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LLMs are language models. So much of this can be reduced to a simple heuristic: If you can't think clearly, LLMs will not help you. If you don't know what you're asking for or how …

True. Less than 40% of the world's fossil fuel energy goes to generating electricity. The rest goes to transportation, industrial processes, material feedstock, and direct heating …

Good point. I didn't mean to imply that carbon was the only value. The "services" provided by these ecosystems are incalculable. The myopic focus on carbon is an easy trap to fall …

> Just keep building... If you don't want to use AI, don't. If you want to, great. I love this sentiment. Quality should transcend the tooling used to create it. The by-hand artisa…

Forests and grasslands are critical for the climate because of the carbon they lock away. So long as the plants stay alive, they store carbon in the cellulose structures of roots a…

At least this was planned ahead of time, intentionally, by the human maintainer. https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/1934822081591681353 The fear with these coding agents is that, un…

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I largely agree with the premise. I was just honing in on the coding claim because the statement is so obviously wrong that it distracts from an otherwise solid post. We should put…

> Coding, math and most administrative work are similarly benign. What makes them easy is that they have relatively smooth solution spaces and are tractably verifiable. Code most d…

Billions of conversations. Zero lived experience. The difference is huge. An LLM conversation can contain within it a batshit crazy model of the world and still produce a plausible…

My point is that creatine has had significant attention on it for decades. OP perceives an increase in attention but that's just a reflection of their knowledge (Baader–Meinhof eff…

Creatine is a health fad? No other supplement has been this widely-used for such a long time. It was considered safe and effective when I started using it 30 years ago. The benefit…

Ironically that's where I started my career and now I'm hoping to get back there. I was a data-oriented environmental scientist who happened to code. But at some point, I slipped i…

My heaviest LLM usage month came in at $45. So far this July, $6 and counting (it's been a light month). I can certainly imagine increasing my usage by several orders of magnitude …

It's not just "the code itself looks LLM generated" - it's also LOC/hr by a particular author which suggests vibe coding. You could look at the author's github contributions to ide…

Love it. Another great site along these lines: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Point datasets have two distinct modes of visualization. First is an aggregate view which serves to show you the trends and spatial distribution. Second is the individual view show…

> Ask your favorite GPT to generate manifests, ... > Before LLMs writing consistent YAMLs was PITA but today on low/development scale it's pretty much free lunch. Writing manifests…

This is a consequence of our "AI accusation culture" that has arisen in the last year. An obvious reaction to the "AI slop culture" (seriously, stop doing that) but its a shame to …

I don't think people fully grasp the scale of a trillion dollars. A trillionaire is a million millionaires. It's impossible to efficiently manage that much wealth in one brain. Dis…

At what point does this become an issue for data quality and global epistemology? It seems inevitable that we ask for more AI assistance on topics we don't understand. And therefor…

Learn SQL (because it's basically the only option) but much more importantly, learn databases. Know why atomicity, consistency, idempotency, and durability matter. Understand the w…

Navigating and manipulating code as a tree, directly in your editor. There is nothing like it. Going back to code as bunch of carefully arranged ascii chars feels like a regression…

Friction is the mechanism by which mammalian brains acquire skills. This is as close to proven as we get in cognitive neuroscience; without a struggle, we literally don't learn. Th…