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bauerd

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    Comment #49148063

    I returned to hand-written notebooks. None of these knowledge management frameworks ever worked for me. Sure my agents have their own semantic memory system but I’m not an agent.

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    Comment #49045417

    Because these productivity increases will be to the detriment of the average person. We won’t get to reap the benefits.

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    Comment #48335288

    You don’t think there are causes worth fighting for? Or that deterrence is immoral? Help me understand.

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    Comment #48334506

    >I don’t know how I could work in any of these military industry companies. You'd sing a different song quite quickly once the threat stops being abstract as you don't get to free-…

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    Comment #48327845

    It's part of a constantly evolving ecosystem. It's a stable product because reliability engineers make it so and software engineers get the integrations right.

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    Comment #48327690

    >What on earth do you do with that many devs on a project like Messenger? I mean, really? What makes you think it's a simple system to develop at scale?

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    Comment #47995246

    >Having said that, some components need to live outside the sandbox (otherwise, who creates the sandbox?). I run a single-node k3d cluster on each of my MacBooks which uses Agent S…

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    Comment #47925733

    Fully agree, I only pay the minimum for frontier models to get DeepSeek v4 output reviewed. I don't see this changing either because we have reached a level of good enough at this …

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    Comment #47892634

    They can't afford to care about individual customers because enterprise demand exploded and they're short on compute

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    Comment #47879849

    >On March 4, we changed Claude Code's default reasoning effort from high to medium to reduce the very long latency—enough to make the UI appear frozen—some users were seeing in hig…

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    Comment #47862089

    Health insurance and opportunity cost

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    Comment #47809577

    It would be interesting if they’re dogfooding it by building these research projects on those building blocks

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    Comment #47809061

    They are building infrastructure components that they will soon wire together with an orchestration layer. Managed agents, scheduled tasks, workflow webhook automation.

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    Comment #47808894

    This is a really verbose way to say that using generative AI has a detrimental effect on the user because one deprives themselves of the learning experience.

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    Comment #47794408

    No because the technology will be used against you.

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    Comment #47793615

    The argument isn't that LLMs are bad because they can hallucinate. Author (clearly) argues that LLM use has negative cognitive effects on their users and on society as a whole. Plu…

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    Comment #47782455

    >They still have a long way to go before they can master a domain from first principles, which constrains the mastery possible. Mastery isn't necessary. Why are Waymos lacking driv…

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    Comment #47723791

    Not sure what you're insinuating. What do you think is the statistically average job on this planet? It's still going to be cultivating a smallholder farm in developing countries, …

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    Comment #47719369

    The vast majority of people on this planet work repetitive, uncreative jobs.

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    Comment #47443803

    >a lack of imagination on what could be better I'd argue it's likelier that people are more informed about their absolute position globally. Any screen gets you the mental image of…

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    Comment #47388143

    >Testing workloads that take hours to run still take hours to run with either a human or LLM testing them out (aka that is still the bottleneck) Absolutely. Tight feedback loops ar…

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    Comment #46856962

    brew install emacs

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    Comment #46690511

    Generally wrong. It may cost less because its externalities aren't priced in.

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    Comment #46670820

    The company's values may align to yours, even though they reject you. It's because the interview process doesn't need to have anything to do with their real-world process. Their en…