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bensyverson

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About bensyverson

Developer for 35 years, 10 years at IDEO as a Software Designer, project lead and Design Director. Currently working on agentic native apps, and on the hunt for a profitable SaaS company to acquire via infinitecake.net

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    Comment #49262005

    Probably both, but I have to add: I agree with the post. I've done a ton of agentic development using Go over the past 6 months, and it hasn't let me down. You may ask "why not Rus…

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    Comment #49233655

    Yes but how often in practice does the same information stay accessible via 30x redirects after one reorganization, let alone two or three?

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    Comment #49225956

    I would assume that training pales in comparison to inference when it comes to energy use, taking into account the number of inference users

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    Comment #49209481

    That’s because no one wants to admit that their product is vibe coded… But there are plenty of vibe coded products out there making money from actual users.

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    Comment #49196776

    This is super cool! I like the idea of expressing the game declaratively, with a language that an LLM can easily understand. Do you have any other demos of what the language is cap…

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    Comment #49172999

    What about alphabetical order would lead "Section 9" to sort above "Section 8"?

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    Comment #49169851

    I'm not sure what's going on with the ordering of the sections, but it's definitely creative. - 01: Section 1 - 02: Section 11 - 03: Section 10 ... - 10: Section 3 - 11: Section 2 …

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    Comment #49158496

    one week later: "It says 'You're absolutely right! Let me look at the seams so I'm checking, not guessing—' and I guess that's when my SSD melted."

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    Comment #49156600

    And is this using conventional model loading (all in VRAM), or are you streaming it in some way?

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    Comment #49156265

    Are people getting decent tokens/second throughput? Some of these demos crawl at 1 tok/s or worse, which limits their utility.

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    Comment #49155706

    I do think these “run a bigger model than will fit in VRAM” projects are necessary steps, but are they functionally useful or helpful to anyone currently? For example, is anyone ou…

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    Comment #49155652

    Yes, the writing just has a disproportionate impact on this outcome.

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    Comment #49145138

    How does one even purchase an AMD MI355X?

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    Comment #49140256

    People said this kind of thing about MiniDV cameras, and then iPhones. The reality is that technology hasn't been a barrier for filmmakers for a very long time. Writing is still th…

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    Comment #49137161

    I think it just gets really into the weeds and assumes you have full context. I do find myself saying "You have more context than me—can you restate the question in simple terms?" …

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    Comment #49136430

    The machines really are learning

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    Comment #49134922

    New music genre just dropped

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    Comment #49134887

    On the one hand, they say "for experimental purposes only," but on the other hand, hey, no cancer warning!

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    Comment #49126702

    Yes, I do this all the time, and also check in the co-authored project plans which drove the commits. For a project that is transparently only possible due to agentic coding, I don…

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    Comment #49103485

    Needs more "invariant," its latest catchphrase

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    Comment #49084983

    > models don't have a good sense of their own capabilities. It actually had some memorized knowledge about LLMs being bad at confidence intervals, then it did a cursory web search.…

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    Comment #49084349

    I was designing a system that pulls structured data out of an unstructured transcript, and Opus initially suggested a confidence score for each value. When I asked it “do you think…

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    Comment #49073030

    Sure, it's a real mix. Most recently: - An electrical component "synthesizer" which takes natural language specifications in (e.g. from an RFQ) and uses material data sheets and co…

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    Comment #49071938

    Same, though the types of jobs I’m working on now require the speed I get from LLMs. If I had to take my current projects and switch to hand-coding I’d have to extend the timelines…