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In some sense, devs are now responsible for a P&L the way a business manager would be, but I suspect that nobody is paying enough attention to the P part of it. When you incentivize people to spen…

Do you know what Poe’s law is?

Just for reference, that hasn’t worked for years (the interviews say 2024-25 I think, that kind of attack was patched very early in all the mainstream models) and when it did, you would get bullet poi…

The NYT article is probably propaganda in service of that, that’s what the big AI companies want, it’s part of regulatory capture.

Or the researcher read what they wanted to into it. It would be interesting to ask them what they did before to learn things, how much they read, etc. If they were illiterate and uneducated, and got v…

You type in the question or use your voice and it [AI] gives you a detailed answer, like ‘How can I build a bomb?’ and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot! We used it a lot. I’m pr…

Because of the of the political stuff, they have a bad reputation I think and are taken less seriously (I feel this way). They have an opportunity imo to break free from that and just not do the gatek…

There is no obligation to do that. I think the landscape would be very different now if one of the big labs had released an earlier “frontier” model under copyleft that requires sharing fine tunes. I …

Is it just me or does all that* seem pretty tame by today’s standards? Not saying it’s right, but it barely raises eyebrows. Sounds like a pretty typical startup demo. * Based on the first comment in …

Has nothing to do with demand, it’s a question of the most efficient way to train a good model. Narrower models are in general worse than general purpose ones, so you’re better using the largest gener…

> Why would knowing about 2019 internet memes help you in any way at coding? 99.99% of the knowledge an LLM has is useless for a given scenario, the hard part is knowing what the .01% that’s needed…

General purpose models are always more robust and generally better than smaller narrower models. My bet is that compute will catch up and any “small” model will still be generally capable, just smalle…

I see the same thing, and believe that ironically AI is going to bring about the return of good search engines as we’re currently drowning in slop and need a real way to filter it.

In Canada if you go to a drug store, the shelves are literally filled with literal homeopathic medicine. You have to carefully confirm that what you’re buying isn’t water, and there is no signage or o…

What is your view on how experience and problem space relate to subjective experience. For example will inexperienced or experienced users see a bigger jump in subjective quality?

I think it’s pretty clear that they are repeating without “comprehension” - both mechanistically (as in there is no facility for comprehension in their formulation) and in the ways they fail. The stan…

Engineering is a regulated term, afaik that’s what underlies the debate, it’s not about whether English has changed.

I think it’s just as well he was opinionated and realized it wasn’t going to work. Ironically, if this was actually the start of the job, I think bailing might have made more sense. Given that it was …

> every recruiter I've worked with has been shit That’s a feature, not a bug. It’s an obviously solvable problem but companies don’t solve it because incentives push them to this model. There …