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bradfox2 commented on Why Cline doesn't index your codebase cline.bot/blog/why-cline-... · Posted by u/intrepidsoldier

atonse · 3 months ago

I've always wondered... Making agents edits (like vibe coding), all the tools I've tried (Cursor, Zed, VSCode) are pretty equal since most of the brains are in the underlying models themselves.

But the killer app that keeps me using Cursor is Cursor Tab, which helps you WHILE you code.

Whatever model they have for that works beautifully for me, whereas Zed's autocomplete model is the last thing that keeps me away from it.

What do Cline users use for the inline autocomplete model?

bradfox2 · 3 months ago

Copilot

bradfox2 commented on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs twitter.com/skdh/status/1... · Posted by u/ksec

simonw · 5 months ago

The most interesting thing about this post is how it reinforces how terrible the usability of LLMs still is today:

"I ask them to give me a source for an alleged quote, I click on the link, it returns a 404 error. I Google for the alleged quote, it doesn't exist. They reference a scientific publication, I look it up, it doesn't exist."

To experienced LLM users that's not surprising at all - providing citations, sources for quotes, useful URLs are all things that they are demonstrably terrible at.

But it's a computer! Telling people "this advanced computer system cannot reliably look up facts" goes against everything computers have been good at for the last 40+ years.

bradfox2 · 5 months ago

It's wikipedia in the 00s all over again being preached by roughly the same age and social demographic.

bradfox2 commented on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs twitter.com/skdh/status/1... · Posted by u/ksec

gtirloni · 5 months ago

It does let beginners do a lot more than they are capable of currently.

But these are people that wanted to be in programming in the first place.

This "my mom can now code and got a job because of LLMs" myth, does this creature really exist in the wild?

bradfox2 · 5 months ago

No, it lets good engineers parallelize work. I can be adding a route to the backend while Cline with Sonnet 3.7 adds a button to the frontend. Boilerplate work that would take 20-30 minutes is handled by a coding agent. With Claude writing some of the backend routes with supervision, you've got a very efficient workflow. I do something like this daily in a 80k loc codebase.

bradfox2 commented on Tracing the thoughts of a large language model anthropic.com/research/tr... · Posted by u/Philpax

kazinator · 5 months ago

We can use data based on analyzing the frequency of ngrams in a text to generate sentences, and some of them will be pretty good, and fool a few people into believing that there is some solid language processing going on.

LLM AI is different in that it does produce helpful results, not only entertaining prose.

It is practical for users to day to replace most uses of web search with a query to a LLM.

The way the token prediction operates, it uncovers facts, and renders them into grammatically correct language.

Which is amazing given that, when the thing is generating a response that will be, say, 500 tokens long, when it has produced 200 of them, it has no idea what the remaining 300 will be. Yet it has committed to the 200; and often the whole thing will make sense when the remaining 300 arrive.

bradfox2 · 5 months ago

The research posted demonstrates the opposite of that within the scope of sequence lengths they studied. The model has future tokens strongly represented well in advance.

bradfox2 commented on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything sergey.fyi/articles/gemin... · Posted by u/serjester

zacmps · 7 months ago

I've found the highest accuracy solution is to OCR with one of the dedicated models then feed that text and the original image into an LLM with a prompt like:

"Correct errors in this OCR transcription".

bradfox2 · 7 months ago

This is what we do today. Have you tried it against Gemini 2.0?

bradfox2 commented on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport mediaite.com/news/breakin... · Posted by u/mzmzmzm

NaOH · 7 months ago

Hiring controllers is not easy. A friend's daughter just went through the hiring process. She graduated from college with an appropriate degree right as COVID hit. Her FAA application wasn't accepted for four years.

This past summer she did the four-week interactive online courses. Applicants must pass this and may not re-enter the program if they do not. After that she did the six-week courses in Oklahoma City. Again, applicants must pass this and may not re-enter the program if they do not. She passed. Only half her class of 20 passed. In the prior class, only 4 of 15 passed.

She declined the position when they could not offer a position within reasonable proximity of her family. She, too, may not re-enter the program. On top of all that, the program has strict age requirements because there's a mandatory retirement age (55, I believe).

There isn't a large pool of applicants and the percentage of successful ones is not high. Considering the amount of lives on the line, it's understandable the hiring criteria is strict. All told, it's not an easy position to fill and even explicit efforts to increase the number of applicants will take years. Just like many other skilled fields.

bradfox2 · 7 months ago

This is, justifiably, very similar to nuclear reactor operators. Pay needs to reflect the working conditions to attract more people (it does for reactor operators).

bradfox2 commented on Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr... · Posted by u/noch

danielhanchen · 7 months ago

Oh yes 192GB machines should be able these quants (131GB for 1.58bit, 158GB for 1.73bit, 183GB for 2.22bit) well :)

bradfox2 · 7 months ago

Great release Daniel. Applaud the consistency you have shown.

Can you release slightly bigger quant versions? Would enjoy something that runs well on 8x32 v100 and 8x80 A100.

bradfox2 commented on ChatGPT Pro openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

CobrastanJorji · 9 months ago

Man, if they can solve that "trust" problem, OpenAI could really have an big advantage. Imagine if they were nonprofit, open source, documented all of the data that their training was being done with, or published all of their boardroom documents. That'd be a real distinguishing advantage. Somebody should start an organization like that.

bradfox2 · 9 months ago

The cyber security gatekeepers care very little about that kind of stuff. They care only about what does not get them in trouble, and AI in many enterprises is still viewed as a cyber threat.

bradfox2 commented on Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD hestus.co/... · Posted by u/kevinsane

DanTheManPR · a year ago

I've been a Mechanical Engineer for a similar length of time, using Solidworks and Creo, and I concur. I've released many thousands of parts over the course of my career, and I don't think of the modeling itself as a major time sink (provided you have some decent training, and are using a thoughtful approach and not fighting the software). If the AI copilot could actually do all the modeling based on prompts, that would be pretty interesting, especially if it could create a feature try that I could tweak.

Automatic drafting is something that I think might be a good target for doing some AI research on. Your prompt exists in the form of the solid model, and it's feature tree and parameters. The output is the lay out views and annotations. It's okay if the output isn't perfect, as I would expect to be reviewing it and doing some tweaks.

Helping with all of the ERP processes involved with releasing and maintaining engineering documentation would be a HUGE time saver. If I could ask a copilot program to start a change request, and give it some basic descriptions of what I'm changing, it would be massively helpful if it could start pulling relevant files, and auto-filling the right requests/forms/whatever to do that process.

bradfox2 · a year ago

Hey! We're building this. It's a workflow driven automated documentation system for engineers based on your document templates. We started in energy and have expanded into engineering services. Would love your feedback.

fast-draft.ai

Please, please send me an email or dm if you are interested.

bradfox2 commented on Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/avyfain

amrocha · a year ago

First off, you're exaggerating. There is no place on earth that averages 40C for 3 months.

Second,I live in Tokyo, where the summer has been miserable with average temperatures of 32C, with regular highs of 36+ with 80% humidity. And yet I walked and biked everywhere and was just fine, and that's true for most of the 40M people that live here as well.

Third, it sounds like you live in a place that's not suitable for humans, you should probably move instead of making the planet even hotter for everyone else by living in your steel boxes with AC.

bradfox2 · a year ago

I didn't say average, and the highs are higher for many days. It sounds like you've never been in extreme heat, there's a huge difference between 89F and 110+F. More people are moving here than are leaving.