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Comment · 2 hours ago
And 10x the time.
Comment · 4 hours ago
I think agy has a “questions pending “ pattern for waiting questions rather than popups. I don’t like it but sounds like they were solving your issue
Comment · 4 hours ago
Omg this is amazing and solves so many of the issues I have with Yoto!
Comment · 1 day ago
The top 0.001% has about 6% of the planet's wealth. ~60K people have a tremendous influence on politics, media and political discourse. Just a staggering amount of resources and power. Hardly an "out-group".
Comment · 1 day ago
Whataboutism like this always misses the scale of it. Imagine Breaking Bad but with Crypto - suddenly all of Walt's cash logistics problems go away because doing crime in cash is not the same as crypto - the scale and ease are very different.
Comment · 1 day ago
If you leave agents to figure it out, they will spend time figuring it out. If you give agents run-books and roles, they will align with the role at once.
Comment · 1 day ago
That’s because the ultra wealthy are funding new talking points.
Comment · 2 days ago
I’m sure carbon is great but also Google stock just took a pretty big hit so…
Comment · 2 days ago
I love this never-ending people having vastly different experiences situation with LLMs. In my experience, Gemini flash 3.8 is an exceptional model and is the bulk of my agentic use as someone who bounces around models as soon as they come out. I would say it’s the best flash model until 1017 came out. It might still be better than 1017.
Comment · 3 days ago
Gemini 3.8 Flash is so good in Pi. It may not show up in benchmarks but consistently good performance.
Comment · 4 days ago
Baseten has flash at 800t/s.
Comment · 4 days ago
You are missing a critical third - people organize and via unions or the polls push back and require less work. There is no reason we aren’t working seven days a week beyond people fighting not to.
Comment · 5 days ago
I'll note - it's possible to get something out of LLMs that's readable, e.g. ADRs4AI is a method plus tools for recording the decisions you make while working with an AI coding assistant. As you work, the AI writes decision records into your repository. When it needs your input, it writes a question with options, a recommendation, its reasoning, and its confidence. You answer, often in one word, from VS Code or a phone app. The reasoning and your answer stay in the repo, so future sessions, with you or another AI, can see why things were done.

But it doesn't come out without the context to guide it (prompting/skills/etc).

Comment · 5 days ago
People are trying to explain but it doesn’t seem to be clicking. I’ll give it a try and why LLM slop is so hard to read -

Your decisions start compounding. This keeps the why, so it compounds.

These are two sentences from the post that are supposed to be heavy hitter marketing lines but they are completely unable to be parsed in English. This is the gotcha of LLMs - it looks like words but there’s no actual writing ability here - just next token prediction.

Decisions don’t compound. You might say the the outcomes of poor decisions compound or something like that but these sorts of sentences are the uncanny valley of writing - it seems like writing but something is very wrong with it and that’s because it’s not actually stating anything.

Likewise “This keeps the why, so it compounds “ again - not actually a thought. What is compounding? What is growing here? Also no one talks like this, mainly because this isn’t actually conveying information.

The reason people hate AI slop is because at first glance it seems like you’re reading something that has something to say but you quickly find it’s an incredible amount of work to parse it due to poor readability, sentence structure etc and then further discover- oh there was nothing to gain from that effort in the first place. So the habit becomes “Ah slop? Not worth the time. Close tab.”

Comment · 5 days ago
Our pediatrician told me something that always stuck - “You just need 1% more willpower than they have.” Always made setting boundaries a little easier.

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