airbreather

1 saat öncediscuss

8 months ago I got claude to do a perfect reproduction of the arcade asteroids game on a simple prompt and a once through.

I then got it to do lunar lander, that was also perfect, and very hard to land.

airbreather

17 gün öncediscuss

"If you specify every possible detail in a design doc, you’ve essentially written the implementation during the design phase. That would defeat the whole purpose of a design doc."

However if you do this as an executeable specification then the job of core functionality is finished with the specification, with significantly beeter quality, potentially.

This sounds a lot harder than it is - most behaviour is state based and it is possible to define such behaviour with an executeable specification.

In the Functional Safety world this is often your best option.

I wrote my own software package to enable such practices and once used to a slightly different way of thinking it works very well.

airbreather

20 gün öncediscuss

There are more than one set of tuning settings, depending whether optimised for start up, steady state, minimum overshoot etc

airbreather

20 gün öncediscuss

Pretty easy to tune really - almost never use derivative, increase the proportional until oscillations occur then halve it, add a little integral, not so much it oscillates.

airbreather

geçen aydiscuss

based on multiple personal experiences, and that of friends/acquaintances, I have no doubt it works for reduction of inflammation of the sort you get spraining you ankle.

must be taken with pepper extract to increase bio availability, I buy it ready to go from the supermarket where they keep it with the vitamins and supplements.

just because no one has worked out how, does not mean it is ineffective.

airbreather

2 ay öncediscuss

have you tried NULL?

airbreather

2 ay öncediscuss

Conflict arises from differing or unmet expectations.

So the easiest way to eliminate a lot of issues is clearly agree and define expectations up front.

There is a reason a whole branch of project management is called Expectation Management.

airbreather

2 ay öncediscuss

AI allows anyone with a minimum amount of intelligence and operational expertise to become an "Expert Beginner" (currently).

What can you do with a whole team comprised only of Expert Beginners?

airbreather

2 ay öncediscuss

this is fucking awesome

it is fast, there is no fucking gateway fuckaround or any other similar issues, up and going in seconds

straight away I added two skills, that it wrote for itself, read my gmails and attachments, and browse the web, text browser first up, render page and screenshot with OCR for javascript heavy pages\

then I asked it, find the best value ram in my area, second hand as well as new, try gumtree and facebook marketplace, plus anything else relevant, bam - 15 seconds maybe a concise summarised range of options

then on another project, I told it to /study and then used the gmail plugin to access all the relevant gmails and attachments (which included minutes of all the meetings) and it was fully up to date with the project I am working on and ready to go

best agent I have used so far by a country mile, if you don't try it then that is your loss

did I mention it was fast, like 3x to 5x better productivity fast compared to openclaw, at least

one thing it does not do is support the up arrow/down arrow to scroll thru past commands, but you can just tell it, "run that websearch for ram again" etc, i will totally live witht his for all the other positives

airbreather

3 ay öncediscuss

I am sort of in the same place, it seems to have lost enough of the magic that I might be better trying to do more with running local LLMs on my 4090.

The thing is running local LLMs will give some kind of reliability and fixed expectations that saves a lot of time - yeah sure Claude might be fantastic one day, but what do I do when the same workload churns out shit the next and I am halfway thru updating and referencing a 500 document set?

Better the devil you know and all that.

airbreather

3 ay öncediscuss

Pdf is all about presentation, not about communication.

While the two can be closely aligned, it is not neccesarily the case, if not often misaligned priorities.

Many pdfs are hard to read based on a consistant set of rules, reliance on edge cases and context and conventions.

airbreather

3 ay öncediscuss

Similar to aviation s marine safety. Both started with a bunch of prescriptive rules that were added to as various accidents and near misses occured. As you say.

Then, in the last couple of decades there has been a move to performance based standards.

These work by the designers trying to anticipate hazards specific to the design and it's intended duty, and then providing mitigation to reduce the risk down to sn acceptable level.

This has a number of poditive outcomes, but not least is the expenditure on mitigation is directed in the most economic manner.

All this requires a systrmd approach, and when properly applied has been shown to yield superiour results.

airbreather

3 ay öncediscuss

Humans don't really work any better, just fail in different ways. This is why certain workflows and practices have emerged.

We are now in the early days of working through a similar process with AI.

They most definately do work for some use cases, but how they are used is important.

Just because you apply human processes and systems to AI based workflows and don't get historically expected results, this is zero basis to claim the sky is falling with use of AI in coding.

airbreather

3 ay öncediscuss

As most results in coding by AI are the result of some kind of recursive application of the fundemental concept, irony is abundant.

airbreather

3 ay öncediscuss

Definately, I am similar vintage and work in Functional Safety, see my other comment re specification.

airbreather

3 ay öncediscuss

Yes definately, I do a lot of OT devops and if you want determinstic results then the best use of AI is to get it to write scripts that solve your problems and that you run outside of AI.

Often, the use of AI is a lazy case of not wanting to spend the time to understand the essence of the problem and solve it directly, often far more efficiently. (Not always, but often).

The ability of getting results that surpass your understanding, and quickly, is seducing, but you invariably end up being capped on the usefullness.

AI generally seems to raise anyone with the basic skills to "expert beginner" in almost any field, but it is then a big struggle to get past this stage, without substantial extra work.

airbreather

3 ay öncediscuss

The problem isn't the AI writing the code, it is the specification - I assert much of the described problems could be rectified by improved specification with no hand coding.

Specification of software has been very weak for decades, and little effort has been put towards defining methadologies of specification that are both exhaustive and unambiguous.

It is possible, I know because I work in an exotic niche where being exhaustive and unambiguous isnot optional - Functional Safety. Here you might spend 90% or more of your time planning what and how to code, before writing the first line.

The cost - I have worked on projects where, across the duration of the project, the average production of code was less than two lines a day.

But when a single error could result in the death of 100, or 300, people, then this time worth it.

You can't get this kind of quality when you pivot twice a week, you need to have fairly fixed objectives.

The are ways to get better outcomes that are known, but not widely applied, and they could do with some development to make them accessible. Some has been done, eg Leslie Lamport and TLA+.

But, as you might have been told as a child, don't get upset that you did not get what you wanted when you failed to ask for it properly.

airbreather

4 ay öncediscuss

Even if not explicitly looking like a state machine, it will have state based behaviour that could be represented by a state machine.

Almost everything is state based behaviour.

airbreather

4 ay öncediscuss

All the whingers about AI - if it is as bad as you say, then you don't have a problem

On the other hand, if it is not, then stop wasting effort arguing against the inevitable and use that effort to get ahead of the curve.

Either way, whinging about it is the least effective use of your skills and time.

airbreather

4 ay öncediscuss

I would suggest that the 1000 line switch statement implies a state machine that has suffered from the "state explosion".

This usually results from an inadequate system-subsystem decomposition and/or not considering modes, both of which lead to hierarchal state machines instead of one big flat one.

This aspect of architecture is difficult to teach, it is one of the "black arts" that comes from experience and is difficult to codify.

Just one example why, is that often it might require the synthesis of state machines not directly evident as needed from the functionality, eg to perform a one to many or many to one functionality.

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