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toponijo··on I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
It can write correct code, but it's still really not good at that, at least without lots of prompting. In my experience, that prompting is usually just doing the design/planning work I'd do with or without AI.
toponijo··on I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
Given this, you can conclude that writers should be putting in at least at much effort as readers, whether or not they use an LLM. What really seems to be the problem is writers that don't at least check their own work, and pass that burden onto the readers. This is easier than ever with LLMs.

This is toxic behavior that unfortunately rewards a selfish writer. I'm worried the AI push incentivizes this too much, to where in corporate situations a reader can't say no to doing work for a selfish writer.

toponijo··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
I think it's just a tech thing! Same as when the internet really got going or what's happening with AI
toponijo··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
The point of going slowly is that we make sure something works, even if it has these bad side affects. Do we try experimental drugs with worse effects so that we can find effective ones faster? There are brave souls out there who will participate in clinical trials or experimental exceptions
toponijo··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
If you take these things together, they may be able to use the scanning feature to verify the existing stops. If it's non-existent no one could scan it, and they could remove those stops
toponijo··on Claude Fable 5
They did specifically say the safeguards are only more relaxed for those in their cyber program
toponijo··on Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
No sawdust means no tokens. Maybe there were already enough planks around. Maybe a task was completed without AI. What matters is what was done and not whether there's sawdust / AI was used.
toponijo··on 'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
"How can I shove AI into something" is just seeing if a new technology can be used to solve a problem that's already solved. It's low effort high value compared to solving a new problem. Although I agree that people are being reckless and shoving it in when it doesn't make a significant improvement.
toponijo··on Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County
They talk about the possibility of a spill going into the environment, but if they know it might spill, can't they make it spill and capture it?
toponijo··on On The <dl> (2021)
Aside from the accessibility benefit mentioned in the article, I would think that using semantic HTML like this would also make AI tools more effective at understanding code
toponijo··on GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
I actually think it makes sense to hone models for coding and agentic capabilities. Those models will be specialized for those tasks, and the results will be cheaper and better. We can still have a general model and specialized models
toponijo··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
It also loves to add edge case handling where it's not needed and in poorly chosen places