pnathan

really? I think its one of the best websites going these years.

My wife and I had a long running debate: is psychosis socially transmissible or is it purely mechanical? QAnon answered the debate conclusively: there is an entire class of psychosis that is socially transmissible. I believe AI is driving another psychotic mass disorder among the ai world, and at some level people need to walk away.

It's literally just tensor multiplications at the end of the day, generating likely outcomes in useful ways.

> Suppose you have taste. Suppose you paid the full price and you can feel the sag in the sentence and the wrongness in the function. > > Congratulations! You now ship at exactly the same speed as the person who cannot.

Yes, previously the person who didn't understand shipped faster. It was a long standing problem. The people who crapped, got the bonus, and ran were much faster than the patient engineer of quality.

By the way, what were the essays that formulated Claude Style? if the author was indeed formed by them, I'd like to read them - or at least enough of them to understand.

Reflecting on the matter with a colleague -

Some people just want to _cook the steak_.

They don't want to attend or understand to cuts, thermometers, and searing.

(1) personally very annoying. I have been using fable to try to collect cutting edge math in one area and work on a hopefully new result with lean verification.

(2) I am really tired of the AI community trying to threaten everyone with grey goo and finding out the hype doesn't land comfy with others. It's a freaking text generator, not god in a pocket.

Shoot at high f numbers - as high as the lens will take without inducing diffraction.

I have found TTArtisans 50mm f0.95 to be quite nice.

This is good. I recently had to replace a generally working phone because the battery was dying and there was no cost effective & reliable means of replacing.

A proper gasket and screws needs to be the standard solution here.

Data is missing on this chart.

It's my experience that opus 4, and then, particularly, 4.5, in Claude code, are head and shoulders above the competition.

I wrote an agentic coder years ago and it yielded trash. (Tried to make it do then what kiro does today).

The models are better. Now, caveat - I don't use anything but opus for coding - Sonnet doesn't do the trick. My experience with Codex and Gemini is that their top models are as good as Sonnet for coding...

I am experimenting at a very early stage with using Verus in Rust to generate proveably correct Rust. I let the AI bang on the proof and trust the proof assistant to confirm it.

There is another route with Lean where Rust generates the Lean and there is proof done there but I haven't chased that down fully.

I think formal verification is a big win in the LLM era.

I'd have to see more to have a final thought.

As presented, Gollum is badly off, I reckon - missing the books textual description. The flowers are out of line.

The dragon scene is wonderful and captures the situation.

The dwarves are a bit dopy looking but I think could cohere with the early introduction in the Hobbit.

Great article.

I do have a deep fondness for SF billboards being building-stuff oriented. I don't care for consumerism.

The vapidity of the products created is remarkable, however.

I'm looking forward to when I can run a tolerably useful model locally. Next time I buy a desktop one of its core purposes will be to run models for 24/7 work.

a lot of AI assisted development goes into project management and system design.

I have been tolerably successful. However, I have almost 30 years of coding experience, and have the judgement on how big a component should be - when I push that myself _or_ with AI, things go hairy.

ymmv.