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Agents are very good at making us think the tower is rising, when in fact it is falling beneath our feet.

Thanks for this. I especially enjoyed the section on word counting software and word linking games.

From the companion paper: > The argument relies crucially on ideas that may, at least in retrospect, be attributed to Ellenberg-Venkatesh, Golod-Shafarevich, and Hajir-Maire-Ramakr…

> A problem with this is that in order to confirm the findings, you’ll need an expert human. But generally expert humans are busy doing other things. The article suggests using LLM…

> Correctness: 1,778 test cases from the official jsonata-js test suite + 2,107 integration tests in the production wrapper. The AI generated code can still introduce subtle bugs t…

Can a datacenter practicably upgrade to the next generation of GPU every year?

What was the interesting problem that Swiss watchmakers could have focused on, instead of pursuing brand?

I've been on the contract market for a few weeks now. Apart from submitting my Resume, are there any other proactive things I can do to increase my chances of landing a contract? F…

Please can you elaborate? We are more intersted in "the end" in what sense?

Is "AI code review" a correct term? A code review requires reasoning and understanding, things that to my knowledge a generative model cannot do. Surely the most an AI code review …

> This is nothing but speculation Did you read the paper?

I also worry about a centralised service having access to confidential and private plaintext files of millions of users.

Often when I look closely at the output of LLM generated code, I see repetition, redundant logic and deeply hidden bugs. Notwithstanding the above, to my understanding LLM services…

These LLM tools appear to have an unprecedented amount of access to the file systems of their users. Is this correct, and if so do we need to be concerned about user privacy and se…

Please can you provide a source for the above?

My understanding was that atherosclerotic plaques are comprised of cholesterol or fatty deposits [1] and that these can lead to CVD. The fat mechanism I understand, but what is the…

Engineering Room, panning over a bunch of hot Blackwells "I can't change the laws of physics!"

The monster babbleth no more, sire.

Is cost a risk here? I'm assuming that sometime in the future the price for vibe coding/engineering will go up significantly.

I have noticed that many of the most used and loved projects use C/C++. With all of the unpopular press that they get, why has history often proven C/C++ to be the right choice tim…

Is this cheaper to run than the gas equivalent?

What LLM does Phoenix.new use?

I thought this was going to be an essay on the impact of English, Math and Programming on humanity. I would place English (or all spoken/written languages in general) first, Math (…

honest-broker is the only Substack publication I have found to consistently hold my attention. Reading Gioia's writing feels like eating nutritious food. I am most likely ignorant,…