Bukhmanizer

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by Bukhmanizer 9mo ago
I think CEOs are terrified of AI and all the talk of “replacing workers” is more a wish list or a cope than a prediction. Personally I think AI is super useful, but at my job the amount of progress we’ve made has basically ground to a halt
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by Bukhmanizer 10mo ago
As a long time complainer about AI, I disagree, LLMs are very fun. They’re maybe the coolest technology that has come out in the last 20 years for me. What’s not fun is the corpratization of AI. Being forced to use it even if it doesn’t mak
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by Bukhmanizer 10mo ago
Are people really so naive to think that the price/quality of proprietary models is going to stay the same forever? I would guess sometime in the next 2-3 years all of the major AI companies are going to increase the price/enshitt
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by Bukhmanizer 10mo ago
I have no idea if people find the content helpful but it was definitely mostly if not totally written by AI.
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by Bukhmanizer 11mo ago
My rule on this is that you can only judge your coworker’s productivity never your own. People are horrible at judging their own productivity, and AI makes it really easy to just dump a bunch of work on someone else.
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by Bukhmanizer 11mo ago
Personally I think it’s “None of the Above”. Frankly I own several projects that I really wish AI would do better at maintaining or enhancing (please don’t reply with “you’re holding it wrong messages”). At least with my org and a lot of my
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by Bukhmanizer 11mo ago
As a long time proponent of reasonable-ism I disagree with a lot of this. The assumption that a lot of our problems stem from 2 sides just seeing an issue differently is just nonsense in this day and age. The big Problem, is that one side
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by Bukhmanizer 11mo ago
> They have "mountains of data," yet the firing of three people compromises that somehow? Yes? It compromises time series analyses if you simply stop collecting data at certain time points.
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by Bukhmanizer 11mo ago
Culturally we are going through a phase where thought is getting massively devalued. It’s all well and good to say “I’m using AI responsibly”, but it won’t matter if at the end of the day no one values your opinion over whatever ChatGPT sp
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
> the big question is if experienced product management types can pick up enough coding technical literacy to work like this without programmers I have a strong opinion that AI will boost the importance of people with “special knowledge”
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
A while back someone made a post or comment about how they managed to vibe code a huge PR (1000+ of lines) to an open source project. They said they didn’t have time to read through the code but instead used tests to ensure the code was doi
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
I think this is why often new languages get so hyped early on. A bunch of inexperienced people get to leave all the boring “best practices” back in their old languages
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
Once in a lecture one of my friends asked “You keep mentioning Cooper Netties, who is Cooper Netties?” Everyone was very confused until someone figured out she was asking about Kubernetes.
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
On some level this is just a technicality. When people talk about politics they almost always talk about bad politics because good politics doesn’t feel like politics. It just feels like things are working correctly.
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
I strongly disagree. Big tech got to be big because they made better products than their competitors, at least initially. I don’t think google/Facebook even used to run ads in the early days.
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
Of course, but how do you become a monopoly? By selling your software, often implicitly through eyeballs and clicks. I disagree that devs aren’t important to this process. You want to make your software as ridiculously low- friction as poss
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
Compared to the money that tech companies make, way underpriced. The reason that companies pay engineers more than in other industries/countries, is that in general companies in other industries/countries don’t make nearly as much
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
> Do you think that all managers and tech leads atrophy because they don’t spend all day “doing”? Yes? If not 100% then a number pretty close to that. Definitely 100% of all the managers/non-coding leads I’ve worked with
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
The point of the article is boring but training LLMs on documents from a particular time period is actually pretty interesting.
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
When do sanctions apply to websites? I assume static web pages don’t need to filter IPs. Do all websites with a user need to filter on IP?
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
I don’t think AI slop is inherently mandatory, but I worry that the narrative around AI will devalue engineering work enough that it becomes impossible to avoid.
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
> They had to take baths and use a mug to fill it with water and wash their hair. Gasp surely not baths, however did they live? > fiber internet and he tried to tell me I need it to keep up with the Jones’ You think the kids today c
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
> It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the software we write tends to reflect our beliefs about the world. For example one of the best developers I’ve worked with had this unshakable belief that software could solve a lot of the worlds little p
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
In another much better incident, we once hired someone that did poorly in some interviews because I happened to present a project they made the week before. He turned out great, and he was doing some really cool stuff, just didn’t do coding
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
Yes we have the same interview process. This is something that no one knows about as I don’t know who interviewed him but my cynical guess is that if someone has enough power in the org and happens to sit on the hiring committee, it doesn’t
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
I understand just fine. There is no objective descriptor of a person. The engineering manager probably thinks he’s a perfect candidate. > In your case, "everyone knows he can't code", so he doesn't have stellar reputa
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
I think you’re just arguing for nepotism in a roundabout way. My senior staff engineer can’t code at all. He got hired because he was friends with our engineering manager. You might say “well that’s nepotism then since he’s under qualified”
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
I don’t think the author is accurately characterizing Systems thinking but is closer to talking about something like Agile vs Waterfall. Which i think they’re still correct about, and there has been a sharp turn into waterfall-like thinkin
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by Bukhmanizer 1y ago
Yeah a definitely totally organic article. Also I like that you changed the title from “This CEO says his AI can haggle” to “AI successfully haggles”

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