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But the only one that matters? Seems like this is delivering business value.

'If you can't build a TODO list app using only punchcards, then you can't do your job...' Obviously our ambitions expand due to better tools. I now commit to and deliver much more …

Don’t read long form content on mobile then? IDK what else to say.

This is really cool! Now I'm trying to stop myself from finding an excuse to spend upwards of $30k on compute hardware...

MacOS has been moving more and more in this direction, and it’s good.

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> What am I doing wrong Trying two things and giving up. It's like opening a REPL for a new language, typing some common commands you're familiar with, getting some syntax errors, …

Eh. This is true for humans too and doesn’t make humans useless at evaluating business plans or other things. You just want the signal from the object level question to drown out i…

Love it! I've been looking for an excuse to dive into AI planning for robotics, and this looks like it will make it easy to get started. Just one question: does the power supply ha…

Also corporations, governments etc. - they're capable of things that none of the individuals could do alone.

> Prompts as Source Code Another way to phrase this is LLM-as-compiler and Python (or whatever) as an intermediate compiler artefact. Finally, a true 6th generation programming lan…

I think that commenter was disagreeing with this line: > because omniscient-yet-dim-witted models terminate at "superhumanly assistive" It might be that with dim wits + enough brut…

> I think AI maximalists will continue to think that the models are in fact getting less dim-witted I'm bullish (and scared) about AI progress precisely because I think they've onl…

> "LLMs can’t write Rust" This really doesn't accord with my own experience. Using claude-code (esp. with opus 4) and codex (with o3) I've written lots of good Rust code. I've actu…

Making changes to huge rust projects is quite easy. For a substantial alteration, you make your change, the compiler tells you the 100 problems it caused, and you fix them all (~50…

No doubt from me that it’s a sigmoid, but how high is the plateau? That’s also hard to know from early in the process, but it would be surprising if there’s not a fair bit of progr…

I think that's generally fair, but this point goes too far: > improve benchmarks one by one If you're right about that in the strong sense — that each task needs to be optimised in…

I don't know how someone could be following the technical progress in detail and hold this view. The progress is astonishing, and the benchmarks are becoming saturated so fast that…

Yes. If you judge only from the hype, then you can't distinguish LLMs from crypto, or Nuclear Weapons from Nuclear Automobiles. If you always say that every new fad is just hype, t…

Yes, this product mostly only targets the top 20% of US earners. That's a lot of people, and a lot of HN readers especially.

Unfortunately the market is quite small and shrinking. I wish more people wanted great sound rather than phone/tv speakers (or soundbars).

They don't do any of the Dolby decoding and multi-channel mixing. Their closest product is the miniDSP Flex HT which is really about applying EQ to a bunch of channels (only 8, aka…

At >500M weekly active users it doesn't actually matter. There will be hundreds of cases like that example that were never shared.

Yes.

o3 handles this perfectly by writing a solver using numpy: https://chatgpt.com/share/680aab8e-cf9c-8012-9f48-301ef62948... The polynomial has no closed-form factorisation, so the o…