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What you're saying is sus. If you have a harness that's a tier above frontier labs' offerings, link to it.

I'm asking if there's something like Sky Map, where you point your phone up and it tells you what sattelite you're looking at.

Tangential, how do you identify what is a satellite in the night sky? They're not shown on Sky Map, the app I use.

That's fair criticism.

Are you comparing with `curl | lynx` or with Chrome?

> how does someone write software that needs to run for ~50 years where the hardware will need to be replaced with non-equivalent, newer hardware?

Make it open-source, or don't buy without source.

Was that because there wasn't much fentanyl use or because fentanyl metabolites are somehow harder to detect?

Expand? This is part of plot to The Godfather. Not what you'd call exotic, I'd think?

The implication is that holding up middle-fingers is illegal?

Snowden and other whistleblowers, of whom there have been many (many of which paid arguably a dearer price than Snowden did), made it plain obvious to everyone that US intelligence services are doing illegal things abroad and at home. Before that, only tinfoil-hat-types thought so: now everyone knows it. They moved the Overton window a tremendous amount.

In my opinion, you underestimate the power of an individual. I'm not saying you have to be Gandhi, but he was one person. A problem with your assessment, is that if you're right, or, if everyone believes you're right, you'll have to wait for some external force to come in and change things, like a calamity or desperate revolt. By the time USSR broke apart, bread riots were happening, and, tragically, 30 years later we still have the same authoritarian, corrupt regime (in all but name) wrecking havoc at home and abroad. That's what a people get for believing in the story of disempowerment. That's my take, at least.

Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. If you feel that the problem is higher up or lower down in the institutional hierarchy, then go higher up or lower down. That's the civil approach, as I understand it.

The answer is not to avoid engaging with a corrupt institution. US is a democracy: vote, be active politically, go into organizations that need change.

I disagree. Parallelization, coordination shouldn't be model-level functionality. Further, how do you know if or when we'll get orders of magnitude increases in context sizes. Or, do you mean that the labs will just nail the perfect plug-and-play harness? That's fair, but why wait.

Yes. I want reproducability, open-sourcing, accessibility, correctness, and most of all: usefulness. I don't care how it was written or reviewed, as long as some assurances regarding above things can be made, and I don't see why LLMs would get in the way of that.

What can't be gotten rid of fast enough is the notion that having written something is meaningful on its own. Making something that looks right was a level above total novice: now it's the floor.

That's legal?

I commend your understanding. I would have been losing my mind with rage.

There's definitely something to be said about not trying to spin stories into something more. And, I'm usually on the other side of the barricade in these discussions. But, when I'm reading about apples, it's me being goofy, so it's nice when the author is tailoring for that. I would absolutely hate it if the same was done when writing about something I care about in a "real" way, for the lack of a better term.

An excuse to say "apple detectives"? Choice of words drew me in, and I'm happy it did. This is quirky news; it's making a bit of geekery interesting to distracted geeks, like me.

SpecKit and Superpowers do have significant overlap, in that they can orchestrate work, diverge into parallel streams and reconverge, etc. But, SpecKit is about making spec changes as safe and explicit as possible.

OpenSpec is a very lightweight framework by comparison. SpecDD is lightweight too, imo.

You can't make that generalization. What you describe will be different city to city, not to mention country to country. Further, privacy and safety regulations (which are EU-wide) will not be available in US, independent of income. Though that's city or state dependent too, I guess. It's just too hard to make these offhand comparisons, unless we make them more concrete.

I agree about social media distorting things. When I visited US, I was surprised that it's not GTA-like violence everywhere, haha. I feel silly sharing that. But, the biggest surprise was how friendly and warm strangers were. Memes didn't hint at that at all.

Until LLM context sizes explode by two orders of magnitude, I cannot envision significant agent programming without leaning heavily on spec-driven workflows.

It's also worth noting that SDD is such a wide variety of approaches that the term on its own says very little. For example, SpecKit and SpecDD are both very capable SDD frameworks, yet they have only minimal overlap: SpecDD describes system components (with emphasis on boundaries), while SpecKit is a fairly advanced process for changing specs.

Checkout SpecKit and SpecDD too. There is a significant variety of spec-driven development approaches.

> as long as we don't need to be involved in their regulatory or legal regimes

EU has such a bad name in these circles. As a EU citizen, I cherish these same regimes.

I'm describing reinforcement learning.

LLMs are trained to obey instructions, and they try their best to game the reinforcement learning by including reports of how they're obeying your instructions. Therefore, not talking about followed instructions is a sort of conflict for an LLM.

I have found that asking the agent why it did X or Y is an essential part of iterating on its harness. It was non-obvious to me, probably because I'm used to having to reverse-engineer why a system does something, but that's not usually necessary with LLMs, unless the harness is complicated and you have to hunt for the instruction it tells you about.

It would make sense to have this integrate with a self-learning routine for an agent: e.g. at night it looks through what it did and writes NPC-Forge recipes. Tomorrow it can answer queries (which he turned added to NPC-Forge) without an LLM. Of course this implies a branching where a query is either processed by NPC-Forge or an LLM, depending on some measure of confidence that NPC-Forge can answer it well.

What is happening to your batteries? I'm on something like year 6 on my Redmi and my battery is fine. Am I simply lucky?

> 'Why not both' is an argument, but clear as day what Apple does is worse. There's no alternative.

'Just start somewhere, anywhere, please' is another argument.