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bryantnycon Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Think of that GitHub login as more like a back door.

bryantnycon Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

The former CEO of GitHub has launched a competitor: https://thenewstack.io/thomas-dohmke-interview-entire/ Anyone using it?

bryantnycon Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

https://github.com/facebook/sapling Anyone outside of FB using it?

bryantnycon IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

Anyone else on here recall IBM VisualAge for Smalltalk -> VAST, or Cincom Smalltalk?

bryantnycon Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at

"...Recently, we did an experiment where we had a “red team” deliberately introduce an alignment issue into a model (say, a tendency for the model to exploit a loophole in a task..." https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretabi...

Anyone care to wager if anthropic is red teaming in production on paying users?

bryantnycon Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at

"...very subtle and silently introduced mistakes are quite dangerous..."

In my view these perfectly serve the purpose of encouraging you to keep burning tokens for immediate revenue as well as potentially using you to train their next model at your expense.