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My tweet was less about how to do the task, and more about what happens when I tried to use a well-established tool (Google search). Also - isn't the very high failure rate interesting? 'Sometimes makes errors' is one thing. 'Always makes errors' is something else.
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The real danger of high government debt is the policy errors it provokes, not a debt crisis.Their words
But I am worried about high government debt levels causing policy errors.
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Given the high cost of errors, you need to have a very high level of safety and a very high level of confidence on day one before you deploy your first robot, before you drive your your first autonomous mile.
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the research on photographic memory does show that even people who have very strong visual memory will make memory errors. So it's not that you know it's exactly photographic but their visual memory is exceptional.
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I think this is kind of leads to another way that Rust really helps with reliability, which is that if you're refactoring, I think Rust is really good at telling you all the places you need to update. I've done this sometimes where I would refactor something. I change the code. I change the return type or whatever it is, and then I just fix the compiler errors and until the compiler stops shouting. And then once I've done that, I've updated every place I need to update.
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exceptions are an inherently poor way of handling errors because they make it easier to write bugs which won't be immediately obvious on casual code inspection
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From one piece Thoughts on slowing the fuck down 2 beliefs · mariozechner.at
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With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.
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An agent has no such learning ability. At least not out of the box. It will continue making the same errors over and over again. Depending on the training data it might also come up with glorious new interpolations of different errors.
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On small tasks he can check himself, he catches about as many of the AI's errors as it catches of his.Their words
So, they they they still make mistakes, but but um um I've I've tested these tools, you know, on on on on um like little tasks that I can do and and sometimes they pick up errors I make, sometimes I pick up errors that they make. It's it's about a tie right now.
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durable workflows are scaling errors as values to your infrastructure. errors as values lead to predictable, maintainable, and scalable software.
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Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.Their words
This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
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Scientists have run studies where they deliberately add errors to papers, send them out to reviewers, and simply count how many errors the reviewers catch. Reviewers are pretty awful at this.
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So we we want people, that's the way we break out of fixation, is we notice the anomalies. The way we get stuck in fixation and making fixation errors is we explain away the anomalies, hold on to the original wrong impression until it's far too late.
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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths ErrorsTheir words
Leave it to Matt Parker to write an entire book about making mistakes in math.
10 July 2019
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Over-specifying the design also leads to estimation errors. Counterintuitive as it may seem, the more specific the work is, the harder it can be to estimate.
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