bartleeanderson

You're assuming that we are allowed to have this leisure time instead of grubbing for food because, who exactly is going to give us all money or credits or items to allow us to have this time. If it isn't happening now, and it isn't. There is little room to believe that it will automatically just occur.

I would love for this to happen but those with money are often loathe to give it up. That's how they got it in the first place. Sure some philanthropists exist but expecting that because there is nothing for humans to do doesn't mean the humans in charge of the means of production are going to be looking out for you if they come from the current set of greedy ambitious people minmaxing their capital today.

Why the f*ck would authors fail to check everything unless they were just being lazy. Its one thing to get assistance. It is totally another to give up all responsibility when you use AI. I wouldn't trust anything they did with or without AI.

I always considered wikipedia to be "Ok" but then found that their incessant beggaring was making them a profit organization with heavy handed internal politics. So not sure that using them as a reference is exactly good.

I found that a project of mine grew beyond my ability to reason about many parts of it either individually or holistically and started using AI. AI started becoming a context nightmare shuttling context back and forth from session to session, finding the right context and getting it applied. I eventually came up with Determined. (https://github.com/bartanderson/Determined) I am currently using it for two different projects and I developed it for other people to use besides me but debated showing it to others. AI has been a big help to me in writing it but it came from my realizations through conversations with AI and one pointed one where it told me what I was doing was not done well by AI. So I started doing more deterministic analysis and that grew and grew and I added languages and the concept of fsms used to capture discrete state machine architecture and reason about them as well as coalescing docs and other things about the software. An AI is able to use it pretty easily (I have been using Claude but have been using it to help train opencode to drive a project for it). If you don't like AI you can still use it to analyze your software. It will tell you things that are hard to see unless you wrote it and have a great memory. I doubt I will be taking pull requests for changes, but feel free to pull down a copy for yourself and do with it what you will. That was what I am doing and am happy sharing it now that there was a forum to do so.

Love that. I myself first thought. How specialized is this and at what level of human complexity is this team working.

Well, most engineers are familiar with GIGO. Garbage in... Err, thats where my comment stops. Garbage in. Yup.

I apologize, was not conversant with all the Pokestuff. Yes, then a Pokeball has captured Mr. Hanky.

That was my first thought, though I love the idea of AI having voice. I just really didn't like the slowness or quality of speech. There are so many better voices out there. And giving your AI an attitude. Well... I guess. I plan on making one of mine the DM for a game and to have it handle NPCS as well. Don't mind me. Just an old retired guy with preferences :)

I can't believe anyone wants their AI talking back instead of working. Geeze, get a friend that hates you.

Well, I was considering giving this a look, maybe spinning it up. But with the elitist bs coming down from the top making this not a community effort but a product, fuck it. There is nothing here for me.

enshittification all rolled up into a... Pokemon?

Very funny if it weren't so true!

Let them learn their lesson. As soon as it comes together it will be taken over by the first AI to crack it and then they will be pwned and have to learn the hard way. No child, spoiled, stupid or otherwise will learn hard lessons without experiencing pain.

Flock has an entire team enabling abuse from local to federal and others. The whole point of Flock is to surveil and that is an abuse of privacy. No wonder the CEO has to hide the image of his house. I'd be scared for my life too, if I were pissing off the public so bad.

I saw a few uses of "target" so thought this was different enough. If you say something can't or won't happen. You are just inviting someone to make you into a liar. Cyber is just an arms race and AI the latest tools in the fray. You need to stay on top of it and the best hackers are going to get access to the best resources and get better to the point where they may be very hard to detect them. Then they go to work for the ones who arrested them and try to catch their competitors. So just get ready for tomorrow, it often arrives today. Well for yesterday anyways.

The title reminds me about the VB6 days and drag and drop controls and efficiency until you get a couple years out. Then the vendors providing the products you used are out of business. That may happen a lot more often and quickly with models, but I have read that they are pretty much just a drop in component as the old one has a superior replacement, you move on and benefit. Sure are interesting times. I want my models, local, small and powerful. Vision and reasoning. My goodness the power we already have is just going to get better.

Nobody is questioning what is meant by small? When you started mentioning frontier models that don't run locally, I just go TB;DR "Too big, didn't read"

I'm 70 and glad I am retired because I can now do what I want with software and now with AI's help. Yes AI is a pain but its one I embrace to give me the capability to create and reason over domains where I would otherwise have little skill. Certainly glad I don't have to do someone else's bidding so they and make money off of my labor. I never had the courage to go out on my own so that's on me. But I am really enjoying the various types of projects I can start on a whim and continue with over time when they are really monumental. I even made a deterministic analysis tool to help me with that using AI with some gentle AI narration over the results. Now I'm doing blender stuff, where I don't know the commands but I can yell at Claude till he gets it done right :) Bart

Claude told me all the stuff to rip out and replace with FOSS. Should have been done that way in the first place, but you can't blame a guy for trying to make money these days. Except Trump...

