Yes, the grilling part is where the LLM energy drain is for me, I haven't released any of the software I've been working on yet because they lack polish in my opinion. They may have nobel goals, but no point unleashing more slop on the world. Often when I ask for a correction something new breaks, or it reveals the next corner the model and I didn't think about. I've seen the models come a long way in a short time.
I'm tinkering and paying by the token for deepseek flash picked for its economy and using it to teach myself and form opinions on languages and frameworks that are new to me. It's hard to describe the worth of these opinions, but I think they're important, kinda like why I read a lot of HN looking for morsels of sentiment around the tech industry as represented here.
Might also be documenting serial number and identifying radios associated with your device. As a dragnet etc. Palantir and co love them some massive data hoards!
Yes it's a reflection of the WWE, a great excuse to trample indiginous lands yet again. The political class should be required to wear leotards only, this way you can know their true nature.
When I would code by hand I often found I was concerned with the house of cards in my head, am I remembering the right variable names, did I forget something that would lead to an exploit, etc. Now I can direct the LLM to do the work and the skill is split between having an understanding of the interactions of the technologies, choosing tech that will be less of a pain to update/migrate. You can even put some LLM-bow grease into finding more efficient approaches catching corner cases etc. And just by asking I can have test frameworks setup, I can drill into some pet peeve and it takes less time. Now we still have lots of ops moments, like the radicel distributed git forge forgetting to use encryption for private repos, and I run into this class of problem in my own casual LLM use, but that's where our taste and attention to detail powers need to be spent in this modern developer world.
The solution is probably a trash bag with a mini forklift compatible lift rings, an optical center mark, a ratcheting closure, and make a raspberry PI do the computing millions of dollars of tooling to make a robot compatible trash bag but it might be worth it, deploy the bean counters!
Yes people can get swept up in things and be unaware of downstream consequences of their actions, but you can also become informed and decide to change your behavior, find ways to mitigate damage, or communicate with others the damage/solution. How easy to wave your hand at the government or a corporate entity and abdicate responsibility, the parent is correct; personal accountability is faster and more effective than government regulations that also have knock on effects. My regulation example would be how cars in north america became less popular when fuel economy regulations were applied to them, but not SUVs creating the monster car epidemic we all live in.
Oh gross! Thanks for the correction, I now wonder where my misconception came from! And there goes the silver lining that came to mind about Canada and the EU getting tighter, more trade with a higher transportation cost?
The nostr baggage I referred to is the crypto culture on the network. I appreciate nostr for being sparse as well. ActivityPub doesn't feel approachable re: understanding the protocol.
There's an example ANproto in use at https://wiredove.net it's pretty clean but not very active, yet another experimental social network playground!
When I first read mosquito bits I thought you were talking about BT mosquito dunk type stuff, but now that I've read some of the article they use actual parts from mosquitos, wild!
Outside of crop growth we're also way behind on food addatives like tartrizine, which we pump into our children's candy with wreckless abandon, my understanding is the EU banned these additives and a few that have similar long term health effects some years back. I'd rather the industry get in front of these things before the government has to regulate, but I guess we have to do things the hard way. The pessimest librarian in me guesses EU rules would ruin and put off balance many Canadian insustries, and regulations of the big food co racket will be last to happen and be exempt from the US shipping us their toxic foodstuffs recently banned stateside up here. It could easily be worst of both worlds. It makes sense that Canada and US are biggest trading partners, I certainly don't understand the ins and outs of all the trade vortexes across our borders, but I know politicians are milking the show for all it's worth while regular people would love nothing more then for the show to move on and get back to our usual crony capitalism where even the little guy can run a business that crosses the border without a department of wizardry of tarriffs, we miss you guys and we're stronger working together!
There are times when I wonder if a model is just spinning its wheels to burn tokens, and how hard would it be to write that loop from the API provider side... Lex Luther shower thoughts!
Haha reminds me of the postal worker hinting that a lot of welfare cheques go to some affluent neighborhood in Vancouver. The business owns the house and the Lexus!
It just dawned on me that LLM use is a lot more measurable then "the rockstar engineer spent a week bouncing their favorite nerf ball off the wall all week and then the solution came to them" and the business side always loves to measure productivity metrics etc. As someone who's worked for mom and pop and big corporate the stats spook me, or if they're available to the worker I find them more distracting and encourage gaming the stats then being productive or humane to your co-workers.
Maybe one problem is the time between prompts, much like going to get a coffee when you start a big build, now it's filling time between prompts (plus the build), which can be any number of distracting rabbit holes (the internet is a big place) the split context feels exhausting to me.
Yeah terriers are the way to go, my cats will only take on wayward juvenile rats, full size rats are more like potential cuddle warmth for the cats! I've witnessed rats stalk and kill pigeons, from a famers context the only good rat is a dead rat. They make awesome pets though, so a lot of mixed feelings for me.
Government contracts, size and momentum, they're pretty famous for being ruthless on the upsell and counting licenses very carefully. They use their size to absorb other entities (like people soft who let the FBI's data go missing onto the dark web just recently [1]) they all uses databases and need datacenters. The government needs to manage big sets of data for whatever reason, Oracle is essential to that mission, bingo-bango too big to fail!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805278