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Where are these well engineered products made with care? I would love to use more tech like that. Unfortunately most sites and apps have been low quality and getting worse since we…

We’ve already had those limits for years on any corporate project with average (or below) developers. I work with a lot of AI code, and it’s not any worse than what big teams were …

We’re at the point where people who talk too fancy get accused of being LLMs, and the people who make human mistakes get scolded for grammar.

Sometimes I don’t need my todo app to be “great” or revolutionary in any way. I just need it to work, and bog standard average is perfectly fine for a lot of things. This frees me …

Sounds like a mini version of Habermas’s legitimation crisis playing out in real time

Don’t use deterministic encryption unless your data is already highly random. Any adversary who knows the distribution of the plaintext data can guess what your encrypted values ar…

It was a big year for the culture war. People who had previously been cordial suddenly needed to fight each other over politics and other controversies of the day. The rest of us w…

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You should try writing a design doc with the AI before you have it write the code. It will make random extrapolations from your first prompt, some good and some bad. Then you get a…

The best early example of this is that Anthropic is already eating the lunch of all the new “AI security audit” companies. And they were only a few years old. Those guys certainly …

Unfortunately even in the old days, a truly good programming book like you’re describing was depressingly rare. Younger me really enjoyed some of the game programming books by Andr…

LLMs are bringing us back to all the “proper” software engineering stuff that we’ve always known we should be doing, but until now we never had enough time/people/money to do it ri…

You’re arguing that we have too many PhD students in CS, not too few. I agree with you fwiw.

re: incentives, my proposal was always to let schools pay their football and basketball players, but require that grad research assistants are paid the same.

I worked a ton in grad school, and it definitely sucked at the time. But it’s crazy to complain about getting paid to go to school. A grad stipend is there to minimally support you…

Even that press release never claimed that Mythos was better than Opus at finding bugs. They claim the huge advance is in exploiting the bugs.

The word “exploit” may be doing a lot of work here. In my experience Opus 4.6 is perfectly happy to provide test cases that trigger ASAN, even without the super secret squirrel sec…

It’s been said that the British executed about 1% of their population each year for a few hundred years, and that a similar number died in prison. The claim is that this made Brita…

New section, like pre-crime but for history. Pre-history.

And you don’t have to worry that some random passenger will piss, puke, or shit in the Waymo during your commute. The first two happened to me within the span of a month during the…

Unless the data is a lagging indicator

Are Mississippi and Louisiana at the top of the pay scale? Then why are their reading scores improving so dramatically compared to wealthier states? Especially for under-privileged…

Because the Brits will never be accepted by the locals as a Thai or Vietnamese or whatever, and they know it. Whereas in western countries we have “new Germans” or “new British” fr…

It’s easy to find sketchy lines of code in any large C project. The big advance that they are claiming with Mythos is the ability to triage all the hundreds of candidate vulns and …

Right. It’s things like Baltimore (when I lived there) requiring that high speed internet had to roll out in poor areas first, before it could go into the rich neighborhoods. But t…