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twh270 commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

asboans · 17 days ago

It would be fun to train an LLM with a knowledge cutoff of 1900 or something

twh270 · 16 days ago

Someone tried this, I saw it one of the Reddit AI subs. They were training a local model on whatever they could find that was written before $cutoffDate.

Found the GitHub: https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM

twh270 commented on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files anuraag2601.github.io/gem... · Posted by u/anuraag2601

dummydummy1234 · a month ago

Anecdotal, but I really like using Gemini for architecture design. It often gives very opinionated feedback, and unlike chatgpt or Claude does not always just agree with you.

Part of this is that I tend to prompt it to react negatively (why won't this work/why is this suboptimal) and then I argue with it until I can convince myself that it is the correct approach.

Often Gemini comes up with completely different architecture designs that are much better overall.

twh270 · a month ago

Agreed, I get better design and arch solutions from it. And part of my system prompt tells it to be an "aggressive critic" of everything, which is great -- sometimes its "critic's corner" piece of the response is more helpful/valuable than the 'normal' part of the response!

twh270 commented on Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI jacob.gold/posts/serving-... · Posted by u/feep

rokob · 2 months ago

I’m interested why Rust and C have similarly bad tail latencies but Go doesn’t.

twh270 · 2 months ago

OP posited SQLite database contention. I don't know enough about this space to agree or disagree. It would be interesting, and perhaps illuminating, to perform a similar experiment with Postgres.

twh270 commented on The Aging Programmer [video] youtube.com/watch?v=mVWQQ... · Posted by u/belter

waffletower · 8 months ago

I don't see the words "standing desk" together in the comments yet. I am using one at the moment and later today I will be sitting. It is important to alternate lest you create new issues IMO.

twh270 · 8 months ago

Yes, 100%. Being immobile is bad, whether you're standing, sitting, or lying down. (Too much strain from movement is bad too, hence RSI for many of us.)

I really enjoy having the flexibility/option of standing or sitting, and IMO a standing desk is one of those purchases that has a 10x payback.

twh270 commented on iTerm2 critical security release iterm2.com/downloads/stab... · Posted by u/tjwds

kelnos · 8 months ago

> I deeply regret this mistake and will take steps to ensure it never happens again.

I always get a little... sigh-y when I read statements like these. What steps? I'm not even sure what I would do to ensure something like that wouldn't happen again. Build some automated tooling to run the software that exercises every single feature it has, and capture system calls to ensure that it never opens or writes to files? That sounds like a very difficult thing to do (to the point that I wouldn't even try, especially for a GUI app), but anything less doesn't feel like you can ensure it won't happen again.

twh270 · 8 months ago

Another comment mentioned using a linter to prevent 'console.log' from being mergeable in a PR, and this is exactly the kind of approach I'd take. Preventing an invalid state from existing is a pretty useful principle.

twh270 commented on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-... · Posted by u/maurycy

jvanderbot · 8 months ago

It honestly borders on midwit to constantly introduce a false dichotomy of AI vs humans. It's just stupid base animal logic.

There is absolutely no reason a programmer should expect to write code as they do now forever, just as ASM experts had to move on. And there's no reason (no precedent and no indicators) to expect that a well-educated, even-moderately-experienced technologist will suddenly find themselves without a way to feed their family - unless they stubbornly refuse to reskill or change their workflows.

I do believe the days of "everyone makes 100k+" are nearly over, and we're headed towards a severely bimodal distribution, but I do not see how, for the next 10-15 years at least, we can't all become productive building the tools that will obviate our own jobs while we do them - and get comfortably retired in the mean time.

twh270 · 8 months ago

Reskill to what? When AI can do software development, it will also be able to do pretty much any other job that requires some learning.

twh270 commented on The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair gizmodo.com/the-feds-are-... · Posted by u/rntn

Gibbon1 · 10 months ago

I've been rolling the idea around that perhaps if a product is encumbered by a subscription then it's not a first sale and the product counts as inventory. And gets taxed as such.

twh270 · 10 months ago

I don't know the first thing about such things, but I'll bet if companies were pushed on this they'd suddenly start asserting that it's a lease, which I think is typically taxed similarly to a sale.

