Indeed! I’d move it nearer a window and see if that helps

You also need to check whether the soil underneath is waterlogged as that will rot the roots even if the surface layer is dry. Once the roots turn to mush it won’t draw water and will begin to droop as it’s thirsty. I over-watered a lot of plants before realising this!

Do you mean drought?!

Dithering!

Vibe coding is accepting changes from the model without reviewing them fully (or trusting models to do the verification).

She/he is presumably discussing ideas with Claude then reviewing any suggestions before integrating them.

This may still not be to your taste but it’s not the same as vibe coding. Whether or not they are actually reviewing everything is also a separate question!

Yeah the intelligence is still in the model. The promise of symbolic AI is about logic programming/ formal semantics not recursive loops.

To a large extent the idea has failed because it proved too hard to get non-experts to represent systems formally.

I still think there’s potential value in a hybrid approach - e.g. get language models to do the representation then let them use formal reasoners/ verification instead of hallucinating.

That sounds about right to me! Trying to go full steam ahead for 8 hours a day isn’t sustainable or even desirable.

I found Cal Newport’s book Slow Productivity really helped me get some perspective on work. It has three main lessons: Do Fewer Things, Work at a Natural Pace and Obsess over Quality.

That’s not necessarily true either. You can make inference deterministic by setting the RNG seed and having the model select the highest likelihood token/ sequence instead of choosing at random.

That’s demonstrably incorrect. Different instructions give different outcomes.

Perhaps not fine-tuning weights but they can certainly use feedback from PR comments to optimise guardrails etc. And it’s definitely possible to have an agent experiment with that. And yes the Devs are the guinea pigs in that context!

You don’t need to train a foundation model from scratch. You can fine tune an existing coding model or only a LORA layer on a budget.

You could also just use the feedback to optimise system prompts, skills/ guidance or verification tools.

I presume they’re gathering this as training data and hope to later get rid of OP.

That’s why cursor went for $60bn. Anyone can make a harness. The real value is that it gathers data on which changes are accepted/ integrated.

Can’t believe the strength of opinion on this post! I assume it’s people frustrated that you dare post a pun in a (non-American) dialect… or perhaps you’ve touched a raw nerve in Oldham!

Ah I see. I’ve only played Mindustry (2D Java/ Android equivalent) and if I left that running overnight I’d wake up to complete devastation!

Hmm… I was going off Wikipedia which says 2020 - I guess the earlier release was an alpha.

In any case having your factories running in the background (overnight?) would quickly bump up those hours. Not sure it’d make for a very interesting stream though!

I never really got into quake in the same way but I did enjoy some quake 2 mods. I’d gone to uni by then so didn’t have as much free time to while away!

Tbh I’m not sure I even played through all the WADs. I got really hooked on modding which was endless fun.

That’s nuts. If they bought it on release and played everyday since then it works out at 8 hours a day. That’s more than a full time job!

This edition of PC Zone Magazine cost £4 back in 1995. The cover CD had 1,000 Doom levels and IIRC a bunch of modding tools. I probably got 1,000 hours of entertainment out of it and often think back marveling at the value for money!

Of course all this stuff is available for free online nowadays!

I poured hours into the original. I remember finally having to plan out my base for the final level on paper as there wasn’t a tile to spare!

Interesting idea. I’d heard of just putting oak bark in beer as that essentially confirms that the yeast can survive in those conditions!

What’s the thinking behind the yeast flakes? I presume you mean the Hefeflocken you get in German grocery shops? IIUC this is baked yeast cake so shouldn’t have live yeast to compete with the wild ones but perhaps provides nutrients?

I can see how the oil might help stave off kahm yeast but won’t you need oxygen at first to help the wild yeast multiply?