samvines

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[–] samvines@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Giving Claude or copilot attribution plays into the narrative that LLMs are more than just random word generators and that they can be ascribed authorship... I think it's a deliberate strategy so that when there's inevitably a massive copyright case MisAnthropic etc al can say "but looks at all the code co-written by Claude on GitHub" to try and convince the judge.

Just imagine building a house and saying "well I didn't do it on my own, my concrete mixer, toolbelt and coffee machine all helped!"

[–] samvines@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago (7 children)

This guy introduces himself as the first person who will never die on the conference circuit (because he's super into longevity and anti-aging tech and having young mens blood injected into him and stuff).

I'm not condoning violencr here but rather... consider that even if you never age, you can still get hit by a bus Bryan!

[–] samvines@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

New fun consequence of Claude code being a pile of cursed regex and spaghetti: keyword blocking on "OpenClaw" makes it refuse to works on Pro or Mac subs unless you open your wallet

sO inTelLiGenT

[–] samvines@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

Some gold in this thread over on Reddit about how the cost of compute is far beyond the cost of employees and that's with the "Uber in 2016" subsidized price

New favourite description for brainless MBAs: "perpetual oven vouchers"

[–] samvines@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

Jeez that pricing scheme is so confusing. You swap your dollars for credits and then using models to burn tokens consumes some multiple of those credits. It is so abstract and meaningless it almost reminds me of crypto.

Once usage billing kicks in, what value does copilot offer above and beyond what ClosedAI and MisAnthropic offer directly? A more clunky user experience and even worse reliability? Bargain!

[–] samvines@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder if the button colours immediately made US readers pick a side e.g. republican Vs democrat. If the buttons had been Yellow and Purple would it make a difference?

[–] samvines@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Soon, at each new model of AI along the current capability curve, you will start to see large discrete jumps in ability in economically important areas, because the previous AI ability level in some aspect of the job just wasn't good enough and bottlenecked progress. When bottlenecks are released, it looks like a leap forward. It is going to look like unexpected gains in AI capacity, and, indeed there is no sign that the current exponential ability curve is slowing down so far but it is going to be like what happened in coding: as soon as models crossed a certain threshold with Opus 4.5, GPT-5.2, and Gemini 3, suddenly Claude Code & Codex were viable.  Before that, it was all about coding assistance, afterwards it was all about agents from despite relatively small gains in model ability

There is just something so inherently smug and annoying about Mollick. He is one of those low information boosters whose posts sound intellectual until you really think about them.

Tell me more about how the pile of cursed spaghetti that is Claude code is now viable due to model breakthroughs. All I see are hype men saying "the new model is a team of PhDs in your pocket" and then releasing disappointing updates or saying "the new model is too dangerous" because they have some vaporware powered by human crowdsourcing.

Also coding is not like other areas - you can test for hallucinations by compiling and printing and running tests.

I guess my first mistake this morning was opening linkedin

[–] samvines@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Probably a markdown file telling it "you are a l33t h4x0r"

[–] samvines@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (15 children)

Claude Mythos... I'm already sick of hearing about it. The self-imposed critihype is insane.

A friend just pointed out that Anthropic are making all this big noise about having an AI that is "too good" at finding bugs and security problems 1 week after the source code for one of their flagship products was leaked to the public and was found to be riddled with security holes... Why would they not use it themselves?

Same as the ~~vague markdown files~~ skills that are supposedly going to make all SaaS redundant and finally kill off all the COBOL running on mainframes that checks notes IBM have spent hundreds of thousands of man hours trying to kill over the last 3-4 decades

Honestly fuck this shit. Bunch of absolute clowns 🤡 🤡 🤡

[–] samvines@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Does it still count if it turns out that Trump invading iran was based on Claude or ChatJippity advice and things escalate to global thermonuclear war? AI technically wiped out humanity because our dumb leaders were dumb enought to trust it?

[–] samvines@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Alas, foiled again! Nobody said they had to be leading 9s!

[–] samvines@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (10 children)

GitHub have finally achieved zero 9s stability for the last 90 days. Congratulations to all involved

screenshot showing 89.91% uptime with 95 incidents in the last 90 days

 

I thought this was worthy of it's own post rather than a sneery comment. Astral make UV which at this point is a load bearing part of the python software ecosystem. This could have a huge knock on effect on the open source community.

I for one can't wait for non-deterministic package management

"You're absolutely right, I did install the wrong package and infect your system with malware. I will try much harder next time"

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