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Written by guy deborg on 2025-01-27 at 18:44

blogged about deepseek: i am not sure that small models on everyone's computer is a good thing, but if LLMs are gonna be forced down our throats either way this seems a lot better than giving sam altman a monopoly on them

https://blog.bront.rodeo/deepseek-r1-initial-notes/

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Written by guy deborg on 2025-01-19 at 15:59

doing my therapy homework

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Written by guy deborg on 2025-01-16 at 23:59

i really do think more attention should be paid to the absolutely insane rationalist community as the rosetta stone of the last 20 years of (american) tech

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Written by guy deborg on 2025-01-16 at 23:56

i have started another hundred days project but this time i'm blogging. i wrote about why roko's basilisk is stupid, a project i did back in august, and how "agentic" ai isn't really much of anything right now https://blog.bront.rodeo/making-a-reverse-rokos-basilisk/

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Written by guy deborg on 2025-01-08 at 21:04

now more than ever i am unsure how to reconcile the part of me that gets excited about the potential of a tool with the part of me that knows how it will inevitably be used

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-12-20 at 20:52

i have been trying to be more open-minded about AI stuff since, despite my best efforts, people are finding genuine utility out of these tools and i don't think that should be discounted. i am just not convinced that "i got claude to make a buggy app for me" is going to be good for anyone in the long run

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-12-20 at 20:48

just in time for openai announcing they've achieved AGI (lol, lmao, fuck off) i wrote a little bit about my problems with LLMs and "frictionless design" https://blog.bront.rodeo/the-trap-of-frictionless-design/

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-11-22 at 22:04

mastodon vs. bluesky debate largely appears to be based on faulty prior that websites can be good

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-11-22 at 22:00

pretty good breakdown from @cwebber if you, like me, have no plans to read the ATProto whitepaper. tl;dr: bluesky's not really decentralized, but also that's not really the problem it's solving for.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-11-20 at 16:02

still working out a couple build kinks, but the game i've been making on and off for the past year is available to the public! it's a short visual novel about data labelers, AI, labor, and space aliens. would love for you to play it. https://hellagrapes.itch.io/dataville

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-11-13 at 21:37

i like to think that i would make the right choice in most analogues of the stanford marshmallow test but 90% of the technical decisions i make are strong evidence to the contrary

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-11-05 at 22:38

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-10-29 at 00:01

i guess it's a sign of growth to go from "i feel bad because i don't understand this stackoverflow answer" to "i feel bad because i don't have opinions about python enhancement proposals"

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-10-28 at 23:58

one cool thing about being a programmer is that the act of learning something inevitably introduces you to a new, weirder thing to have impostor syndrome about

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-10-21 at 17:08

can't tell if i'm sick or the sleep debt collectors have come

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-10-12 at 22:05

consuming a stimulant so i'll have enough energy to go out and get another stimulant

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-10-06 at 21:16

only took me 9 years of programming professionally but i now both understand design patterns and have a workplace that gives me the time i need to implement them properly. feels very strange but very good to actually be able to invest time into refactoring

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-10-06 at 21:04

like, sure, you shouldn't say yes to everything, only so many hours in the day, but if you limit yourself to only things you already like you will become an extraordinarily boring person

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-10-06 at 21:03

"if it's not a hell yes, it's a no" is some of the worst advice i've ever been given. at least 50% of the coolest things i've ever done are things i had no idea if i'd like

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Written by guy deborg on 2024-09-28 at 04:41

matt mullenweg appears to have been inspired by elon musk to speedrun burning several decades of goodwill

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