tunesmith

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by tunesmith 7d ago
I'm always going to be furious at Apple about ceasing large-housing (flat-head) earbuds. My ear canals just don't take in-ear airpods, and there's nothing to be done about it. I've tried everything. What does work is lar
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by tunesmith 14d ago
Let's say that tomorrow, due to an improved model or whatever, we realize that the most efficient form of code of an app - for an llm to understand and work with - is for it to be in one long spaghetti file. Why wouldn't we do tha
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by tunesmith 26d ago
For me, codex $100 mo/plan and a claude teams account at work (mostly sonnet, some opus), Claude basically feels about as effective as Codex did 4-5 months ago pre-5.6. Claude still has weird patterns of being confident in one answer w
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by tunesmith 1mo ago
On the bet that layoffs will result in programmers ending up at 40% of the staffing level they are now, I will take the over.
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by tunesmith 1mo ago
Generally speaking, the pattern is that people are overestimating how much "work replacement" will happen, and underestimating how much "work shifting" will happen. What is fascinating is how you can witness it at so man
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by tunesmith 1mo ago
All of our developers are now using agents. We're not hand-writing code at all anymore. And yet, some of our developers deliver stories in an hour, others deliver similar complexity stories in a week. Executives are surprised to discov
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by tunesmith 1mo ago
"talking about your mental health" does not mean re-parroting your trauma. there's understanding, re-framing, forgiving, all kind of other things that go beyond the limited belief that talking just calcifies trauma.
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by tunesmith 1mo ago
and if you have a lot of bet opportunities.
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by tunesmith 2mo ago
Honestly I'd like to run it on a novel I've written and haven't released yet. I've been having conversations with Codex about how to write a story "compiler" that tracks static "states" of each charac
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by tunesmith 2mo ago
I like the idea of using something like this as a writing aid, as if to "compile" a story to shake out what contradictions or open plot lines or implications are yet to resolve.
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by tunesmith 2mo ago
I use it for lilypond for notation. I always considered it superior to Finale and Sibelius anyway. Not sure how it stacks up against the more modern commercial notation apps. But I love having a real trackable version history of my pieces.
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by tunesmith 2mo ago
I just had Sol Ultra read the proof and create a graph of it using Concludia (my side project) so you can explore it visually/graphically. I certainly don't understand it though so I have no idea if it's helpful. :) https:&#
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by tunesmith 2mo ago
I think it doesn't prove much that it hasn't happened yet. Companies might just be moving slower than you think, and are still planning on doing it. And, in many corners, "don't manually write code" is being joined
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by tunesmith 2mo ago
How do you mean OpenAI lets you use your own harness? I'm under the impression that a custom harness requires the OpenAI SDK, which requires api tokens rather than plus/pro accounts.
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by tunesmith 3mo ago
Wow, didn't know this existed until today. Thanks!
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by tunesmith 3mo ago
It's interesting to think about how difficult it is to define "fair" with the current system. If a state's population is 60/40 and there are ten districts, do you want them each to be representative at 60/40, a
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by tunesmith 3mo ago
I experience the same with OpenAI, on the $100/month plan. GPT-5.4 is something I still have to challenge: it can bullshit me with bad implementation and add a lot of cruft that costs more time later. GPT-5.5-xhigh is something I have
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by tunesmith 3mo ago
I'm building a website that allows friends to write branching fiction novels together, and another website that allows people to argue and conclude together using first-principles thinking. I've abandoned a project that allows peo
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by tunesmith 3mo ago
I feel like I must have plateued and don't know what to do next to level up. I'm currently on the $100/month codex plan and it seems fine using 5.5-xhigh all the time. I think of what to do next, have a chat session to determ
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by tunesmith 3mo ago
I went through the dotcom crisis and never heard of GFC until today. I've always seen it as the finsys crash.
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
compared to almond farms ? You phrase that as if almond farms use a reasonable amount of water.
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
as opposed to what, though? You don't get a 3% discount for using cash.
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
It was the "honest" stuff that hit my radar, but maybe Claude is just ruining that word for "honest" usage.
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
That's not what OP was saying, they were saying they experienced multiple instances of LLM handling some tricky problem. But just because it can solve Tuesday's problem doesn't mean it can solve Thursday's. And this: &gt
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
In practice, it's more like companies want to spend money on AI because they believe it will save money somewhere else. If instead they see extra cost, then they get all confused. They can't bring themselves to believe that in t
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
I think there's something else psychological going on. What you describe is a rational approach based off of bad values. But I think I'm also seeing something weirdly irrational. It's like an (emotional) depression or somethi
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
> I've had multiple instances now where AI left to it's own devices has solved a tricky problem that I honestly didn't think it was capable of. Who cares that you've had multiple instances? Everyone has had multipl
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
Unfortunately it will take longer for our bosses to walk it back. I feel like I'm fighting the battle daily, telling execs what kind of work LLMs do not replace... it's very slippery, they keep on doing the rhetorical texas two-
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
There should be class action lawsuits just from widespread recognition of corporate wrongdoing.
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by tunesmith 4mo ago
I think there's a way to define it without it either side feeling personally attacked. One of the things I like about using agents for programming is that if the spec is detailed enough, I can implement it in a number of different lang

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