LatencyKills

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by LatencyKills 11d ago
What in the world are you talking about? I was literally an senior engineer on the Windows Kernel team, the Visual Studio team, and the Xcode team at Apple. This application, named Seymore, is being evaluated for purchase by several tech co
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by LatencyKills 11d ago
I just used an LLM (along with my decades of operating system development experience) to create a macOS tool [0] that lets me see through windows, instead of having to continually command+tab between windows. The solution required reverse
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by LatencyKills 11d ago
It's short for "fucking".
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by LatencyKills 11d ago
I spent 22 years as an engineer split between MS and Apple. SOTA LLMs can write code just as good as most human engineers. I expect to see the "LLMs are just next token predictors!" crap on Reddit... not HN.
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by LatencyKills 18d ago
I hate seeing comments like this on HN. We used to upvote “look at this crazy thing I did” work. Not everything has to make sense or be ground breaking. It is cool that they got it to work at all.
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by LatencyKills 24d ago
What would I have done? The same thing most tech CEOs did - NOT give a trophy to the fascist whose seen his net worth increase by over $3B in single year while in office. Apple would have been just fine financially. Value should come fr
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by LatencyKills 25d ago
Sigh... I spent over a decade at Apple. Tim was given a very long leash. So no, I don't think Ternus will give Trump a gold "You're a good boy!" trophy. As I said, that was probably one of the most embarrassing things
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by LatencyKills 25d ago
As someone who spent half their career at Apple, I can't even begin to tell you how ridiculous that sentiment is. You won't find Apple employees who agree with you. It was infinitely embarrassing to see Tim bend over for a fascist
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by LatencyKills 25d ago
I spent 11 years at Apple and attended many meetings with SJ. It was amazing to see how quickly he could understand a problem while, at the same time, being brutally harsh about why it hadn't already been solved. No one but Steve would
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by LatencyKills 1mo ago
I'll help you out: all CS students are required to take an entry-level OS course. Again, you are making incredibly weak arguments given that most students are required to take an English writing course but then can't remember most
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by LatencyKills 1mo ago
> you chose the wrong students at the wrong universities I work with Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and Carnegie Mellon. You don't know that "young engineers" are buying those books. I didn't claim
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by LatencyKills 1mo ago
> I'm essentially arguing that unless you work at MSFT, there's next to no reason to learn that specific abstraction layer. Really? Understanding the cost of ring transitions is incredibly useful. I recently consulted with a co
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by LatencyKills 1mo ago
I was a dev on the Visual Studio and Windows teams in the 90s. I’m retired but mentor CS students at two local universities. I haven’t had a student in two years that was even remotely interested in ring-0, internals, or really understandin
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by LatencyKills 2mo ago
> 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level [0] Trump has been openly anti-education since the 1990s. My favorite Trump quote: “I love the poorly educated.” [0]: https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/20
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by LatencyKills 2mo ago
I was an engineer at both MS and Apple. At Apple, privacy was baked into every new feature from the start. At MS, the privacy component was glued on at the very end, if ever. Like OP said, Apple isn't perfect nor will they ever be, but
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by LatencyKills 2mo ago
Agree. It was interesting/fun for a bit though.
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by LatencyKills 2mo ago
They did. That said, I don’t know how much “defending” they had to do given that I was never even told what, exactly, I was supposed to have stolen. But, like I said, it was both surprising and anxiety inducing.
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by LatencyKills 2mo ago
Something similar happened to me when I left Microsoft for Apple (I moved from the Visual Studio team to the Xcode team). MS spent six months trying to prove I'd taken "industry secrets" with me. I hadn't. The entire thi
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by LatencyKills 2mo ago
Thank you for your comment. Prior to Apple, I worked on the Visual Studio team for 10 years. Now that is a complex app now matter how experienced you are. ;-)
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by LatencyKills 3mo ago
I spent seven years as a dev on the Xcode team and this is pretty much my exact workflow these days.
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by LatencyKills 3mo ago
I retired a few years ago and now do a slew of things (photography, robotics, 3D printing, etc.) entirely for myself. I'll start a project, have a blast learning/building, then simply move on to the next thing. Learning for the sa
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
> Who gets a sense of accoplishment from prompting an LLM? I have a good friend who is a VP at a telecom company who has never written a line of code. He's been using Claude to create interactive web pages to help him understand par
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I went this route because I had difficulty visualizing the content of the Attention Is All You Need paper. After going through both books, I can now understand every part of that paper. I'm currently working on a robotics project that
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
Well, as I suggested, working through the implementation yourself will give you that intuition. That said, I think the simplest way to explain why positional encodings are useful is that it gives the transformer just enough information to m
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I have a BS in CS (and have been in the field for 25 years). I couldn't understand the transformer architecture until I built a few myself. Here are the books I worked through. I now feel I have a very good understanding of modern LLMs
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
Not OP but I worked through Sebastian Raschka's "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)" [0] and Raj Abhijit Dandekar's "Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch)" [1] books. I don't think there is anythi
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I was an engineer at both MS and Apple, and wholeheartedly agree with you. My question is, what happens to the people who use RTX cards for gaming? This new solution isn't meant for that. Do they need an "AI accelerator" and
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
First: > "Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows," said Satya Nadella, chairman and head of Microsoft. Then: > However, Ian Fogg, Research Director at industry analyst firm FD
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
As someone who's been building developer tools (Visual Studio and Xcode) for 25 years, I don't have a perspective problem. We were doing "code completion" back in the 90s and could never have predicted that an LLM would
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
He didn't even know that there was a solution to the performance issues. He simply assumed that processing data took that long. I think it is great that he now has this capability, but a total ignorance of software engineering is goi

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