Mostly, by having enough diligence and attention to avoid a lot of the common ones. By now, if we're pitting a top of the line coding LLM against a B-tier programmer throwing something together in a hurry, I would…
I'm not writing Zig off myself. I would prefer if it succeeded. But the outlook is: not good, in my eyes. Pre-2022, Zig was doing decently, but not particularly well. It didn't have Rust level of enthusiasts and…
I used to think there's a good niche for "better C" - and that Zig was the one language angling for that. A language that can be used in the same contexts as C, to do the same things as C code, in very much the same…
My experience was that LLMs performed at Zig and Rust at about the same level? That is: worse than at something like JS or C or Python, but well enough to write code that works. And they only got better since I first…
It's tuned for the kinds of tasks where "just try" doesn't get good results. A major complaint with AI code was that AIs struggle with complex codebases, don't respect existing conventions, reinvent functionality…
So, you want to save people,, but you also want people who were not "prepared for remote areas" to just die somewhere out of contact and out of your sight, and you also want to bitch about how stupid and unprepared they…
> You cannot take over the world with tokens. This is a very naive argument. Can you take over the world with words? What is it that tokens can't do that words can? Because there are historical examples of humans that…
In a perfect world, everyone is perfectly knowledgeable and prepared for any eventuality and nothing bad and unexpected ever happens at all. May I remind you what world are we living in? Denying emergency comms to…
Marginally better humans. And IVF paired with embryo selection is very competitive in that niche. Now, we're getting better at predicting polygenic traits, and we're getting beefy multi-edit pipelines that might provide…
No. I'm saying that if the population is set to fall, we can crank resource spend per person all the way up, and enable growth that way. Which requires a massive jump in labor productivity, mind. But if the optimistic…
Populations may drop, but why would you want quality of life to remain constant?
Starlink can now jump the connections satellite to satellite, and curve them around the planet. You need to knock out not just the nearest ground station but also the stations the traffic can be rerouted to for the…
You think current sea pirates are deterred by an unarmed crew of 5?
Human cloning and genetic editing isn't pursued because we agreed it's unethical. It's not pursued because at the current level of advancements, it's pretty useless. It's easy to ban something that's not very useful.…
No matter what humans do, it somehow ends up being a popularity contest. It's almost like a twisted mirror of Conway's law.
NASA had real safety issues in the past - Space Shuttle is a testament to that. But if this is the fix, they clearly overcorrected. There's some sort of happy middle ground between flying a ship that has a very…
Do you think human accountants are deterministic? Get a large enough org and watch your accounting grow an error margin.
A big part of the reason for useless Gateway was that NASA wanted post-ISS missions, but was too afraid to roll with a permanent Moon base instead. The other big part was that Orion sucked, and somehow, neither "get…
Welcome to Tradeoff Town. Sure, your ultra paranoid checking of everything might catch an extremely rare bug caused by something like interactions between a benign code change and a build system. But is it worth slowing…
NASA's failures as of late are less "dramatic explosions" and more "delays", "cost overruns" and "lack of ambition so severe it borders on criminal". The last time NASA caught any serious flak was what, the Starliner…
In Ukraine, the first place that was bombed was the red tape factory. The drone industry was allowed to basically "do whatever as long as it works", consequences be damned. So they use civilian motors, batteries and…
I often do reverse engineering work. I find the idea of all the AI tools I use keeping all the (mangled, decompiled, and not even mine in the first place) code I point it at, and then using it in training to be…
Mostly, because a lot of game engines are ancient relics, tracing their lineage all the way back to Quake 1. The development practices are not exactly up to date, and game development is in no hurry to change. It…
It's basically re-linking the executable. Way too easy to shoot foot - miss one reference and things break in a spectacular, or, worse, subtle fashion. Which means: you definitely need to know where all the references…
And today's records on ARC-AGI-2 are >80%. Held by LLMs that use text modality for input. The issue with multimodal training is that it doesn't seem to bring a step-change improvement in spatial reasoning either. It…
