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> empirically-minded work Yeah, I understand that this testing-oriented constraint method is what AI coding enthusiasts are pitching. Sure, it's different from pure vibe-coding as originally d…

> LLMs are great with focused questions, up and down abstraction layers and across all kinds of concerns. Stack up these focused concerns into a rich understanding of what you are doing or writing.…

Insightful: > the term “vibe-coding” suggests a kind of laissez-faire attitude where you don’t really care about the outcome and you’re just having fun. That’s what the phrase meant when it was coi…

You're right that people have never devoted much time to digging into the details. But also, I think the weather apps on phones today are a lot more likely to be used than the weather page in a n…

The cloud icon of doom, by Emily Stewart From the article: "When a little rain icon pops up on the ubiquitous weather apps on any given day, it can cut business in half, she says, whether any rai…

> this website is "better in the app" Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1174/

BPO means the US company is outsourcing to an Indian company. A Global Capability Center (GCC) means it's a US company subsidiary in India.

From the article: The Tesla feature known as “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” does not turn your car into the driver of your car. To some, that may sound like anti-Tesla propaganda, but take it from T…

From the article: In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones. ... Chinese “open-source” models account for…

I am so glad I read the OP. To me, the big news here is "FlatCV", the author's computer vision library. Why it interests me: 1. A practical and elegant approach to scanning real-world d…

> If it is making a positive impact, would it matter if it's AI or human We're drowning in this stuff, and no one has enough hours in their day to find out if obviously AI-generated slop …

By Alex Davies (Author) An exploration of why the stuff we use (mostly) works—and a celebration of the unsung engineers who ensure it does. When a manufacturer offers a 10,000-mile warranty on a car o…

Summary: 1. The enormous debt loads that the big AI companies are incurring can be serviced only with very high profits, i.e., very high white-collar job replacement. 2. Local models are becoming good…

Hmm, you might be right about that paragraph. I am very sensitive to LLM smells, but I missed this one, probably because the rest of the essay seems handwritten. Of course, one can never be sure. Many…

This was such a nice read about a park I had never heard of. Thank you for writing it (and for actually writing it yourself instead of vibing it).

From the article in The Wire: One increasingly popular approach is training models on millions of hours of recordings of humans performing dexterous tasks, in the hope of achieving a dexterity breakth…

For those (like me) who don't know what "motion" refers to here, it's Motion Project, an open-source program to monitor multiple cameras and trigger real-time hooks based on motion…