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I’m not sure. I’ve been reading death-of-the-software engineer for years, but recently the -vibe- feels different. I don’t have anything anecdotal to back it up
by glouwbug 4mo ago
I’m not sure. I’ve been reading death-of-the-software engineer for years, but recently the -vibe- feels different. I don’t have anything anecdotal to back it up so take it with a grain of salt. I might be reading what I want to see
- slopinthebag 4mo agoI'm assuming it's a turn to the negative and not more positivity you're seeing? Geohot's article and Hasimoto's tweet about AI psychosis kind of made me pay attention. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263238 https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
- glouwbug 4mo agoYeah more or less
- BobbyTables2 4mo agoIn my opinion, as AI was oversold for too long, it was was easy to dismiss it. Classical image processing was marketed as “AI”. Doomsday predictions about AI seemed laughable, just as SkyNet in the Terminator seemed unrealistic. The early ChatGPT versions were also pretty silly and equally oversold. At this point, the popular messaging of AI is still 90% fiction but the remaining real 10% is now a force to be reckoned with. Companies laying off Indian call center employees to replace with AI is something I never would have dreamed of. My experience of using AI as a search engine has surprised me. I never expected an overgrown pile of matrices to work that well.
- nextaccountic 4mo ago> My experience of using AI as a search engine has surprised me. I never expected an overgrown pile of matrices to work that well. The first version of Google was also surprising. Mind blowing use of linear algebra (also a pile of matrices, but this time sparse matrices mostly) to rank websites So maybe the search business was always meant to use pile of matrices