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svachalek

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About svachalek

Software engineering manager by day, Claude Coder by night. Learned to program in 1981, been doing this a while.

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    Comment #49216723

    These are not 24 hours of inference with floating point errors accumulating; largely the system guards against errors compounding. Tool failures, compile failures, test failures, e…

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    Comment #49211080

    Let's take world leaders as an example. Suppose one starts making up everything they say on the spot, never researches or cares about facts, and just says things people like. Would…

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    Comment #49200273

    It seems telling that none of the photos show anyone wearing it.

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    Comment #49200191

    It's a lot of stuff, but with the possible exception of Waymo and the TPU, isn't this all going down in history under "also ran"?

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    Comment #49197384

    Why were you buying beef before, then? Hasn't pork always been cheaper than beef?

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    Comment #49186216

    That said though, Flash isn't it. The prices on the latest flash models put Sonnet and Terra to shame.

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    Comment #49185499

    gpt-2-image has such a yellow tinge though. It stands out badly on nearly any screen. The image quality is great otherwise, but I generally prefer nano banana for its color balance…

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    Comment #49183528

    Nah, people are vibe coding lots of apps that no one cares about, but this is more like going through Stack Overflow and answering the most upvoted issues that don't have answers. …

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    Comment #49139035

    We've come a long way since the first LLMs were created. They originally produced a lot of surprises that were very hard to explain, it's true. But current research is very tightly…

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    Comment #49138968

    That's an argument for not using the word for anything, not specific to this case.

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    Comment #49138917

    And how do glial cells and calcium waves "obviously" create a fully conscious mind while tensor operations do not?

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    Comment #49076892

    Largely hypothetical, not very effective ways to fight against it. Meanwhile we have the entire Pacific Ocean and US Military between us and China.

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    Comment #49073800

    I saw this even on the weekend when it wasn't under heavy load. We agreed a problem was due to one choice of word in a prompt and then it went off and wrote 600 lines of code to "f…

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    Comment #49073704

    Cleaning the house doesn't retroactively fix the neglect though. It just makes the house look cared for to the lizard brain.

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    Comment #49036900

    The guy next to me at the last movie I went to was scrolling TikTok. Seriously what the hell, you can do that anytime and you actually paid to be in that seat.

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    Comment #49036772

    It would be interesting to remake it, replacing the premise that people are genetically stupid with just the idea that they're habitually stupid from generations of reliance on AI …

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    Comment #48984814

    Some of this stuff is ludicrous. I finally tried /loop last week and discovered every loop iteration passes the entire context history to the model. So pretty quickly you're runnin…

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    Comment #48983480

    I haven't seen either of these running outside their creator's services yet, but typically you can watch services like openrouter or nano-gpt for it to show up at a (usually small)…

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    Comment #48983362

    You've got to consider how much power that uses though. Depending where you live, some of these providers can serve it for less than you pay for power.

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    Comment #48982420

    I'd imagine it has to be immense. Most of the engineers I know are spending $200/day, let's say 20 workdays per month, $4000/mo. Whatever % of revenue it is, it's got to be close t…

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    Comment #48951481

    The Claude-isms are so heavy in this it's painful to read: "Next: what an actual structural reset requires, once the cheap corrections are gone, the workarounds are load-bearing, a…

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    Comment #48928066

    And if they did, you still don't need to be developing a Twitter-bot LLM and/or nudify image model to support your rocketry projects.

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    Comment #48922981

    From your description it may be acting as a placebo -- the act of putting the pill into your mouth is what tells your subconscious to activate a sleep cycle.

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    Comment #48913265

    Well it's not the dev who would want one, it's the agent, for the same reliability/security reasons that a dev historically would have.

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    Comment #48909444

    > Because absolutely no one is marketing apps as being superior, but instead this is just the experience of users. I guess you haven't used the mobile web? Practically any website …