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Comment · 11 days ago
I don't know if this is the correct way but it is the pattern I have fallen into.

Written code is the new compiled code. You never look at it, not even once. Documentation is the new written code.

Every repo has a /docs folder that holds the full specification of the code. Full architectural block diagrams, edge case behavior, style, problem statement, etc. I closely review these docs and make sure that the agent follows these specs and ensures the specs are updated after every code change. In theory an agent could fully rebuild the system from scratch using this documentation.

Maybe this is just pearl clutching, but it helps for when people ask architecture questions and I can answer and pretend I know what's going on.

Comment · 13 days ago
>Theranos generated around 7.8 million test results for Arizona consumers alone. Of those, roughly 834,000 had to be voided or corrected. These were real people getting medical information they relied on.

Those are rookie numbers.

When Merck hid data showing Vioxx was causing heart attacks and death, not only did no one go to jail, but the fines were less than the revenue of the drug.

Vioxx would go on to kill an estimated 50,000 people before being pulled off the market.

Holmes made the mistake of having too few lobbyists and FDA insiders.

Comment · 17 days ago
It's not obvious that the EU has the innovation ability or startup culture necessary to compete with spacex. For example in the whole of the EU, Spotify is the only company less than 25 years old and with a market cap over $50b.
Comment · 21 days ago
On the flip side it stops me constantly for hacking reasons when I tell it to make/install custom firmware to bypass hardware restrictions and get root access on certain systems. I have to constantly remind the agent I work at the company at question and have their permission.
Comment · 1 month ago
What's ironic is that Apple does all their mechanical CAD work for their products in Siemens NX running in Windows VMs.
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Comment · 2 months ago
>But that is considered success is it not?

Not if you took out a $50k loan for an early gen solar system and it now only saves $30 a month.

Comment · 2 months ago
Berkley is defiantly not representative to most of the USA. They have strange regional politics that restricts most residential construction.
Comment · 2 months ago
>250sqm, 30cm thick brick for load bearing + perimeter walls, 30cm rockwool continuous external insulation, aluminium frame triple pane windows, glazured roof tiles, floor heating + wood stove backup, 15kwp solar panels installation, deep well backup, etc.

Even in Mississippi what you describe would not qualify as a "top of the line house". In fact that would be pretty average working class home.

The kind of homes a lawyer or doctor could afford to buy in low cost area like mississippi can easily be 2 or 3x that size and resemble small castles. Think elevators and wrap around double staircases.

Comment · 2 months ago
Be careful with these kind of long term sell back agreements.

In the USA lots of early adopters of solar did so under net metering agreements where excess electricity is sold back at full price. After a number of years it was costing the utility companies too much money. So they updated the terms such that residents with solar buy electricity at retail prices (~$0.25) but sell it back at wholesale (~$0.04).

Comment · 3 months ago
They are saying that AMD's new Epyc Venice CPU has 16 memory channels allowing up to 1.6Tb/s of bandwidth. Which is higher bandwidth than most non-HBM GPUs.

So full CPU local AI inference may become viable option in coming years.

Comment · 3 months ago
My new favorite new passtime with frontier LLMs, keep telling them "I just ate a [non-food object]". Eventually it gets stuck in a loop of telling me to call 911, unlock my front door, and lay on the floor in case I lose consciousness.
Comment · 4 months ago
I'm running qwen 3.6 27b at 8bit quantization and 262k context. It takes 53gb of vram on my system.

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