He was my advisor in college
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I'm on the fence! I do like a bigger but not too big screen for movies on planes etc.
If the model cannot count letters in a word what happens when it needs to do something akin to counting the letters in a word?
I believe it could easily write a tool to count the letters in a word for frequency, but ... dismissing this as if it doesn't matter seems a bit premature without deeper understanding of bad answers you can get from these tools
Breadth of capabilities matters... and a promotional video is nice and all, but people are throwing this term around like it's a prize they've won, but they've not gotten there yet.
An AGI wouldn't struggle with that.
And it was correct. The results weren’t as good as they should have been for Sol. How am I going to trust Luna?
It’s the product of companies bent on doing all the wrong things.
A spec is NOT CODE.
Someone still needs to understand what the code means.
C optimizers are not the same as the radical departure of an LLM.
I asked it to try to figure out why one of the examples wasn’t working.
It read the implementation of the compiler and the runtime, found the bug, fixed it, fixed the example and the only thing I had to do manually is suggest a less silly name for a particular function.
I would use sonnet 5 for coding … seems alright!
AKA - Slop... It's a brand new form of bullshit.
How much of that advice applies to anything these days is questionable. Back then we used to squeeze as much as possible from every clock cycle.
And cache misses weren’t great but the “front side bus” vs CPU clock difference wasn’t so insane either. RAM is “far away” now.
So the stuff you optimize for has changed a bit.
Always measure!
Great Stuff!
That is pretty context sensitive. You're correct that there's no real deep AI use expertise broadly understood to exist at this point (unless you're Steve Yegge?), but if people think they can toss out the engineers with experience in the systems that have been around a while, with junior developers "guiding" changes — that's likely a good way for a business to fall on its sword.
> “We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation — to make a point — than to further the cause of truth.”
Context switching and message passing (synchronous anyway) are the same thing when you consider how rendezvous works.
BLWP instructions seem like this was “meant to be”.
I feel more like a software producer or director than an engineer though.