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Also for Doctor Strangelove.

That’s right, and it’s been like this ever since we stopped programming in assembly language. Programmers’ brains used to grow manly and strong on a strict diet of manual memory management and custom stack frame handling. Once we transitioned to soft, weak modern languages like C it’s been all downhill.

Anathem and Seveneves are my favorites of his, in that order. The orbital launch and operation in Anathem is probably my favorite piece of writing ever.

I thought they chose it because it tastes great with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Same here, then I watch _The Orville_ and I'm happy again.

I’m not defending private equity _at all_, they’re brand-sucking vampires, but all it takes to give some dogs digestion issues is to switch ingredients. I have two that are extremely sensitive to chicken, which is in almost all dog foods due to it being really cheap protein. The sensitivity is pretty common in some breeds.

If they added chicken to the food and it didn’t have it before, more dogs with digestion problems is what you’d get for sure.

That's a very interesting idea for a benchmark!

They're being trained by a lot of repetitions of one-shot bugfixes and feature implementations. If they don't have to maintain code over the long term they have no incentive to not take the easy win with lower immediate risk and higher longer-term maintenance burden.

Probably stole it from Tesla... :)

In other words, "Look how she was dressed, she was asking for it."

This argument is BS, it has everything to do with Anthropic's resistance to the DoD's strongarm tactics in trying to force their desired contract terms on them.

More likely inspired by Asimov's names (R. Daneel, etc.) from his Robots stories.

My father-in-law died of pancreatic cancer three months after diagnosis.

It is a horrible disease, not least of which because it’s difficult to diagnose. By the time they get a clear bead on it, in many cases, it’s stage four and already ravaging your system.

I’m very sorry for you and your family’s loss. And I hope this drug makes it so a lot fewer people have to go through this in the future.

But addition is commutative! :)

Nothing said that this candidate was actually hired by Anthropic, just that he or she applied.

I get a lot of mileage using Fable to spec, then Sol to review the spec, then Fable to plan, then Sol to review the plan, then Fable to implement, then Sol to review the implementation. It's a lot of steps, but a great boost in quality of output.

Stars! was awesome, many fond memories of play-by-email games of that...

In the late 80s, a friend of mine broke up with his girlfriend via email while they were both sitting in the same computer lab.

What do folks think of Hefferon's _Linear Algebra_?

I don’t think it’s absurd. We’ve created these things, however alien the structure, with as much human text as we can scrounge up and jam into them.

Text is an imperfect distillation of the human experience, but it doesn’t surprise me that a machine trained on human text responds to human encouragement.

Wirth's Law I believe.

"Beads is the best. If you're not using Beads, you're failing. Gas Town, which I have just told you was a failure, was built on Beads. Gas City, which also failed, was also built on Beads. Wheelhouse, which I'm working on now and will be awesome? Beads. Therefore you should use Beads."

If you wouldn't mind sharing, what's your Comfy workflow for this? I have the same video card setup and would like to give it a shot.

I don't buy it, although I agree with GP's larger point about other strengths.

Printing presses are about exact duplication of writing. The internet is a higher layer printing press. LLMs substitute for (some of) the human effort of producing the text that a printing press or the internet can then replicate.

Nice! Not 100% sure, but it reads very human to me. The only LLM-ism that jumped out at me was "An honest note before we continue", but that was the only time the word "honest" appeared. If it's not human-written it does an exceptionally good job of appearing so.

Well, this inevitable flamewar will be a nice change from the pro-AI / anti-AI comment threads, at least...

You just keep right on driving...

There's big money in it, so of course there's going to be a huge PR push to cast it as a great moral and societal good.

The thing that gets me is that the rationalists who were such outspoken proponents of prediction markets (look up "futarchy" and the many positive articles about it) failed to predict the astonishing amounts of corruption that have come along for the ride with them.

Sure! I use an orchestrator main agent whose only job is to run subagents through the workflow process I've defined. Part of that workflow is to invoke a review subagent at particular points to check the spec, the implementation plan, and the code for rule conformance.

The review subagent has its own definition and gets invoked with a specific target, so the context is very focused on just rule enforcement and I don't have problems with it skipping rules.

The whole workflow is packaged up as a plugin, but you don't need that to get this approach to work. It should be sufficient to have the rules you want enforced written out somewhere, and to either kick off a focused review agent manually referencing them, or do something like I did and have it be a defined part of your workflow (depending on the automation level you want).

Subagents whose only job is to review the actions of your other agents for rule compliance? It works reasonably well for me in complex workflows using Claude Code.

And to note, the law in question is from the 1800s -- hardly something novel Wisconsin is doing.