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Polish living standard in major metro areas are significantly above Belgian standards. I lived in Poland and Belgium, among a few other places, and I'd choose Poland over Belgium f…

Yup. Where I work we invited a bunch of people circa May 2023: a few top tier academics, a few government and NGO officials in charge of our industry, and a few startup founders. W…

Its a cool demo, but its gpt-3.5 level stupid, or worse. edit: Ok, I will self-apologize. Its apparently a 3B model. Mighty impressive for what it does.

I suspect it must depend on how one manages their codebase - wrt to docs, ADRs, and general guardrails. For me it is not great for design work - Fable is way better, and 4.8 was co…

I managed to lose around $300 in credits I had saved for some emergency /fast sessions the following way: switch to Fable. Work on the design. Downgrade to Opus for the build. If a…

I do the same, and generally have good results, but it does stupid things with gusto. I'd open a blog with "weird things Opus did". Today it launched a swarm of cpu-hogging process…

Use google pre-ga stuff at your own risk. Fine for POCs and cool demos, absolute misery in scaled prod.

Yeah, I think thats a valid edge case - and a manageable one. If you are expecting a call from a doctor, lift the firewall for a while.

I never responded to an unknown or caller id hidden in 20 years. I am just fine, dont think I lost anything of value. I also asked my parents and inlaws to adopt the same approach.…

I dont think so. The LLMs are trained to play it safe and avoid responsibility for hard decisions. No commercial model will say "No, I wont connect your call, I dont think you are …

The advice I gave to my folks -- hard ignore any contact attempts not initiated by them. Dont read, dont answer the phone except from recognized numbers. I think thats the only way…

If you are a decision maker, you might find your personal stuff subject to a subpoena for any number of reasons. Antitrust, insider trading, harassment suits, all sorts of legal fi…

This is what gets people subpoena'd and their entirely private messages scrutinised. Happened to a lot of people, including a friend of mine who's affair became a matter of public …

My guess is their strategy is to aim for clueless developers, with more focus on "proactivity" with Fable and very large models. I have a few non-technical friends who dabble in AI…

Same experience here. I settled on Fable for design, Opus for build routine, and every now and then I'd try out the Chinese models. In my experience they do fine on small codebases…

Ekhem. When Chrome was announced there wasnt Rust. And Java was a programming language for slow moving systems, with many a flaws and its own classes of footguns. I dont think they…

Same here. For now there is value. Only today Opus 5 suggested a really bad but totally workable approach to an edge problem. It would work by putting a lot of undue stress on infr…

It does, when you explicitly ask you to do it. Hence the need for experienced devs running those models.

We have been heavily using agentic coding in my place, and what is emerging is people who used to be tech leads or architects are now back to producing code, and what would require…

"I wonder if there's a correlation between me refusing to use LLMs and me being happy to read a novella-sized PDF about them." Well, one possible explanation is that you have time …

Their pace makes me wonder how effectively do frontier labs protect their weights against motivated, capable adversaries. By now the value of something like Mythos is well in doubl…

The models are already brilliant at that. My own todo app generates 128x128 pixel art icons for my todo items. They are mind blowingly creative and funny.

Even boring, slow moving companies are well on their way to eradicate the last traces of oracle java. We kicked the last of that 2 years ago, despite having >3000 different systems…

I rebuilt a couple of games I used to play as a kid (jet set willy, mario, thrust, now i am working on Mercenary) - and for each I am also asking LLM to build an autopilot "AI" (wh…

For sure. What it gave me was I think similar to the Amstrad version of Thrust and since I originally played it on a Commodore PLUS/4 I had to tweak it a bit. The fist version also…