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This was a really interesting paper but there's a massive gap in what they didn't try, which is inference-time temperature changes based on the fork/lock distinction. Maybe I'll tr…

ASML is European and is arguably the most strategically important company in the entire semiconductor supply chain.

Have you heard of a little company called Arm Holdings? It was a travesty that the UK government let it be sold, admittedly.

I've been exploring Petri nets as a formalism for AI agent safety, specifically, proving properties like termination and human-gate enforcement exhaustively across every reachable …

I don't think you need two separate models for this - I get similarly good results re-prompting with Claude. Well, not re-prompting, I just have a skill that wipes the context then…

Couldn't disagree with this article more. I think the future of software engineering is more T-shaped. Look at the 'Product Engineer' roles we are seeing spreading in forward-think…

Fair push back. The distinction I'm drawing is between: A. Using a role prompt to configure a single function's scope ("you are a code reviewer, focus on X") - totally reasonable, …

Fair point on the date - the paper was updated October 2024 with Llama-3 and Qwen2.5 (up to 72B), same findings. The v1 to v3 revision is interesting. They initially found personas…

This has been pretty comprehensively disproven: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10054 Key findings: -Tested 162 personas across 6 types of interpersonal relationships and 8 domains of e…

This feels like massively overengineering something very simple. Agents are stateless functions with a limited heap (context window) that degrades in quality as it fills. Once you …

Fair. I'll retire 'bringing people along with you' before it ends up on a motivational poster with a stock photo of a rowing team. Though you're right that there's no I in team. Th…

This is a brilliant library, thanks so much for sharing it

I may have misread your comment, but I don't think soft skills are a 'narrow thing' at all. Effective communication, building trust, bringing people along with you - these are fund…

This couldn't ring more true to me - I think one of the consequences of the rapid change in the profession we are seeing is that skills that typically were required only at more se…

I notice one of the things you don't really talk about in the blog post (or if you did, I missed it) is unnecessary tests, which is one of the key problems LLMs have with test writ…