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Wait until you, your immediate family, or close friends get “unlucky” and then report back.

Man whose job depends on you not running local models doesn’t want you running local models…

At one point I was very hopeful that the progression from Infrastructure as a service to Platform as a service was going to simplify things. Instead we seem to have ended up with mind boggling complex services.

Writing some code after months of agentic coding is so nice. “I remember this - it’s fun!”

I made a smash up of the arcade games SmashTV and Gauntlet.

https://smash-gauntlet.atomic14.com/

You need to switch into a product manager/QA/UI,UX mindset.

Is what is being built the right thing? Does it work? Is it usable? Has it been built in an appropriate way? (Note this is not a code thing, it’s an architectural question)

Traditionally developers have outsourced these things to other people.

There’s a further thing you should be doing - if the questions above didn’t pass - why not? What went wrong in your process?

Don’t beat yourself up about it.

Weirdly, I was talking to someone earlier about this who had been deposed.

They ask repeated questions repetitive questions hoping that you slip up/contradict yourself.

He said it was an interest experience trying to repeat exactly the same answers he’d already given.

The ported original is here: https://golden-axe.atomic14.com/

And I tried to make an RPG version: https://golden-axe-rpg.atomic14.com

Some to think about with both Claude and skills.

Can you invert things. What’s deterministic and what needs “thinking”?

Can you create a script that runs things chaining together the deterministic parts with calling out to Claude for glue that needs “thinking”.

That would mean some google people going to jail...

This used to be standard onboarding practice everywhere I’ve worked.

Point new starter at the readme and get them to fix any issues (hopefully very few!).

The danger is, that you end up passing the decision model something where the choice is trivial. There's so much in the harness that you don't need any intelligence.

Interesting idea - so instead of "which move do you want to make?" it's "which location do you want to go to?".

The phrase “cutting your nose off to spite your face” springs to mind.

Nothing yet. Unfortunately it sometimes feels like our industry has been overrun by grifters and chancers.

I’m sure this has been a gradual and long decline. Maybe it even started with the dot com boom and accelerated with crypto. With AI it seems to have got worse.

The number of - “I did/invented Jev last year”, or, “here’s a version of Jev I vibed up last night” is getting a bit ridiculous.

Especially ridiculous is how the hacker news crowd seems to be taking these at face value…

There was one the other day with a compelling demo. But when you looked closely at it, it was feeding in the options with the word “best” on the option to pick and a fine tuned model designed to recognise that word…

We’re at the point now where this has to be a problem for the future.

They really don't match the performance of Jev. You can probably fine tune them to work well for a particular use case (assuming you have sufficient data).

But Jev is works pretty much out of the box without any fine tuning.

It’s frustrating that we can’t see the “thinking” - it’s like we only have access to half the conversation.

Probably important to call out this part of the post:

Zero-shot vs. Fine-tuning: Out-of-the-box base models score ~0.35 on the typed-decisions benchmark (near random). The 0.766 score is achieved by fine-tuning on the benchmark's train split. Treat Laya as a fast foundation model to specialize, not as an omniscient zero-shot oracle.

I got Claude (of course) to knock this up. I had all the bits ready to go as I'd been experimenting with Manic Miner already.

It actually works pretty well!

If that’s the reason, why don’t stripe say so when they block the account?

These things would be much easier if stripe were willing to actually explain what the issue is.

We can come up with all sorts of reasons - anti money laundering, concerns around charge back etc…

Why can’t stripe just say the reason?

One of the biggest problems is actually making sure the information needed is on the poster.

Times, dates, location, pricing, parking etc…

As he points out “it added a bunch of text…” now it’s one all the future designs. That’s great - is the text correct?

To be honest this was a problem before AI. People are not very good at communicating.

This reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Sourcery.

The wizards don’t become sourcerers themselves - they become enthusiastic users of someone else’s sourcery. Their years of learning don’t protect them from mistaking access to power for mastery of it.

I don’t mind these companies scraping my content.

But for love of god, my blog changes at most every couple months. You don’t need to scrape it every few minutes.

Maybe the mortgage system is different in the US.

But if you have a 25 year term on a loan for a $500,000

Approx numbers:

5%: $2922 monthly, total paid: $876,885

10%: $4543 monthly, total paid: $1,353,000.

This really doesn’t make sense.

Higher interest rates mean the monthly payment is higher. You need to pay back the principal + the interest.

Everyone in the audience will recognise when someone is being a dick and will be praying for them to stop grandstanding.

“Great questions/point - would be great to pick it up with you later. Any other questions?”