If there's some "find the file" task, using full context for that isn't ideal.
No mention of model, effort, harness, prompt, etc. Completely incompetent article, so it generating slop is not too surprising.
I remember the first time I encountered someone that said they chose software because it paid well. They were such an oddity to me, including their thought process when it came to code.
See the reason Google Fiber existed [1]. It wasn't for a product, it was to kick the pants of all the monopolistic broadband providers. Now, you have similar motivation on a global scale. [1]…
> we’d have 24/7 live coverage of every inch on earth but do we really want that? I think you misunderstand the maths a bit. If the goal is high bandwidth, which requires high density, for specific, randomly…
It's in the training data! Long conversations between humans result in humans getting tired and going to bed. I have this reality baked into my workflow: 1. Start by hyping the task at the beginning, mentioning that…
Please reread this comment thread. I never spoke to software performance being solved.
Related, the craziest emergent behavior I see is non-technical managers killing projects because they themselves can't understand how it could be implemented. I firmly believe many managers think they're in the…
> Even if this was a good idea when applied to humans (it's not) I'm not sure I understand. What's not a good idea? I'm asking you how you would do it, with some possible examples. Or, are you saying it's a bad idea to…
I had incredible difficulties with Chemistry, more than any other subject, because most everything was hand waved away, requiring mostly rote memorization. I could never get an intuitive understanding, partly because my…
True, but that's an unknown internal model, without details of the architecture. We'll have to see if the LLM model, itself, was responsible for the "novel" bits, or if it was stuffs bolted onto the LLM that made it…
Say you were interviewing a human, to see how capable they were. You are allowed to give them take home work. What kind of questions would you ask, or tasks would you give, to try to get a measure of their competence?…
> without a large chunk of that being pre-existing information. Is there any evidence that novel reasoning is present in LLM? I've never been able to make that work, and I believe Apple's paper some time ago was good…
> that you’re choosing to frame as a “best practice”, I don't follow. > because you do not want to put in the work. Yes, just as nobody wants to type opcodes, or write their own http clients, or etc. It's why most of us…
I disagree. Abstractions are not a convenience, they're a cognitive necessity, compressing large aspects of the problem space into easy to not think about blocks, allowing humans, with their limited working memory, to…
> No you couldn’t. Well you could but it wouldn’t be appropriate for actual beginners unless you stripped it down so much that calling it an engine was meaningless. You definitely can. One of the assignments in the CS…
It actually seems to be a relatively small vocal group. I've marked most of them red (as I previously did the one above) with https://hackersmacker.org
2026 Steam hardware survey [1]: Windows: 94.10% Linux: 3.68% macOS: 2.21% [1] Click the "OS Version" row to expand the table, https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
I think this is a perfectly reasonable question. They're having a very different experience than many other people (including myself). It would be interesting to get an idea of why it's so different.
Say I rewrite a large codebase from python to C++, preserving all behavior. That's up to a 50x speed up.
I've had opus 4.8 write python code in a bash script, to get around my "write a bash script" requirement.
Yeap. Hundreds of tests for small tools are completely trivial now.
Could you describe your usual workflows and usage patterns with AI?
If you have an iPhone, enabling reachability is very nice [1]. [1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-reachability-iph1...
What's the use for a writable filesystem in network gear, that is detrimental if lost at power outage? Some sort of very important logging?
If there's some "find the file" task, using full context for that isn't ideal.
No mention of model, effort, harness, prompt, etc. Completely incompetent article, so it generating slop is not too surprising.
I remember the first time I encountered someone that said they chose software because it paid well. They were such an oddity to me, including their thought process when it came to code.
See the reason Google Fiber existed [1]. It wasn't for a product, it was to kick the pants of all the monopolistic broadband providers. Now, you have similar motivation on a global scale. [1]…
> we’d have 24/7 live coverage of every inch on earth but do we really want that? I think you misunderstand the maths a bit. If the goal is high bandwidth, which requires high density, for specific, randomly…
It's in the training data! Long conversations between humans result in humans getting tired and going to bed. I have this reality baked into my workflow: 1. Start by hyping the task at the beginning, mentioning that…
Please reread this comment thread. I never spoke to software performance being solved.
Related, the craziest emergent behavior I see is non-technical managers killing projects because they themselves can't understand how it could be implemented. I firmly believe many managers think they're in the…
> Even if this was a good idea when applied to humans (it's not) I'm not sure I understand. What's not a good idea? I'm asking you how you would do it, with some possible examples. Or, are you saying it's a bad idea to…
I had incredible difficulties with Chemistry, more than any other subject, because most everything was hand waved away, requiring mostly rote memorization. I could never get an intuitive understanding, partly because my…
True, but that's an unknown internal model, without details of the architecture. We'll have to see if the LLM model, itself, was responsible for the "novel" bits, or if it was stuffs bolted onto the LLM that made it…
Say you were interviewing a human, to see how capable they were. You are allowed to give them take home work. What kind of questions would you ask, or tasks would you give, to try to get a measure of their competence?…
> without a large chunk of that being pre-existing information. Is there any evidence that novel reasoning is present in LLM? I've never been able to make that work, and I believe Apple's paper some time ago was good…
> that you’re choosing to frame as a “best practice”, I don't follow. > because you do not want to put in the work. Yes, just as nobody wants to type opcodes, or write their own http clients, or etc. It's why most of us…
I disagree. Abstractions are not a convenience, they're a cognitive necessity, compressing large aspects of the problem space into easy to not think about blocks, allowing humans, with their limited working memory, to…
> No you couldn’t. Well you could but it wouldn’t be appropriate for actual beginners unless you stripped it down so much that calling it an engine was meaningless. You definitely can. One of the assignments in the CS…
It actually seems to be a relatively small vocal group. I've marked most of them red (as I previously did the one above) with https://hackersmacker.org
2026 Steam hardware survey [1]: Windows: 94.10% Linux: 3.68% macOS: 2.21% [1] Click the "OS Version" row to expand the table, https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
I think this is a perfectly reasonable question. They're having a very different experience than many other people (including myself). It would be interesting to get an idea of why it's so different.
Say I rewrite a large codebase from python to C++, preserving all behavior. That's up to a 50x speed up.
I've had opus 4.8 write python code in a bash script, to get around my "write a bash script" requirement.
Yeap. Hundreds of tests for small tools are completely trivial now.
Could you describe your usual workflows and usage patterns with AI?
If you have an iPhone, enabling reachability is very nice [1]. [1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-reachability-iph1...
What's the use for a writable filesystem in network gear, that is detrimental if lost at power outage? Some sort of very important logging?