inerte

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I am doing a thing at https://gallotails.com

"inerte" is also my gmail username

I downvote anyone replying "correlation is not causation" to almost any scientific news. If you think the half a dozen PhDs with decades of experience involved in the study don't know that, you just wanna sound smart for internet points.

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Comment · 11 days ago
I got a lot of answers wrong (half of them maybe?), and the ones I got it right Jev was still faster.
Comment · 15 days ago
Used to be 100%...
Comment · 17 days ago
For me it's using 1 Jev call to ask 5 questions, instead of what I had before.

What I had before was basically:

- 1 classifier question

- if ok, do some heavy computation

- after heavy computation, another classifier

So now what I do is:

- Jev with the 1st and 3rd classifier

- if ok, heavy computation

I can classify many things at once, and it's cheaper and faster than 1 for sure and 1 maybe classification that I had before.

Comment · 17 days ago
Same here, and I have a project 100% hosted in Cloudflare ecosystem (AI Gateway, Workers, Queues, R2, D1, DO, etc) I was so happy when I saw clef. Tested, and it's bad. Slower and wronger than Jev.

Still waiting on Decisions API using Luna, as this what I was using before.

Run your own evals, folks.

Comment · 21 days ago
I’ve mostly seen the 14g of fiber per 1000 calories recommendation.

It is a lot compared to what most people take, but it’s not hard. Banana, orange, some broccoli, and you are close. Lentils, beans (lupini is great because it also has protein) here and there, oats, an extra fruit (pear is nice), berries, avocado, so many options.

But you need to be conscious. Most people need less starch and sugar and fat.

I poop 2-4 times a day. I know some people have a real problem going to the bathroom once a day… just eat more fiber folks.

Comment · 1 month ago
Oh so Flock doesn't just record / monitor stuff, but while doing so, it proactively tells the police a car worth stopping is on the street? How did the cop know how to stop the car?
Comment · 1 month ago
Plus Stack Overflow was gamified. "Nothing to gain" except 12 different artifacts showing how awesome you are.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Then maybe the need for your site is gone.

Oh yeah, and I am not mourning or anything like that. And I do want the human touch, because AI can't. But humans, at least over the internet, can send their agents, or companies can run agents and I won't know from my site if it's an actual human, or some AI fabricated interaction (can't even trust an image it uploads).

When AI first showed up a few years ago, I thought about opening an actual physical cocktail bar. Hypothesizing humans will be tired after a long day of their agents talking to other agents, they would crave for actual humans. I would ban electronics inside - no distractions. Maybe one day I will go for that...

Comment · 1 month ago
I've been struggling with that.

I built https://gallotails.com/ because I am a cocktail enthusiast. First commit, March 6th 2019. One of the features I am proud is which cocktails you can build based on your ingredients, and I was smart, the bar ignores garnishes and can suggest cocktails you're one ingredient away. But you have to add the ingredients. And interpret the bar screen.

And here's what I did with ChatGPT a few days ago: https://chatgpt.com/share/6ab59877-4b74-83e8-8da5-966d9f3a38...

Clicked the microphone icon and rambled for a few seconds (could have just taken a picture too I guess). Nudged ChatGPT to only give me simple cocktails I can stir instead of using a mixer. Said I could buy a lime, sure. Then asked how to keep the ginger beer fresh.

There is NO WAY I can code all of that in my little gallotails.com - a single chat window has entirely replaced my site. And that's my pet little project I do it on weekends, mostly to keep my tech skills sharp. I can only imagine what the biggest cocktails website, actual companies, are going / will go through once more and more people just realize the chat tab is enough. And I am not talking about purely content, ChatGPT can do everything my site does, and more, into any direction, in an instant.

Which left me with the question, then what should my site be? Community? To be taken over by agents?

Currently munching on what sites like mine should do, and what they should be.

Comment · 1 month ago
We can definitively punish bigger companies. The issue is the geopolitical positioning, and basically agreeing that we accept smaller companies in our country / society while another country might develop bigger companies, and in theory have more power. Maybe more actual military power.

So unless it's a worldwide agreement, really hard to make this happen.

Comment · 1 month ago
This is a good resource https://howborisusesclaudecode.com/

My best takeaway from the site was: Every time you see Claude Code / Codex doing something you don't want, ask it to add to AGENTS.md. Specially if they churn a lot doing something, and eventually find a way. I ask it to store the way it made something work. It's a constant gardening of AGENTS.md and it has really working well.

Comment · 1 month ago
Also likely, devs took shortcuts to deliver fast. Now to make the button blue they need to differentiate primary buttons from others.

Simple, right? But design guidelines prevent one offs, and no !important. So you create a CSS class, but you discover another element on the header declared itself as primary (the search icon or the sign in button). You talk to that team and they decided to scope what’s primary according to their component. To change the sign in button to grey now you need to talk with the growth team. Growth team wants to run an experiment but they’re backlogged, only next quarter. They say you can innersource, just need VP approval. VP says blue matches a marketing campaign that is about to go out, agency has already been hired. You can’t talk to the agency unless Legal approves.

So you leave the button gray, to revisit decision next planning cycle after you can align all stakeholders.

Comment · 1 month ago
To be fair I’ve worked on human programmed systems where similar “it should be a half point story” requests would be met with snark by the engineers and take 2 sprints.

I guess we are all PMs now.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
No, embargoed news is super common. Almost every single product announcement goes through that. Critics watch movies early, companies have access to LLM model improvements early, car manufacturers send production models early… it happens everywhere all the time.

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