holden_nelson

Not the GP but - I am down to shit on AI as much as the next guy but yeah this is clearly the users fault.

A technology being flawed does not absolve its users of responsibility. To the contrary, it amplifies it.

Just wanted to say this is really, really cool, and impressive stuff. Looking forward to reading your papers and playing with it. Thanks for working hard on it and sharing it with us.

I got the same result when I tried the "remove the walls" example. I followed up by telling it to reimplement up/down/left/right movement without reinserting the walls and it basically made the square with the flag "unenterable". Like with a force field.

Respectfully I'm not sure if I share your worry though. You would have the same problem if you wrote extremely thorough / exhaustive unit tests or extremely precise types and didn't allow the LLM to amend them. You're basically shrinking the state space of what is considered a "correct" program per your spec. That the LLM has to get extremely creative to break your program is a _feature_; in my experience, an LLM does not have to get creative at all to break a typical program written in an enterprise setting, and that's unfortunate.

A number of years ago I had a period of my life where I decided to shut my laptop for a while.

I was working as a line cook and trying to find time and energy to code study so I could land a role in software (no degree). I was really struggling with my mental health and was having issues making or maintaining progress in pretty much any area of my life.

I got a new job, cooking breakfast in a small mountain town at a bakery. Before I left I sold my laptop and borrowed a bunch of books from some friends.

I really did feel much better a few months later. Taking the time to decompress allowed me to get my priorities in order and surface some biases / blind spots I had. I ended up re-enrolling in school the next spring and am now happily employed in software.

I don’t think the modality is particularly important - coding vs reading vs anything else - but taking the time to put your goals away for a little while and decompress can make you more effective in actually reaching them

I'm not a lawyer so no comment on the actual legality, but it feels like the issue in your example is more akin to negligence than it is ill intent. That an LLM can misrepresent / hallucinate things is foundational to the technology.

I've wondered this myself. I stuck with iTerm2 for a really long time but recently switched to Ghostty. Ghostty definitely seems to renders faster (I say "seems to" because I didn't benchmark or anything).

I don't actually use a multiplexer. I'm not sure I understand the use case when most terminal emulators supports tabs + windows (like iTerm2 does). Or you could just launch multiple windows and use your OS's window manager to "multiplex". Are the terminals connected in some way that I'm missing?

Regardless, I think Ghostty is a reminder that you can win in a space that's crowded. There's probably a lot of widely used software that would get dropped en masse immediately if someone had the guts to make a better alternative.

> it's a random Seinfeld reference and not a joke about an actual tragedy,

lol ok so I wasn’t deeply offended by the dingo reference for what it’s worth, but this attempt to distance yourself from it is weird. Both this post and Seinfeld are referencing the event directly.

And that’s fine with me, to be clear! I’m not clutching my pearls, I tend to have fairly edgy humor, not trying to put you on blast or die on this hill either, etc - I mostly just find it odd. Most companies, on their corporate blog, wouldn’t feel comfortable joking about most tragedies - would you make a similar quip about 9/11? Charlie Kirk? Casey Anthony? I’m guessing not. But the dingo thing is fair game. People say it without even considering it. What’s different? Genuinely asking

> The dingo has truly eaten our baby.

It is so strange that people still say this. A family lost their child.

Eh, I don’t know. We’re talking about high school math proficiency here. The upper 80% of students should be capable of passing that, in my estimation. Regardless of differences in capability among that 80% (which I acknowledge!)

Not the person you’re replying to, but, because I don’t know what they know.

“I don’t really know much about that, go ask _____” is the desired response in that situation

HelloInterview has helped me I think. Especially with system design

did someone actually ask you that?