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I think the issue is people are using tools in an automated fashion and running up a compute bill for free when they were only meant to be used by humans in a more limited capacity…

Living things that are good at predicting things don't die as much. There's a good reason why our auditory system is always on, even when we sleep. I suspect the reason for somethi…

Issues like these reflects an evolutionary blind spot: selective pressure drops off after reproductive age, allowing defects like prostate dysfunction to persist. It's the same rea…

I strongly believe technical interviews should try to mirror a pair programming session on a problem as if it was work, rather than a quiz or interrogation type format. If someone …

So when it really struggled to get around (kept just walking into obstacles), they gave Claude the ability to navigate by adding pathfinding and awareness of its position and map I…

I like the idea of blending a portfolio-style showcase with some kind of network on top. Consider how to maintain meaningful engagement without falling into the same pitfalls as ex…

I've found tools like Cursor useful for prototyping and MVP development. However, as the codebase grows, they struggle. It's likely due to larger files or an increased number of th…

One of the key limitations of even state-of-the-art LLMs is that their coherence and usefulness tend to degrade as the context window grows. When tackling complex workflows, such a…

Is your domain relatively new? It might be that Google's automated systems don't yet "trust" it due to a lack of history/backlinks, or it could be similar to a flagged domain from …

Working unpaid overtime is often a cultural norm at certain companies. When you join a team where this is expected, you may feel pressured to follow suit. Unfortunately, such pract…

I would be curious to know if anyone has tried a hybrid approach where you have a Mamba-like architecture for longer term recall but it's combined with a transformer for short term…

Irish person with a CS background here. I think Ireland has similar problems regarding churning out 'talent' to the UK in that there are initiatives in schools for people to use co…