Sam Fold

Engineer and Technologist at Accel. Ex Blizzard, London based but previously in Dubai, LA, Berlin, Paris, and New York.

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@mitsuhiko I benchmarked the several-thousand character code reviewer skill and it performed worse than the prompt “you are a senior engineer, analyze this code for issues and bugs”

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@IceSolst Bingo! Anyone boasting about lines of code as though it makes them some kind of genius is letting everyone know that they were never a very good engineer and their opinions can be ignored safely.

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If anyone ever boasts to you about how many lines of code they wrote in a single day, as though that’s something special, you can happily terminate that conservation, because they’re an idiot, and neither were or ever will be, a good engineer.

LOC doesn’t mean anything other than lines of code. It’s not a measure of value, intelligence, or merit.

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@garrytan GStack is statisically worse than not using GStack. I actually proved it by running several benchmarks. The prompts make Opus dumber, not smarter.

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This prompt: "You are an expert code reviewer. Review the provided diff for bugs, security issues, race conditions, and other problems a senior engineer would catch." is more effective as the 500+ line Garry Tan, "gstack" prompt...

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https://t.co/CmOoPT6e6d

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@pmarca Did you not read Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations then ? Or do you not consider Marcus Aurelius to be a great man?

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@pmarca Except there’s no actual science in this book at all, just one guys opinion.

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@smokeymitchell @Beefeater_Fella lol no worries :) and yeah I was wondering why my age and number of followers was relevant to my opinion on Dubai! (Especially because I was literally just there)

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@tobi Assuming the benchmarks are any good… which is a lot harder than it seems

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@smokeymitchell @Beefeater_Fella Kid? I’m 42

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@garrytan Did you write this with ChatGPT, "it's not this, it's this!" ??

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@tobi What benchmarks are you actually running it against? I looked at the code for QMD... it looks really bad/amateurish.

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@Microinteracti1 @clashreport He didn't say that at all. You seem to be totally misrepresenting this situation. UK boots would never be on the ground, nor would we be bombing Iran, it would be using our interceptor capacity to help friendly nations with whom we are historically close, like Oman and the UAE!

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@Inevitablewest Amazing! I love the Persian community :)

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Owen, do you have any comment on this article? https://t.co/jQRWALke5S (Iran sentences two LGBT activists to death)

or perhaps this article:
https://t.co/wQQTkUDvpf

this article?
https://t.co/z1N3qGMPmz (Campaign group Human Rights Watch has called on Iran to stop the execution of a woman convicted of adultery.)

or this article? https://t.co/nXE48NQg0S

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@BasilTheGreat @grok is this accurate, is there a source for this?

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@owenjonesjourno @omid9 Nonsense. Nothing is proved yet. Did you actually read any of these articles you cited?

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@Fahadnaimb Very cool, but not manta rays. Manta rays look very different to this and also this is not their habitat at all, there are no manta rays in Dubai or the UAE.