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what-the-grump
·bulan lalu·discuss
My EV has profiles per person...
what-the-grump
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
You’ve managed to brick w11 VMs completely running in your native cloud. Kill laptops in the April update and trigger bitlocker on consumer machines which users having zero experience recovering their devices because the GUI is crap.

You’ve been busy.

Stop shipping features, ship stability and quality.
what-the-grump
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I don't know but I can point at more than half of the people that I work with that can't think, and every time they try to, takes a whole group of people that can think to undo their mess, they all have degrees and I don't.

So what does that tell me?

Better yet, for about 30% having the LLM slop it would have yielded better outcomes, but having them slop something nets terrible slop. But at least I can reshape because even the LLM wont do something that stupid.
what-the-grump
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Build a rag with significant amount of text, extract it by key word topic, place, date, name, etc.

… realize that it’s nonsense and the LLM is not smart enough to figure out much without a reranker and a ton of technology that tells it what to do with the data.

You can run any vector query against a rag and you are guaranteed a response. With chunks that are unrelated any way.
what-the-grump
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
What mainstream software product do I use on a day to day basis besides Claude?

The ones that continue to survive all build around a platform of services, MSO, Adobe, etc.

Most enterprise product offerings, platform solutions, proprietary data access, proprietary / well accepted implementation. But lets not confuse it with the ability to clone it, it doesnt seem far fetched to get 10 people together and vibe out a full slack replacement in a few weeks.
what-the-grump
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
When an LLM can rewrite it in 24 hours and fill the missing parts in minutes that argument is hard to defend.

I can vibe code what a dev shop would charge 500k to build and I can solo it in 1-2 weeks. This is the reality today. The code will pass quality checks, the code doesn’t need to be perfect, it doesn’t need to be cleaver it needs to be.

It’s not difficult to see this right? If an LLM can write English it can write Chinese or python.

Then it can run itself, review itself and fix itself.

The cat is out of bag, what it will do to the economy… I don’t see anything positive for regular people. Write some code has turned into prompt some LLM. My phone can outplay the best chess player in the world, are you telling me you think that whatever unbound model anthropic has sitting in their data center can’t out code you?
what-the-grump
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
A year after the iPhone came out… it didn’t have an App Store, barely was able to play video, barely had enough power to last a day. You just don’t remember or were not around for it.

A year after llms came out… are you kidding me?

Two years?

10 years?

Today, by adding an MCP server to wrap the same API that’s been around forever for some system, makes the users of that system prefer NLI over the gui almost immediately.
what-the-grump
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The journey not the destination type of thing?

Ponzi schemes the new suicide prevention thing.
what-the-grump
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
People are using these tools to write code, complete tasks, etc. your worry is that what... It will rm -rf /* something?

I am not trying to be funny but the Claude itself is smart enough to catch destructive actions and double check. Its not going to wake up and start eating your machine, googling a random script and running it which what a lot of people do in many cases leads to worse outcomes, here at least you can ask the model what might happen to my computer.
what-the-grump
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
All this work to recreate a WinAmp viz from 20 years ago :) ?
what-the-grump
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
You pretend that humans don’t produce slop?

I can recognize the short comings of AI code but it can produce a mock or a full blown class before I can find a place to save the file it produced.

Pretending that we are all busy writing novelty and genius is silly, 99% are writing for CRUD tasks and basic business flows, the code isn’t going to be perfect it doesn’t need to be but it will get the job done.

All the logical gotchas of the work flows that you’d be refactoring for hours are done in minutes.

Use pro with search… are it going to read 200 pages of documentation in 7 minutes come up with a conclusion and validate it or invalidate it in another 5? No you still trying accept the cookie prompt on your 6th result.

You might as well join the flat earth society if you still think that AI can’t help you complete day to day tasks.
what-the-grump
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
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what-the-grump
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
What next you are going to tell me rest and async are implemented in code?! And not just willed into existence by the compiler!
what-the-grump
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
We use Coinbase as an org, we were targeted in early Feb 2025. Caught by person handling the accounts who is paranoid enough to reach out to the org contact on the other side.
what-the-grump
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I run fleets for windows machines, servers, w10, w11, from a Mac.

What Microsoft has done to windows 10 and 11 is ridiculous.

Why is my taskbar still crashing in 2025. Why does opening task manager spike my cpu to 100%. Search its 2025, search still broken. OOBE experience is a joke.

For crying out loud I don’t even care if you make the entire gui rest based and hosted in azure it would perform better than the trash running now.

At this point the Azure management portal has a higher SLA and uptime than my task bar.
what-the-grump
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I just don't think so, these exceptionally intelligent people are masters at pattern recognition, logic, hyper-focus, task completion in a field. Every single thing will tell them don't go against the flow, don't stick your neck out, don't be a hero, don't take on risk. Or you will end up nailed to a cross.

To me this is an insane position to take or to expect from anyone, its some just world fallacy thing perpetuated by too much Hollywood.

I am going to flip the script for a minute. I am a killer, driver, pilot, mechanic one the best ones out there, I beat the game, I won. So let me just stop and change the world, for what?
what-the-grump
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
But this is in itself selfish right?

You dislike them because they don’t benefit you indirectly by benefiting society at large.

The incentive structure is wrong, incentivizing things that benefit society would be the solution not judging those that exist in the current system by pretending altruism is somehow not part of the same game.
what-the-grump
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Honest question, I run with a black background I didn’t notice anything major going to Tahoe outside of my battery life taking a major hit.

What are some of the elements that have major impact?
what-the-grump
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
But thats not the reality of China right? People own cars, apartments, TVs, refrigerators, they are not distributed centrally.
what-the-grump
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Sure because you had to distribute sales and place product. You shifted marketing off to the retail location and distributor and you still controlled the price / mark up.

Pizza is already sold, the last mile delivery should have zero impact on its retail. Right now the last mile delivery has a near monopoly on retail of a restaurant. Pretending that toast/grubhub/seamless somehow benefit the customer is pure rubbish.