Software patents are the same problem as letting Billionairs buy elections and influence policy. Its stupid.

This is simply a rendering issue. Specify pictures, ELI5 like others have said. Ask it to explain terms you don't understand. If you don't understand something it could just be the domain. If you have no grounding you are going to need to learn the vocabulary to be able to make sense of anything. Having it decomposed to simpler words might just be the wrong way to do it.

sounds good, but it won't get past Dispatch confirmation. You should specify what networking permissions or whatever is needed. My It goes red and the text to read disappears.

Yeah, I had the same problem after I started twirling and twirling it. Got bunched up and then I just thought, well pull it back straight, till I couldn't. But really nice effects. What else were you thinking of doing with it. It is almost addictive. Make an interesting game out of it and you have something real then.

I don't want to be mean ( or maybe I feel like I don't want to but can't help myself ). Ever notice how people offer disclaimers before they say something horrific. Well I will try to not do that but.. this is delusional. Now you are using fable and a bunch of agents so you have money/credits to burn but what is the purpose of all of your workers being individualized? Are you going to take a weak one and improve it? Why not just duplicate your strong ones? Darwin? And then again, why should you have feelings for your code at all. Name them so you can communicate with them and anthropmorphize them but please don't tell use we should because you think so. If you think we get better results by doing so you had better have papers and peer review and not your gut instinct because you think so. Ok, so apparently I got a little mean. I make do with Claude subscription and free AI web and get by best I can. I try not to yell at them when they are stupid because, it doesn't help or hurt them, I just realize that I don't need to be mean or be nice, I just need to use them as tools so long as they help me.

from the article I was reading up until I got to a prompt I could not parse. I assume if it worked it was because the AI interpreted so as show. If I am misreading the intent of the prompt, forgive me, I am a pedantic and imperfect human. "Please build meat.dev into Shelley. Install the latest version in the PATH. When a git commit is created by Shelley, start meat processing in the background on the commit. Add a toggle to the Shelley Diffs view for meat. If the commit is still being processed, so the user it is in process."

OMG, that resonates with me. I will share two projects with you in my github that are not ready for anyone yet but maybe you will love it. I don't care cause I do but maybe :) The first is a Dungeon Master replacement that grew so big I couldn't work on it without an AI's help to tell me whats to be worked on next. That sucked. Grrr.. https://github.com/bartanderson/dj2 I have an old set of tools that was used to gather context for AI to allow me to give the AI what it needed to help me. That sucked. Grrr.. That's part of the above tools.old. It was ok, but it sucked. Grr.. Now the one I am still working on, so much yak shaving going on.. Anyways its job is to deterministically gather facts about the software in question and help me reason about it and find related things and all kinds of interesting things about the software and reason over it with light AI narration. I wanted to share it with people. I got Claude (20$/mo) and then I started taking off with lots of additional (sometimes unnecessary) things but Claude helps keep me on track a little. He is programmed to do that with my guides. The new program Determined is multi language, working with several corpuses/corpora (projects :) and it seems to be doing well. I keep having claude evaulate target software and then have it identify gaps between what my tool says and what it thinks. It has some interesting and sophisticated capabilities. I could have just quit it but I don't give up and I wanted to make something (sound familiar). Anyways, thanks for your post. I had been afraid to post something because it wasn't ready and all the anti AI slop that just doesn't have any understanding of what you can do if you set up a good framework and then start filling it in. And it is https://github.com/bartanderson/Determined. Thanks for your post. Be completely unapologetic for doing what you love. Bart

Sounds about right to me. I once thought it would maybe help me get a job. It just let users, especially head hunters contact you requesting to join your group and harvesting it for their own purposes. Good idea once now totally abused and so much spam and garbage from people that know so little.

I am able to coax much more of the kind of thing you suggest that LLMS can not do by having it generate deterministic code and then narrate over the results. Hopefully that is not too negative and gives some helpful guidance.

I had a conversation with chatgpt about that very thing, whether it was a bubble or not and how the big players could absorb the cost and where it would all land and the interesting thing was if China gets its foothold and grabs enough share because the prices are too high even being subsidized, that could cause real trouble. But the point was its not a bubble in the conventional sense. Have your own conversation about that with an AI.

I've been putting off saying anything because I am still working on it, but I have an analysis tool that I am working on that is mostly deterministic (non AI) but will have light interpretation over facts gathered by AI. My AI claude and others tell me how unique this is but maybe they tell that to all their users. I built it because the program I was working on became so complex I couldn't figure out how to get all of the context or appropriate context into an AI anymore to figure out where to go next. So I am building Determined, deterministic analyzer for Python and Js/html. I added Go and Rust because I heard they were popular and it can add others as well. When It gets good enough that Claude can't add much more or doesn't need to I will make a little Show HN with the readme I guess. Its been quite a journey. Oh, and todays my birthday, I'm 70. I'll be seeing you.