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garfij commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists   holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh
kunzhi · 2 months ago
Funny this article is trending today because I had a similar thought over the weekend - if I'm in Ruby and the LLM hallucinates a tool call...why not metaprogram it on the fly and then invoke it?

If that's too scary, the failed tool call could trigger another AI to go draft up a PR with that proposed tool, since hey, it's cheap and might be useful.

garfij · 2 months ago
We've done varying forms of this to differing degrees of success at work.

Dynamic, on-the-fly generation & execution is definitely fascinating to watch in a sandbox, but is far to scary (from a compliance/security/sanity perspective) without spending a lot more time on guardrails.

We do however take note of hallucinated tool calls and have had it suggest an implementation we start with and have several such tools in production now.

It's also useful to spin up any completed agents and interrogate them about what tools they might have found useful during execution (or really any number of other post-process questionnaire you can think of).

garfij commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists   holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh
simonw · 2 months ago
Thinking about this more, it would actually be possible for OpenAI to implement this sensibly, at least for the user-facing ChatGPT product: they could detect terms like SoundSlice in the prompt and dynamically append notes to the system prompt.

I've been wanted them to do this for questions like "what is your context length?" for ages - it frustrates me how badly ChatGPT handles questions about its own abilities, it feels like that would be worth them using some kind of special case or RAG mechanism to support.

garfij · 2 months ago
Probably less sensible than you think. How many terms would they need to do this over? How many terms would they need to do it for _at once_? How many tokens would that add to every prompt that comes in?

Let alone that dynamically modifying the base system prompt would likely break their entire caching mechanism given that caching is based on longest prefix, and I can't imagine that the model's system prompt is somehow excluded from this.

garfij commented on Llama 4 Now Live on Groq   groq.com/llama-4-now-live... · Posted by u/gok
parhamn · 5 months ago
I might be biased by the products I'm building but it feels to me that function support is table stakes now? Are open source models are just missing the dataset to fine tune one?

Very few of the models supported on Groq/Together/Fireworks support function calling. And rarely the interesting ones (DeepSeek V3, large llamas, etc)

garfij · 5 months ago
Thank you for saying this out loud. I've been losing my mind wondering where the discussion on this was. LLMs without Tool Use/Function Calling is basically a non starter for anything I want to do.
garfij commented on OpenAI O3-Mini   openai.com/index/openai-o... · Posted by u/johnneville
dr_dshiv · 7 months ago
Why is it so hard to share/find prompts or distill my own damn prompts? There must be good solutions for this —
garfij · 7 months ago
What do you find difficult about distilling your own prompts?

After any back and forth session I have reasonably good results asking something like "Given this workflow, how could I have prompted this better from the start to get the same results?"

garfij commented on Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer   rachelbythebay.com/w/2024... · Posted by u/kencausey
Havoc · 8 months ago
Blocked for 2 hits in 20 minutes on a light protocol like rss?

That seems hilariously aggressive to me, but her server her rules I guess.

garfij · 8 months ago
I believe if you read carefully, it's not blocked, it's rate limited to once daily, with very clear remediation steps included in the response.
garfij commented on NYTimes: Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?   nytimes.com/2024/05/03/he... · Posted by u/DidISayTooMuch
MBCook · a year ago
Thousands believe the vaccine implanted mind control chips.

Thousands believe the earth is flat.

Thousands believe their fillings send them person radio transmissions.

Don’t toss the baby out with the bath water. Would it have been better to let everyone die of Covid? Or get debilitating effects of long Covid?

This headline is unnecessarily alarmist.

garfij · a year ago
> The officials each responded with “that very tired mantra: ‘But the virus is worse,’” Dr. Murphy recalled. “Yes, the virus is worse, but that doesn’t obviate doing research to make sure that there may be other options.”
garfij commented on BASIC turns 60   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy
duxup · a year ago
I distinctly remember being taught BASIC in school in the 1980s and quickly thinking “this is awfully basic” and not wanting much to do with it.

Now I don’t know if my childhood evaluation was correct but I do wonder:

Were there many complex programs written in BASIC? Or was it largely a teaching tool?

garfij · a year ago
We had a version of Bomberman that was written in some version of BASIC in high school (maybe QBasic?). It was great because we could hack on it to modify the game and immediately play with those modifications.
garfij commented on Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)   cultdeadcow.com/tools/vei... · Posted by u/dp-hackernews
Conlectus · a year ago
Raw HTML: potentially. Big blocks of undifferentiated ASCII art: no.
garfij · a year ago

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garfij commented on PostgreSQL is enough   gist.github.com/cpursley/... · Posted by u/cpursley
bun_terminator · 2 years ago
I think my wtf moment was that you can't have real variable length strings. And I'm pretty pampered by c++ highly nuanced numeric types with varying sizes and signed/unsigned.
garfij · 2 years ago
Other people have said it in this thread, but I think your experience is being severely clouded by Oracle. Postgres, MySql, and all have the `TEXT` datatype which are variable length (though with some upper bound)
garfij commented on New York’s attorney general says SiriusXM’s cancellation process is illegal   theverge.com/2023/12/21/2... · Posted by u/rntn
js2 · 2 years ago
In the past you had to chat with a rep, but for at least a couple years now you can cancel your NYT subscription with just a couple clicks.

You can also pretty much perennially keep your sub at $1/week w/o talking to a rep just by starting the cancellation flow when the promo rate nears expiration.

garfij · 2 years ago
Thanks for this, I"d been meaning to work up the energy to deal with their retention ops, but this was super easy.

For anyone else looking to do this, the trick is to choose "Other" instead of "Too expensive" or "My rate is going up" as the reason for cancelling. The later will just result in them trying to sell other standard subscription offers to you.

u/garfij

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