To Broadcom you’re not a customer, you’re a mark, a patsy, stooge, a _victim_. Their aim is to establish exactly what they can get away with, how far they can abuse you, before you’ll just walk away.
Readit Newslewdwig commented on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong theregister.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/rntn
I have noticed that LLMs are actually pretty decent at redteaming code, so I’ve made it a habit of getting them to do that for code they generate periodically. A good loop is (a) generate code, (b) add test coverage for the code (to 70-80%) (c) redteam the code for possible performance/security concerns, (d) add regression tests for the issues uncovered and then fix the code.
lewdwig commented on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors nytimes.com/2025/09/05/te... · Posted by u/acomjean
It will be interesting to see how this impacts the lawsuits against OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft. Will they quickly try to settle for billions as well?
It’s not precedent setting but surely it’ll have an impact.
I’m sure this’ll be misreported and wilfully misinterpreted because of the current fractious state of the AI discourse, but given the lawsuit was to do with piracy, not the copyright-compliance of LLMs, and in any case, given they settled out of court, thus presumably admit no wrongdoing, conveniently no legal precedent is established either way.
I would not be surprised if investors made their last round of funding contingent on settling this matter out of court precisely to ensure no precedents are set.
lewdwig commented on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy anthropic.com/news/update... · Posted by u/porridgeraisin
TBH I’m surprised it’s taken them this long to change their mind on this, because I find it incredibly frustrating to know that current gen agentic coding systems are incapable of actually learning anything from their interactions with me - especially when they make the same stupid mistakes over and over.
lewdwig commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt
> message and the reasoning should be yours,
I think we havent realized yet that most of us don't really have original thoughts. Even in creative industries the amount of plagiarism (or so called inspiration) is at all times high (and that's before LLMs were available).
With code, I’m much more interested in it being correct and good rather than creative or novel. I see it is my job to be the arbiter of taste because the models are equally happy to create code I’d consider excellent and terrible on command.
lewdwig commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt
Would you share with us what kind of job you do?
I keep seeing people saying how amazing it is to code with these things, and I keep failing at it. I suspect that they're better at some kinds of codebases than others.
Devops/SRE/Platform Engineering
Downside: lots of Python, and Python indentation causes havoc with a lot of agentic coding tools. RooCode in particular seems to mangle diffs all the time, irrespective of model.
lewdwig commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt
It's good for what all other LLMs are good for: semantic search, where the output can be generated texts to help you. But never get wrapped into the illusion that there is actual causal thinking. The thinking is still your responsibility, LLMs are just newer discovery/browsing engines.
There are nascent signs of emergent world models in current LLMs, the problem is that they decohere very quickly due to them lacking any kind of hierarchical long term memory.
A lot of what is structurally important the model knows about your code gets lost whenever the context gets compressed.
Solving this problem will mark the next big leap in agentic coding I think.
lewdwig commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt
I use Claude Code almost daily now, and I think I’d rather cut off my own arm than go without it, but I don’t delude myself into thinking that current gen tools don’t have significant limitations and that it is my job to manage those limitations.
So just like any other tool really.
I have discovered this week that Claude is really good at redteaming code (and specs, and ADRs, and test plans), much better than most human devs who don’t like doing it because it’s thankless work and don’t want to be “mean” to colleagues by being overly critical.
lewdwig commented on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video] youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWH... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
I have such a huge nerd crush on this guy. Witnessing the incredible skill of making even the most humble and obsolete of technologies seem like an absolute pinnacle of human ingenuity is always a pleasure.
It's cool that it exists, and it's impressive that it is built on top of git itself. If you (like the author) want to use it, then more power to you. But I have yet to be convinced by any of these articles that it is worth my time to try it since nearly all of them start from a point of "if you hate Git like me, then try this thing".
If anyone has a link to an article written from the point of view of "I love or at least tolerate git and have no real issues with it, here's why I like JJ," then I'd be glad to read it.