yogsototh
He looks from company money perspective. And I think AI is difficult to monetize. A google paper explained a long time ago that big company cannot easily have a huge competitive advantage because new techniques exists in the open source world to learn incrementally on top of costly models. Mainly you don’t need millions to make another good quality LLM.
That being said. LLM add some value, but as everything hyped to no end the real value is negligible comparatively to the « market expected value ».
Moreover, codebase in pure funcional languages is hard to understand and maintain, that’s why they are rarely used in production.
hahahah how to trigger a lot of people working with these pure functional languages (like me).
I've worked with both "normal languages" like C++, java, Perl, javascript (node + UI), etc... and then I switched to Haskell and Clojure. And our current production code is a LOT better than in traditional languages. In particular, maintenance is a lot cheaper that what I was used to when working with more traditional languages.
Regarding the community impact I would advise to use Clojure instead of Haskell (or Purescript, or Elm). Clojure is a nice middleground that has a huge advantage of being very stable (by that I mean, the code you write today will probably be very easy to deploy in 10, or 20 years from now).
Note however, the language alone is not sufficient to write good code, but it helps you choose better abstractions that will be easier to maintain. If you dive into the spirit of the language, you will have a better intuition and understanding about state management of big applications and will probably make more visible some design issues.
In my top 3 most gore movies of all time.
It is a fun one too. On that top 3 Peter Jackson actually made two if them :-).
What is Lumon actually trying to do? Cold Harbor is apparently about fully getting rid of past emotions when severed… But isn’t that how severance worked in the first place??
I would say, that their environment is sooo aseptic at the severance level this is an indication that it doesn't work as well as they would have expected. This explain this strange work environment where emotions of innies are controlled by bizarre mechanisms. I would say this Cold Harbor thing is a way for Lumon to really have a more reliable severance effect. And people will be able to be severed externally.
Also the fact that the Egon father goes to see his innie daughter and appears to prefer her innie might indicates he would like to replace his outie daughter by her innie at some point. Also an indication IMO that Lumon expect to severe people externally.
And regarding the amount of revelation we had during this season was satisfying to me. We already learned a lot while still keeping a lot of things confusing. We learned about the origin of Lumon, the cult of Kier and how they take children to work for them.
- Utopia (UK)
- The expense
Depends on how you look at things.
Compare your life to the life of people 1 century ago, 2 centuries ago, etc…
News, social networks focus on shit. Lot of things improve. But news only focus on what is going wrong.
Lot if things are shit, but lot other things aren’t.
haha I am not British but the curved banana was a funny one
I buikt a minimal bot some time ago on reddit. It was very simple. It reacted with predefined response when it detected specific terms.
While it was mostly made for a joke. I was surprised how efficient this was. I received mostly positive return as well as some infuriating responses. Still this was effective.
The current platform appears to actively prefer the russian bot presence. So an option might be to provide a FOSS bot maker that anyone could easily use that will also have the property to be easy to not be detected immediately as a bot.
Then these bots should both counter russian bots and promote this bot creation tool or even platform (bit a platform would certainly be easier to detect and block).
But by doing so, the dead Internet is closer than ever.
Code: https://git.esy.fun/yogsototh/redbot
See stack.yaml file for the env var to set. If you run it it should start a web interface. And you can create new bots from there.
I didn’t see Claude 4 Sonnet in the tests and this is the one I use. And it looks like about the same category as o4 mini from my experience.
It is a nice tool to have in my belt. But these LLM based agents are still very far from being able to do advanced and hard tasks. But to me it is probably more important to communicate and learn about the limitations about these tools to not lose tile instead of gaining it.
In fact, I am not even sure they are good enough to be used to really generate production-ready code. But they are nice for pre-reviewing, building simple scripts that don’t need to be highly reliable, analyse a project, ask specific questions etc… The game changer for me was to use Clojure-MCP. Having a REPL at disposal really enhance the quality of most answers.