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I’m able to avoid this basin with a pretty natural baseline professional positivity and frustration management that I would employ with pair-programming. For example, if I just made progress with a human I was guiding through a task, I would be like “Nice, now let’s xyz” (instead of just “now let’s xyz” as if _I_ were the robot lol) or if we had to work for a result I’ll be like “Sweet! Looks good, now let’s xyz” - this is important signal for humans, and the same is true for agents. Also staying emotionally regulated and focused on the goal when things don’t work as expected or when we haven’t made progress after a few tries at something, critical in human interactions :) and even if it’s my job paying for the tokens, the idea of racking up even a microscopic bill for the privilege of having a machine read my insults and then formulate some credible-sounding blob of apology text is belly-laugh absurd to me. I do try to express my genuine feelings during more vision-oriented planning sessions, and just like with a human, you have to maintain the vibes if you want a genuinely collaborative session to go well. If you are toxic people will become either defensive or aggressive in response. From reading the rest of the front page it seems like we are lucky that Claude is the former, and that we especially best maintain a positive atmosphere around Grok.

The actual content is no better, trust your nose

What’s NOT yet working:

Oh Claude~

Have heard this called blue-washing (eg Mike Rowe) when done publicly

You overestimate many teams I think.

Sometimes adapting oneself is, in fact, progress.

I hope you’re joking :)

Russian bot tactic? Guessing it’s an easy way to farm interaction as people comment back to correct the mistake.

I didn’t read the author as blaming, and I can relate to what they’re saying. It’s hard to speak about a childhood full of abuses that thought they had your best interests at heart. I was locked in my room for days on end (sometimes back-to-back stints for weeks), deprived of privileges/books/music, berated, demeaned, and ultimately gaslit, throughout my childhood, because my parents didn’t really understand ADHD (or that I had it). It created a pretty big mismatch between expectations and reality. As a kid, I resented them a lot for this. As an adult (and parent), I realize what it must have looked like to them and I can empathize without condoning their behavior.

My performance is heavily bimodal: my adult ADHD assessment included scores in the 98th percentile and the 8th depending on the task. I also have an extremely wandering mind. Taken together, it seemed to my parents that I was a brilliant child who simply “refused to work hard”. This was not only toxic for my relationship with them, it poisoned my self-image and ability to relate to others for the first two decades of my life.

Any resentment I might have over that is ultimately misplaced. They were loving and caring parents who missed the mark in a way that just so happened to fundamentally shape my childhood experience. ADHD wasn’t even understood the way it is now, so the most I could have hoped for in childhood was a prescription.

Instead, I now make a point to be a parent who understands my own ADHD and my kid’s (which thankfully is pretty identical to mine). I help them use alarm clocks and timers like I do. I give them tools to understand and empathize with other people. I don’t treat dragging their feet on a task as disrespect or disinterest. I don’t get hurt when they lash out at me during a hard time. I’m not baffled or disgusted when their words reveal their underdeveloped empathy, and I try to accelerate that development.

I just cannot agree more that it’s a difficult job to get right. All kids need structure and discipline, but the types and amounts can vary widely, even for the same kid across their stages of development. I’m so thankful for the research that has been done and resources that have been created since I was young; without that I would have been a lot more like my parents, and my kid would have barely had a chance. I also appreciate OP for sharing their experience with us. It’s not fun to do but it’s necessary for understanding to grow.

Given the coordination/cooperation aspect of the problem, this isn’t really the “wisdom of the crowd” as I’ve always understood it.

Something like estimating the number of beans in a jar is a good fit, since there is only one layer of perception to agree on and no coordination required.

This experiment as described seems closer to “design by committee” with (predictably) similar results.

Happy birthday :)

This is wrong. You can absolutely dose psylocybin at levels that make a meaningful difference in experience (certainly enough to have an anti-depressant effect) without “tripping” or being in any way impaired. For many adults, this will be around 100-200mg of psilocybin.

+1 have had to edit Prisma files after generating a migration, it went fine. As ‘moltar says, no magic.

This was my first thought. The entire text label should toggle the radio or checkbox, not just the box and the padding.

Thanks for the references

This certainly seems within the realm of possibility but can you link to a source?

That’s fine, but then we need to stop privatizing the AI. If a coalition of companies (and maybe government?) were to train open model weights, and run those models on equal-access hardware (i.e. all residents of the country get N compute credits per year) then we’d be much closer to a system where “intellectual works should automatically benefit society” — however, that is not what we are seeing today.

I read this book in the first few years of programming professionally, and in my naïveté I was so eager to apply the patterns therein I missed out on many opportunities to write simple, straightforward code. In some ways it really hindered my career.

I don’t blame this on the book, of course; ultimately the intuition it helped me build has been very helpful in my work. With that said, as a particular type of feisty and eager young programmer at the time, I can now say I would have benefitted at least as much from a book titled “Designing Data-Unintensive Applications” :)

What is your proposal for adding (or capturing) value?

I can type on QWERTY much faster and more legibly than I can write with a pen. I suspect this is true for most proficient QWERTY typists.

Not sure I follow, can you elaborate on the contrast between “ethnic” and “scalability”?

“It looks like this entire article is an advertorial piece for a book. Would you still like to read it?”

“This is unparalleled, in my memory,” said one intelligence officer who used Lavender, adding that they had more faith in a “statistical mechanism” than a grieving soldier. “Everyone there, including me, lost people on October 7. The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.”

Good ol’ Manna

I’ve always been fascinated with language, and long had a hobby of looking up etymologies (my high school Latin teacher was great at pointing these out in class), but Rich’s style definitely pushed me to use it as a tool for thinking. Naming things is (famously) hard, but a strong command of language (and willingness to dig through the thesaurus) has lit the way through many difficult situations.

Maybe ironic but I wouldn’t be where I am without Windows APIs.

I was 19, and I was a member of some forums where folks shared knowledge on how to (ab)use various technologies for profit; many of these technologies were Web-based. I didn’t know any Web programming, but I knew VB.NET from some community college courses (with some fundamentals from high school) and I figured out how to drive this browser and interact with pages.

This allowed me to automate various Web interactions and make a few bucks writing code, which eventually led to my current career as a professional software developer.

I was getting paid (not much lol) to build apps before I knew either of brands like “port” but I hope that, no matter how much money is in the table, y’all feel good about every deal! Respect

This is like asking “what’s the alternative to nicotine?” - it may sound trite, but basic health is the alternative. A replacement is not the answer. You just need to quit.

I think something that happens between 2 and 3 times per day is “very common” in a colloquial sense. I drive a car with less frequency and I’d call it a “very common” occurrence.

preventing infiltration

I believe this is correct.

by organized crime

I believe this depends on the precinct.

Nothing’s perfect but I’ve enjoyed this thread, lots of decency and interesting anecdotes. Thanks for your contributions.