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I love this, easy intuitive explanation

I find it works as focus when the tasks are all related/in the same repo. Not the same as single-task flow state of old style coding, but also still a kind of flow

Interesting, how common is this vs just unit testing? How do you avoid formally verifying something against a spec that could subtly fail in production?

A 3D visualizer of earth's climate in the browser. Introduces physics step by step so you can watch each process unfold as a piece of the overall climate. I built this over 6 month…

A 3D visualizer of earth's climate in the browser. Introduces physics step by step so you can watch each process unfold as a piece of the overall climate. I built this over 6 month…

This is super fun! Very elegant idea Has anyone done this for larger neural nets? Is there a way to extract some kind of pattern or is the image just noise no matter how you constr…

Isn't this kind of the same as an AI copilot, just with higher autonomy? I think the limiting factor is that the AI still isn't good enough to be fully autonomous, so it needs your…

This seems like a solvable engineering problem. For example, you could have a lightweight subagent with its own context for reading the skills and determining which to use

I also use pure HTML and CSS (and a touch of hand-written JavaScript)

I'm a little skeptical of AEO. What's the point if AI users just ask the LLM to retrieve the information and never visit your blog? I almost never click the links ChatGPT gives me …

My two cents: if you're not doing anything too political or controversial, it's fine or even beneficial to mix in the occasional personal essay with the professional. After all, ma…

I make heavy use of the "temporary chat" feature on ChatGPT. It's great whenever I need a fresh context or need to iteratively refine a prompt, and I can use the regular chat when …

Grade inflation is common at many schools. And many difficult technical classes grade on a curve, sometimes to the point where you can get an A with an 85%. But yeah, I still don't…

Why is dependence on LangChain an issue? Not that I disagree necessarily, just wondering if there's a consensus that LangChain is too opinionated/bloated/whatever for real industry…

The recent Apple paper seemed pretty flawed. Anthropic/Open Philanthropy did a rebuttal paper, The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking. > Do they reason? No. (Before you complain,…

Not sure how tools like Cursor work under the hood, but this seems like an easy model context engineering problem to fix.

I agree. And if human civilization survives, your concerns about energy and resources will be only short term on the scale of civilization, especially as we make models more effici…

I agree humans only rarely step outside the circle, but I do have this intuition that some people sometimes do, whereas LLMs never do. This distinction seems important over long ti…

Yeah, unfortunately I feel like despite all the advances in Unicode tech, my modern terminal (MacOS) still bugs out badly with emojis and certain special characters. I'm not sure h…

Yes, 100% this. And even more so for reasoning models, which have a different kind of RL workflow based on reasoning tokens. I expect to see research labs come out with more ways t…

I use /foo/bar/ with the trailing slash because it works better with relative URLs for resources like images. I could also use /foo/bar/index.html but I find the former to be clean…

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