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Any org large enough to have separated the people responsible for the security exposure of the organisation from the developers with familiarity of what's deployed is likely to hav…

The bottleneck is very rarely the typing.

Oh, I'm sure. If it wasn't a bit of a tricky needle to thread we'd have seen them start to do it already.

Cowork is to work as coding is to... ding?

If you're literally using it as code autocomplete that's not functionally true. But it's still neither well specified nor a good idea.

For certain specific uses. As a consumer I can still buy Huawei phones. As a business I can still buy Huawei routers, if I feel so inclined.

With their current API approach they're essentially a commodity. They need to start moving parts of the harness behind the API, otherwise they'll remain a commodity. Recursive self…

It's good but (at least on openrouter) it's got an annoyingly tight output token limit. So if it does get stuck in a reasoning pit, it won't work its way out of it in time. It's re…

For me it's more an expression of how much mileage you can get out of "glorified", how many tasks devolve down to "if you model language accurately enough, look what drops out" bec…

The wikipedia definition is: > ...a hypothetical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks. You can argue th…

I've just grabbed myself a Nape Pro trackball. It's really quite neat. ZMK firmware (which was actually the main thing I wanted) and a configurable positioning angle. I'm still get…

Control vectors for the win? It feels like the way to fix this is to pull out a control vector immediately after processing the handbook and use that to steer later inference. That…

CSG on meshes isn't really where FreeCAD struggles or focuses. That's more BRep, which is a harder problem than CSG. Blender used to struggle with boolean operations, though. Seems…

When did you try it? I got a bit confused by your comment because there's no obvious reason why the accelerometers in an android phone would have a problem reporting forward/backwa…

If you're needing to share code for domain objects between microservices something has gone badly wrong.

The very first time I came across the term, it was used to refer to something so small that you'd comfortably rewrite it rather than fix it if it was wrong.

It's not just the modular organisation that you've got to get right though, although that's definitely a big thing. Deployment independence matters too: if I've got a perfectly mod…

One team owning many services is fine, as long as they can deploy them independently of any other team. Less critical (but still useful) is being able to deploy their own services …

This isn't mimicking what a human would do, because it is an exceedingly rare human who would write their own renderer for a task needing a CAD file generating. The human who is ca…

The whole point is that if you don't maintain high quality, any software will degrade to the point where the factory breaks. "Human-quality" here isn't quite the right measure beca…

I got usable token rates (10-20tps from memory, so marginal) with the Qwen A10B a while back, well before all the new speculative speedups landed in llama.cpp. There's an unmerged …

What's your hardware? I've got 64GB RAM and a 4090 here, wondering if it's worth a play.

Couple of other more businessy reasons: - SynthID hides the watermark in the sampling RNG. No randomness -> no watermark. - If you want to distil on the model outputs, you want tem…

The team. The organisation. The reviewer, if they care about team throughput.

That is the context switch I'm referring to. It's worth the reviewer suffering a 15 minute (say) flow state loss to avoid the multiple hours the ticket would otherwise have been wa…