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otabdeveloper4

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otabdeveloper4
·قبل ساعتين·discuss
> Because AI represents the distillation of the very best human knowledge and expertise.

You say it like it's a fact, but in reality everyone sees the phenomenon of AI slop.

P.S. Information search and retrieval if the best and most direct way to use LLMs.
otabdeveloper4
·أول أمس·discuss
Sounds bonkers. Why not make an overlay LAN and host your own DNS server in 10.0.0.0/8?
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
Depends on what you want.

Postgres doesn't do replication, HA or columnar/OLAP workloads, for example.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
Postgres sucks. It does a little bit of everything, but badly and with much manual intervention.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
LLMs do not match patterns. They predict one statistically most likely token (only one!) given a history of some N previously known tokens.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
> Markdown has very few issues

Markdown's issue is that it isn't a standard, and many "standard" Markdown implementation default to rending HTML tags without any validation.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
> while others do

Now we just need to find those tasks. I want to believe.

> and we're doing the same amount if not more work than we used to

Zero evidence for this. It's programmers self-reporting their own productivity. (Have we not learned this lesson after 50 years of programming practice?)
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
With an infinite context window, yes. :)
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
Noise pollution is a different issue than "saving the planet".
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
> The software world is very close to building a super intelligent senior software developer.

Yeah. Two more weeks, as they say. Just need to iron out some kinks.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
> and that fear seems to have dissolved

Until the first big incident, yes.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 9 أيام·discuss
> CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research

CERN as in the facility in Meyrin.

I've been there, walked the halls, etc. Don't lecture me.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
> nonsense

I'm intimately familiar with how high-energy physicists get hired and funded. The funding comes from the political and budget bucket labeled "nuke stuff".

E.g., Fermilab is under the U.S. Department of Energy. CERN is funded by the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Etc., etc.

Politicians fund this stuff only because it triggers their wunderwaffen FOMO.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
> with the entire rest of the world

Uh, did you really mean that? The "entire" rest of the world? Even Iran and North Korea?

Well, it seems the "entire rest of the world" is only the so-called "good guys", according to the current political regime funding it.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
> Moving fast was a huge moat for a long time

It was never a moat.

Moving fast and getting to the right destination is a huge moat. AI changes nothing here.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
Politicians think it's a moonshot project at finding another nuclear bomb type of thing. (None of this would ever be funded without the tenuous nuclear weapons connection.)
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 11 يومًا·discuss
I mean if we wanted a good UI/UX framework we'd have to start from typesetting, not add it later as an afterthought to our button and text area widgets.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 11 يومًا·discuss
No, you're using the sampler as a tool.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 11 يومًا·discuss
Look at the majority of AI music and see for yourself.

AI does common-denominator stuff best, and common-denominator is heartfealt lyrics over some pentatonic chords. (Not Kraftwerk or whatever.)

This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnfixpA9Cs is a quintessential AI song.
otabdeveloper4
·قبل 11 يومًا·discuss
In the sense that typesetting and text is the rabbit hole that is 90% of UI effort. Native UI frameworks don't bother fixing the real hard problems, they focus on "widgets" instead.

(Not that the web stack is a good solution to this, but at least they're making an effort and they understand the difficult issues.)