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Exactly! I posted much the same comment in another thread and there were lots of huffy complaints that amounted to "you're prompting it wrong"

Thats fine but then Fable 5 should have requested this information instead of blundering along. So why didn't it? An expert human asked to do the same task would have surely asked …

Yeah - we also don't know if the models from OpenAI and anthropic are back-doored either.

This seems more like a marketing move though following the old dictum that all publicity is good publicity.

You can turn off the "smart" features in the settings page for gmail. I did this and find it to be much more usable!

This is just insane! Why hasn't this bubbled up to the top?

You can, most certainly, drive a car without understanding how it works. A pilot of an aircraft on the other hand needs a fairly detailed understanding of the subsystems in order t…

Indeed - there is a lot of fake "productivity" going on with these swarms of agents

I was reminded of this classic short story by Isaac Asimov, The feeling of Power: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/4/mode/2up

I feel grateful that I retired a few years ago and no longer have to make a living being a developer.

This reminds me of the early 1980s, when home PCs were still very new, the main use cases that vendors used to promote were managing household accounts and recipes. These use cases…

IDEs used to be extremely expensive back in the 1990s. IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio and IBM's Visual age for Java were quite expensive subscription as I recall. subsequentl…

The next generation of SEO - this article is both hilarious and disturbing

This is absolutely mind boggling. Why hasn't this bubbled up to the top of HN?

Reviewing someone else's large pull request is like having a second task in parallel with what you are working on yourself!

Telecom vendors were doing exactly this before the dotcom crash of 2000

I'm curious: Do you scrutinize every line of code that's generated?

I read this point in the article with bafflement: "Learn when a problem is best solved manually." Sure, but how? This is like the vacuous advice for investors: buy low and sell hig…

Indeed, there have been so many new activation functions that I have stopped following the literature after I retired. I am glad to see that people are trying out new things.

I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention that one of the key factors that enabled deep learning was the use of RELU as the activation function in the early 2010s. RELU behave…

I would be happy if it could search through my enormous reading list on Safari

I worked summers in a lab in the 1980s that had Silicon Graphics, Apollo and Sun workstations. The Sun was the easiest to program by far so it got the most use.

Yeah - it was pretty chaotic when I was there too. We had to use the internal purchase order system to buy certificates from a CA. It was cumbersome as it required several levels o…

When it comes to certificates, mess-ups happen frequently in big companies. When I worked at IBM, I initially had the responsibility for obtaining and renewing the code signing cer…

Article like this are why I keep coming back to HN: I was using an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) for a similar task but this LED idea is fascinating. It would have never occurred …