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sbarre

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About sbarre

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    Comment #49221645

    > how much do we gain when Sol scolds Fable? You might be surprised at how much benefit you get from the model council[0] pattern. The common pattern I've seen is "build with Claud…

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    Comment #49221612

    > There are standards in language that are not all “left means right for me so you cannot assume when i say right it is right and not left” Yes of course there are words that have …

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    Comment #49217716

    2M lines of code is 15 people committing ~26k lines of code per year (~100 lines per working day) for 5 years. 15 people is a pretty small startup, what if this is a 50-person star…

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    Comment #49217441

    > Are we in school debate club? Not that I know of but that's the conclusion I drew from your statement. It's not a cheap shot unless you took it personally? I suppose I could have…

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    Comment #49216674

    Man, so many people in this thread just arguing pointless semantics, making weirdo absolutist (and incorrect) statements. Accept that other people may ascribe different meanings/in…

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    Comment #49216625

    > You didn't say anything positively or negatively regarding this so I made an assumption that you were using the LLM relatively unguided I feel like this statement betrays your la…

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    Comment #49209718

    Who is "we" here? This is about one company bending the knee, not an entire industry or population.

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    Comment #49181628

    Even simpler: I wish banks would allow you to set up a requirement of MFA for transactions over a certain amount (with everyone's consent of course). My parents are not yet a conce…

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    Comment #49166735

    That's an interesting perspective.. I feel like everyone I know/knew who was really into Airtable was pretty sophisticated and used it for complex data wrangling that was beyond th…

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    Comment #49166711

    It's also a byproduct of the most successful user acquisition model to be honest. Getting users is hard, especially on the Internet where your audience is global, and competition i…

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    Comment #49105103

    Does that apply here? We're talking about abstracting generic OS windowing/multiplexing for what sounds like an agent-based development workflow modality where you're referring to …

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    Comment #49103941

    Some needed context is that article is over 3 years old.

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    Comment #49100938

    If you like terminals and tmux, can I suggest you spend a few hours playing with herdr? It clicked for me in a way that a lot of other orchestrators didn't.

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    Comment #49100600

    There is value in abstracting the underlying generic systems into more context-relevant primitives for people who just want to get shit done in that context. Why not meet people wh…

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    Comment #49077880

    How about we don't trust either of the proprietary shovel salesmen?

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    Comment #48967551

    If you want a local and open source option (MacOS only at the moment though), I've been happily using Keyscribe for dictation, which is built on Moonshine I believe. https://rsperk…

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    Comment #48925812

    Because (A) it has an OpenAI logo on it and (B) they made $13B and lost $21B last year?

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    Comment #48894487

    Like any other detection system you will always have determined adversaries that put in the work to bypass it. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't still try to block the much large…

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    Comment #48891064

    Huh I had no idea these were in demand.. I still have an original GUS card in a box somewhere. I forget the exact model but it was one of the better ones.

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    Comment #48851206

    It's uncanny how much the job of "crafting contrived yet plausible scenarios to over-sell the utility of our service" has become such a critical part of AI vendor marketing.

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    Comment #48848438

    Isn't a PE firm going public just an admission of failure, and an attempt to make their private investors whole on the public market's back?

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    Comment #48848398

    While I agree that their specific approach sucks, I do wish more companies would declare products as "done" and stop messing with the UI and changing features every quarter, and ju…

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    Comment #48799737

    This doesn't even account for the fact that while the tech industry's dominant language is English, lots of people in our industry count English as a second (or third/fourth/etc) l…

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    Comment #48796316

    All writing is open to interpretation by the reader. Some people let punctuation or grammar mistakes ruin an entire text or post for them, because they choose to focus on those fla…

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    Comment #48709309

    > Anytime someone is an actual expert at anything, AI output appears insufficient or incomplete or outright misleading Yes, this is exactly so. AI is able to confidently sound plau…