's really a new category
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
his dilemma wasn't moral. he has none. it was a marketing snafu. he marketed anthropic as different when the cost of claiming that was zero. now there's a cost, and he immediately changes his tune. his statement was essentially &q
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
you're suffering from Stockholm syndrome
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
If I wanted a pcb before tariffs, China + shipping << USA + domestic shipping - I bet that holds true after tariffs. (it does, actually): PCB Cost: $5.00 Shipping:$5.63 Total:$10.63 - I bet that holds true for custom aluminum parts,
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
I was very disappointed to see the little 8% solar. I see that methane isn't budging. if a legacy industry is politically powerful enough, they can absolutely maintain a backwards situation.
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
city wide municipal Internet service, which is admittedly last mile service, was so cheap it didn't even make a dent in the local tax rates. the cost was nominal. naturally the centralized providers fought to make municipal Internet il
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
a lot of chat websites have a no registration mode so people can try it out
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
AGI = Reasoning I can reason. Sometimes. It's very hard. My buddy Deepseek can't. This is like the scene in Blue's Clues where the answer is obvious and the kids are yelling but blue can't see it. Facts abound, but not c
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
so open claw will be neither open nor claw
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
this is like the doomsday clock 84% is meaningless if these things can't reason getting closer and closer to 100%, but still can't function
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
gitcoin lol
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
right, the ethereum gets spent whether the transaction is cancelled or not. and that's an issue
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
there are many many examples where paying a nominal fee seems like it would get rid of the clowns. and it would. almost any place where the public can "post". but the challenge is to not inadvertently throw out the good ones. once
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
this is just marketing press from big AI
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
LLMs are like a jack hammer. very good if you hold it and point it. you cannot let go of it for more than half a second. it can hammer but it cannot guide itself.
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
LLMs have irritated me with bad solutions but they've never hurt my feelings. I can't say that about a single person I know. They're better people than people lol
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
Facebook is what killed that. Not AI
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
i have preemptively switched to Deepseek. they'll never remove the free tier because that's how they stick it to Scam Altman and the like
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
I have an llm riding shotgun and I still very much program by hand. it's not one extreme or the other. whatever I copy from the llm has to be redone line by line anyways. I understand all of my code because I touch every line of it
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by toddmorrow 7mo ago
[using an lmm as stack overflow] even if you check and redo after paste, you need to check for gotchas. I wish I had a nickel for every time the llm gave me a solution with a hidden limitation. assume that it violates all your unspoken assu
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by toddmorrow 8mo ago
for a group of people as smart as developers, it sure took us long enough to realize billionaires were liquidating our code integrity to become trillionaires
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by toddmorrow 8mo ago
Google Maps completely and utterly obliterated my ability to navigate. I no longer actively navigated. I passively navigated. This is no different. And I'm not talking about vibe coding. I just mean having an llm browser window open. W
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by toddmorrow 8mo ago
I'm using a modified version of open Dev. it's just a chat interface for open router. I load a combo box of all the free models. it's fast and it's on a tab where it can't hurt my code
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by toddmorrow 8mo ago
I've you're earning good money and you're young, DON'T QUIT
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by toddmorrow 8mo ago
they don't have reasoning yet numerous attempts are being made by edge researchers to fix it but their just throwing stuff at the wall I expect gradual reasoning improvements... not agi to pop out of a box and surprise everyone and...