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    Comment #49220078

    Medium term it could lower the price of memory and compute.

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    Comment #49220049

    It is indeed well written but I feel it has LLM smell, not that is a bad thing.

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    Comment #49208159

    > When folks like uncle Bob says they don't review AI code, I can only think they are burnt out or being unprofessional. Indeed it saves some time writing the code, but overall, I …

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    Comment #49208065

    my idea is "skin is all that's left"

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    Comment #49208018

    I think a product should answer a specific need, it cannot be fully defined internally, it is an expression of some need in the environment which makes it a legitimate product. A p…

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    Comment #49206325

    > I can't wait to never see a reasoning button ever again. I hope to see a memory-less mode that is not incognito. Want fresh contexts sometimes, but also want to keep the chats sa…

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    Comment #49206258

    AI helps you but also your competition, and gets factored in by investors while customers can use it to find better deals. The whole market is different even if a company did nothi…

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    Comment #49201329

    Sent to solve one task, came back with half of it solved and 2 more problems.

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    Comment #49194064

    > does anybody relate to this grown interest to plants and bird distinction with age I have a similar interest but mine is about passively assimilating foreign languages while watc…

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    Comment #49192944

    What happens is that your competition uses AI, your investors factor AI in, and your customers use AI agents to find what they need and can switch providers with greater ease in th…

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    Comment #49164711

    > Why does this “just work?” Nobody really knows, but it clearly does. We know language has to be learnable by every human, so it needs to be really independent of any specific bra…

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    Comment #49136297

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49136238

    The system prompt part is surely cached across all users.

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    Comment #49125954

    Many people make the mistake to think LLMs are stochastic parrots, but they are more like pianos, you play the keys and they make music, if you don't bring no new spices to the sou…

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    Comment #49125886

    Don't just focus on the model, half the turns in a session belong to the human, it's an instrument that depends on how well the user wields it. It does not need to produce the nove…

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    Comment #49120198

    Best interface in my opinion is a git tracked folder, files as state, agents coming in and doing work. It's not just a chat interface because in chat mode everything flows like wat…

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    Comment #49090370

    As long as it is not substantially similar to training set it should be OK to reuse ideas. Ideas should not be protected by copyright or we can't create anything. We should not acc…

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    Comment #49090353

    > The output of it is also a derivative work, A short session is just retrieval, a long session is always unique. The more the user writes the more it diverges from any content in …

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    Comment #49050950

    You can automate work but never owning the consequences. AI tasks emerge from human contexts, they perform work in the context and finally the outcomes collect in the context - gai…

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    Comment #49037065

    I really hope this is how we are going to adapt to LLM era.

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    Comment #49012344

    > if a polished appearance (even if it is mega plastic) is no longer a sign of quality, then what is? What signals do I need to look for now? AI produces apparent uniformity, it ma…

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    Comment #49003650

    > So, continuing to profit--forever--from someone's else work, at scale, without their prior consent, is fair use? Yeah, you are right. Have you been paying your dues to the author…

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    Comment #49003609

    What do you mean pirating? They don't even distribute the originals, LLMs are not for replication, we already have copying and internet for that. Why would we use a multi-billion p…

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    Comment #49003597

    What you are saying leads to "pulling the ladder behind you" effect on creativity. It's impossible to protect more than substantial similarity and still allow creativity to exist.

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    Comment #49003583

    > There needs to be a royalty payment based on if the AI regurgitates existing ideas. So, by that logic, you need to be paying every time you regurgitate any of my ideas. Or anyone…