BobbyJo

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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
What happens when everyone needs to use AI for their job? Genuine question that I think gets at the heart of the debate. Once a common technology that everyone has access to becomes powerful enough to alter the lives of others on command, d
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
True.
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
CUDA != Driver support. Driver support seems to be what's spotty with DGX, and iirc Nvidia jas only committed to updates for 2 years or something.
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
> No. That's the definition of damage. "Change" doesn't imply loss. Damage does. With change you can add and/or subtract characteristics. Damage subtracts, it is a more precise term for the examples you gave. Usi
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
"I lost a foot" is not the same as "diabetes caused me to need my left leg amputated below the knee", but if you're talking about whether or not you can make it to the store a few blocks away without assistance the
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
Internet seems to think the SW support for those is bad, and that strix halo boxes are better ROI.
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
Depends. If token speed isn't a big deal, then I think strix halo boxes are the meta right now, or Mac studios. If you need speed, I think most people wind up with something like a gaming PC with a couple 3090 or 4090s in it. Depending
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
> I wouldn't call that degrees of change but degrees of damage. If you define any change from a previous state that loses some state as damage, then that's a tautology, not an argument. > The thing is, past a certain degree
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
This tracks with my own experience. I have to watch what the LLM does in response to any given ask, especially when adding new features to an existing system, because it will do things a different way every time until it no longer knows wha
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
Anesthesia impairs the electrons transport in your brain, effectively ending that thread of consciousness, and, depending on the procedure, your brain can be altered by chemical/oxygen saturation changes. You wake up very subtly differ
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
I mean, IP meant a lot more in 2006 than in it does now in 2026. The IP economy has basically died, so of course IP/Data based trade deals no longer make sense.
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
Ah, well I still think it applies as a counter example. Avoiding density makes values rise, especially when combined with increasing office space density/local job growth. In general I don't think it requires all that much thought
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
> Free markets for housing are likely to settle into an "optimum" where some percentage of people cannot afford housing at all, because while construction/rental of housing for them would net a return, it's not worth
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
Literally the entire peninsula of the bay area is an example of this happening. You have people voting to "keep their small town feel" sandwiched between San Francisco and San Jose.
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
Depends on the timescale you care about. It is, objectively, a very big problem over larger timescales (assuming we aren't killed off and don't engineer our children's genes).
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by BobbyJo 7mo ago
This is all just unenforceable theater. Are they going to jail or fine open source developers if they create an OS that doesn't support the requirements? Are they going to do customs checks for OSs? Firewalls? These kinds of laws just
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
Honestly, it's probably good if platforms disincentivize this. If you know creating a new account is high friction, you are more likely to take care of the account you have, and be a higher quality member. If you intend your accounts t
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
Samsung and SK Hynix have moved all of their capacity over as well IIRC.
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
Nobody else in the thread is making an argument that relies on the distinction. "Intelligence" is used most commonly to refer to a class or collection of cognitive abilities. I don't think there is a consensus on an exact col
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
I did things, some of which were pretty useful or clever, but between telling me what to do, coaching me how to do it, reviewing what I did, and telling me what to change, I probably cost more time than I saved the first few years of my car
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
I meant junior in terms of experience, not age, the two are just very strongly correlated for obvious reasons.
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
Bummer. I was lucky enough to be that junior engineer for the first few years of my career.
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
When a junior dev stops being useless, they cease being a junior dev.
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
> I don't know, I've known kids who can run circles around a lot of seniors Those kids are rasing 3M seed rounds to make AI tell fart jokes or something now. I'm talking about the middle 80% of new grads.
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
Junior devs have always been useless. You used to give them tasks that take them a week or two even though a senior engineer could do it in a couple hours, not because you wanted them to contribute, but because you wanted them to learn to c
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
> I think most engineers vastly overestimate how important high quality, maintainable, reliable code is to product success. Yes, you need an experienced engineer to steer Claude into making good high-quality code. But your customer doesn
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
> BTW, I think a lot of people were/are greatly overestimating the value of coding to business success. Personally, I don't believe the big changes will come from "coding costs less for businesses". I think it will co
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
> Your argument requires the run rate to reduce over time until OpenAI reaches profitability I was talking about Anthropic, but run rates don't need to go down, they just need to scale with revenue. For Anthropic specifically, this
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
Crazy how five years ago this level of AI would be seen as scifi, and now there are people out there who think it's trash because we can trick it if we ask questions in weird ways.
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
They've raise 70-ish billion (which they have not spent all of) and have a run rate of 14 billion/y as of now. All said and done those are great economics so far, even accounting for those extra expenses.

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