Re:Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strand...
by IanCal on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:36AM
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> Parent suggests a coding model needs exercise info in case you want to code an exercise model?
No, the point is having broader knowledge than just "can code" is important for building software for humans to use.
> We don’t even need to explain this completely reasonable and totally normal engineering preference that small is beautiful.
It is, of course it is, as long as that small thing is useful. My argument is not "let's put literally everything in this thing just in case" it's "broader world knowledge is important for building many things".
Also, we don't look at CVs or histories of people and say "hmm, this person could be good at coding for us but I really wish they didn't have such a broad and expansive history".
> Great, so we look that shit up
But what do you have it look up? What is exercise? What is a muscle and what is a human? How is it going to understand those references? Does it have the broad enough understanding to see where the gaps are?
At some level unless all you want is "loop over the array and sum the results into a variable called sales_total" converted into code, you have to have some broader knowledge about things.
And once you start considering that maybe it needs more than simply code, we're not disagreeing we're just discussing where the line should be. Which I've also not placed, because there's no simple statement to make on that.
No, the point is having broader knowledge than just "can code" is important for building software for humans to use.
> We don’t even need to explain this completely reasonable and totally normal engineering preference that small is beautiful.
It is, of course it is, as long as that small thing is useful. My argument is not "let's put literally everything in this thing just in case" it's "broader world knowledge is important for building many things".
Also, we don't look at CVs or histories of people and say "hmm, this person could be good at coding for us but I really wish they didn't have such a broad and expansive history".
> Great, so we look that shit up
But what do you have it look up? What is exercise? What is a muscle and what is a human? How is it going to understand those references? Does it have the broad enough understanding to see where the gaps are?
At some level unless all you want is "loop over the array and sum the results into a variable called sales_total" converted into code, you have to have some broader knowledge about things.
And once you start considering that maybe it needs more than simply code, we're not disagreeing we're just discussing where the line should be. Which I've also not placed, because there's no simple statement to make on that.