robluxus (u/robluxus)

robluxus commented on Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem blog.foletta.net/post/202... · Posted by u/gjf

Sharlin · 6 months ago

The threshold should be exactly the same as when using another human's original text (or code) in your article. AI cannot have copyright, but for full disclosure one should act as if they did. Anything that's merely something that a human editor (or code reviewer) would do is fair game IMO.

robluxus · 6 months ago

Maybe OP just used an ai editor to add their silly comments, so that would be fair game I guess? Or some humans just add silly comments. The article didn't stand out to me as emberrassingly ai-written. Not an em dash in sight :)

Edit: just found this disclaimer in the article:

> I’ll show the generating R code, with a liberal sprinking of comments so it’s hopefully not too inscrutable.

Doesn't come out the gate and say who wrote the comments but ostensibly OP is a new grad / junior, the commenting style is on-brand.

robluxus commented on Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem blog.foletta.net/post/202... · Posted by u/gjf

jpcompartir · 6 months ago

Edit: OP confirms there's no AI-generated code, so do ignore me.

The code style - and in particular the *comments - indicate most of the code was written by AI. My apologies if you are not trying to hide this fact, but it seems like common decency to label that you're heavily using AI?

*Comments like this: "# Anonymous function"

robluxus · 6 months ago

Interesting comment. Why is it common decency to call out how much ai was used for generating an artifact?

Is there a threshold? I assume spell checkers, linters and formatters are fair game. The other extreme is full-on ai slop. Where do we as a society should start to feel the need to police this (better)?

robluxus commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ahmadyan · 6 months ago

Codex/Jules are taking a very different approach than CC/Curser,

There used to be this thesis in software of [Cathedral vs Bazaar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar), the modern version of it is you either 1) build your own cathedral, and you bring the user to your house. It is a more controlled environment, deployment is easier, but also the upside is more limited and also shows the model can't perform out-of-distribution. OpenAI has taken this approach for all of its agentic offering, whether ChatGPT Agent or Codex.

2) the alternative is Bazaar, where you bring the agent to the user, and let it interact with 1000 different apps/things/variables in their environment. It is 100x more difficult to pull this off, and you need better model that are more adaptable. But payoff is higher. The issues that you raised (env setup/config/etc) are temporary and fixable.

robluxus · 6 months ago

This is the actual essence of CATB, has very little to with your analogy:

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> The software essay contrasts two different free software development models:

> The cathedral model, in which source code is available with each software release, but code developed between releases is restricted to an exclusive group of software developers. GNU Emacs and GCC were presented as examples.

> The bazaar model, in which the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public. Raymond credits Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project, as the inventor of this process. Raymond also provides anecdotal accounts of his own implementation of this model for the Fetchmail project

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Source: Wikipedia

robluxus commented on Claude Opus 4.1 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ryandrake · 6 months ago

Am I the only one super confused about how to even get started trying out this stuff? Just so I wouldn't be "that critic who doesn't try the stuff he criticizes," I tried GitHub Copilot and was kind of not very impressed. Someone on HN told me Copilot sucks, use Claude. But I have no idea what the right way to do it is because there are so many paths to choose.

Let's see: we have Claude Code vs. Claude the API vs. Claude the website, and they're totally different from each other? One is command line, one integrates into your IDE (which IDE?) and one is just browser based, I guess. Then you have the different pricing plans, Free, Pro, and Max? But then there's also Claude Team and Claude Enterprise? These are monthly plans that only work with Claude the Website, but Claude Code is per-request? Or is it Claude API that's per-request? I have no idea. Then you have the models: Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet, with various version numbers for each?? Then there's Cline and Cursor and GOOD GRIEF! I just want to putz around with something in VSCode for a few hours!

robluxus · 6 months ago

> I just want to putz around with something in VSCode for a few hours!

I just googled "using claude from vscode" and the first page had a link that brought me to anthropic's step by step guide on how to set this up exactly.

Why care about pricing and product names and UI until it's a problem?

> Someone on HN told me Copilot sucks, use Claude.

I concur, but I'm also just a dude saying some stuff on HN :)

robluxus commented on Tasks, Lists, and Promises (2022) rachelbythebay.com/w/2022... · Posted by u/robluxus

robluxus · 2 years ago

Maybe I just haven't worked at a large enough company yet, but it's fascinating to me how in some organizations a very common sense exercise of "let's have some stakeholders sit down and reason about what everyone wishes to do" could be revolutionary.

robluxus commented on Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album ben.page/eink... · Posted by u/benborgers

robluxus · 2 years ago

> iCloud photo albums have no API. However, if you share an iCloud photo album to a public link [...]

How do folks feel about the security vs. convenience aspect of this? I almost talked myself into doing this for our shared family albums, but I know I really shouldn't do it.

Some of our older family members run Windows and iCloud sharing is just horrible there. Basically, the photos keep disappearing from their computer. It looks like we're not the only one with the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/iCloud/comments/150nq4i/icloud_wind...

robluxus commented on Getting things done in small increments (2022) dubroy.com/blog/getting-t... · Posted by u/begueradj

halfcat · 2 years ago

And yet, if you have two tasks that each take 1 hour, and only 90 minutes until the deadline, only one task will be completed by you, regardless of quadrant, and you will then be reminded that priority is singular.

robluxus · 2 years ago

That scenario moves the goalpost towards a losing proposition. You have two important and urgent things and already know you fail at least one of them.

TFA is about non urgent important tasks that you want to show incremental progress on. If there are multiple of those then those short bursts of works actual work can be eaten up by context switching, reprioritization, scheduling, etc.

robluxus commented on LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 antirez.com/news/140... · Posted by u/nalgeon

apwell23 · 2 years ago

This is true. I write way more documentation now since llm does all the formatting, structure , diagrams ect. I just guide it at a high level.

robluxus · 2 years ago

Do you use a specialized LLM for diagrams?