
Konstantin
998 posts

Konstantin
@kauffinger
I enjoy solving problems in Laravel, NVIM, and LLMs Tech Lead @ InnoBrain https://t.co/puXQPhxCx3
Katılım Haziran 2020
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Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.
For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more.
Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this.
Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.
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@awesomekling @antirez Agreed, the more experienced are the more knowledge is encoded in sentences that look completely normal to you.
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Yeah, I think you're right about this.
That said, older guys like you and me (who have spent decades building our mental models) can operate very effectively in this new environment with low friction.
I don't know how new developers will build the skills and experience needed to move completely freely. Not that I'm worried about it. Humans always find a way :)
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Control the ideas, not the code: blog post here antirez.com/news/169
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@jessethanley @p_millerd Makes sense. Might be a difference in how we work then. I like having the agent go off for longer to parallelize my work. Not a fan of a fast agent loop. Prevents flow state for me.
E.g. I let it work while reading the docs of one of the dependencies top to bottom.
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If you are doing deep work, day to day, then it becomes obvious that Fable/Sol is too slow to work properly with. If you are doing research/greenfield work then yeah sure throw it at a cloud agent and come back later.
Fable and Sol are far too slow and breaks me out of flow.
Analogy that might be helpful: a semitrailer is capable at dropping kids off at school but an wagon/SUV is likely a better fit.
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@jessethanley @p_millerd Fair. Just a time tradeoff for me. Whenever I actively prompt I want to put in minimal effort and the patch to be correct when I check it.
Do you have a rough rule of thumb how you decide which model to hand what? E.g. for research work I let Fable delegate to smaller models.
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@jessethanley @p_millerd Fable is probably quite depressed about not being allowed to dispatch sonnet to update my README.
But tbf, i never run into stuff like OP. I drive Fable on high with very succinct prompting & no manual skill activation and it judges the amount of work to put in very well.
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@kauffinger @p_millerd This deeply misunderstands how to apply models to day to day work. You have unfortunately bought into the marketing. I'm sorry.
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@jessethanley @p_millerd On subsidized cost i just see no reason to use less intelligence than the max i can get at any point in time
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@p_millerd I am yet to see someone who has challenges that match the need for Fable.
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@joshmanders While there is a class of software on which code barely matters, I think a whole lot of people just really want to believe reading code is not necessary.
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@zeeg We have a lot of projects bounded by scope and scale, often consumers of APIs. Depending on how you look at it, I am usually happy with the code to further iterate on getting things right. No one-shotting stuff, obviously.
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Also, feel free to check out all the breakpoints at kauffinger.com
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People with a platform getting access to models months ahead is horrible for the public discourse.
Same situation as with games journalists receiving review copies ahead of time.
Conflict of interest is real no matter how much people say they are neutral.
Pietro Schirano@skirano
I can finally talk about 5.6. I’ve been testing it for months and, without exaggeration, it’s the best model I’ve ever used. Fast, smart, genuinely creative, and you guessed it, they finally fixed front-end design. I haven’t needed to check the code I’ve written in two months.
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