Lots of people like them, but it's clear from the complaints there's another large group for whom they are problematic. Enthusiasts are going to have to actually address those issues if they want adoption.
there is a very big difference between starting an ephemeral instant message without capitalization, and lacking capitalization throughout a more "persistent" long-term medium
It's not derived from that. Most people don't use IRC anymore and there are basically no open chat platforms left. Most people now use phones to chat, where the keyboard automatically changes case for you after finishing a sentence.
So typing in all lowercase is a choice. I think it's a way to signal "I don't follow norms". It signals membership in a group.
> You wouldn't ask an agent to review a PR then just copy/paste the output into the PR, would you?
of course not, it's disrespectful to the author even if they used an LLM to generate the code. what you should do is actually try to understand what the LLM is saying about the proposed changes, check whether it's talking shit or legit, and if legit, rephrase in your own words why you think a certain thing should be changed
+20% is a sizeable return, but I don't think anyone would look at me right if I made such an investment and then said "I earned $100 for every $1 invested". This is a mathematical statement with concrete numbers, you can't use it as a figure of speech.
this is nice to know as someone who is the adult child.
i used to argue a lot with my parents when i was still living with them, but ever since i moved out and we only see each other once every few months, our relationship has improved so much, and we're always happy to see each other in smaller doses
Many parents would gasp at this sentence, but the same parents would likely complain to anyone who'd listen about how negatively their children are affecting their lives.
"One of the early victories for me was persuading a young boy of 14 or 15 years of age, named Aaron Swartz, to become the technical architect of the Creative Commons. It took a little persuading, but I told him that this is what he had to do." --Lawrence Lessig
Doctorow, Kottke and others didn't seem to think it was odd that a 14 year old was being flown around the country without his parents present. They pre-gamed at a house instead of a bar because Aaron was too young; the host, then nearly twice his age, later dated him. Didn't end well. And then things really didn't end well.
Epstein made his first contribution to MIT that same year (2002). Lessig arranged for Joi Ito to meet Aaron a year later. According to MIT, Joi Ito met Epstein for the first time one month after Aaron died in 2013.
In the most charitable reading of the situation, Aaron was robbed of his childhood.
> people want fuzzy analog machines with digital controls, it's impossible
people would love it if LLMs were deterministic and never hallucinated. It's just that the technology to do so isn't possible, so we make do with fuzzy analog machines with digital controls because we don't have digital machines with digital controls.
We absolutely have digital machines with digital controls, they're called computers, and the controls are called programming languages etc.
The reason people prefer llms over programming is exactly because it lets them specify their program fuzzily, i.e. it lets them avoid going to the trouble of specifying enough detail to make it deterministic.
We have to make the distinction between specification and execution. LLM programming is great because I can underspecify and the machine will infer the rest. Usually reasonably. People want fuzzy specification but deterministic outputs
i feel like Simon omitted an important part of how Qwen's "reasoning" levels work. they are just one sentence additions/omissions to the system prompt
xhigh -> "Reasoning effort is set to xhigh. Please think carefully through the task, validate key assumptions, consider plausible alternatives, and prioritize correctness, consistency, and clarity in the final answer."
medium -> no mention of effort (sentence omitted)
low -> "Reasoning effort is set to low. Keep your thinking brief and focused, moving directly to the conclusion without unnecessary elaboration."
in my testing this doesn't seem to produce exactly deterministic thinking levels, because it's just a system prompt nudge. i had instances where medium thought longer than xhigh
The models are post-trained on these prompt additions so they’re more structural than thinking of them as “system prompts” suggests. (All LLMs ever see is tokens going in, so even the concept of a system prompt is just formatting they’ve seen in post-training.)
You can also apply fixed token budgets for the reasoning blocks, though it will decrease quality in some cases.
Why not invent a few magic token values for reasoning level instead? It would be like 4 out of a vocabulary of 200k and save like 30 tokens in every prompt
yes of course, I understand that. but I feel like it would've been nice to include in the article because the main point of it is the effort and overthinking
so much better than fumbling around with a password managers
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