RivieraKid

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by RivieraKid 7mo ago
Usually yes.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Interesting, this shows growth in open positions: https://www.trueup.io/job-trend
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Can you share some out of curiosity? Yes, I know that $20k is a full salary in many countries.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Good ideas (and the ability to recognize them) are very valuable in my opinion. It also depends on what you mean by an idea: - A todo app better than the existing ones - A todo app with these 3 features - A todo app with these 3 features,
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Disagree. Ideas were a necessary component of the one project I had success with. BTW, the line between ideas and execution is blurred. Is coming up with innovative UI and features ideas or execution?
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
The counterpoint is that it's only 2 months since AI got really useful and it will presumably continue to improve. It takes a while until it spreads through the society.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Sure, AI replacing intelligence (simply speaking) is good for the society on average, but probably bad for me.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Isn't it obvious? The reward that a personal project can generate for you is limited. It's not remotely close to what a successful project would give you - money, fulfillment, social capital, feeling good about yourself, etc.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
The issue is that before AI, 1% of the population was capable of creating 1 side project per year. After AI, 10% of the population is capable of creating 10 side projects per year. The competition grew by 100x. The pessimist in me thinks th
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Regarding expanding role: The scenario I'm somewhat worried about is that instead of 1 PM, 1 designer and 5 developers, there will be 1 PM, 1 designer and 1 developer. Even if tech employment stays stable or even slightly increases due
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
If it wasn't for US military power, Russia would have already overrun Ukraine. And if Iranian nuclear program is destroyed and the regime falls, it would be a good thing. For context, I'm from Czechia.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Is making effective weapons evil?
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
It's extremely slow, takes several minutes to generate an image.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
> How could we possibly know this? Isn't it obvious that increasing time per move will make the engine better and at some point perfect? > So its engine is finished? There's no further development? No new algorithms? No.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
There's no proof, only strong evidence.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
What I meant by "solved" is "never loses from the starting position against Stockfish that has infinite time per move". In the TCEC game, I see "2. f4?!", so I'm guessing Stockfish was forced to played som
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Stockfish with 1000 minutes per move is an approximation of a perfect chess player. So if Stockfish with 1 minute per move will never lose against a perfect player, it is unbeatable by any chess engine.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Yes, that's what "unbeatable from the starting position" means.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Do you have a source? I remember asking on the Stockfish Discord and being told that Stockfish on a modern laptop with 1 min per move will never lose against Stockfish with 1000 min per move from the starting position. But I'm not sure
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
AFAIK chess is has been "solved" for a few years in the sense that Stockfish running on modern laptop with 1 minute per move is unbeatable from the starting position.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
A system for personally owned vehicles has been on the roadmap for a long time. There's a partnership with Toyota related to this: https://waymo.com/blog/2025/04/waymo-and-toyota-outline-stra...
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
But Waymo or their competitors are not in the "shuttling people around" business. They're developing a driver. Robotaxi is one of the applications. The winner-takes-all aspect comes from economies of scale for example. If Way
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
1. Leveraging data collected from Tesla owners. In theory, they have the data to learn the driving behavior from almost everywhere in the world. 2. Going directly for vision-only, no geofence system. Waymo's strategy has been to start
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
This is a business with winner-take-all characteristics. Cruise was unlikely to leapfrog Waymo. So it makes the case for continuing to throw money at this very unconvincing. Cruise was always destined to be "like Waymo, but worse"
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
But the sentiment has changed significantly over the last 6 months. I think this is the biggest step change in sentiment since ChatGPT 3.5. Someone who said "wait 6 months" 6 months ago would have been "right".
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
> I do find it that the developers that focused on "build the right things" mourn less than those who focused on "build things right". I've always been strongly in the first category, but... the issue is that 10x
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
> For my whole life I’ve been trying to make things—beautiful elegant things. Me too, but... The ability to code was a filter. With AI, the pool of people who can build beautiful elegant software products expands significantly. Good for
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
The term "world model" seems almost meaningless. This is a world model in the same sense as ChatGPT is a world model. Both have some ability to model aspects of the real world.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
I agree. I don't understand there are so many software engineers who are excited about this. I would only be excited if I was a founder in addition to being a software engineer.
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by RivieraKid 8mo ago
Do software engineers here feel threatened by this? I certainly am. I'm surprised that this topic is almost entirely missing in these threads.

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