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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
Still more to come I think. Until all the major AI companies IPO starting this year.
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
You'd think all these executives making investments into Agentic coding would throw money at something like Codecrafters so that their engineers ramp up their design and architecture skills.
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
> They (we) have to believe human brains still have value and find a way out; for otherwise there'd be no point to try anymore. Are we already questioning the value of a human brain because of Large Language Models? Glorified search
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
It is said that these agents make one 100x more productive by some accounts. Microsoft is big on AI agents. If these claims were true, why don't they point the agents at the numerous stability and security issues they have across their
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
This is 2011 though, a lot has changed since then. I doubt Facebook/Meta, for instance, is still as flat as it was then having read some ex-employee accounts
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
There's a lot of deception going on with job numbers. Everyone knows there was a hiring spree during the pandemic and companies have been gradually shedding off excess weight since then. AI of course is just another excuse to shed more
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
Things like this make me realize the software engineering 'industry' is not a real industry. There are people who write important software that the world runs on, but they do it outside the 'industry'. A real industry sh
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
> Uploading costs you nothing, and it can help the poor. Could you expound more on this? Are you suggesting that less energy use in data centers would help the world's poor?
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
We keep seeing things like cryptic error messages shown to end users simply because of the disconnect between the programmer and the end user. If the programmer gets to intimately understand the user's experience software would be easi
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
> Either way, that won't change the ongoing layoffs while trying to pursue the AI dream from management point of view. I think most companies doing layoffs are bloated to begin with, AI is just the scapegoat to do the layoffs.
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
In short, it is simply a click-bait title. And the goal of the article is to draw attention to their project.
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
Right now majority of beginners start programming with a high-level language, say Python or JavaScript - then for more advanced system-level tasks pickup C/C++/Rust/Zig etc. If Mojo succeeds, it could be the one language span
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
But do companies really know how to use AI? I think most of it is experimentation - throwing things to the wall and seeing what sticks. It's the practitioner who eventually figures out what really works. I see this the same way the agi
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
However, curious programmers who develop in high level languages will dabble with assembly maybe for fun, and will be much better off for it than those who treat parts of the stack like a black box never to be opened.
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
Perhaps a viable approach might be to vibe code the translation tool itself and observe that for every input it gives the expected output. Then once the translation is done, the translation tool can be discarded. This would require a robust
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
> Engineers who refuse to, or can't, or won't utilize the benefits that LLMs bring will be left behind. It's just the way it is. I'm already seeing it happening. Any examples how you see some engineers being left behi
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by 0xpgm 5mo ago
I wonder, how should an AI company be accountable for non-deterministic nature of AI, which is a fundamental property of the said AI? People have been drinking too much hopium they have lost touch with reality. Everyone needs to properly un
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by 0xpgm 6mo ago
> This kind of forgetting is normal Just as shift in power and the rise and fall of nations is normal.
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by 0xpgm 6mo ago
Programmers in non-western countries may not be able to afford $100 per month on vibe coding. They may keep taking the longer and harder route of a mixture of AI and hand coding.
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by 0xpgm 6mo ago
An extension to Zawinski's Law, every web service attempts to expand until it becomes a social network.
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by 0xpgm 6mo ago
Instead of getting more dependant on Big Tech's AI products, I think the perfect use for AI is develop tools and workflows that decouple one from Big Tech.
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by 0xpgm 6mo ago
Not specifically about your case, but some people are usually just more verbose than others and tend to say the same thing more than once, or perhaps haven't found a clear way of articulating their thoughts down to fewer words.
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by 0xpgm 7mo ago
Quite a nice insight there! I should probably be thinking more in this direction.
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by 0xpgm 7mo ago
Yeah, structured data implies some processing on raw data to improve its meaning. Alan Kay seems to want to push this idea to encapsulate data with rich behaviour.
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by 0xpgm 7mo ago
Sure, static typing adds some sort of process that provides a coarse interpretation of the data.
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by 0xpgm 7mo ago
Reminded me of this thread between Alan Kay and Rich Hickey where Alan Kay thinks "data" is a bad idea. My interpretation of his point of view is that what you need is a process/interpreter/live object that 'explain
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by 0xpgm 7mo ago
To beat to death a well-known quote: You may be able to go fast with AI, but you can only go far with humans.
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by 0xpgm 7mo ago
As a mostly Python programmer and partly TypeScript programmer, my subjective thought is that a bit more 'noise' with TypeScript than Python. Just a little more to parse with my eyes and a little more to type with TypeScript. But
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by 0xpgm 7mo ago
Yup, since around 2016 HN and other tech spaces got infested with people who cannot separate their political ideology from technical discussions. When it comes to FOSS they claim that FOSS has always been political to justify the politiciza
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AI Didn't Kill Programming, You Did(learncodethehardway.com)
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