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This is really something which feels like it should be a library of regexp.

If you're standing in GNC staring at a tub of creatine wondering if it will make you smarter, you better hope it does... exits stage left I'll be here all week folks!

I think this is a really sober comment. There are lots of knock-on effects of this claim, even if it's not true which are consequential. The fact that a spokesperson for the US gov…

It's especially sad because on of the things those LLMs are best, almost purpose built for is to tell those students which books to go open, where to find nuggets people haven't bu…

My bona-fides here amount to little more than being a big time reader of non-fiction. But IMO, there's a nice synthesis here. Rather than going long rounds of asking LLMs about a s…

Yeah, this is very much one of those stories where people from many different perspectives or chopping it up on a plate and ripping it through a straw.

I think the important lesson is to use clear eyes to evaluate what the rewrite buys you. I was on a team that rewrote a native code app in C#. We also had access to early cloud tec…

What do your tests look like. Because rewriting by hand and rewriting via AI have the same load bearing on whether or not your tests cover your scenarios and your integrations well…

Because there is more value in understanding someone else's ideas than as some kind of cultural favor? East Asians built empires, invented and discovered incredible things. They ha…

I don't think the intent of Robert Pirsig's work was to outline a git gud strategy cloaked in chillness. The book is heavily inspired by Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery …

If you're in the US and this excites you, you'll probably enjoy GSA auctions. https://gsaauctions.gov/

We're approaching the definition of magic here aren't we. And I think this is what really divides this discussion. There is one set of people who insist that things must be explain…

Sleep paralysis entered the chat

But the sensation in a sense is a lie. Cold strictly speaking isn't real. And for much of human existence we spoke of it as if it was a substance due exactly to this specific sensa…

I would caution outright categorizing this as paranoia stemming from a mental illness. The problem with delusional paranoia and justifiable paranoia is that clinically they can pre…

This is what sprint planning is all about. It's ostensibly to accept the work. But my God how everyone's hidden assumptions come to the surface.

I think it comes down to your team discipline. It can magnify your sins and your virtues.

LLMs have single handedly turned the hardest part of this job into entire job. The hardest part of this job is troubleshooting, maintaining and developing on top of an unfamiliar c…

There's the rub I suppose. I don't think an LLM can achieve AGI on its own. But I bet it could with the help of a Turing machine.

I guess I'm very confused as to why just throwing an LLM at a problem like this is interesting. I can see how the LLM is great at decomposing user requests into commands. I had gre…

I guess maybe the tone would be less noxious if the core coceit of the satire felt more legitimate. I mean, Wikipedia was kind of a shit show back in the day. It's had 20 years of …

The sneering and nihilist tone is very off putting. But not nearly as much as the boomer brained conception of the world's information model pre 2004, which was not nearly as good …

lol, qualia

A stream of linguistic organization laying out multiple steps in order to bring about some end sounds exactly like a process which is creating a “plan” by any meaningful definition…

This is a phenomenon I call cinetrope. Films influence the world which in turn influences film and so on creating a feedback effect. For example, we have certain films to thank for…