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LLM’s overuse certain words in their conversations, each model has its favourite, but claude’s favourite one is “load-bearing”. It is as if it wants to be taken seriously or has “pondered” the problem deeply (it may or may not have) but wants to sound useful. It constantly prefixes “load-bearing” when you reframe a conversation or when presenting a…
Agentic LLM's have changed what 'code' means. It used be the end product of the software engineering lifecycle is 'code' 📜 and there are purported arguments claiming that it is no more as LLM's themselves write 'code'. What remains is the spec as the 'code' can be regenerated in N number of ways on demand. 🔨 Does that mean 'code' is irrelevant and as long as you have a golden spec to derive…
LLMs are confident bullshitters. They speak “things” with a quite confident voice. But “things” are mostly word salad with looks quite like the answer but not entirely. In order to coax them to be useful you need to constantly refine their context i.e what they have seen recently to pull something more meaningful.
Intelligence as shown by LLMs is interesting. Here by memory I mean “context window size” though they are not equivalent. And by “Intelligence” I don’t mean human intelligence which jumps into metaphysical debates. Perhaps “cognitive ability” to solve a task at hand is reasonable narrow definition. At the advent of LLMs the available “context window”for an LLM was limited and took the longest to…
Agentic coding is a phenomenal experience. I’ve been working with AI coding agents for a year now, primarily using Claude Code after trying a variety of models. But there’s one well-known problem — they have a ‘context window’ - a limited memory area for what they’re holding in their ‘agentic minds’. Context is nearly everything because it guides them to…
This post evaluates HTMX, a simple framework that uses attributes to enhance HTML with SPA behaviours. Instead of a full-blown javascript framework, it progressively enhances plain HTML to build capabilities. Better articles have been written on why . We will focus on IF it helps bring SPA-like behaviour intuitively without JavaScript fatigue. We are going to use TodoMVC as a reference…
What is the yield you can expect in your Bitcoin investment? Is there a consistent rate of return? Will it outperform other markets? Better than stock market returns? Gold? Will it beat inflation? All these questions arise from the traditional mindset trained to evaluate everything as financial returns vis-a-vis dollars or whatever fiat currency the prospective investor holds. But Bitcoin, by its…
For decades now, the present-day western economic systems have never been challenged. Fuelled by credit and unhinged from sound money, the system is frothing with bubbles and capital misallocation. This hardly bothers the incumbents, particularly those at the mouth of the credit flow. Free credit allows them to eat all the fruits of the productive activity in the economy. Only in the presence of…
Engineers like to optimise things. It is one of the ways they express their identity. So, for example, if you give one a coffee machine, they would grumble about how much of the coffee bean pulp is wasted, the leaked milk, the wasted power in overheating. Thermal loss, blah blah blah. They assure you they can fix it. Make it efficient. Brilliant. But they go haywire when they jump to areas they…
There is an ongoing debate between gold bugs and bitcoiners about the 'intrinsic' value of either money? Goldbugs fervently argue that only gold has intrinsic value, and Bitcoin does not have 'intrinsic' value. Thereby its value should be Zero. That its price is above zero is a source of constant surprise and ridicule from gold bugs. “Wait, you will see. “This is all a…
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