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Top Comments (10)
We really went from spaghetti code to spaghetti prompts. What a time to be alive.
I always keep my prompts in Obsidian, so they’re safe. Cheers.
Only theo can stretch a 3 minute article about a very simple idea into a 20 minute video
Technical debt will be largely solved in 6-12 months, big D(ario) said so.
inb4 "Token costs are too high, so corporate has now mandated that all AI users use Grug speak as few word do trick"
Obsidian would never give you tech debt
I've experimented with this a lot. I can say that the best models (gpt and opus) work best with an EMPTY system prompt and a minimal number of tools (in most cases, just a shell is enough). The more you write there, the more the model will run in circles in its neurosis, double-checking whether it's taken everything into account. Burns tokens, fill up the context and worsens the results
Theo actually has a fog machine in his filming setup.
Did this earlier today. First time I haven’t “fallen behind” in months.
May I suggest that the ideal or implicit assumption of determinism is so central to our sense of the meaning of Engineering, that working with something so explicitly non-deterministic is closer to what we would would more correctly call Conjuring. You are no longer an Engineer. You are an Alchemist. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Newton was one as well.
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Top Comments (10)
We really went from spaghetti code to spaghetti prompts. What a time to be alive.
I always keep my prompts in Obsidian, so they’re safe. Cheers.
Only theo can stretch a 3 minute article about a very simple idea into a 20 minute video
Technical debt will be largely solved in 6-12 months, big D(ario) said so.
inb4 "Token costs are too high, so corporate has now mandated that all AI users use Grug speak as few word do trick"
Obsidian would never give you tech debt
I've experimented with this a lot. I can say that the best models (gpt and opus) work best with an EMPTY system prompt and a minimal number of tools (in most cases, just a shell is enough). The more you write there, the more the model will run in circles in its neurosis, double-checking whether it's taken everything into account. Burns tokens, fill up the context and worsens the results
Theo actually has a fog machine in his filming setup.
Did this earlier today. First time I haven’t “fallen behind” in months.
May I suggest that the ideal or implicit assumption of determinism is so central to our sense of the meaning of Engineering, that working with something so explicitly non-deterministic is closer to what we would would more correctly call Conjuring. You are no longer an Engineer. You are an Alchemist. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Newton was one as well.