soooo wouldn't that be exactly the "deskilling" being discussed here, and isn't that deskilling concerning for money-handling firms? having seen both (a) mission-critical human-built systems become nightmares for…
It's been a long time, but I'm pretty sure Appearance Manager and the corresponding unreleased-but-leaked Hi-Tech theme was 8.5-or-so-and-up-only, which means I must reject 7.6 on aesthetic grounds ;)
Thanks, that does make sense. Though as a many-windower alt-tab is just often tooooooo big for my tastes to even try to rely on. The 40-year-deep-history Mac answer to workflows like that with a small working set with…
>AI does very well following rules. How many of these "we sandboxed it and said not to do Y, but then it went and did it!" stories would you consider necessary to disprove that? It may be good at following rules 99.99%…
> They can put it onto robots / automatic labs, so this step is easily solvable. Humans in a modern lab are largely unnecessary. Just look at China. You can automate the setup and mechanical process. You could increase…
The separation of Cmd-tab and Cmd-backtick is one of my favorite things in Appleland... what about it is broken to you compared to alt-tab?
Expose added in Panther was the last window management feature that changed my day to day usage of PCs. Expose + Cmd-tab/Cmd-backtick being separated == a gap that Linux/Windows have somehow never managed to close in…
I don't disagree. I think there's some nuance here though between "fully anti-AI" and "be careful with that power saw." That example I mentioned didn't make it to production. It got noticed and fixed more properly by…
> And moreover, what differentiates software now will no longer be the care put into it but marketing and trends. The highly commercialized nature of software means that there's not much point now in doing anything…
> Maybe it's a language-specific thing. Most of the time, in Java, LLMs take into consideration tradeoffs (especially if they are part of the initial prompt) and actively explains them. It generally won't make messy…
I disagree with their criteria that they couple with it, but I could come up with some of my own that I'd like better. "This has 900 lines but 850 of them are in codegen boilerplate that changed", for instance. "This…
>How do you know Apple has not interviewed a broad and representative sample of real users and found that their #1 desire in a laptop is thinner and lighter than what is currently available? >I would bet that is what…
That seems nonsensical. Consider a selection of even just 8 types of components or patterns that might be in a training set (or available to be found over Google and fed into a prompt by a harness, for that matter).…
> A workaround is to always shoot everyone the same. If a journalist or interviewer grows a reputation, they can show everyone "on level ground" by keeping the pose, lighting, etc... constant. I don't think this works.…
I'm not convinced that "more training" is a silver bullet here because "for you and the people you learned from" is a subset—potentially a tiny one—of the world of potential training data. Even with newer model…
If you say "yeah go with your own recommendation" every time you'll get something that'll at least kinda work sooner or later. Not sure you need an "architect." But is that workflow enough in a competitive world anyway,…
>I think user just use their agents to code, and agents don't report bugs, they just work it around somehow. Claude comes up with some truly delicious insane workarounds these days. Like launching something in a…
> I think the point of a lot of configuration formats is that they don't want their configuration to also be a full-fledged programming language. That seems to be everyone's initial goal, but then it inevitably gets…
Most companies aren't gonna need an architect, but if you can tell and demonstrate a good story around quality/risk/stability they might be interested in that.
The headline is often accurate IME... but this whole extension to betting and investment is silly. Noisiest places to look for patterns in the world. Where I think pattern matching is essential is in debugging. Software…
Heh, Claude recently (last couple of weeks) left behind several jj workspaces with many GBs of builds in my env. Had to tell it to update it's agents.md to not do that...
