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ryanmcbride commented on Digg.com is back   digg.com/... · Posted by u/thatgerhard
ryanmcbride · 4 days ago
new user signups disabled?
ryanmcbride commented on Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?   minimaxir.com/2025/08/llm... · Posted by u/minimaxir
strbean · 12 days ago
Sure.

A non-English speaking adult wouldn't be able to answer the question either, after the question was translated to their language. Maybe you wouldn't want a non-English speaker helping you to write an acrostic in English. Luckily nobody is marketing LLMs as "great for designing word puzzles" though.

ryanmcbride · 12 days ago
You can make comparisons all you want but you can't change the fact that it just plain looks bad.
ryanmcbride commented on Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?   minimaxir.com/2025/08/llm... · Posted by u/minimaxir
strbean · 12 days ago
A Chinese second grader would probably not be able to answer "How many Rs are in the word 草莓?" It's a valid critique.
ryanmcbride · 12 days ago
You're right they probably wouldn't be able to to it, but that child isn't being marketed as an invaluable business tool to assist doctors in diagnosing cancer, or whatever.
ryanmcbride commented on Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?   minimaxir.com/2025/08/llm... · Posted by u/minimaxir
rwmj · 12 days ago
Can modern humans count the number of tokens in "blueberry"? (You're not allowed to cheat and use https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer)
ryanmcbride · 12 days ago
I see this argument every time this particular failing is brought up and like, regardless of the reasoning, it's still completely failing to do something a second grader should be able to do and until it stops failing in that way, being like "Um technically it's a lot harder than you think" isn't going to win over AI skeptics.
ryanmcbride commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
iJohnDoe · 17 days ago
To clarify, you need to verify identity to use the GPT-5 API?

I understand for image generation, but why for text generation?

ryanmcbride · 16 days ago
Because they want to contribute to the fascism of mass surveillance
ryanmcbride commented on LLM Inflation   tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve
ozim · 18 days ago
People make up reasons, no one comes in saying „Peter has a new laptop I want one as well”.
ryanmcbride · 17 days ago
Yes and your job as a manager is to determine whether or not the reason is valid. And it'll be easier to do that if you ask for a 1 sentence explanation instead of 4 paragraphs.
ryanmcbride commented on LLM Inflation   tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve
ozim · 18 days ago
Sounds like you did not work all that much.

People want new computer because new hire Peter got a new one.

People want new computer because they just had lunch with a friend that works in a different company and got a new computer and they just need to one up him next time they go to lunch.

That is why I am not going to just give people computers because they ask. Worst crybabies come back because they „spilled coffee” on perfectly fine 2 years old laptop.

ryanmcbride · 18 days ago
reread the comment you're responding to because I don't think you read it all the way. Specifically this part:

>If someone wants a new computer they should just have to say why. And if it's a good reason, give it to them. If not, don't.

ryanmcbride commented on LLM Inflation   tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve
neutronicus · 18 days ago
If Bob's job is anything like mine, Bob's new computer will take a week to set up
ryanmcbride · 18 days ago
Sounds like your company needs to spend some time working on their onboarding process. Probably more effective than just hoping no one ever needs a new computer.
ryanmcbride commented on LLM Inflation   tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve
Aransentin · 18 days ago
The 4-paragraph business case was useful for creating friction, which meant that if you couldn't be bothered to write 4 paragraphs you very likely didn't need the computer upgrade in the first place.

This might have been a genuinely useful system, something which broke down with the existence of LLMs.

ryanmcbride · 18 days ago
This is the sort of workplace philosophising that I hate the most. Employees aren't children. They don't need to have artificial bullshit put up in between them and what they need, the person approving just needs to actually pay attention.

If someone wants a new computer they should just have to say why. And if it's a good reason, give it to them. If not, don't. Managers have to manage. They have to do their jobs. I'm a manager and I do my job by listening to the people I manage. I don't put them through humiliation rituals to get new equipment.

ryanmcbride commented on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal   github.com/charmbracelet/... · Posted by u/nateb2022
ryanmcbride · 25 days ago
Trying this on windows after installing from npm and when it asks for my chatgpt api key, doesn't seem to let me paste it, or type anything, or submit at all. Just sits there until I either go back or force quit.

edit: setting the key as an env variable works tho.

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