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Taking Anthropic’s whole AI framing to its obvious logical end: if this is true as written, why was Jarred needed at all in this loop? It seems like an utter waste of time for a hi…

The difference now is about the scale. What percentage of the labor force do you think were “computers”? It is not comparable to a potential disruption of huge swathes of the workf…

> No, I think people will demand to not live in poverty What about other countries in the world where people... live in poverty? > Capitalism allows people to escape poverty by per…

The comment is making fun of a Claude-ism where it becomes super “honest” about stuff. It’s a joke but there is an underlying real effect where this type of language is psychologic…

You may be right but it seems like a different type of tool when it does the thinking for you. I feel like your analogy is closer to a good autocomplete rather than an agentic LLM …

I was primarily pushing back on anti-screens in its absolute sense, and being somewhat pedantic. However, I largely agree with you, especially considering how screens are most ofte…

If it were a human (going off of memory as it has been a while), they would probably be using mathscinet and their university library to obtain copies of these papers online. Many …

I am skeptical of using AI for a tutor and would not give it to my kid, but I find the staunch no-screens sentiment equally ridiculous and similar to saying no-books. Do you have k…

Screens are a medium. I don't see how they are inherently bad, although it is probably correct that screens carry the most bad content out of any information medium. But my kid has…

You would learn way more by asking an LLM how postgres works. Nobody is even reading this Rust code. There are 7000 commits over 2 weeks. What is being learned from that?

> Just run both pgrust and postgres and compare the output. The space of inputs and outputs is infinite. You can't prove programs are the same by "just" testing a bunch inputs.

Of course, if the rewrite is all of those things, then it seems like a good option. The whole point is how do we know if it actually is better.

Genuine question - do you feel that you understand a code change well enough by only viewing diffs, enough to push the Claude code as “your own”? I can see this for some types of P…

Every time people point out a limitation or constraint of LLMs, I see a comment that is to the effect of “but humans…”. I don’t understand why this comparison is relevant to this p…

The point is that there is a 0% chance you can meaningfully understand the impact and consequences of what a 10k line change is doing in a couple hour review, so there’s no way for…

The entire PR description is filled with LLMisms. I find this style so hard to read, it’s almost nauseating these days. My eyes start to glaze over and I stop reading pretty quickl…

I think the answer to your question depends on what you mean by a “completely egalitarian world”. Depending on the answer, I would ask: why does the kid desire to charge people to …

> As an AI optimist, I think all forced labor should eventually be done by AI. People can then spend their time pursuing their own hobbies. Just as many people still play Go after …

The sibling has pointed out some things and you can check that, but — This has AI fingerprints all over it and it was clear to me too. The fact that not only do people not notice t…

> What all these theories have in common is the underlying belief that our brain/mind works as the machines we build It’s interesting to note that this is not a new phenomenon. If …

> The logical conclusion is that the brain makes me The logical conclusion under the popular axiomatic framework of materialism, for sure. But there are other possible logical conc…

I would not trust LLMs with the final word on anything financial. Not exactly accounting, but ChatGPT (whatever the paid model was in March) told me that paying down principal earl…

This doesn't make any sense to me, and seems like the exact opposite of what eBay is, but maybe we use eBay differently? When I use it, I am looking for something specific. The cha…