Iceland weeb. Helping teams make software better. Always finding new things to be mediocre at. He/him.
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AI has absolutely fouled the words "You're absolutely right", along with "You're right to call that out".
Casey Leask @[email protected] retweeted
I'm an old programmer (by programmer standards). I use agents daily, extensively. Here's a view from the other side of "wooooow look how many lines it wrote!", taken from my work today.
I don't know why @SlackHQ added a "Summarize channel" feature when you still can't make a table. That's a core missing feature I've dealt with for years.
The earliest example of a stack trace I can find is from ALGOL PROGRAMMER'S GUDE (1971).
Logs go back way further, terminology seems to come from logbooks on ships.
Metrics, from to "he metrikē" (to measure).
Okay, I'll start using Blue Sky. caseyleask.bsky.social
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Casey Leask @[email protected] retweeted
Please remember that online spaces like Twitter, Reddit or Tumblr are often just the more extreme, emotional or 'terminally online' opinions.
These spaces can FEEL real, but getting away and existing in reality can help you see most people, are just normal, decent people.
This is someone who streams playing videogames for a living, donning a full mocap suit and facial recognition, as a virtual projection, doing a gymnastics side aerial flip to a paid live and streamed audience youtube.com/watch?v=U9gD49uQ… Absolutely amazing. @nxdnz it's come a long way
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I have long maintained LLMs make the poor performers mediocre, the average slightly above average, but do not change, and maybe hinder, the performance of top performers.
Here’s a result from a university-level physics coding task.
arxiv.org/abs/2403.16977
ALT We have heard you. We apologize for the confusion and angst the policy we announced caused. We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days. Thank you for your honest and critical feedback.
After repeatedly wiping my twitter feed, a drastic drop in good tweets and this washingtonpost.com/technolog… I'm done.
I've made a mastodon account at @[email protected]
I'll check twitter from time to time, like email.
