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> in their solar system I hope it's not too close to my solar system!

rare instance where the German name Taubenschwänzchen ('little dove-tail') is nicer than the English name

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Isn't this just an effect of what the LLMs are RL'ed for? Solving short-horizon tasks. I assume one can't benchmaxx multi-year long efforts, clean architecture, taste etc as easily…

Here’s my dystopian sci-fi scenario: As prediction markets already show, forecasts can influence the outcomes they are trying to predict. What happens when these models become extr…

well obviously N=1

Crank blog, very skeptical

but just as useless

Empty strings are usually an artifact of lazy developers paying a minimal "empty" value for a type (just as 0 for numbers). A type like NonEmptyString is a weak defense against tha…

Is it possible to tell slop from non slop if you were not there when the tokens get emitted? Somebody can just lie and pretend that they were not generated

I must admit I don't really understand what the point of the post-install script concern is. Usually, you run the actual packaged dependency code at some point anyway, and usually …

I don't know, maybe something about backwards compatibility, maybe nobody can agree on how to do it correctly. It hasn't happened for decades, so I'm not going to hold my breath.

most crypto mining has moved to specialists, even where there were deliberate attempts to make it ASIC-resistant SETI@Home is a very niche use case and web browsing still happens b…

Unfortunately, real apps and native tech stacks can not only write data to your SSD, they can usually write data to the user directory however they want and they can read it as wel…

> if there end up being useful workflows where you keep stuff running in the background or overnight that's one advantage That is not how LLMs are typically used though in my exper…

Convince me 1. in order to run LLMs, especially the best ones, you need complicated devices which are expensive 2. if you buy one for your personal use, you are probably not going …

The problem is that often the program runs into some edge case that requires interpretation, at which point one is tempted to let the LLM deal with the edge case, at which point on…

... unless you actually want to edit a change!

I've had mixed results. Most models don't have a 100% correct CLI usage and either hallucinate or use some deprecated patterns. However `jj undo` and the jj architecture generally …

blast from the past - peak of UX! https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Partition_Magic#/media/...

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Skeptics Guide to the Universe

developers with good taste like Andreas Kling will be able to design entire OSes with coding agents

Not at all if you consider the internet pre-LLM. That is the standard expectation when you load a website. The slow word-by-word typing was what we started to get used to with LLMs…

> Base64-encoded secret in URL Prevented Detected (entropy scan) Logged Ok so how does this "Entropy scan" work? Apparently by defining "bits per character" https://github.com/luck…