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Your language is not even sarcasm at this point, but was really used by Google a few years ago https://www.wxii12.com/article/google-home-confuses-users-wi... - "we were just surfacing timely content for our users"

More likely they don’t care what the company does. Sell cars or muffins, it’s all the same thing you just tweak numbers in a spreadsheet.

To me the tools are newer, but fit people in a controlled context to sell clothing is as old as photography itself.

Related, Patrick H Willems did a long video about it and I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtbFwzZp6Y

I've done a version of "world" for Sigil, a programming language I was kinda doing but stopped, also for agents. LLM generated article here https://inerte.github.io/sigil/articles/worlds-not-mocks/

But basically world is a bit more narrow, that moment where your code touches the outside world (logging, http, etc), you can swap that. It's sorta like DI but deliberately narrower, only the moments where code touches the outside world are swappable.. With DI in theory you can replace anything, which has its benefits, but at least personally I am not a big fan of mocks, except when they touch the outside world. So that's what's replaceable.

I honestly interpreted and agreed with the version "this saves money".

I learned in Brazil. Here in the California I asked my son's kindergarten teacher if she would teach cursive, and she said they don't teach calligraphy and I've never seen it described this way, but she's right.

Reporting on percentage of AI generated lines of code is very different from total lines of code. Yes I know both of them are missing what's the value delivered, but the later assumes the value is the number of lines, while the former assumes value is at least the same but delivered faster.

I know it has the same functionality, but it also looks like the Codex app which looks like Cursor Agents! Are they sharing some VS Code primitive here?

Same for me. I applied for engineering manager. Was told it was going to be a code review. I found a bunch of things that it could be improved, detected a very slow part / quadratic loop, but couldn't come up with the best algo to use. It was just leetcode in disguise.

I am getting so confused when to use what... agents, sub-agents, tasks, team mates, /goal, /loop, and now workflow. Each with different degrees of effort.

Don't make me think.

All these knobs are also exposed in ChatGPT, which I am more familiar when chatting. Which one of the models? Do I go Instant, Thinking, Pro? Extended Pro? Oh no, maybe I need Deep Research.

Sometimes I think it's on purpose. I fear if I try a lowest knob, it will miss something. So turn everything up. And token usage goes up.

Dead Internet Theory and all. There is no going back. I don't think an online space can be designed to be safe from this. The AI agents can fully control our computers. All solutions that involve technology (software or hardware) are or will be flawed.

If you haven't seen They Live... that's next level.

I think martin_henk is fully aware of that and it's why of all the examples of how a government can use your data, he picked this one...

If I steal your luggage, do you expect to be paid to get it or that I return to you?

Waymo should have white-gloved this and sent Larry Page himself to deliver the luggage. This is horrible PR. Airlines will send you their luggage if misplaced. One day Waymo will drive-off with your toddler and ask you to file for adoption if you want them back.

Yes but also we don't want people live streaming murder and suicide, so there's detection and moderation in place.

To be fair my expectations is that those apps have done the prompt engineering, and schema, and tools (to query nutrition database), etc... and although they're not 100% consistent, the margin of errors should be narrow to the point that barely matter, and they should do a bit better than a random ChatGPT chat session.

I would question at $60k. At $100k is a steal.

Probably because the goal is to have more users, not necessarily profit per user. Netflix once had that "problem" and every lockdown increased the stock price.

I've tried and couldn't make it sound like Angine de Poitrine, it completely ignores the microtones. Sounds more like Polyphia. It does look like AdP is the answer to AI.... or we haven't trained the models with sufficient microtones, likely due to western music influence.

Because of ads and background music for YouTube.

Same here, and it made me wonder, why did I go back to drinking coffee?

My best explanation is that there are effects, I just suck at self-awareness :)

They have to be generic because it's a generic tool. If they write "this tool can arrange student field trips", people might ignore thinking it has a narrow purpose.

Yes, work is being trivialized, but the symptom here isn't caused by that.

Like any interview, randomly. Some of them will think it's amazing, clever person, chose the best tool for the job. Other will think it's weird, person is too clever, chose the worst tool for the job.

It totally depends for WHAT you're interviewing, but unlikely the company will want Z3-backed code, so most reactions would be the later.

Can you design text data specifically to mess with LLM training?

Maybe text that costs a LOT of tokens. Very, very verbose. I think if there are rules and on the internet, LLMs can eventually figure it out, so you have to make it expensive.

Another way would be to go offline. Never write it down, only talk about it at least 50 meters away from your phone. Transmitted through memory and whisper.

Looks interesting, but it seems you need to know the final shape of the stack before you start creating Pull Requests. So it's useful if you create Pull Request A, then immediately start working on something that builds on top of A, create a Pull Request for that (while A is still a PR), then you can do A->B->C

Here's something that would be useful: To break down an already big PR into multiples that make up a stack. So people can create a stack and add layers, but somehow re-order them (including adding something new at the first position).

Probably the same way a lot of Trump supporters when they see him or his administration saying dumb stuff. They think he doesn't really _mean_ that. It's hyperbole or just for giggles, or a negotiation tactic. They filter what he says, for 2 reasons. Some it's so insane they can't really believe a president would actually do that, and anyway he's always saying something and doing another thing.

Yeah, definitely. IFC is part of the background here. What I’m doing in Sigil is a lot narrower: labelled types and explicit boundary rules, not a full-blown IFC system. Curious what you think that misses.

So, an update, I took at stab and came up with this: https://inerte.github.io/sigil/articles/labelled-types-and-b...

Ah, Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Designer vs 41 shades of blue. This is nothing new. There's space for everybody.