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That's what focus looks like to a just-say-yes engineer. They're just focused on shipping, not tinkering.

Yes, it can. So can I. But neither of us will write the code exactly the way nitpicky PR reviewer #2 demands it be written unless he makes his preferences clear somewhere. Even at …

Just tell Claude to create tmux sessions for each, it can figure out the rest.

As an investor in Anthropic, I'd say that anyone who wasn't aware of where they stood on various values issues the whole time should not have been putting money in, it was not hidd…

Asking questions on SO was an exercise in frustration, not "interacting with peers". I've never once had a productive interaction there, everything I've ever asked was either close…

This article claims that's false, that 8-12 at higher weight leads to the same result as 20+ at lower weights.

And at the end of the day it's not really a tradeoff we'll need to make, anyways: my experience with e.g. Claude Code is that every model iteration gets much better at avoiding bal…

Theoretical "proofs" of limitations like this are always unhelpful because they're too broad, and apply just as well to humans as they do to LLMs. The result is true but it doesn't…

When a tool call completes the result is sent back to the LLM to decide what to do next, that's where it can decide to go do other stuff before returning a final answer. Sometimes …

There are thousands of projects out there that use mocks for various reasons, some good, some bad, some ugly. But it doesn't matter: most engineers on those projects do not have th…

Of course. But I've screened far more out because I was in a rush and got 40 resumes in that day and they just didn't pique my interest as much as the next one over.

There may be a ceiling, sure. It's overwhelmingly unlikely that it's just about where humans ended up, though.

I'm all for benchmarks that push the field forward, but ARC problems seem to be difficult for reasons having less to do with intelligence and more about having a text system that w…

If ChatGPT claims arsenic to be a tasty snack, OpenAI adds a p0 eval and snuffs that behavior out of all future generations of ChatGPT. Viewed vaguely in faux genetic terms, the "t…

Even though this post says exactly the thing that most Proper Analysts will say, and write long LinkedIn posts about where other Proper Analysts congratulate them on standing up fo…

I think you're being downvoted because you're agreeing with the post you're quoting, but arguing as if they're wrong: the example in question was there to show how DI can be useful…

I've often run multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel to do different tasks. Burns money like crazy, but if you can handle wrangling them all there's much less sitting and waiti…

None of that seems at all user-hostile to me, it's literally all aimed at making sure what the user is shown is more likely to actually be useful to them. I guess this is a big and…

There are a couple important things to also keep in mind: First: just like there can be individuals who lift up an entire team but are not ticking off tasks themselves, there can b…

There are various results that suggest that LLMs do internally have everything they'd need to know that they're hallucinating/wrong: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09733 https://arxiv.…

It's a bit shocking to me: I still remember all the concepts quite clearly from when I studied Galois theory ~20 years ago, to the point where I can run through a lot of the proofs…

The entire p-zombie concept presumes dualism (or something close enough to it that I'm happy to lump it all into the generic category of "requires woo"). Gravity having an effect o…

We don't know every fact, either, so I don't know how you can use that idea to say that we're not Turing machines. Apart, of course, from the trivial fact that we are far more limi…

Adult humans can do symbolic reasoning, but lower mammals cannot. Even ones that share most of our brain structure are much worse at this, if they can do it at all; children need t…