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If your plan is to not review and just have the LLM rewrite if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t sound like the rewrite is gonna be any better.

It doesn’t have to be an intentional threat to be worth responding to. One might reasonably think they’d stumbled on an (admittedly poorly executed) attack.

Is it a taboo, or is it just reserving specific words to mean specific things and insist everybody be precise about it?

This is explicitly mentioned in the article: > Though some have questioned why anyone intending to blow up a plane would broadcast the word bomb, many terrorist acts have relied on…

This really depends on context. Sure, if you're responding to a forum post or StackOverflow question with nothing but the LLM output, then I agree with this. On the other hand, whe…

Have you not seen: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-mach... (Two different examples of a similar idea)

I don't think these things are as different as you think. I started at "ls" and worked down. If you work up, you get things like a "socket", an "object" within a programming langua…

I’m curious what you think an abstraction is. Even running “ls” involves several layers of abstraction: a shell, a process (abstracts memory), a thread (abstracts CPU)… you think i…

Is the MET right? They launched about 29 hours ago but it says 1d18h

Thanks for the context. That makes a lot of sense! Those three constraints seem pretty important and a useful way to think about the problem.

Having used Rust professionally for six years now, I share your fear. Like many of the commenters below, coherence just hasn't been a big problem for me. Maybe there are problem sp…

I've never once pulled in a new dependency and had the program fail to compile just by virtue of that dependency being present [because both my code and the new code both impl'd th…

I don’t think that sums up the post well. I would say: The phrase “it turns out” has a surprising way of disarming skepticism in readers. While surprising, it’s easy to understand:…

> How long did humanity survive without vaccines for _everything_? Oh that's right. Is this a trick question? Humanity survived by having enough people with enough other useful tra…

There is important truth in your post, yet you seem to miss the really important pieces that make this hard. > It's the parents obligation to educate their child. > It's the child'…

I inferred that they’re referring to the fact that in typical C the compiler must have seen a function earlier in the file for you to use it. One solution (that the author doesn’t …

Doesn't this depend a lot on how long your actions run? Like, you may have already invested in your own hardware (maybe because your actions use a lot of resources and it's cheaper…

>> What remains is me feeling triggered when it feels like users' pain is being casually dismissed. > Was that done in this thread? Well, I raised a general problem around 24/7/365…

It is, although you can have sharded PostgreSQL, in which case I agree with your assessment that you want random PKs to distribute them. It's workload-specific, too. If you want to…

> It's a question of resource margins. What you describe is true and very important (more margin lets you weather more disruption), but it's not the whole story. The problem we had…

Every time Postgres advice says to “schedule [important maintenance] during low traffic period” (OP) or “outside business hours”, it reinforces my sense that it’s not suitable for …

> The exclusive lock is only needed during the final swap phase, and its duration can be configured. FYI: even a very short operation that requires an exclusive lock can induce sig…

I’m sympathetic to looking down on the obsession with money. But there’s something deep and important about the monetary element. Engineering is about solving real-world, practical…