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itsalotoffun

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    Comment #44920983

    This is correct. It will require non-market forces to regulate soft-landings for humans. We may see a wave of "job-preserving" legislation in the coming years but these will eventu…

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    Comment #44920851

    I'm genuinely curious, is it: a) the writing style you can't stand, b) the fact that this piece tripped your "this is written by AI" and it's AI-written stuff you can't stand? And …

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    Comment #44920495

    Also, regarding your agents (primary and sub): - Did you build your own or are you farming out to say Opencode? - If you built your own, did you roll from scratch or use a framewor…

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    Comment #44920477

    When you discuss caching, are you talking about caching the LLM response on your side (what I presume) or actual prompt caching (using the provider cache[0])? Curious why you'd inv…

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    Comment #44920295

    > The future may reduce the economic prosperity and push humanity to switch to some different economic system (maybe a better system). Markets don’t want to accept that. [Emphasis …

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    Comment #44920230

    While I'm certain you'll find plenty of people who believe in the principle of model welfare (or aliens, or the tooth fairy), it'd be surprising to me if the brain-trust behind Ant…

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    Comment #44920136

    Super practical, no-bullshit write up clearly coming from the trenches. Worth the read.

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    Comment #44913140

    Lots of chat about this: > Inference APIs aren’t subsidised This is hard to pin down. There are plenty of metal companies providing hosted inference at market rates (i.e. assumed p…

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    Comment #44911531

    This way to the hard take-off.

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    Comment #44911501

    > It works in small ... chunks Yup. > I ... review each one Yup. These two practices are core to your success. GenAI hangs reliably hangs itself given longer rope.

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    Comment #44910437

    No-one expects Susan. No wait, the Spanish Inquisition.

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    Comment #44899171

    I mean.. there's simply no repercussions for these companies, and only rivers of money on the other side. The law is laughably inept at keeping them in check. The titans of Surveil…

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    Comment #44889448

    Fair enough (and edited). I get angry at Chicken Littles spraying their anxieties all over other people because they can. It's not okay.

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    Comment #44889212

    Daniel's freaking out about an ongoing correction still playing out from '21, and finding struts to support his argument like the "30-50% of the work " is being "done by AI" nonsen…

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    Comment #44885177

    +1 for vibetunnel

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    Comment #44885152

    Legal paperwork is a fig leaf proxy for a game played with lawyers and lots of money. If you can't actively and substaintially flex both, you'll discover how the world actually wor…

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    Comment #44885106

    I am shocked, shocked to hear that Sam is backpedalling this.

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    Comment #44853855

    Yeah, this moralizing is like side-eyeing your fellow soldiers for killing "too much" because your level of killing is fine.

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    Comment #44853823

    I think we're still in the gray zone of the "Incessant Obsolescence Postulate" (the Wait Calculation). Are you better off "skilling up" on the tech as it is today, or waiting for i…

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    Comment #44823276

    You need a supervisor agent to periodically check the progress and `if (madness) halt(1)`

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    Comment #44823249

    Something like this? https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini...

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    Comment #44823223

    https://www.projecthyperion.org

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    Comment #44811413

    You've got it backwards friend

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    Comment #44809235

    Exactly this. No amount of cred, smarts, and genius that ends with "and I'm a bit of dick" will save you from my automatic red-line veto when hiring. I'm far from alone in this.

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    Comment #44776358

    1 senior to 10 everyone else. Sorry that wasn't super clear.