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Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

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Re: Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

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Post by dingnuts »

Sammi wrote: post #270
gghffguhvc wrote: post #225

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I just whack-a-mole these things in AGENTS.md for a while until it codes more like me.

Coding LLMs were almost useless for me, until my AGENTS.md crossed some threshold of completeness and now they are mostly useful. I now curate multiple different markdown files in a /docs folder, that I add to the context as needed. Any time the LLM trips on something and we figure it out, then I ask it to document it's learnings in a markdown doc, and voila it can do it correctly from then on.

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Re: Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

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Post by kaydub »

randyrand wrote: post #39

For Caude Code, Antigrav, etc, do people really just let an LLM loose on their own personal system? I feel like these should run in a cloud enviroment, or at least on some specific machine where I don't care what it does.

I think a problem is that a lot of people are working on terrible systems, because honestly, what you're asking doesn't even make sense to me.

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Post by krainboltgreene »

brightball wrote: post #154
krainboltgreene wrote: post #115

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It's so hilarious to look at 10k years of education history and be like "Nah, funding doesn't make a difference." Incredible.

The US already spends more per student than almost any other country (5th globally) and the outcomes are getting constantly worse. It’s not a funding problem.

It's incredibly unfair that you get to just lie online or worse that you actually believe what you're saying.

Re: Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

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Post by Herring »

Izikiel43 wrote: post #86
Herring wrote: post #57

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In theory yeah, but in practice 54% will also vote against funding education. Catch-22.

In WA they always pass levies for education funding at local and state level however results are not there. Mississipi is doing better on reading, the biggest difference being that they use phonics approach to teaching how to read, which is proven to work, whereas WA uses whole language theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language ), which is a terrible idea I don't know how it got traction. So the gist of i…

I almost agree, but too many people will take that to mean “we need to do more with less”. It’s a feature of capitalism. Teachers are stretched thin in most places, that’s always the main problem. Are WA teachers compensated about the same as other similarly educated professionals? As cops?

Hire smart motivated people, pay them well, leave them alone, they’ll figure this one out. It’s not hard, anyone can google what Finland does.

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Post by m4nu3l »

mirekrusin wrote: post #171
Madmallard wrote: post #157

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It's not really any different in my experience

Stochastic parrot? Autocomplete on steroids? Fancy autocorrect? Bullshit generator? AI snake oil? Statistical mimicry? You don't hear that anymore. Feels like whole generation of skeptics evaporated.

I think the stochastic part is true and useless. It can be applied to anyone or anything. Yes, the models give you probabilities, but any algorithm gives you probabilities (only zero or one for deterministic ones). You can definitely view the human mind as a complex statistical model of the world.

Now, that being said, do I think they are as good as a skilled human on most things? No, I don't. My trust issues have increased after the GPT-5 presentation. The very first question was to showcase its "PhD-level" knowledge, and it gave a wrong answer. It just happened to be in a field I know enough about to notice, but most didn't.

So, while I think they can be considered as having some form of intelligence, I believe they have more limits than a lot of people seem to realise.

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Post by Herring »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #269
lm28469 wrote: post #204

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Yes for example is its very well known that Angola has a top tier education system while Swedish people can barely read or count

Well, if you actually look at the data: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp... We spend far more than most countries per pupil, for much poorer results https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/pisa-scor... It's pretty clear that while spending is a factor, it's probably not the biggest one. The countries that seem to do best are those that combine adequate funding with real rigor in…

I posted elsewhere you can't just compare across the globe like that. You have to think about cost of living and especially opportunity cost. In the US, teacher pay lags behind similarly educated professionals, which means they get stretched thin and the best with options will leave.

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Post by [deleted] »

tehjoker wrote: post #268
reverius42 wrote: post #179

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> Their unions were also destroyed. By policy changes giving unions less power, enacted by politicians that were mostly voted for by a majority, which is mostly composed of the working class. Was this people voting against their interests? (Almost literally yes, but you could argue that their ideological preference for weaker unions trumps their economic interest in stronger unions.)

If your choices in an election are pre-selected, was it democratic?

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Re: Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

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Post by stavros »

GoatInGrey wrote: post #265
apwell23 wrote: post #249

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> https://pine.town how many prompts did it take you to make this? how did you make sure that each new prompt didn't break some previous functionality? did you have a precise vision for it when you started or did you just go with whatever was being given to you?

Judging by the site, they don't have insightful answers to these questions. It's broken with weird artifacts, errors, and amateurish console printing in PROD. https://i.ibb.co/xSCtRnFJ/Screenshot-2025-11-25-084709.png https://i.ibb.co/7NTF7YPD/Screenshot-2025-11-25-084944.png

I definitely don't have insightful answers to these questions, just the ones I gave in the sibling comment an hour before yours. How could someone who uses LLMs be expected to know anything, or even be human?

Alas, I did not realize I was being held to the standard of having no bugs under any circumstance, and printing nothing to the console.

I have removed the amateurish log entries, I am pitiably sorry for any offense they may have caused. I will be sure to artisanally hand-write all my code from now on, to atone for the enormity of my sin.

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Post by stavros »

boplicity wrote: post #279
GoatInGrey wrote: post #265

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Judging by the site, they don't have insightful answers to these questions. It's broken with weird artifacts, errors, and amateurish console printing in PROD. https://i.ibb.co/xSCtRnFJ/Screenshot-2025-11-25-084709.png https://i.ibb.co/7NTF7YPD/Screenshot-2025-11-25-084944.png

It also doesn't seem to work right now.

Yeah, all of the above was a single bug in the plot allocation code, the exception that handled the transaction rollback had the wrong name. It's working again.

Re: Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

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Post by throw45678943 »

suddenlybananas wrote: post #220
throwawaylaptop wrote: post #122

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I date a lot of teachers. My last one was in the San Ramon (CA) Valley School district, she makes about $90k a year at 34 years old. Talking to her basically makes me want to homeschool my kids to make sure someone like her isn't their teacher. Paying teachers more won't do ANYTHING until we become a lot more selective about who gets to become and stay a teacher. It can't be like most government jobs where getting it…

If teachers made as much as half the people on this site, perhaps things would be better. 90k in San Ramon is more or less the median wage [1]. It's not _that_ much money. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ramon,_California#2020_cen...

Who knows? Maybe with the way AI is going that will be considered a lot of money compared to what people earn on this site.

As in what people generally earn on this site will crash way down and be outsourced to these models. I'm already seeing it personally from a social perspective - as a SWE most people I know (inc teachers in my circle) look at me like my days are numbered "cause of AI".

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