mirmor23

> Everyone around is calling it intelligence wherein it's actually just maths essentially mirroring the dataset. It's not at all intelligent.

Do you consider yourself intelligent, and did you derive everything you know from first principles or are you just mirroring the cumulative subject matter that you've been taught and read? if a black box that can mimic that, is that intelligent.

Curiosity and Creativity is what sets apart humans from machines, not an output that depends on the corpus that has been fed.

> and EV's are great. No need to dog on them needlessly. The trip planning thing is super overblown.

I never said EV is not great and it is nice that it is working out for you, but facts are facts. Also, while EV footprint is growing around the globe, there is wide vast world beyond USA where charging issue is still true (and the repair shops).

> But Anthropic's business practices are scary. They have a reputation for cancelling accounts for random reasons, offer rather bad terms, and have no customer support. I have a strong aversion to services with a reputation for cancelling services arbitrarily. They will apparently cancel based on their system's guesses as to what you're working on. Sometimes they guess wrong. What I'm doing (metaverse clients) is so far out of the mainstream they may guess wrong.

From your response it does not seem like you have enough experience using LLM, and your response seem to indicate a bias from reading posts of folks who got banned. Typically in these situations the poster who got banned, will never typically reveal the full picture of what happened or what their setup was.

Anthropic customer service is terrible, their policies are opaque and could be better. But it is really delusional to think that they are some kind of fly-by-night all-you-can-eat buffet that kick you out for no reason or just because you used up your quota.

From what I understand, if you are using official harness, not using it to build/offer competing service, not sharing account with others, and not doing illegal activity (this is left to their interpretation), the chances of being banned is quite low. This is not anything special to Anthropic, most service providers have some kind of ToS.

> That doesn't mean electric cars shouldn't be considered as power backup, or that buying a nice electric car vs a nice gas car doesn't come with the added benefit of "Don't need a 10k generator anymore".

From redundancy perspective, a genset + car is hands down a better combo. A functional ICE car is cheaper and goes everywhere without any trip planning around charging stations, which is another plus.

> Had LLMs first been presented as a "better IntelliSense", where rather than auto-completing function names, your editor can now suggest implementations, very few people would have been upset.

I'm not rooting for AI companies or hustlers that are out to ride the wave and get rich.

However your claim is just hyperbole. I've used it in cross-cutting projects to extend protocol on desktop, iot device, which involves holding premise long enough to co-develop and test. It is also fantastic in debugging multi-threaded systems.

The tech sounds cool, but my guess is this product might work for anyone whose text to command ratio is very high. If the formatting and commanding are the main tasks, then this product would be more of a distraction for a fast typist.

Regarding the website, you should lead with product, its details, rather than founders shown in 360 degrees from various vantage points. It is distracting and frankly irritating.

> For frontend work especially, the productivity boost is insane. Claude built me a replacement for a complex UI that took a human developer 6 months to build poorly, and Claude did it in two hours.

It sounds incredible if the UI already existed in some shape, and it took a developer 6 months. With Qtcreator one could build UI full UI in 2 days if the wireframes or a UI already exists.

Spent few minutes reading the infomercial -- regretted it. Engineering principles form the bedrock first, and AI-tools are made to fit in them, not the other way around as this infomercial propounds. Its linkedin vibe is a big turnoff too.

If your SWR is less than 4% and you've the discipline to keep it that way, and you generally feel good overall (outside of career and lack of routine), then take your time.

LLM could create a study plan, grill your with tough questions. If your are into inquiry based learning, they are fantastic (thanks to all the stolen shit).

> I was handed 150$/mo budget and no subs, and while it was frustrating at first, with better tooling, context management and especially OAI models it's a breeze now and not even using 70% mostly while achieving a lot in a small team.

It's great that the project/team you were in had skills/cycles to do it.

In many cases this is pure yak shaving so to speak. Consider an embedded project where there are tons of tedious things to be tied together; Also, the project velocity is more important than saving another 1k per year. The decision not to switch is the smart choice in many cases.