I hate the "everything's a subscription" business model that's taking over everything. We'll achieve peak serfdom when the air we breathe, water we drink, and food we eat is bought on a subscription model.

twh270 commented on Laziness Death Spirals lesswrong.com/posts/JBR6A... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

squidgedcricket · 10 months ago

Wow, this hits home. I covered a lot of the same ground with my therapist this morning.

Leaning on caffeine or amphetamines to force action works, but thats not the same as desiring action. I'm motivated by fear and anxiety, and I want to change to being motivated by desire.

twh270 · 10 months ago

My fear/anxiety causes me to avoid action. Fear of mistakes, failure, reproach/criticism from others, that it's going to take a lot of time/money, that I'll waste a lot of time/money, etc.

Then, once I've procrastinated, my fear/anxiousness of the consequences of NOT doing the thing kicks in and I rush to complete it.

It's great! /s

The best solution I've found is to slow down, introspect into and address my fear/anxiety, and reassure myself that most of the time my fears are entirely or mostly unfounded, and that even if something "bad" happens it won't be catastrophic.

I don't practice that enough, and that's the hill I'm climbing now. I'm also trying to learn to lean more into the feeling of accomplishment ahead of time. In a "it will feel so good to get this done, even if it's not great" way.

twh270 commented on John Carmack on inlined code (2014) number-none.com/blow/blog... · Posted by u/bpierre

ragnese · a year ago

> My goal in most cases now is to optimize code for the limits of the human mind (my own in low-effort mode) and like to be able to treat rules as guidelines. The trouble is how can you scale this to millions of developers, and what are those limits of the human mind when more and more AI-generated code will be used?

I think the truth is that we just CAN'T scale that way with the current programming languages/models/paradigms. I can't PROVE that hypothesis, but it's not hard to find examples of big software projects with lots of protocols, conventions, failsafes, QA teams, etc, etc that are either still hugely difficult to contribute to (Linux kernel, web browsers, etc) or still have plenty of bugs (macOS is produced by the richest company on Earth and a few years ago the CALCULATOR app had a bug that made it give the wrong answers...).

I feel like our programming tools are pretty good for programming in the small, but I suspect we're still waiting for a breakthrough for being able to actually make complex software reliably. (And, no, I don't just mean yet another "framework" or another language that's just C with a fancier type system or novel memory management)

Just my navel gazing for the morning.

twh270 · a year ago

I think the only way this gets better is with software development tools that make it impossible to create invalid states.

In the physical world, when we build something complex like a car engine, a microprocessor, or bookcase, the laws of physics guide us and help prevent invalid states. Not all of them -- an upside down bookcase still works -- but a lot of them.

Of course, part of the problem is that when we build the software equivalent of an upside down bookcase, we 'patch' it by creating trim and shims to make it look better and more structurally sound instead of tossing it and making another one the right way.

But mostly, we write software in a way that allows for a ton of incorrect states. As a trivial example, expressing a person's age as an 'int', allowing for negative numbers. As a more complicated example, allowing for setting a coupon's redemption date when it has not yet been clipped.

twh270 commented on Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rbanffy

privacyis1mp · a year ago

> Can I give it local content (documents, spreadsheets, code, etc.) It's coming roughly in December (may be sooner).

Roadmap is following:

- October - private remote AI (when you need smarter AI than your machine can handle, but don't want your data to be logged or stored anywhere)

- November - Web search capabilities (so the AI will be capable of doing websearch out of the box)

- December - PDF, docs, code embedding. 2025 - tighter MacOS integration with context awareness.

twh270 · a year ago

Oh awesome, thank you! I will check back in December.