Sorry my grandmother used to use the word piddle to mean pee so I got a real crack out of this.
I read it the same way and assumed they were piddling in the garden to add nitrogen to their compost.
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__MatrixMan__ commented on Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) github.com/universal-tool... · Posted by u/edweis
none of it is working, MIT just released a paper showing that the overwhelming majority of orgs adopting llm workflows have seen no benefit
I think that the overwhelming majority of orgs are too inflexible to just insert LLM access, step back, and ask of it was an improvement.
I think you're more likely to see an effect if you can somehow capture how far a solo founder gets before they need to bring on the second employee. Because LLMs aren't better than me at my job, but they are better than me at many jobs which I can tolerate being done poorly.
If there is a significant technological shift, it'll be when those startups start outperforming the ones for which LLMs weren't available at the start.
Oy, that's disappointing, I hadn't heard that (and yep checked the website; the logo's changed... sigh). I guess I can dismiss NixOS from my list of possible linux distros. I thought Nix's approach was an intriguing idea, but the last thing I want with my Linux distros is maintainers sidetracked with politics. It means the distro itself takes second place.
Yet sometimes less is more anyway, and I've been using Void Linux recently. Feels like the linux distros I grew up with, just better.
After a few years using nix for my projects, everything else feels flimsy. They can make the logo be a pile of poo for all I care.
Maybe you're the one who is sidetracked with politics.
Don't hold your breath. Chip fabrication is extremely sophisticated. It's basically nanotechnology. Not something that could practically be done at home anytime soon.
I agree, photolithography at home is a long way out.
I think if we want to distribute the means of computational production, a better approach would be to print oligonucleotide instructions (requires a custom inkjet printer), and use a cell free extract (e. coli would work) to synthesize proteins which are programmed to assemble the computational substrate from nanoparticles.
Something along these lines: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1422649112
The majority of people I've found will dismiss any arguments like this until something happens to them or someone they know.
I find it quite personally impactful that I've never had to bend the knee to a king. Without the ability of certain historical figures to keep secrets from their king, I think things would be quite different in that regard.
If most people can reason about the current historical moment as it relates to policy decisions, well I guess that's an equally dangerous sort of problem.
__MatrixMan__ commented on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code claudiacode.com/... · Posted by u/zerealshadowban
Does this sandbox the agents? All I want is a way to keep the agents from writing to and reading from arbitrary places on the filesystem. I want that enforced using operating system primitives rather than a pinky promise with an LLM.
It already worries me that the Cursor agents occasionally try to perform operations with full absolute paths, which they wouldn't be able to know if they were properly sandboxed to the current directory.
Why not just run the assistant as a user with limited permissions? Your OS likely supplies all the handcuffs you're going to need.
__MatrixMan__ commented on AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery playtechnique.io/blog/ai-... · Posted by u/gwynforthewyn
> Claude wrote me Go tests that passed. They were beautiful, and they were worthless. They all collapsed to true == true.
My favorite one of these is when I was having Claude write a nix derivation to package kustomize at 4.5.5 and instead of getting the correct source version and building it, it just set some build args on the latest version to override the output of the --version CLI flag.
"What do you mean you and your friend chat over Signal when there are dozens of other chat apps? Sounds like you two have something to hide, if you ask me." [0]
Whenever I hear someone telling me they have nothing to hide, I ask them to unlock their phone and hand it to me. The joke still goes over people heads sometimes.
I think it's better to move past the individual question entirely. I tell them to imagine whatever political power they fear the most and ask themselves how it would likely behave if it knew nobody could coordinate against it in secret.
I have rather little to hide myself but I want desperately for you to be able to hide something. Otherwise we're together a worse deterrent against authorities behaving badly as we would otherwise be.
__MatrixMan__ commented on Good system design seangoedecke.com/good-sys... · Posted by u/dondraper36
Not the person you replied to, but I have! A java project I worked on a couple years ago used a thin persistence layer called JOOQ (java library). It basically helps you safely write sql in java, without ORM abstractions. Worked just fine for our complex enterprise app.
Sql migrations? This is a solved problem: https://github.com/flyway/flyway
What about micro services? You write some terraform to provision a sql database (e.g. aws aurora) just like you would with dynamo db or similar. What does that have to do with ORMs?
What about redis? Suddenly we need an ORM to query redis, to check if a key exists in the cache before hitting our DB? That’s difficult code to write?
I’m confused reading your comment. It has “you don’t do things my way so you must be dumb and playing with toy projects” vibes.
As a previous user of alembic I was surprised that flyway's migrations only go forward by default and that reversing them is a premium feature. That's like having the luxury trim being the one with seatbelts.
Carbon tax on a state level to try to fight a global problem makes 0 sense actually.
You just shift the emissions from your location to the location that you buy products from.
Basically what happened in Germany: more expensive "clean" energy means their own production went down and the world bought more from China instead. The net result is probably higher global emissions overall.
This is why an economics based strictly on scarcity cannot get us where we need to go. Markets, not knowing what it's like to be thirsty, will interpret a willingness to poison the well as entrepreneurial spirit to be encouraged.
We need a system where being known as somebody who causes more problems than they solve puts you (and the people you've done business with) at an economic disadvantage.