prophesi

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Comment · 2 days ago
It's unfortunate, because the security theater performed here detracts from the model's overall cybersecurity performance. And uncensoring has another small hit to performance.
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Comment · 2 days ago
DNC did a great job endorsing that candidate.
Comment · 5 days ago
Have you tried Open WebUI? It doesn't determine which model works best for your hardware, but it otherwise has a very large feature set with a large community, and runs offline by default. Geared more for technical users, however.
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Comment · 7 days ago
And it's something they've been working on for the past 8 years!
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Comment · 14 days ago
This is just an ad for contextetech. Search engines build their own index, which is hard. Decentralized search engines like Searx have middling results, and it's a project running for over a decade. "Smart" is subjective, and not something I'd trust an LLM to determine.
Comment · 16 days ago
I think yours and the rest of the comments to mine are missing the point of the presentation I'm critiquing, and missing the (admittedly cursorily added) escape hatch on why I think it's totally fine to program recreationally. It should be encouraged for everyone to learn. Akin to learning an instrument and/or music theory. It helps you in ways that you might never notice.
Comment · 17 days ago
Recreational programming used to be one of the rubrics to hire a software developer. If you have an intrinsic motivation to code, it would often be more valuable than your credentials. That's why junior devs would push up sites showcasing their resume of random projects they've done outside of education in order to give them an edge over their competition. Some companies would even encourage some time on the clock for working on side projects to prevent burnout.

At the same time, some of the workers in the industry were disgruntled that you were expected to enjoy coding in your spare time to keep up. While some truly just wanted to do it because they were good at it, and would rather turn off the software dev brain after work to do other things they enjoy in life.

With the advent of high-performing LLM's for coding, though, it seems more important to showcase how you can harness AI for your recreational projects than the projects themselves. It's a bit of a catch-22 for junior devs though.

I still think it's good rubric to get into programming if you like to do it recreationally, but these are just a few of my thoughts on how it can be problematic.

Comment · 20 days ago
Last time I visited Miami Beach, I found out they have a forced 20% gratuity at restaurants. And still ask for a tip on top that. My friends and I were likely tipping >40% for subpar service and overpriced drinks for a few days until someone noticed it on their receipt.
Comment · 21 days ago
Don't most things people use day-to-day for both work and entertainment require use of the actual app these days, or at least make it very difficult to do so?
Comment · 25 days ago
So now we're believing it's great that LLM's can write macros, thus further obfuscating human maintenance of the code-base, because LLM's can understand and implement it than better than humans.

This isn't the future I wanted, and is why I advocate for trade schools these days.

I miss the days I could listen to music and use my adhd/autism to its fullest potential reading documentation and figuring things out myself.

Of course, these are same people you'd want managing these AI agents in the first place, but reviewing code written by others always kind of sucks, especially when it's assumed the language model knows better than you do which isn't often the case!

Was the PRD perfected on the requirements? Only God knows, and I personally want to be there when it's written.

Comment · 29 days ago
They explicitly mention that Svelte hasn't changed much since version 3? Svelte 5 did introduce runes but, as you say, still kept legacy code compatible.

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