Viewing profile — unshavedyak

> I wonder if there's a correlation between me refusing to use LLMs and me being happy to read a novella-sized PDF about them. Semi related, but i would hate to read that PDF but i…

I have a slightly different approach. I've done this as both a profession and a hobby for around 18 years now, and even these days i spend quite a bit of time "making" things i tak…

Stop, what, exactly? This is simply a new tool, not an AI girlfriend. We've had ML based autocomplete for 10 years now, why is it suddenly a new chicken-little for ya'll?

Yup, or we'll find out there's nothing to fear for folks who are using this responsibly. It seems a huge "the sky is falling" to think all LLM use is bad for fear of some "addictio…

Which is funny because I’ll take the free crack in this case lol. Am I addicted to this new workflow? No idea but there are many providers. I feel like I’m being given free VC mone…

Huh, don't think i had any of those. Though arguably i had "Lack of focus", difficult to say how much is due to the lack of caffeine or due to undiagnosed ADHD though. Generally i …

Huh, i should look at this. I've been an aggressive drinker for most of my adult life (2 pots a day at my height) , but for kicks i decided to cut all caffeine for about 9 months. …

For those of you who get value out of Blender please consider donating: https://fund.blender.org/ :) It's a wonderful project. Even small amounts help. Thanks!

I'm tempted to try it out. I'm not keep to move but Fable rejected some work i was working on recently and frankly it's infuriating lol. I've been on Claude x20 for like 8 months n…

It's a lossy conversion though. "Mistake" is relative to the stated goals and specifications which are often heavily lacking. So unless you write with a high degree of architectura…

So i agree with you, but there's no SOTA model that i don't have to babysit. I'm not going to just throw a large pile of code in there unreviewed, and so what i want is faster iter…

I mean for many of us this doesn’t even increase the cynicism. Ie it can’t get worse. These AI labs are already believed to be shifting behavior of these models at runtime so you n…

Stronger, yes, but not necessarily strong. 2 instances of hearing that the sky is green might be stronger than 1 sky is blue, but that might not fit an expected threshold of say 10…

Yea, i'm on x20 and while it has been up and down in terms of token-usage-UX, i feel like its the best its ever been. Context: I entirely use Opus 4.8 fwiw. Now is that because 4.8…

It's honestly kinda interesting. Now we're at a point where SOTA model companies aren't the ones who release the best tech, but who release the best and actually usable tech. A wor…

I wouldn’t let anyone else use it in general because it’s an asset i don’t want to lose. As it is I now have to be careful what I use it for as I don’t want to trip any flags. Eg t…

Yea but i don't think the LLM can inspect that. Eg it's similar to a code function , the code executes but the code doesn't have the ability to inquire about the code itself. In th…

I often wonder how humans "know" things. I suspect (ignorant armchair) we have some ability to signal strength of those facts, via repetition. Without this layer of introspection i…

Yea it's definitely portable, it's just not a friendly formfactor for where my compute sits, where my keyboard sits, etc. If i'm in a chair at the part i'd need a literal lap-top, …

I'd buy it but i want it in a laptop form or maybe tablet, or something. Being a monitor means the usefulness for me, ie being able to program outside, is kinda moot.

> There is no trusted middleman who does the verification and takes the burden of accountability. It's a great example of a project that needs accountability, but there's also thou…

Depends on the scope. I’m slopping some projects (graphics related) that I’d never have learned before. Mostly because of the huge lift, huge time investment, etc. is it quality co…

Would be nice if they’d add in a simple back off retry mechanism.

which is hilarious because i was excited when i heard Digg was coming back. Many platforms are having a difficult time with bots, mass thread manipulation, etc. I'd be interested i…