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by TX81Z 3y ago
While they can’t leapfrog Google or OpenAI, they can introduce a nearly unlimited number of competitors and new entrants to the market. All of whom will be aligned to building on this foundation. Either you claim the ring for yourself or yo
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by TX81Z 3y ago
A new chat app from Google? Is it Tuesday already?
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I want to use the best tool and every time there is a Bard update I fire up it and try my last few GPT queries and not once have I had reason to switch. I will switch the second it is better, but for the coding tasks I need done GPT is impr
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Metas Twitter clone.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Disagree with YouTube, I think it’s a rare bright spot that serves a different need than TikTok. I think it would thrive if spun out, Google holds it back. Otherwise, spot on, I just don’t think the execs care about legacy, just $$$.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Leadership is remarkably good at explaining what are wholly self-serving decisions in corpspeak, which everyone gets a laugh about on memegen, but then they still buy the most outlandish justifications hook-line-and-sinker.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Same, I was at the level I was directly working with Directors and indirectly with VPs. I literally had projects blocked because I didn’t provide a promo vision for the Directors to make VP if they funded me. This is business critical shit,
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by TX81Z 3y ago
When the CFO runs the company and the CEO is a figurehead with zero vision or ability to corral a group of infighting SVPs, nothing is simple. Meta launched Threads in like a week, Microsoft dropped new Bing out of nowhere. Both companies s
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Somebody is preparing their promo packet and needed to hit an OKR. Launching product on time is harder than just changing the meaning of “General Availability”. Google is a wholly political organization now, everything can be explained by
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Here’s the most egregious example of Google blowing it I’ve seen. I’ve been deploying some infra on Google cloud - turns out Bard can’t answer a single question, and half the time gives up with the “as a language model…” escape routine. Mea
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by TX81Z 3y ago
The copywriting on this page is atrocious, feels like it was written by Barf, er, Bard. “So let’s see how Duet AI can help you in your daily life. Imagine you’re a financial analyst and you get an email at 5 PM from your boss asking for a p
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by TX81Z 3y ago
What do you mean by "beat" and "run circles around"? Is this some sort of speed test? Fewest bugs? Most efficient code? Something else? One problem with CS being so male-dominated is the endless focus on turning ever
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by TX81Z 3y ago
So many replies to this, but to clarify. I think OP has a right to express their opinion, my point is nobody seems to be interested in it which may or may not be a bad thing. I think of votes as a sort of social currency that makes this a f
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by TX81Z 3y ago
In the market of ideas you’re failing, and that’s the signal you’re getting. It sounds like you don’t care to adjust to “the crowd”, which is fine, but then you have to deal with the consequences.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Most internet technologies are currently in a phase change due to a changing regulatory and political environment. That has major implications for the direction of many types of technology discussed here so to that end I think tech policy i
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Survivorship bias.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
So now you have to manage both the core software and the hosted version. Whereas your competitor just needs to build a hosted version, use the core you provide for free, thereby having a fraction of the expense and the ability to undercut y
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I said almost exactly the same thing a decade ago with my own project. I learned a lot in that time. It’s closed source now.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I don’t know why people find it so hard to confront that the force which drives our destinies is chaos, not order. There is always a search for “a plan” when things like this happen, but it’s just a bunch of butterfly wings and monkeys typi
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by TX81Z 3y ago
He’s a highly driven genius, who are we to question a God?
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by TX81Z 3y ago
They literally picked the wrong tool for the job. The the tool they picked did not have the feature they needed. That is an utterly moronic decision.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Uh, clearly you don’t know anybody who actually worked there? Management is very very very unpopular and they’ve been facing a massive brain drain for years. Because they do have a great browser, but have a horrible strategy and have waste
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I think for a lot of things an ORM is “good” at, you could likely just have a bunch of static JSON files and retrieve them from disk with zero practical difference. I just can’t wrap my head around why you even *need* a database in those ca
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Doesn’t that increase complexity? I just have a database wrapper class and keep all my db code segregated there. In my case also using an ORM would blow up that segregated approach.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Fair, I always figured there were some people in that bucket, just not that many! I think I’m also just cranky over the general trend of junior devs who know a “framework” but none of the underlying concepts or code and can’t cope when thei
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I think that’s part of why I’m having trouble with this framing - it’s treating CRUD as the entire universe of why you’d need to connect to a database. Some of us do very intense compute in very large datasets, and ORM are not capable in th
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Agree, my datasets have multiple billions of rows and if I don’t know the details of the query, or have the ability to tune it, it’s utterly insufficient for my needs. I still fail to see how anybody who actually knows sql and works with “B
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I’m sorry but 90% of the time I encounter somebody who swears by an ORM I’ll figure out the reason they use it is because they didn’t know SQL to start with and didn’t commit to learning a new language. The number of people who know SQL wel
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by TX81Z 3y ago
And now we just blast as much personal data at the screen as possible while everything is easy, free, or subsidized by arcane bits of highly advanced financial fraud. Which, ok, works great for most people most of the time.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Eh, they seem to have a holier than thou attitude, I’m sure the Know What’s Best.

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