> How about the last several times all of big tech was laying off tons of people at the same time?

I meant the layoffs due to AI, not the typical tech tech layoffs that are as old as tech itself.

There is a difference this time though. There has never been a time in last 40 years where being laid off seemed terrifying for knowledge workers in tech. It's speculative what's ahead, but man, does it LOOK bleak. Many would still come out OK, but it's not a given.

Redbull gives you wings.

AI hype is real, and there is a lot of perverse incentive to keep the hype cycle going. You are right about that.

Rest of your analogy/arguments are just a lot of nonsense too.

Electricity is valuable, and by that logic Siemens Energy should build and own all factories under the sun. TI should stop selling their calculators and compete in Math Olympiad instead!

> "Claude Duet is a proactive agent that understands what needs your attention. It takes on tasks of all sizes, keeps working while you’re away, and waits for your ok when it matters."

More hyperbole from a company angling for IPO gold. It would serve all existing customers well if they had a decent customer service, and a 'frontier model' that could respond to queries with evidence by default, instead of just making stuff up unless user is on guard all the time. Carrying the stated premise for more than an hour would be a nice touch too.

> it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo.

Most llm could do it. Claude went from firmware thread -> rtos scheduler -> mcu reference manual -> hardware controller register interface -> vendor sdk -> problem identification and the solution to it in a matter of 30 minutes. Linux could be even easier since it is so well trained on.

> So it CAN help me writing the code that needs to be checked in the first place, but it can’t help me clean it up and make it safer.

the thing with fable is so bad; for some project related questions, the model switches to opus to ensure safety with no further explanation.

(due to llm non-delete clause) one time as i confirmed "that dir has been nuked", and it RESET the session and re-entered with opus :)

> I'd get lynched for sharing a thought like this from a non-throwaway account, but: I don't get the ultra-liberal folks obsession with the skid row. For whatever reason they seem to think that low rank criminals should be allowed to continue living however they please. An attempt to clean up crime in Oakland - for example - is met with cries of gentrification! Think of the families!

You fail to demonstrate that you are capable of thinking in terms of policies that are pragmatic and enduring. Where is your rage when time and again corporations are give multi-million dollars of incentives when they promise jobs, economic boom to the cities which has been repeatedly shown to never materialize and taxpayers are left footing the bill. taxpayer money keeps flowing to other avoidable things like settlements for police brutality, cleaning up the mess left by many bad ideas, etc.

I am no liberal, but what seems to be the problem in spending some money to build low cost housing so removal does not seem forced? why would that thought not come to your mind? for every ultra-liberal, there are 4x the corporate boot-lickers, and that seems to be the source of the problem.

You seem like the kind of person that is perfectly ok with stolen goods as long as they are are kept in nice display cases in a museum and even an entry fee is even charged for it.

I read the article and kept wondering what the author is trying to convey. It reads like a checklist compiled into an essay with no wisdom nor rationale baked into it. mostly vague and generic -- like a human transform applied to an llm output.

> Most popular technical channels like HN / specific sub-reddits require active community participation and "karma-farming" just to be able to post something, which is hard for me to spend time on (I'd rather work on my stuff).

the irony of this post!

why should people care about what you are up to when you've no interest in even pretending?

it also seems like you are angling for maximum impact with minimal effort AND budget. how about giving away the game for free for the first 6 months to see if it passes the turd test?

most of the youtube videos for soldering are a waste of time as they focus on the rituals of soldering rather than the rationale.

think of soldering as a thermodynamic and metallurgical system to create a solid mechanical/electrical joint - so while welding is a good analogy, it doesn't really give you a good model on what is going on. to get really good at soldering is to get good at understanding the interplay of the factors involved and then predict/manage them.

fundamental to all this is to recognize that the solder is an alloy with eutectic property -- unlike regular metals/alloys, solder doesn't slowly get mushy and then become a molten liquid; instead, at a precise (band) of temp, it just melts, and then when heat is removed/lowered it instantly solidifies. that is why controlling tip temp is critical first step.

