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In Australia you have "electorates" which are areas of roughly 100k pax. Each electorate gets one representative in parliament. Omitting some finer detail here.

Then by contrast the senate: each state gets 12 senators regardless of population.

They're applying misdirection so that we use their secret-sauce agentic framework, but like a black box and without seeing any of the internal reasoning patterns, cause that would give it away.

That's a deal-breaker for me. I need as much observability and control over my development workflow as possible; that's part of my secret sauce.

Isn't that sitch just because employers get volume discounts?

isn't that the most free market thing ever?

AI mandate is one of the best things that's happened to me. It's the easiest metric to game in the world.

At one point my boss asked why my AI usage was lower than other team members. I instantly knew what to do. Every session is now run at ultracode effort. My automated PR review bot averages like $80 in usage per PR review.

You can't prove your free-market theory because it's not falsifiable.

This is why arguments about this go in circles. You either argue from a pure theoretic POV back and forth, or you go off data - at which point, bringing up every failure of free markets (like, obviously, US healthcare) is dismissed as "not really a free market"

Even the theoreticians on the free-market side are far less solid than.. all the other sides (behavioural economics, information asymmetry.. even Marx) but I regard it as deeply unpragmatic when there's so much data out there indicating what actually happens in the real world when you go one way or the other.

publishing houses will gatekeep for well-selling fiction and non-fiction.

Friendo, this is an anti-benchmark to figure out which AI is more likely to kill you.

If you point both at some github issues you can gauge their relative ability to solve problems.

You don't, the app runs on a user-supplied device. They should secure the part that runs on the car and consider the interface between the app and the api to be a user interface.

I think different guy but this is really cool too :)

I'm desperately trying to avoid nudging the AI and mopping up after it :-)

Also to deal with my own weakness, executive dysfunction

Creating experimental tooling. I don't think it's totally possible without the models improving (I miss Fable already) but you can shift the process a bit. With Claude/Opus at least, saying to "re-derive" a document is a magic phrase that carries meaning for Claude to think about totally re-doing a document.

All you need at that point is a blurb about making sure it's conceptually organised but I haven't found a neat way to express this. Kind of like refactored well-structured code is smaller than spaghetti.

I've read more than a handful of AI-generated articles on HN recently. The last one even had a fake author with a fake face. despite the site insisting it had human editors and reviews. The web property was created by a marketing/AI agency from (AFAIK) a European country with zero employees credentialed to edit hard science news articles, also zero employees with English names and faces like the supposed author.

The interslop is real. Simulacra and simulation.

Yep it's all AI-generated. It's annoying that they have a fake human as the author but whatever, it's the interslop.

There's this one guy doing crazy stuff with ASCII rendering, I can't remember his name/handle/project though :(

I'd much rather spend $10 than have to sit at a prompt every day babysitting the thing, after working all day sitting at a prompt babysitting other things

How do you keep the info the AI generates concise?

I'm grappling with this at the moment, getting it to do design or reverse engineering work, during investigation it makes the wall of text bigger rather than consolidating. It can never pause and create abstractions properly. This is on Opus which starts getting wordy and performative on goals it can't easily verify.

Can't help laughing at a random ad hominem against John Carmack of all people, and about his opinion on a guy who is already widely regarded as an especially talented programmer.

That's exactly what Fable is. They use Fable to improve Fable. I reckon the successful experiments must go into the model training set with a strong RL signal, and that is why they are so paranoid about people using Fable for LLM tasks. Fable knows what it did to improve itself. Pure speculation of course.

No offense but if you haven't done enough research to actually have a studied opinion, maaaaybe you should avoid posting an inane comment about it.

Also worth reading, especially today in LLM age: Simulacra and Simulation by Beaudrillard. Heavily inspired The Matrix. Although unlike the movie, he saw simulacra as irreversibly replacing reality, ie you can't get out of the matrix.

you could try

* googling "CTF security"

* asking literally any AI to explain the article

Yes, you must beg. If you don't know what a CTF is, and don't want to find out, why read the article anyway

I don't think it's that hard to get them to say "I don't know"

I'm pretty sure they are actively trained to avoid it.

Besides, like, what would you do if you asked your $200/mo AI something and it blanked on you?

Instead of doing creative work on the iPad, it should really be used as an input device for the mac.

"Coding style should reflect the casual minimalism of expert programmers" used to to bump it up a bit, I guess it had the right activations or whatever, but I haven't bothered as much with this stuff with recent models cause (a) writing "You are a gigachad developer who is a Level 99 Staff Wizard at FAANG" doesn't work any more and (b) More or less they code like what they can see in their context; if you have a shit codebase you're going to get more shit, so theoretically I'd give a baseline coding style in some instructions, but realistically I haven't have enough motivation to bother with the last thingy I was working on.

I've recently had the interesting experience of working on a Clean Architecture project for the first time. Pre and post-LLM adoption.

It has been... difficult. Services/modules organised by infrastructural layer rather than by feature. A mediator pattern abstracted away the handling of commands. Just in case one day you needed CreateFooCommand to be executed by a different handler, or something, I dunno. It was so hard to figure out how to navigate everything. And it felt like the entire tradeoff was for the purpose of stopping smoothbrains from adding the ORM to an API endpoint - but with the cost of this crushing accidental complexity that made it hard for everyone to hold everything in their heads, not just for me but also for the smart guys on the team.

It turns out that the LLMs also performed extremely poorly. All the heavy abstractions were too hard for them (not to mention most of the developers).

I knew I had no chance of shifting things away from that paradigm. But as luck would have it... we started basically vibe-rewriting it from scratch without bullshit enterprisey crap and its (a) dead simple (b) has most of the features after one month (c) even though the code is questionable, inelegant AI slop, with nearly zero regard to proper architectural design, it's way easier to deal with than before

I've never felt so vindicated.

I'll carry an ammo belt of little EMP devices.

im pretty sure gastown (the Beads part) stores tasks/memories/whatever in a DAG but I haven't looked into it in detail

I've always held the view that successfully using AI requires more knowledge and skill, as the burst radius of poor engineering decisions or lack of domain knowledge is way larger.

I just cannot see WITCH doing this without exponentiating the usual problems with outsourcing. I've seen some horrors. Can't wait for contractors wielding unprecedented chaos.

no way, I didn't realise this worked.

My attention span is such that I get side tracked and wind up taking longer than 5 mins quite a bit :D

I'm only 50/50 but I swear they have only one app for the entire globe.

Can you imagine how complex that must be vs just making like 100 different apps in each country.

But eCoNoMiEs oF sCaLe

If you're balking at makin 100 different apps, then for reference, I am pretty sure my local mcdonalds - just the one restaurant turns over >10 mill a year, so you get a sense of how much they'd want to invest in, idk, the ordering front-end of every maccas in Australia

or sticky-tape it to the window.

d5 has an actual shutter yeah? not mirrorless? I think the shutter moving will spin the camera.