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Comment · 7 months ago
Is this not the good kind of problem to have? Subnautica 2 is doing so well that the developers get their earn-out bonus?

Seems like pure profit-maximizing/greed!

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
a 90% saving is huge isn't it?

for long agent sessions, I would expect a very high cache hit rate unless you're editing the system prompt, tools, or history between turns, or some turns take longer than the cache timeout

Comment · 8 months ago
So long as perceived LLM skill is still "spiky" - e.g. within a domain, still showing relatively high variation in ability (often depending on the task or user, to be fair), people will continue to dismiss it
Comment · 8 months ago
In the general case I think this is a great idea - if we do a good job of documenting intent etc. in commit messages, agents have an easier time understanding why lines of code exist with no additional specs/mechanisms/etc.

Interested to see what techniques in this area pull ahead and gain traction!

Comment · 9 months ago
Coding agents are such a congested space right now that to me this mostly reads as an advertisement.
Comment · 9 months ago
I have 150Mb/s FTTP for £37/month - upgrading to gigabit would be £75/month, for example!
Comment · 9 months ago
Interesting that non-salty water didn't make the string conductive(?) enough - I'd have thought that there might have been enough soluble stuff in string.

Also I believe this person runs the ISP I use (and I couldn't speak more highly of it - Andrews & Arnold).

Comment · 9 months ago
For me, a lot of the draw is that it's cheaper than managed db services for small/toy projects of mine (that I don't want to use dynamo db for) - that and in a previous job it was useful as relatively temporary multi-tenant storage.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I think that "manipulate people for financial and political gain" is an outcome of what social media companies actually do - I was under the belief that in a general sense, they want to maximise the time people spend on their apps so that they can sell this attention to advertisers, independent of whether or not a given ad buyer wants to manipulate people.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Both miracles are illness-recovery related and feel to me quite like regression to the mean, but I can imagine this is somewhat of a strategic move from the Catholic church to bring some relatability into things.

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