second is the thermal mass of the soldering surface; usb/ethernet connectors have higher thermal mass so to achieve eutectic, you need a beefier tip that can deliver, not a thinner tip and holding it longer; higher than normal temps helps here. for smd led, the opposite applies;

third, is the concept of wettability -- thermodynamic affinity between the molten solder and the solid metal pad; to form a perfect bond between the metals, they must be clean and free of oxides, and applying flux reduces these oxides. High wettability means the solder eagerly spreads out and adheres to the surface rather than forming isolated droplets. That's the working principle when drag soldering.

then there is angle of solder tip, fine motor control, etc -- those are easy to come by. I am not a technician, and I was able to drag solder a lqfp64 with not a lot of trouble. of course, i hate school of hard knocks, so i spent time learning about the process first.

Suggested reading: https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Soldering-Guide-Alan-Winstanley...

you look at the man who benefits...

Rumsfeld heard it from some smart guy in NASA and repackaged it to sell Iraq war. This is similar to the influencers bandying around 'algorithms';

Rumsfeld is more like the Big Lebowski in parroting whatever to make him look smart. Never for a moment he stopped to think about the amount of damage that would haunt the veterans that served there.

He wrote a book about leadership but he lacked balls to do anything about Abu Ghraib for example, nor he did anything to stop the war. IMO he is just another corporate coward.

In his most stunning display of 'leadership', he used autopen to stamp his signature on condolence letters sent to the families of soldiers killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Imagine that!

> now that we have the compute and proper AI, not just IKBS, we can focus on generating a specification and not the code. A specification that can persist across the entire SDLC. All a bit like all the other branches of engineering that have drawings, specifications and circuit diagrams and things.

I'm not clear what this is supposed to achieve; if engineers can use AI to generate good specs, what's the issue with using llm in tdd/codegen cycle.

currently, for complex projects with big teams the strategy seems to let llm loose and shoot for impossible deadlines which will likely backfire as llm could generate good code for a small subsystem, it fails frequently in brownfield, large projects resulting in engineering rework;

by considering human effort to code in the release schedule, and then using llm to generate/refactor/tdd a good quality software could be built, without frustrating engineers having to deal with ai slop.

just one line in the agent file does it. there is no need for another 'skill'.

here is the line i use: use technical language to spell things out, and keep it free of jargon and project shorthand

> This is such a ridiculous, preposterously self-confident claim. Claims like this give HN (and engineers in general) a bad reputation.

all you've done is use some fancy words to discredit OP's claim.

what makes you think people who have built all the extremely complex and robust technical infrastructure are unable to comprehend of this amazingly complex government that you seem to be putting on a pedestal, let alone design a better one?

how about even a simpler question: why are almost all governments inefficient (except may be few like tax department) and are full of red-carpet paper pushers?

> I don’t know Swedish. Is it because these diacritics make the names seem more exotic?

of course. Haagen Dazs, Motorhead, etc have known it loooong ago

this has existed for centuries -- scientists who are religious, folks relying on quack doctors, astrology, tarot reading is nothing new. for every person willing to risk their lives by playing doctor, llm amplifies their belief, and it is not the fault of llm that the person lacked basic critical thinking skills. i don't believe technology invents human gullibility.

what does an internal process matter if the input to output transformations are acceptable. there are many many different ways of writing a software calculator, or a protocol stack, or codec modules; internally they may be wildly different, but as long their function mapping is identical, one's understanding does not play a role.

as a more extreme example: do we all understand how our brains work? we use it every day and interact with other brains.

Why ashamed? a more pertinent question should be on the level of involvement/expertise of the llm user in creating/enhancing the software. did they sort out all the design decisions, approaches, constraints, or did they let llm run wild. I have zero interest in tdd, coding and other aspects (since i've done a lot and it does not interest me anymore), however, i control every aspect of the software process, quality, performance, and integration workflows to produce quality software. someone else coding it in a maintainable way does not change the answer for me.