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Monosketch 5 months ago

more tokens, less reliable, dont work in all CLI agent harnesses

Monosketch 5 months ago

agents can understand them. and you can view them in the terminal

Most likely a Nick Land ref:

This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.

My concerns about obsolescence have shifted toward curiosity about what remains to be built. The accidental complexity of coding is plummeting, but the essential complexity remains. The abstraction is rising again, to tame problems we haven't yet named.

what if AI is better at tackling essential complexity too?

you can invent a new language, ask LLM to translate existing code bases into it, then train on that

Just like AlphaZero ditched human Go matches and trained on synthetic ones, and got better this way

including email addresses, phone numbers, and other unspecified “internal metadata.”

Substack specified that more sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, passwords, and other financial information, was unaffected.

I hate it when companies do this.

passwords and credit card numbers are easily changed.

names, emails and phone numbers are not.

two engineers implementing the same task are not-deterministic

yet nobody complained about this

in fact engineers appreciate that, "we are not replaceable code monkeys cogs in the machine as management would like"

elon musk saud that the next wave is agents (optimus human in a box) clicking around the old SaaS apps, not agents writing new apps to replace them

microsoft ceo said the same thing - agents will be using windows/office and be the bigger buyers of licenses

replacing SaaS software at this scale is hard, nobody will risk it, at least near term

Claude Opus 4.6 6 months ago

on prem economics dont work because you can't batch requests. unless you are able to run 100 agents at the same time all the time

Claude Opus 4.6 6 months ago

most of those subscriptions go unused. I barely use 10% of mine

so my unused tokens compensate for the few heavy users

Claude Opus 4.6 6 months ago

why do you care about uncommitted virtual memory? that's practically infinite

Claude Opus 4.6 6 months ago

after the models get good enough to replace coders they will be able to start increasing the subscriptions back up