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Cross-platform Mac apps?

I have a couple projects that have completely stalled because none of the frontier models could advance any further with them - I'm going to give fable a try at them this coming weekend.

I believe the "you are an expert software engineer" thing puts them into a "mindset" of cosplaying a software engineer - whereas I get astounding results by talking to them in the information-dense, jargon-heavy mode I use with my peers. I can't prove it but I believe that places my session in a better place in latent space.

ymmv


Yes, words matter.

My favourite example is that if you use "timestamp" when using an LLM to process video you get worse results than if you'd use "timecode".

AV professionals always say "timecode" - timestamp is a programming term.

Using the right word pushes the model closer to the correct spot in the cloud of vectors that is it's "brain".


Yeah but what if you sold shoe subscriptions because mostly people only wear one pair of shoes at a time -- but some people were using a service called OpenToe that was grabbing 50-100 shoes at a time?


Never. That ship done sailed.


looks like yaml with extra steps


Looks almost like JSON5, which is the take on this that actually saw adoption. That's the direct competitor to this, and for me personally it's CUE, which none of these "yaml with extra steps" will ever match


Better than Palantir.


Doesn't need to be a choice.

And how much better than palantir given that musk is a bigot, attempts to buy elections for fascists, meddles in foreign democracies to push far right extremist narratives, used his wealth to steal very sensitive data from government agencies, does Nazi salutes, trains his LLM to be racist...


Its a bit tiring to be virtue signalling all the time.

> bigot

> fascist

> far right extremist

> nazi

> racist

(just pulled a few words from your small comment)


Is it virtual signaling when Americans are getting sent to concentration camps and executed by the federal government?


Complaining about signaling virtue is just a pattern for signaling vice.


I mean, in the case of Elon all of those labels are applicable.

It’s not virtue signaling to say the guy throwing around nazi salutes is in fact a nazi.


yeah even if i believe this were the case, i would never form a sentence like that juggling all known slurs used for right wing people.


Not slurs, facts. Something you right wing folks struggle with.


Haha so calling out actual racists and Nazis is now considered virtue signalling?

Good one


Austin is the Lawrence (Kansas) of Texas.


I think it's funny that humans think humans are uniquely advanced. The brain thinks the brain is the most awesome machine in the universe :-)


So, yaml with squiggles. Roger roger.


JSON sans commas, but with extra strings.


I heard the Critical Drinker's voice while reading that.


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