documentation is the code
not a single app has ever been shut down because of an unnecessary clone or copy but plenty have been killed off due to high maintenance cost – and even more due to increased complexity that led to unmanageable problems, the kind that were solved ions ago…
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
a somewhat similar point but a bit less dramatic.
instead of "do a bad thing", it's "do a simple thing".
the similarity is not that obvious only because the author of the article is too optimistic about the code we write actually facing the problems it was written to face
a somewhat similar point but a bit less dramatic.
instead of "do a bad thing", it's "do a simple thing".
the similarity is not that obvious only because the author of the article is too optimistic about the code we write actually facing the problems it was written to face
Seangoedecke
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlementLawyers
yes please 🙏
Lawyers said it’s believed to be the largest-ever settlement in a US copyright case, paying about $3,000 per book.
yes please 🙏
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Many engineers have pinned their hopes on the context window as a kind of memory, a place where “experiences” might accrue, leave traces. There’s certainly some utility there … but the analogy is waking up in a hotel room and finding a scratchpad full of notes that you don’t remember making. (Language models might, after all, be in hell.)
Knowledge and memory
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