Mostly, by having enough diligence and attention to avoid a lot of the common ones. By now, if we're pitting a top of the line coding LLM against a B-tier programmer throwing something together in a hurry, I would…
I'm not writing Zig off myself. I would prefer if it succeeded. But the outlook is: not good, in my eyes. Pre-2022, Zig was doing decently, but not particularly well. It didn't have Rust level of enthusiasts and…
I used to think there's a good niche for "better C" - and that Zig was the one language angling for that. A language that can be used in the same contexts as C, to do the same things as C code, in very much the same…
My experience was that LLMs performed at Zig and Rust at about the same level? That is: worse than at something like JS or C or Python, but well enough to write code that works. And they only got better since I first…
It's tuned for the kinds of tasks where "just try" doesn't get good results. A major complaint with AI code was that AIs struggle with complex codebases, don't respect existing conventions, reinvent functionality…
So, you want to save people,, but you also want people who were not "prepared for remote areas" to just die somewhere out of contact and out of your sight, and you also want to bitch about how stupid and unprepared they…
> You cannot take over the world with tokens. This is a very naive argument. Can you take over the world with words? What is it that tokens can't do that words can? Because there are historical examples of humans that…
In a perfect world, everyone is perfectly knowledgeable and prepared for any eventuality and nothing bad and unexpected ever happens at all. May I remind you what world are we living in? Denying emergency comms to…
Marginally better humans. And IVF paired with embryo selection is very competitive in that niche. Now, we're getting better at predicting polygenic traits, and we're getting beefy multi-edit pipelines that might provide…
No. I'm saying that if the population is set to fall, we can crank resource spend per person all the way up, and enable growth that way. Which requires a massive jump in labor productivity, mind. But if the optimistic…
Populations may drop, but why would you want quality of life to remain constant?
Starlink can now jump the connections satellite to satellite, and curve them around the planet. You need to knock out not just the nearest ground station but also the stations the traffic can be rerouted to for the…
You think current sea pirates are deterred by an unarmed crew of 5?
Human cloning and genetic editing isn't pursued because we agreed it's unethical. It's not pursued because at the current level of advancements, it's pretty useless. It's easy to ban something that's not very useful.…
No matter what humans do, it somehow ends up being a popularity contest. It's almost like a twisted mirror of Conway's law.
NASA had real safety issues in the past - Space Shuttle is a testament to that. But if this is the fix, they clearly overcorrected. There's some sort of happy middle ground between flying a ship that has a very…
Do you think human accountants are deterministic? Get a large enough org and watch your accounting grow an error margin.
A big part of the reason for useless Gateway was that NASA wanted post-ISS missions, but was too afraid to roll with a permanent Moon base instead. The other big part was that Orion sucked, and somehow, neither "get…
Welcome to Tradeoff Town. Sure, your ultra paranoid checking of everything might catch an extremely rare bug caused by something like interactions between a benign code change and a build system. But is it worth slowing…
NASA's failures as of late are less "dramatic explosions" and more "delays", "cost overruns" and "lack of ambition so severe it borders on criminal". The last time NASA caught any serious flak was what, the Starliner…
In Ukraine, the first place that was bombed was the red tape factory. The drone industry was allowed to basically "do whatever as long as it works", consequences be damned. So they use civilian motors, batteries and…
I often do reverse engineering work. I find the idea of all the AI tools I use keeping all the (mangled, decompiled, and not even mine in the first place) code I point it at, and then using it in training to be…
Mostly, because a lot of game engines are ancient relics, tracing their lineage all the way back to Quake 1. The development practices are not exactly up to date, and game development is in no hurry to change. It…
It's basically re-linking the executable. Way too easy to shoot foot - miss one reference and things break in a spectacular, or, worse, subtle fashion. Which means: you definitely need to know where all the references…
And today's records on ARC-AGI-2 are >80%. Held by LLMs that use text modality for input. The issue with multimodal training is that it doesn't seem to bring a step-change improvement in spatial reasoning either. It…