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> You've probably heard that the mind can hold seven things at once. What I've heard is human short-term memory can hold seven things at once. Fortunately the mind is much more.
This reads to me as fully written by LLMs. Pangram agrees. Note the (alleged) author misHQ’s comments on this thread are getting downvoted as obvious slop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706307 Even if it were written by hand, it’s a very poor and frankly stupid essay about an interesting topic. “The model's attention is a fixed quantity, and it has to add up to one, so the more things you make it look at, th…
I've learned that for both humans and models: system > willpower. The key is entirely in designing the environment. For me personally, that means setting up 'attention getters' for the important things in life - 'totems' that force a context switch. For AI agents, it means well-designed CLI tools that help the agent orient itself in a task and pull exactly the 'context-for-the-job' it needs right then. This is exactl…
> For AI agents, it means well-designed CLI tools that help the agent orient itself in a task and pull exactly the 'context-for-the-job' it needs right then. This is exactly what I am trying to solve and I have what I call smart repositories that demonstrates this at https://github.com/gitsense/smart-ripgrep https://github.com/gitsense/smart-codex The issue I am finding is, getting the agent to pull what it needs, ev…
This reads to me as fully written by LLMs. Pangram agrees. Note the (alleged) author misHQ’s comments on this thread are getting downvoted as obvious slop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706307 Even if it were written by hand, it’s a very poor and frankly stupid essay about an interesting topic. “The model's attention is a fixed quantity, and it has to add up to one, so the more things you make it look at, th…
The actual criticisms you have about the content however, I'd like to challenge:
The "adding up to one" is just a simplified gloss over softmax. It's very possible it reads poorly, and thats on me - not LLM gibberish.
As for the incoherence - I have to totally disagree. You have merged the 2 things the post keeps apart - capacity and attention over it. That a model can swallow a schema and write code is a competence humans share. We have been doing it for decades. Besides, the claim was never about us sharing capacity (other than stating it is always bounded) - it was about our attention failing in eerily similar ways.
So, AI slop, no. AI assisted, absolutely. It's sad that some judge the "who" more important than the "what" - especially for this kind of writing. But it's fair feedback nonetheless. I'll see what else I can do with assisting my delivery.
This reads to me as fully written by LLMs. Pangram agrees. Note the (alleged) author misHQ’s comments on this thread are getting downvoted as obvious slop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706307 Even if it were written by hand, it’s a very poor and frankly stupid essay about an interesting topic. “The model's attention is a fixed quantity, and it has to add up to one, so the more things you make it look at, th…
I like the ideas presented, but you can only read so many variations of > But an unbounded queue isn't a safety margin, it's a debt that keeps compounding [1] before getting a headache. I wish the whole thing was written better, because the idea of designing a codebase for humans and our limitations sounds fascinating. It's why I personally love type systems, you can keep less things in your head and let the type che…
I would please urge you to read further into the manifesto itself but would also recommend you start at the foreword so you can understand the reason for the use of AI assistance in my writing.
That's funny, isn't it the same for dogs?
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Challenge accepted!
This reads to me as fully written by LLMs. Pangram agrees. Note the (alleged) author misHQ’s comments on this thread are getting downvoted as obvious slop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706307 Even if it were written by hand, it’s a very poor and frankly stupid essay about an interesting topic. “The model's attention is a fixed quantity, and it has to add up to one, so the more things you make it look at, th…
Alleged author here - on my regular account. Thanks for the feedback. I have been quite upfront about the use of AI in the foreword. I have severe inattentive ADHD and have used AI to take my writings and present them in a way in which I feel are much more coherent overall. The actual criticisms you have about the content however, I'd like to challenge: The "adding up to one" is just a simplified gloss over softmax.…