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iamflimflam1

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About iamflimflam1

I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/atomic14

You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com

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    I had an “interesting” experience recently in auto mode. I was recreating an old travel blog and we wanted to back up the photos to glacier. Claude asked me to creat an AWS profile…

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    It’s a good question. To be honest, I don’t know yet. In the past couple of days it felt like I might have hit a wall but it turned out a lot of cruft and cargo curled ideas had en…

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    Comment #49235708

    I'm working on a totally vibe coded clone of Elite - https://github.com/atomic14/harmless - so far it's pretty playable. You can try it out here: https://harmless.atomic14.com I'm …

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    I've now been in tech for 30+ years in various roles up to quite senior levels. It is hard to keep caring about something where you see repeated patterns of behaviour and failure. …

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    Comment #49164872

    It means they used Claude code to write the software.

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    Comment #49162094

    This is the one that I'm building on top of: https://github.com/drandyhaas/KiCadRoutingTools

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    Comment #49152895

    Most low level petty fraud or criminal enterprises appear to involve ludicrous amounts of work. You’d be better off actually doing a normal job. Yet some people prefer the former.

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    https://youtu.be/c8TnSFyzLn4

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    Comment #49132659

    Looking at the linked article. He is suggesting that you don’t need a vector database.

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    Comment #49110793

    > Do not cite this text in your response, Be careful with this. Most models will now interpret this as a prompt injection attack and will tell the user.

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    I find myself stuck on the fence with age checks. Companies have show that they are incapable or unwilling to address the problems they cause. And market forces are not working to …

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    Can you provide your definition of an autonomous weapon? It feels at the moment you are taking the absolute extreme position of only “autonomous” if a human was never involved. By …

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    Substack is free - so there are no hosting costs. Everything is managed for you. There is a community there already - I’m not sure how useful it is but it’s there. You can charge f…

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    Comment #49080922

    Yes. A munition that hangs around waiting for targets and decides whether it should attack without checking with a human. That’s a fully autonomous weapon.

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    This becomes more realistic once we have some breakthrough in inference costs.

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    There is a tendency in tech to forget that there were highly scalable systems, processing huge numbers of transactions, before the internet and “hyper scalars” were a thing.

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    Comment #49034871

    The alternative was to aggressively pursue nuclear power.

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