There's a lot of great sci fi out there beyond that. For starters, the AIs in the Culture (series started in the 80s) ran the whole society and were superhuman and essentially better at any single thing than humans.…
How stable is the boundary of Component X? At some point the agent rewrites Component X, or X+Y, and now many or all of your tests that hit it directly are invalid and need to be rewritten. That introduces bugs, you're…
This is all good stuff to verify of course, but why would you not continually add the useful agent-created tests and verifications into a deterministic suite to ensure consistency of coverage? For instance:…
Everybody is trying to copy the companies who have either already-established dominant market position or such compelling products that a bunch of paper-cut bugs don't really matter as long as they aren't…
soooo wouldn't that be exactly the "deskilling" being discussed here, and isn't that deskilling concerning for money-handling firms? having seen both (a) mission-critical human-built systems become nightmares for…
It's been a long time, but I'm pretty sure Appearance Manager and the corresponding unreleased-but-leaked Hi-Tech theme was 8.5-or-so-and-up-only, which means I must reject 7.6 on aesthetic grounds ;)
Thanks, that does make sense. Though as a many-windower alt-tab is just often tooooooo big for my tastes to even try to rely on. The 40-year-deep-history Mac answer to workflows like that with a small working set with…
>AI does very well following rules. How many of these "we sandboxed it and said not to do Y, but then it went and did it!" stories would you consider necessary to disprove that? It may be good at following rules 99.99%…
> They can put it onto robots / automatic labs, so this step is easily solvable. Humans in a modern lab are largely unnecessary. Just look at China. You can automate the setup and mechanical process. You could increase…
The separation of Cmd-tab and Cmd-backtick is one of my favorite things in Appleland... what about it is broken to you compared to alt-tab?
Expose added in Panther was the last window management feature that changed my day to day usage of PCs. Expose + Cmd-tab/Cmd-backtick being separated == a gap that Linux/Windows have somehow never managed to close in…
I don't disagree. I think there's some nuance here though between "fully anti-AI" and "be careful with that power saw." That example I mentioned didn't make it to production. It got noticed and fixed more properly by…
> And moreover, what differentiates software now will no longer be the care put into it but marketing and trends. The highly commercialized nature of software means that there's not much point now in doing anything…
> Maybe it's a language-specific thing. Most of the time, in Java, LLMs take into consideration tradeoffs (especially if they are part of the initial prompt) and actively explains them. It generally won't make messy…
I disagree with their criteria that they couple with it, but I could come up with some of my own that I'd like better. "This has 900 lines but 850 of them are in codegen boilerplate that changed", for instance. "This…
>How do you know Apple has not interviewed a broad and representative sample of real users and found that their #1 desire in a laptop is thinner and lighter than what is currently available? >I would bet that is what…
That seems nonsensical. Consider a selection of even just 8 types of components or patterns that might be in a training set (or available to be found over Google and fed into a prompt by a harness, for that matter).…
> A workaround is to always shoot everyone the same. If a journalist or interviewer grows a reputation, they can show everyone "on level ground" by keeping the pose, lighting, etc... constant. I don't think this works.…
I'm not convinced that "more training" is a silver bullet here because "for you and the people you learned from" is a subset—potentially a tiny one—of the world of potential training data. Even with newer model…
If you say "yeah go with your own recommendation" every time you'll get something that'll at least kinda work sooner or later. Not sure you need an "architect." But is that workflow enough in a competitive world anyway,…
>I think user just use their agents to code, and agents don't report bugs, they just work it around somehow. Claude comes up with some truly delicious insane workarounds these days. Like launching something in a…
> I think the point of a lot of configuration formats is that they don't want their configuration to also be a full-fledged programming language. That seems to be everyone's initial goal, but then it inevitably gets…
Most companies aren't gonna need an architect, but if you can tell and demonstrate a good story around quality/risk/stability they might be interested in that.
The headline is often accurate IME... but this whole extension to betting and investment is silly. Noisiest places to look for patterns in the world. Where I think pattern matching is essential is in debugging. Software…
Heh, Claude recently (last couple of weeks) left behind several jj workspaces with many GBs of builds in my env. Had to tell it to update it's agents.md to not do that...
There's a lot of great sci fi out there beyond that. For starters, the AIs in the Culture (series started in the 80s) ran the whole society and were superhuman and essentially better at any single thing than humans.…
How stable is the boundary of Component X? At some point the agent rewrites Component X, or X+Y, and now many or all of your tests that hit it directly are invalid and need to be rewritten. That introduces bugs, you're…
This is all good stuff to verify of course, but why would you not continually add the useful agent-created tests and verifications into a deterministic suite to ensure consistency of coverage? For instance:…
Everybody is trying to copy the companies who have either already-established dominant market position or such compelling products that a bunch of paper-cut bugs don't really matter as long as they aren't…