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My guess is they do something like "Hey dingus, make my app send emails" and then Claude or GPT just goes off and does a thing that makes it look superficially like it sends emails…

Back in the olden days (2015-ish?) KLM was having a really, really cheap business fare sale JFK-AMS; I snagged it with Delta miles (if I recall correctly) - and flew there and back…

We have some broad shapes - it’s a finite set of “things that are interesting to us” and the dataset is bounded. It’s not “Google Image Search”. But it is kinda like “we have a gia…

I calculate* the appropriate overlap and the slicer overlaps a certain amount of the previous slice. There is some post-processing assembly required, but it's trivial. [*] SWAG lin…

I do OCR of images, and that's exactly what I do. I take one big image and slice it into many smaller ones, and send those to the LLM. Perfect every time, unlike using the whole im…

I'm not saying they are not trying - I'm saying we're inventing new problems faster than any Lab can: 1) Identify the gaps 2) Determine how to fix them 3) Implement a fix (especial…

I'd have to imagine there are wildly diminishing marginal returns to additional SFT/post-training passes. There are a bounded number of (useful) derivations/combinations of Duff's …

Yes, for fun I tried to make a Mahjong solver and NONE of the SOTA frontier models could understand what they were looking at to determine tile occlusion/geometry to build the DAG.…

Agreed, my vibes tell me 4.6 is a better coder than 4.7. 4.7 is a much better strategic thinker and maintains overall "better architecture" than 5.5. 5.5 is way better than either …

The other thing I suspect is that "Just give me True/False" cuts off a large amount of the search space a modern-day LLM uses to help it answer questions (you can see it in reasoni…

Also, this is why investors and CEOs are so in love with "LLMs are the route to AGI!" When some rich/powerful person says "I have to go to Davos, figure it out" their workers know …

Thank you; you’re right - context matters and now more than ever there are a ton of folks looking involuntarily. Grace is always needed, but now especially.

Yes! It reminds me of the tabs vs spaces argument. Yeah, you have your preference, but as long as everyone on your team uses the same convention it doesn’t matter The Rails apps I’…

This… was a mistake on both you and the interviewer. All interview questions - unless it’s impossible to twist your answer to fit this - is scoped to “… at work”. Nobody who asks “…

"futurist for data platform" - whatever happened to that Shingy guy?

Yes, absolutely. People keep confusing single player vs. multiplayer and forgetting "jobs to be done". Photoshop files are the lingua franca of the design world. If you're working …

“I intentionally wrote the example code the way a beginner might. More experienced users would probably reach for solutions like: Updating and checking the balance in a single UPDA…

The major limitation is that macOS apps do not have to use the API and so there will always need to be a fallback to something like screen scraping for controls that don’t use it. …

Same. Back in December the iOS app had a bug ( https://status.claude.com/incidents/6rrnsb1y0kbn ) in which buying a subscription thru the Apple App Store would not register with th…

I find it interesting that all the trend lines start going negative around 2001. I wonder why that's not remarked upon? 9/11 itself was - obviously - epically terrible, but the imp…

"Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written" If you want to do this for fun or for learning? Absolutely! I did my CS Masters thesis on SQL JOINS and tr…