Nice to meet you, Jeff Lebowski.
Now stay out of Malibu
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tilne commented on The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering philschmid.de/context-eng... · Posted by u/robotswantdata
> Sometimes I wonder if LLM proponents even understand their own bullshit.
Categorically, no. Most are not software engineers, in fact most are not engineers of any sort. A whole lot of them are marketers, the same kinds of people who pumped crypto way back.
LLMs have uses. Machine learning has a ton of uses. AI art is shit, LLM writing is boring, code generation and debugging is pretty cool, information digestion is a godsend some days when I simply cannot make my brain engage with whatever I must understand.
As with most things, it's about choosing the right tool for the right task, and people like AI hype folk are carpenters with a brand new, shiny hammer, and they're gonna turn every fuckin problem they can find into a nail.
Also for the love of god do not have ChatGPT draft text messages to your spouse, genuinely what the hell is wrong with you?
Leaving the “g” of the f word at the end made me re-read this in Fat Tony’s voice. It was an awesome touch.
RIP. What a creative titan/genius. When these giants pass away who replaces them? Who are the Brian Wilsons of today?
Matt Jardine sang his parts I believe when I saw his band play a few years back.
Thinking selfishly, the absolute quantity of good/bad software isn't as important as the software you have to interact with on a day-to-day basis. Good software is invisible and under-appreciated, you use it for it's purpose and move on, bad software really sticks out.
Good point. The amount of bad software I’m forced to interact with regularly has gone up, mostly because there’s so many systems cobbled together in workflows now.
> there has never been more good software
Right. It's incredible that something like Linux is free. For a more recent example, look at Vs code. An even more recent example, look at how many open weight llms there are out there.
Yeah vs code was one of the first examples I thought of as well. It has its own set of issues for sure, but even as a former vim fanatic it’s amazing from both a default experience perspective and that of a power user.
> But perhaps most importantly, debuggers are an intricate piece of the puzzle of the design of a development platform—a future I become more interested in every day, given the undeniable decay infecting modern computing devices and their software ecosystems.
I agree with this sentiment, yet still I’m wondering if it’s fully justified. There has never been more bad software than right now, but there has never been more good software either, no?
It’s not super relevant to the main contents of the article. Just a bit that caught my attention with regards to how it made me think.
tilne commented on Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why? owlposting.com/p/the-time... · Posted by u/abhishaike
> And shameful (for them.)
1. A single positive outcome with N=1 should generally not be the basis for making a medical recommendation.
2. It takes a mountain of research work to go from that to a study that you can draw meaningful conclusions from.
3. The hospital is not in the business of doing research, it's in the business of treating patients.
Regarding 3: Shouldn’t the medical system be optimizing for patient outcomes rather than the business their in?
Regarding the first two: I think the anecdote being from 1995 suggests there would have been time to put together said mountain of research.
I’m not agreeing that this is shameful for the original doctor, but I do think it’s shameful if avenues for potential research are not taken because it’s inconvenient for the hospitals.
tilne commented on Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts spacenews.com/musk-trump-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
> Like of the Nietzschan philosophy?
Yes, but the rest I disagree.
I just think that most people (on both political sides) are not really better. If they would be given the position of power they would be corrupted and incompetent too.
So in a sense you got what you deserve - and your democracy is working.
How does it connect back to the Nietzschan philosophy you mentioned?
"I worked at Apple for 12 years, making tools to empower creative people [...]"
I think this was the hook that got many of us to admire Apple as a company (and more broadly, to get excited about computing as a discipline/industry). For a long time, that was arguably (one of) their primary mission.
I suspect to what extent it could still be considered to be the case today would be subject to much debate.
Is it even up for debate that that’s definitely not what their primary mission is? Their market cap sits at 3.5 trillion, ranking them third behind Microsoft and nvidia. Unlike those other two, Apple makes most of that on selling iPhones and the like to consumers.
tilne commented on Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts spacenews.com/musk-trump-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
> There is something in many people that makes them attracted to those who treat them awfully and consider them only slightly above things.
It's the slave moral and if you think the majority of people would be better (given the opportunity) you are naive
Like of the Nietzschan philosophy? So in the case of trump the idea is that his voters like him because he’s different from the “evil” aristocratic class that trump claimed to oppose (eg “drain the swamp”)?