AgentOrange1234

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by AgentOrange1234 7mo ago
Here is an example of what I mean when I say optional stuff is a sign of failure to design. I inherited some vibe-coded scripts that dealt with AWS services like Bedrock and S3. These scripts needed create various AWS SDK clients. These cli
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by AgentOrange1234 7mo ago
"Every optional field is a question the rest of the codebase has to answer every time it touches that data," This is a beautiful articulation of a major pet peeve when using these coding tools. One of my first review steps is just
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by AgentOrange1234 7mo ago
Seniors are going to need to hold Juniors to a high bar for understanding and explaining what they are committing. Otherwise it will become totally soul destroying to have a bunch of juniors submitting piles of nonsense and claiming they ar
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by AgentOrange1234 7mo ago
Hah. I remember some story about a chatbot that had been trained on slack conversations. You would ask it for an essay on whatever, and it would say "will do" or "I'll have it for you tomorrow." :)
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by AgentOrange1234 7mo ago
Amazing. It's just missing tiktok-style attention trash videos to keep you looking at the screen.
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by AgentOrange1234 8mo ago
Influencer seems like an insufficient word? Like, in the glorious agentic future where the coding agents are making their own decisions about what to build and how, you don't even have to persuade a human at all. They never see the opt
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by AgentOrange1234 8mo ago
For a specific bad thing like "rm -rf" that may be plausible, but this will break down when you try to enumerate all the other bad things it could possibly do.
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by AgentOrange1234 8mo ago
NIH-shoring?
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by AgentOrange1234 9mo ago
[Citation needed.]
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by AgentOrange1234 9mo ago
Wow that's bold.
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by AgentOrange1234 10mo ago
Hard disagree. "I'm an expert" in that I have done tons of proofs on many systems with many provers, both academically and professionally for decades. Also, I am a novice when it comes to programming with sound, and today I h
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by AgentOrange1234 1y ago
When I ran the numbers, I realized commuting for RTO was going to cost the equivalent of 6 full time weeks of work. My whole team is at a different location. So I am driving in to be on Zoom calls. It is deeply pointless and frustrating. I
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Yes. I’m now close to retirement and am grooming my successor to replace me next year. For now, I’m focusing my mentorship energy on promising women and minorities, and helping them network.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Why does it have to be more friction? Users had a global way to signal “do not track me” in their browser. I don’t know why regulators didn’t mandate respecting that instead of cookie consent popups. Apple IDs could easily have global setti
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
At my FAANG company, our leadership is super unbalanced in favor of white/asian men. We have some empty words about diversity but no goals or metrics, so nothing effective will actually change. As a (white, male) manager, I have huge p
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Shrug. I’ve done a lot of intensely creative work in my pajamas. I’ve burned a lot of unproductive hours on commuting and pointless in-person meetings.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Will they though? We humans are very good at rejecting any information that doesn’t confirm our priors or support our political goals. Like, if ChatGPT says (say) vaccines are good/bad, I expect the other side will simply attack and re
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
This feels like the right take. Once we have an AI starting to do something, there’s an art to gradually adopting it in a way that makes sense. We don’t lose the ability to have humans review code. We don’t have to all use this on every PR.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
1 is super interesting. I’ve found it’s nice to talk to an LLM about personal issues because I know it’s not a real person judging me. Maybe if the comments were kept private with the dev, it’d be more just a coaching tool that didn’t feel
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I’d be curious to hear more on Attempt 2. It sounds like the approach was basically to ask an llm for a score for each comment. Adding specifics to this prompt might go a long way? Like, what specifically is the rationale for this change, i
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I’m surprised by this and curious at the “team thinks” framing. What advantages do you see here? I think I would much rather own the critique myself than say “the team thinks x.” For context, I’d probably start with “what happened with that
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Am I hopelessly naive, thinking all of crypto is a complete BS scam that destroys the environment to boot?
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I see it very differently. We are just at the very dawn of how to apply LLMs to change how we work. Writing dumb scripts that can call out to sophisticated LLMs to automate parts of processes is utterly game changing. I saved at least 200 h
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Are you saying: our colleagues have performed poorly while WFH, and because of their poor performance, management is forcing RTO on everyone?
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Yes and it’s also interesting that they mention using Trainium to do the training. I don’t know how much spend that is, but it seems really interesting. Like, if you’re AWS, and you imagine competing in the long run with NVIDIA for AI chips
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
If even ICE cars are now super expensive, why isn’t this a screaming opportunity for some auto manufacturer to target the low end of the market? I’ve never spent more than 20k for a car. With prices like this, I’m just going to keep my old
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
From here in TX, from the other side, I also remember a hysteric circus, where at school board meetings, as I reeled from the loss of someone close to me and pleaded for any mitigations, defiant unmasked parents behaved aggressively, spoute
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
> Are you sure you've evaluated this earnestly? Not at all. Honestly I’m completely bewildered. To me she obviously cleared the incredibly low bar required to be better than her opponent: a self-serving demagogue who literally tried
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Even in Austin my 200k house from 2007 is 4x the price today.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
What are you talking about? Biden was utterly incoherent at the debate. She stepped up, and got the party behind her immediately, and brought hope back to the Democrats. In terms of her campaign, she did far better than we could have reason

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