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Comment · 4 months ago
I guess the code you write always works correctly whem you submit the PR, and code reviews don't find real problems in it. it makes sense then to have the exact same bar when using LLMs
Comment · 4 months ago
after the implementation was done, have you asked the model again, in a fresh context window, to review the code against the specification?
Comment · 4 months ago
that fewer people will read because it spends pages saying what could be paragraphs
Comment · 4 months ago
OpenAI/Anthropic are in the business of "replacing workers with AIs", not in the business of "selling AIs to workers"

that is a 20T market

they dont need you to afford a subscription, they need your boss to replace you with their service

Comment · 4 months ago
it's much cheaper to defend against EMP (Faraday shield) than to make EMPs

the fact that EMP blasts are not used in Ukraine, by both sides, to defend against drones also shows its not such a good idea

Comment · 4 months ago
Nick Land is a difficult subject to get into, because there are two of thems.

and you might discard the first one because of the second one.

Nick Land spoiler: "what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources."

Comment · 4 months ago
most HN comments are way dumber then the average LLM take
Comment · 4 months ago
of course they do.

nvidia even has an official api for a game to identify itself so they dont need to look at executable name

Comment · 4 months ago
gpu drivers detect games, among other thing by looking at executable names

then driver "optimizes" behavior, sometimes dishonestly (reducing precision), sometimes honestly (working around game engine stupidity)

Comment · 4 months ago
we do not trade with animals, for they have nothing to offer.

AIs will not trade with us, for we have nothing to offer.

Comment · 4 months ago
I guess you don't know about North Korea
Comment · 4 months ago
Taleb joke:

junior trader for a bank looses $10 mil. boss asks him what happened. trader says he sold oil because bank economist said oil price will go down. boss fires him. junior asks how could he become a good trader if he's fired on the first losing trade. boss says "no, you idiot, I didn't fire you because you made a losing trade, I fired you because you listened to our economist"

Comment · 4 months ago
Linux started removing support for obsolete protocols and hardware

Maybe there is place for a minicurl which removes BeOS and Novell NetWare...

Comment · 4 months ago
this clever hack is pretty surely illegal, it falls somewhere under unauthorized use of a computer system

intent is the hardest to prove in the court of law, and you solved that for them by making it clear you intend to do damage

Comment · 4 months ago
some people do more than just write code

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