actsasbuffoon

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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
I actually really enjoy writing code, even after all these years.
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
Yeah, the value of software as a whole seems like it is about to greatly decrease. You’d think tech companies and investors would be a lot more nervous about destroying the value of software, but I’m not sure if they’re thinking that far ah
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum. I’m almost certain that this is going to end extremely badly for the majority of humanity, and for programmers in particular. I think there’s a less than 5% chance that this goes well, and that’s onl
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
It wouldn’t even necessarily need to be a real GZip bomb. Just something containing a few hundred kb of seemingly new and unique text that’s highly compressible and keeps providing “links” to additional dynamically generated gibberish that
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
It’s also pretty easy to create your own VCV Rack modules, assuming you don’t mind doing a little math.
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
I can see it now. You get an ad showing you in prison. The text reads, “I shouldn’t have downloaded that torrent without NordVPN.” Welcome to our new dystopian hellscape.
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
Unless I’ve missed some major development then I have to strenuously disagree. AI is primarily good at writing isolated scripts that are no more than a few pages long. 99% of the work I do happens in a large codebase, far bigger than anythi
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
Excellent point, but now consider the availability of open source models as well. They’re not as good as the frontier models, but at some point they get close enough, right? I run Llama 3.x locally on my 5+ year old GPU. It’s pretty decent.
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
I’m assuming they mean that if you multiply subscribers by the subscription fee then OpenAI still ends up losing billions per year.
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
I think there are complicating factors. Investors are throwing unfathomable amounts of money at AI right now, and frontier models are very expensive to build. There’s also the issue of these AI-as-a-Service companies requiring an ever incre
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
I’ve actually had a few recruiters reach out in the last few weeks. It’s nowhere near the daily calls I used to get, but it seems like there’s been a little bit of an uptick.
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
I like that idea, and I may need to steal it. I have this tendency of asking candidates questions, and if I feel like they’re demonstrating very strong knowledge then I may toss them a few extremely obscure questions for bonus points, but I
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
Yeah, this was certainly true about 5 years ago. The market has thinned a lot over the last few years.
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
Yeah, even in this market, your best people still have options. I recently had to find a new job, and while it was definitely more sparse than normal, I had a decent offer within a month. Five years ago, I probably would have had my pick of
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
Other fun options include telling it that you’ll pay it a tip if it does well, asking it to play a character who is an expert in the subject you want to know about, or telling it that something terrible will happen to someone if it does a b
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by actsasbuffoon 2y ago
Congress did their job. They granted authority to regulatory agencies who are much better equipped to make these sorts of decisions. Regulatory agencies employ scientists and subject matter experts in their relevant fields. Our congresspeop
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
If I rob a bank then you can tell. If I make an AI model on my own computer and train it, how would you ever know? It won’t have a “signature” that can be detected by any kind of AI detection system because I’m the only person who knows it
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
There are a bunch of well-known areas where popular calculators tend to give incorrect answers: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/resources/example... It’s mostly fine until it isn’t. AI will probably ope
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
The cat is already out of the bag on that one. You can download several open source text to image AIs and run them on your own computer. You can train new styles and concepts on your own computer in about 20 minutes. You can throw up roadbl
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
ChatGPT has plugins in closed beta that can fetch real-time information from other sites and services. Things are moving so quickly that even though this appeared to be a problem a week ago, it’s pretty much solved now. And in the months Go
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
There are a lot of reasons. First, we’re not talking to kids about intercourse. We’re saying kids need to have some amount of knowledge about this stuff that is appropriate for their age. For example, small kids who are put into the care of
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
Sure, though I certainly see pretty wide variances in myself based on my environment. If I’m happy and in a good environment then I tend to be very agreeable. As my stress and unhappiness go up, I tend to get pretty disagreeable. I had one
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
I’ve been doing this for a long time now, and I’ve had good results from companies with humane interview practices. Places that treat candidates poorly tend to treat employees badly, and companies that drag out the interview process tend to
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
I love it for writing tests. It’s good at picking up patterns, so if I need a bunch of unit tests then I can usually write one test and let it write the rest based on the RSpec descriptions. I recently had a ticket that required refactoring
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
Yeah, there have been numerous times when having a fireplace and/or natural gas stove saved my family from freezing. When you live in a place that routinely gets cold enough to kill, you need multiple heat sources that don’t share a si
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
According to a UBS study from last week, ChatGPT is the fastest growing consumer-based web app in history: https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste... This thing is taking off like wildfire. Google
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
It’s hard for me to imagine that Edge would become my main browser (big Firefox fan for many years), but I’d certainly give these new AI features a test drive.
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
I apologize; I may have explained poorly. I was trying to convey that burnout is (IMHO) a result of putting a lot of effort into something and not getting enough back out of it. It’s like a defense mechanism to stop wasting energy. This may
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
One paragraph mentioned that, but the thrust of the argument was about burnout. For me, burnout occurs when I feel like I’m putting a lot of time and effort into something but I’m not getting enough back to justify it. Burnout is like a mec
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by actsasbuffoon 4y ago
That doesn’t sound like you’re falling out of love with programming. It sounds like you’re frustrated with the red tape at work. Try working on something fun on the side. Make a game, or a mobile app, or something you’ve always been curious

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