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rdedev··on Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
Right now there are state govts bending over backwards to provide cheap energy for data centers. The difference is being paid by people who live nearby through increased electricity costs. This is a tax with just extra steps
rdedev··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
Is the underlying assumption that gitlab will see new paying users because more people are buying coding agents?

If gitlab thinks they are as famous as github i don't know what to say. They should have atleast positioned themselves as a better github alternative

rdedev··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
Won't this be bad for agents since now you need to provide this new API in their prompt, as opposed to just regular git which the model has seen enough in its training data
rdedev··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
Relevant video: https://youtu.be/WAUnmQt2Z7Y?si=Gll0AkqyAdsSjqlA

My manager has started speaking like this. He showed a slide recently which had the words AI and Quantum nearby

rdedev··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
> hundreds/user/month

What is this based on? The only thing I can think of is AI coding tools but only a few companies do it properly. I don't see gitlab capturing any of that spending

Also the whole "removing layers". Today's prof g market video was about the topic. Afaik it was the Coinbase CEO telling the same. Do these people get together to discuss their talking points? Or are they signalling to investors?

rdedev··on Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
With Louis, it's been a journey of "how I learn to stop worrying and enjoy the angry repain guy"

He gets a bunch of things wrong since it's mostly reactionary content but he is willing to correct himself when he gets things wrong.

He does a lot to prevent companies from screwing over customers and that in of itself is good enough that in willing to overlook his flaws

rdedev··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
When companies like this exist, what is the point of relying of TPM? Looks like the future is bright for VC backed bots

https://doublespeed.ai/

rdedev··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
I had to create a hypothesis testing agent where it gets a query like "is manufacturing parameter x significantly different this month than last month" and have the agent follow a flowchart to run a statistical test and return the answer

At the time I had access to only 4o and there was no way to guarantee that the agent would follow the flowchart if I just mention it in its prompt. What I ended up wrapping the agent in a loop that kept feeding it the next step in the flowchart. In a way, a custom harness for the agent

rdedev··on AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
Not totally wrong. Self play works well with if your problem can be easily simulated in an RL environment where the model can easily explore different states. RLHF or similar techniques is not that since we don't have exactly have a simulation environment for language modelling

Right now there are companies which hire software devs or data scientists to just solve a bunch of random problems so that they can generate training data for an LLM model. Why would they be in business if self play can work out so well?

rdedev··on Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
There is a bunch of manufacturing related investigation reports written up in jira tickets or confluence pages at the pharma company I work for.
rdedev··on Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
Here mine: you cannot link an existing branch to a jira issue. Maybe this is easier said than done but I can't find their reasoning anywhere
rdedev··on Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon
> language itself is one tool of communication invented to supersede body-language and grunting and noises

That's a pretty utilitarian view of language. How would it feel if everyone spoke and wrote like a PR representative? This is what an article written by an LLM is starting to sound like.

I'm even willing to argue that the way in which you convey your ideas is as important as the idea itself. Like we could all be eating soylent for our daily nutritional requirements but we don't. The taste of the food we eat is important. It's the same with writing for me

rdedev··on ChatGPT for Excel
Thanks for clarifying this. I was genuinely frustrated with copilot due to the lack of features.

If it's possible please push your large business clients to update office. I work for a multinational pharma company and the copilot feature in excel deployed there is next to useless

rdedev··on Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
Atleast someone at some level need to think about how the user is going to use copilot right?
rdedev··on Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
Here is a fun one. I had a column with around 200 entries and there were some duplicates in it. I just wanted to see which were duplicates and remove some of them.

I selected the cells and asked copilot to tell me which ones were duplicated. Copilot had to ask me to copy and paste the cell contents in its chat box. It couldn't even detect which cells were selected and read them

Why even have copilot inside excel when it can't even read a cell? This is what happens when all you care is about KPI metrics or what not

rdedev··on Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
My recent frustration is with Powerpoint Designer suggestions. Who asked for this? The suggestions don't make sense or look good. And then microsoft provides a helpful tip to not pop open suggestions till the next time powerpoint is opened
rdedev··on The Closing of the Frontier
> already happening with recursive self improvement

Are any AI labs claiming this?

rdedev··on Artemis II Launch Day Updates
I hope it does. But every day that goes by I feel that the future is just going to be like what's shown in the expanse series
rdedev··on GitHub is once again down
My vscode slop session stopped in between. Maybe it's for the better
rdedev··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
Uff. This is exactly what Casey Muratori and his friend was talking about in of their more recent podcast. Features that would never get implemented because of time constraints now do thanks to LLMs and now they have a huge codebase to maintain
rdedev··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Right now my start menu randomly crashes. Like all I see is a black box with no icons. I'm impressed with how even basic functionalities break pretty often
rdedev··on MCP is dead; long live MCP
I wish job openings for anything LLM related would stop asking for experience with langchain
rdedev··on Neural Boids
The fact that stampedes happen is evidence against it. At least we are not capable of sticking to some basic rules the birds follow when we are startled
rdedev··on Neural Boids
> In 2010, a team led by Andrea Cavagna at the University of Rome tracked individual starlings in 3D using multiple synchronized cameras. And they found something surprising!

> In 1986 Craig Reynolds encoded this insight as three rules:

This part just left a really bad taste in my mouth. I am not against using LLMs to write stuff but please proof read what it writes before posting it.

The way it's written it's sounds like Craig Renault travelled in time to 2010 to come up with his rules for boids

rdedev··on Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
I tried reading it but I couldn't get into it. Maybe it the heavy religious themes or just the science fiction being so far into the future? I really should give it a shot again
rdedev··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
An aspect of art is this pursuit of pushing boundaries within the confines of what is considered good. Would an artist with an infinite image generator be interested in pushing said boundaries? Maybe but they will definitely miss out on getting stuck on an idea and coming up something completely new
rdedev··on We mourn our craft
Even if you are not coding in assembly you still need to think. Replace llm with a smart programmer. I don't like the other guy to do all the thinking for me. Much better if it's a collaborative process even if the other guy could have coded the perfect solution without my help. Like otherwise why am I even in the picture?
rdedev··on We mourn our craft
Adam Neely has a video on GenAI and it's impact on the music industry. There is a section in the video about beauty and taste and it's pretty different from your conclusions. One example I remember is would an AI find beauty in a record scratch sound?

https://youtu.be/U8dcFhF0Dlk

rdedev··on Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
I think it still has a place of your agent is part of a bigger application that you are running and you want to quickly get something in your models context for a quick turnaround
rdedev··on xAI joins SpaceX
I swear Prof G mentioned this exact same thing happening today
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