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Do Models Doubt? 10 days ago

i wonder how many psychology today articles have been shared to hacker news ... my reason for posting is:

maybe computation IS the same thing as doubt? or at the very least, doubt is an ingredient that goes into making a computation. it sure feels similar to me.

it's pretty easy to make words that fast once you have the words written, fwiw. mostly breath control and there are things you think you could never do and you'll be doing it after a few times practicing. now writing the lyrics is a bit harder. twista is great

Software Bonkers 15 days ago

yeah, i kind of stretched the meaning of "real" there, i guess. i just meant software that is designed to accommodate users who are not me, and whom i don't even know.

Software Bonkers 15 days ago

yeah, i disagree. i think i am essentially ~non-technical and it is not difficult to build one-user applications at all. it's not even difficult to build "real" software!

Software Bonkers 15 days ago

ARE we still in the dorks-only phase? i am certainly a gigantic loser, but i am not sure i am the sort of dork being invoked and i have been doing and thinking about the exact same kinda stuff. i think the genie is out of the bottle or whatever

it's true. persuasion is the immoral core of marketing. personally i believe everyone should hate persuasion too but nobody will listen to me when i try to compel them!

fwiw, i built something simple like this into my harness thing (github.com/0gsd/enough). may not be complicated enough to do per application nowadays vs. needing a modularized outside solution, but it is certainly a good idea that seems to work!

I think I probably did 12 whole books before I realized no one else would read them, or that if they did, I would feel guilty. some of them are really good though even knowing they are purely plan-based expression!

it's funny because i made this thing (called enough) that aims to make it easy for non-technical people to get up and running with local models quickly, but it is impossible to figure out how to break through the noise. every thread and comment like this breaks my heart a lil bit

but there is not going to be an inherited and largely non-discardable codebase at every company, right?

and maybe not a team that looks anything like the teams that built and maintain the large codebases that are out there.

the distinction in this article makes all the sense in the world to me, and definitely helps as i try to figure out what term i use to describe my current status as a thing-producer, but part of why i just call myself nothing is it is entirely unclear to me what the new configurations of infra + product vision > actual v0.1.0 launch > new feature development "teamlines" are going to end up looking like.

if i had to guess, one such config might be "the 0.1% of vibe coders who took the HN crickets in response to their projects to figure out how to learn how to do what a product engineering team needs to do end to end to make a self-sustainable product."

(self being that one person, not the product itself)

SkillSpector 1 month ago

skills can include python files that do whatever in subfolders. it's actually pretty crazy how much they can do for how blindly a lot of people import them. (i built basically this exact same thing a few months ago)

nothing earth-shattering. wanted a way to make it easier for agents with credit cards to source background music for their projects. think it'll work?