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by RevEng 7mo ago
If an Ioniq 5 is a poor choice, I would love to know what a good choice is. Its energy usage is comparable to the vast majority of SUVs and it can charge at up to 227kW. The lack of good fast charger is certainly a difference compared to ma
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by RevEng 7mo ago
I wonder if Gil Tal has ever used an EV as their daily vehicle. I have had two EVs in the last three years - a Kona and an IONIQ 5. I have greatly enjoyed them both. But one thing was a downside that I just had to accept: poor charging. Gra
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by RevEng 7mo ago
Geocities was full of a lot of things. There were pages that were just ad farms, often with no meaningful content except a bunch of key words hidden in the background. But there were also plenty of clean and useful sites by people who wante
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by RevEng 7mo ago
The same thing already happens with the stock market.
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by RevEng 7mo ago
> President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War What exactly is the lie then?
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by RevEng 7mo ago
The difference is I can easily fix a broken cable.
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by RevEng 7mo ago
That is not correct because it hasn't been tested in court. In past decisions about who owns the output generated by a computer program the owner has been the operator of the program. You own your Word documents and Photoshopped images
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by RevEng 7mo ago
How so and why? I know plenty of people whose writing naturally carries a tone that they don't intend. I often help them to change their wording to be less confrontational or seemingly sarcastic when it isn't meant to be. Would yo
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by RevEng 7mo ago
Exactly. Tell that to whoever is grading your next paper, or reviewing your resume, or watching your presentation. People are judged by their linguistic ability even in cases where it shouldn't matter. It's a well known heuristic
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by RevEng 7mo ago
I agree on the editing. We use these things all the time - chances are many of you are using it right now as you type on your phone and it checks your spelling for you. By the same token, what if I have a human editor help me out? What if w
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by RevEng 7mo ago
Several people at my work do use LLMs for this in code, commit messages, and even on Slack. It may not be everyone or even a majority but it is something that some people legitimately do. While many here are saying "who cares about you
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by RevEng 7mo ago
Exactly this! Many times I read an article that someone says is "obviously AI" and lists several tell tale signs, but these are patterns I also follow in my own writing. I guess that makes me an LLM? These are patterns I was taugh
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by RevEng 7mo ago
There was a vote to block it and the vote failed to pass, hence they failed to block it.
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by RevEng 7mo ago
I haven't seen AI systems do this in my experience unless you specifically ask for it. Sometimes the outcomes can be a bit complex, but I find myself having to prompt it specifically when I want something more abstract.
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by RevEng 7mo ago
This is interesting because I specifically look for the opposite in interviews and design reviews. Yes, sometimes complexity is needed to handle scaling, extensibility, observability, security, and privacy, but most of the time it doesn&#x2
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by RevEng 7mo ago
Yup, I'll agree with that. It certainly does end up with a generic tone that has become ubiquitous. It's like the Continental English accent that actors and news hosts are taught to use - they all sound the same because they have
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by RevEng 7mo ago
For what it's worth, I'm a principal engineer. I've been building software professionally for 18 years. I've done very little front end work; I appreciate it but I'm not good at it. My work has mostly been with data
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by RevEng 7mo ago
While that will always be true, LLMs do it a lot more often and do so with confidence and poise. We have evolved ways to tell if someone is making shit up (which usually works); LLMs subvert this. We are also being sold the idea that these
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by RevEng 7mo ago
Wouldn't a weekly reminder if your calendar do this? I don't see how an agent improves this.
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by RevEng 7mo ago
I don't get it either. I even sat down to try it out and see what it's all about, but I can't think of a single thing in my life that I want an agent to automate. Summarizing news? No, I'd rather just read it. Besides, i
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by RevEng 7mo ago
One supposition I see in this and so many other articles is that using AI to generate code results in not knowing how it works. I believe that's only true for "vibe coding", not for engineers using AI to generate code. The di
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by RevEng 7mo ago
But that was a large part of it. When it was difficult to write correct, well-structured code, that was a major determinant in who would get a job as a developer - ability to design and test came second. Now that generating code is automati
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by RevEng 7mo ago
Same here. I like bringing ideas to life; code is just a means to an end. I can now give detailed designs to an AI and let it write the hundreds of lines of code in just minutes, and with far fewer typos than I would make. It's still n
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by RevEng 7mo ago
Exactly. I'm a principal software engineer. My job is a lot less about writing code and a lot more about planning, designing, reviewing, and training. However, I do wonder how we will train juniors to become seniors. Perhaps the answer
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by RevEng 7mo ago
And yet there isn't widespread unemployment. Fewer farmers were needed so fewer people became farmers. Food became cheap and plentiful. Everyone else went on to do other things that they couldn't afford to do before. Software will
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by RevEng 7mo ago
I disagree on making it easier. I'm very capable of writing code in multiple languages but it's boring and monotonous. It's getting in the way of me building the system I have in mind. I prefer the engineering (design) to wri
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by RevEng 7mo ago
LLMs write this way because people write this way. Maybe not everyone, but enough for it to train the models to do it. Much of my writing reads like an LLM wrote it, but that doesn't make me an LLM.
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by RevEng 8mo ago
But by the same logic, people who could readily code small projects can now code large projects. It helps everyone, not just the non-programmers. There is still a large gap between what an amateur can do and what a professional can do, so t
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by RevEng 8mo ago
Be careful not to conflate AGI with the current generative AI revolution. Even if it may eventually lead to AGI, it is quite a way from that and the social implications of the current and near term AI is what we are talking about. We can on
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by RevEng 8mo ago
Do a search for "the 20 hour work week". You will find plenty of articles from the 50s and 60s talking about how technology is going to make it so we don't have to work anymore. Popular Science was particularly keen on this b

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