- ralusekYes it does. I never use Claude anymore outside of agentic tasks.
- Only thing I use grok for is if there is a current event/meme that I keep seeing referenced and I don't understand, it's good at pulling from tweets
- Going to war with AI is pointless. It’s not going anywhere.
Acknowledging that the world has already been turned upside down however, rather than burying our head in the sand (present company excluded), is necessary.
- It genuinely makes me see the value in private companies. Public companies must grow. They're accountable to so many different interests. Private companies can be happy sitting at whatever profit level they want. They can take time to tinker on something that they care about. If it doesn't pay off, that's fine.
I think I would say it this way: private companies can be good or bad, but public companies must ultimately become bad.
- Comments are kind of embarrassing how many people seem to derive a sense of identity from not using AI. Before LLMs, I didn’t use them to code. Then there were LLMs, and I used them a little to code. Then they got better at code, and now I use them a little more.
Probably 20% of the code I produce is generated by LLMs, but all of the code I produce at this point is sanity checked by them. They’re insanely useful.
Zero of my identity is tied to how much of the code I write involves AI.
- It's a bit odd to say, but another big clue identifying something as AI-generated is that it simply looks "too good" for what it is being used for. If I see a little info graphic demonstrating something relatively mundane, and it has nice 3D rendered characters or graphical elements, at this point it's basically guaranteed to be AI, because you just sort of intuitively know when something would've justified the human labor necessary to produce that.
- It appears to be a law that is simply adding restrictions to what the state can do (like the first amendment, the best sorts of laws IMO). It’s not granting people limited rights. Any existing rights people had under the fourth or first example, for example, are still in place, this just sounds like further restrictions on the state.
- > toward LLM-based AI, moving away from more traditional PyTorch use cases
Wait, are LLMs not built with PyTorch?
- Using HTML Tables doesn’t just make your data sortable
- And it’ll be so good and cheap that you’ll figure “hell, I could sell our excess compute resources for a fraction of AWS.” And then I’ll buy them, you’ll be the new cloud. And then more people will, and eventually this server infrastructure business will dwarf your actual business. And then some person in 10 years will complain about your IOPS pricing, and start their own server room.
- YouTube shorts now eat up like 2/3 of my UI. I hate them.
- I think that Thiel would actually like this. Both because it's progress in the "world of atoms," as he says, but also because it's "blood boy" adjacent.
- > since I only use AI for issues/problems I don't understand
I only use [coding assistants] for problems I DO understand.
- I woke up, didn't focus on self care, didn't take medication, and got fired immediately. That doesn't feel very realistic
- I work on a kiosk (MedifriendRx) which, to some degree "replaces" pharmacists and pharmacy staff.
The kiosk is placed inside of a clinic/hospital setting, and rather than driving to the pharmacy, you pick up your medications at the kiosk.
Pharmacists are currently still very involved in the process, but it's not necessarily for any technical reason. For example, new prescriptions are (by most states' boards of pharmacies) required to have a consultation between a pharmacist and a patient. So the kiosk has to facilitate a video call with a pharmacist using our portal. Mind you, this means the pharmacist could work from home, or could queue up tons of consultations back to back in a way that would allow one pharmacist to do the work of 5-10 working at a pharmacy, but they're still required in the mix.
Another thing we need to do for regulatory purposes is when we're indexing the medication in the kiosk, the kiosk has to capture images of the bottles as they're stocked. After the kiosk applies a patient label, we then have to take another round of images. Once this happens, this will populate in the pharmacist portal, and a pharmacist is required to take a look at both sets of images and approve or reject the container. Again, they're able to do this all very quickly and remotely, but they're still required by law to do this.
TL;DR I make an automated dispensing kiosk that could "replace" pharmacists, but for the time being, they're legally required to be involved at multiple steps in the process. To what degree this is a transitory period while technology establishes a reputation for itself as reliable, and to what degree this is simply a persistent fixture of "cover your ass" that will continue indefinitely, I cannot say.
- I JUST had a very intense dream that there was a catastrophic event that set humanity back massively, to the point that the internet was nonexistent and our laptops suddenly became priceless. The first thought I had was absolutely hating myself for not bothering to download a local LLM. A local LLM at the level of qwen is enough to massively jump start civilization.
- > incoming president of Oxford Union
> debated Kirk [at Oxford]
> cheered assassination of Kirk, which happened within months of debate
Is this really dragging American culture war into things? This is clearly relevant to Oxford
- speedrun when?
- If a robot costs $50k, lasts 5 years, and does the dishes and laundry every day, I'd consider it.
- Why should it be progressive if it's not even scarce there? Why are you trying to punish people unnecessarily?