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I see subtle ones at least daily, misunderstanding a component or hallucination of a spec for something. I’m in blockchain.

No, but the authors of $LIBRARY are accountable if it fails

I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is that is happening when the robot writes stuff like “3 campuses, one app” example, I’m glad the author was able to identify it as chat context leaking through.

The other version of it is the robot over-indexing on some part of the prompt and leaving comments places. An example is I ask it to prefer integration tests using TestContainers, it starts adding comments to every new test saying “Real services, no mocks” or something.

And yes, I have a line in my *.MD saying not to do that.

Source?

> I've met a number of young western Europeans while traveling there who are jealous of the ability of Americans to afford cross-ocean/different-continent multi-week trips to tier-1-hotel-cost cities, while feeling like it's more out of reach to them to find a job that would let them.

Anecdotally, I think it’s out of reach for many young Americans in my cohort (26) but we’re insulated from that in tech

Weird to see Cary mentioned as the setting

I honestly don’t understand comments like this because in my work, this would be a disaster. And before I get the comments about my harness/skills etc, I’ve tried many tools and harnesses and skills and all that earnestly and in good faith. I find use in it for doing the grunt typing labor, but letting it loose in ways described above have only ended in spending much more time cleaning it up than if I just did the work myself.

I hate to sound pretentious, but I wonder if it’s a difference in complexity of work and problems being solved.

I would think that with agentic coding they’d be able to have a shared core and an interface native to the system, I.e. not react in the terminal and a swift or C# front end for the desktop app

Is it open? I'd love to take a look and perhaps steal some ideas :)

I still am mind blown at how bad CC is as software. It’s just not that hard of a problem. I get that harnesses aren’t trivial, but they’re not insane either. And the fact that it’s running on a JS runtime (that they bought!) is also crazy. Why not Go/BubbleTea? Why not literally anything native? It makes no sense

I don’t want to be a jackass, but it’s hard to take anything Boris says seriously when he’s headed up such weird software. And it’s not like resourcing or money is an issue for them. If Claude was so damn good, why does CC suck?

Replacing someone's words with a made up quote so you can dunk on them isn't how you display that you won an argument. I would ask that you engage in good faith with the other poster's ideas.

I’d recommend reading the late David Graeber’s “Debt” which does a good job illustrating exactly what you described, which is how currency is at its core an IOU

That’s the implication I believe

I love this articulation.

Strong opinions tightly held

I try as hard as I can to have strong opinions, loosely held

For me, at least, despite being obviously powerful, I just can’t find anything useful to do with it beyond toys.

> most cars are in the ballpark

If you’re in the Bay, maybe, otherwise it’s $35-50k depending on how new

The AGI goal posts move

I mean, I code?

Context for the unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgiC8YfytDw

(The guy is joking in the video)

I haven't had time to inspect it myself, but off the top of my head, I'd be wary of taking their interpretation at face value.

CIS is an anti immigration think tank and Washington times is pretty blatantly conservative outlet. I’d be wary of those sources.

Well, this is all assuming a 20% down payment, which anecdotally as a 26 yr. old, nobody I know is able to achieve. All my home-owning friends put 3-7% down. Granted, most are using first-time homebuyer loans which are generally more favorable.

In RTP (NC), a ~$400k house at 5% down is $20k

DSA is its own party; DSA affiliated candidates only run as democrats because the US system basically all but disallows third party success. I guarantee you that DSA members would not associate themselves with neoliberal Democrats at all, given the choice.

Would love to know what phone :)

Why is that strange? To me, it’s evidence of growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the field and frustration with being made to deal with the consequences of others bad work

Ah, Poe’s law… my favorite

… doesn’t Linux work through email, not GitHub?

This is just rude, the poster clearly is asking for more information and isn't claiming to be an expert.

Out of curiosity, I asked Opus 5 to do the same with the first ~1.5 pages of Neuromancer by William Gibson, which I thought might be a good test of interpretation from the model.

It refused to use the text verbatim because of copyright (ironic), but the output was interesting nonetheless.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/275dc3c2-7bd3-432b-94ff-d...