continuational

Along came a project that required us to build a custom harness. One day we added some very basic coding tools to the harness at a whim, and it just immediately (and surprisingly) blew away everything we'd tried.

Now we do most coding through that, and it's a clear productivity boost (2x?). It still requires hand holding and review, and some amount of manual fixing.

But being able to build things much faster is a lot of fun.

Comment · 2 months ago

Well it's not like most companies can pay for freshly made software; most software today is made for a wide audience, bought frozen and reheated in the microwave.

Maybe freshly prepared software made at home in a less-than-perfect manner for a tiny target audience is still a mouthwatering dish in comparison.

Comment · 2 months ago

Been working on something like that for years: https://www.firefly-lang.org/

Comment · 2 months ago

It's kinda funny there is still software coming out whose security model is "constantly ask the user for permission, and hope they never make a mistake".

It's been tried so many times before, and it never worked.

Comment · 2 months ago

When you have a tradeoff between two parameters, which points dominate the others in the sense that you can't choose another point without getting less of one of the parameters.

Comment · 3 months ago

Why ask GLM-4.7 instead of GLM-5.2?

Comment · 3 months ago

If an alien lands on Earth and learns English, would you deem it non-intelligent if you can tell it apart from a human in conversation?

I think we should consider slime mold intelligent, and realise that it's a spectrum. Path finding is AI. There are probably forms of intelligence we have yet to discover.

Comment · 3 months ago

Maybe.

School shootings happen every year in the US, yet guns aren't banned.

Besides, banning open models would put ordinary US businesses at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the world.

Comment · 3 months ago

The parent post is saying that the officer didn't show up for 20 years, with no burglaries in your neighborhood in between.

Comment · 4 months ago

I do, and frankly I enjoy my day more when I don't feel like I'm being a jerk, even towards a robot. But mostly as part of a follow up message.

I also think it signals that I was happy with that solution in the ongoing conversation.

On the other hand, I'm much more sloppy with my writing.

The token cost is irrelevant, tool calls and reasoning probably dominates.

Comment · 4 months ago

Well, what if it "just" increased white collar productivity by 1.5x, what would that be worth?

Comment · 6 months ago

Sure, but this is an example from the article, and pertains to sum types in general, not just Maybe.