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by aerhardt 1y ago
I work for SMEs as a consulting CTO, and this is exactly where I see things going in this domain. I can take care of workloads that would've been prohibitively expensive in the past. In the case of SMEs, this may cover critical problem
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by aerhardt 1y ago
> it takes more time to be producted, and it is harder too because you always need to supervise and correct what's done This is hogwash, the lead dev in charge of this has commented elsewhere that he's saved inordinate amounts
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by aerhardt 1y ago
This is an important question. The skepticism tracks with my personal experience - I feel 10-20% more productive but certainly not 5x when measured over a long period of time (say, the last 6 months or more) I’m nonetheless willing to be pa
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I do not know what you work on, but debugging is indispensable for certain workloads. Print debugging doesn’t come close to setting up a breakpoint and inspecting every single variable in the stack with a good interface. You don’t even have
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by aerhardt 1y ago
You mean the 10% who really want to learn should give up and embrace the degree mill merry-go-round game? I’m as cynical as they come, but even that’s a bit too much for me.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Current AI can ace math and programming psets at elite institutions, and yet prior to GPT not only did I learn loads from the homework, I often thoroughly enjoyed it too. I don’t see how you can make that logical leap.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I did a proctored exam for Harvard Extension at the British Council in Madrid. The staff is proctoring exams year-round for their in-house stuff so their motivation notwithstanding they know what they’re doing.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
That’s what I did at HES and it was fine. Reasonable and not particularly stressful.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I have a Software Engineering degree from Harvard Extension and I had to take quite a few exams in physically proctored environments. I could very easily manage in Madrid and London. It is not too hard for either the institution or the stud
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by aerhardt 1y ago
GPT 4o is unbearable in this sense, but o3 has very much toned it down in my experience. I don't need to wrap my prompts or anything.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I'm seeing a lot of this too. I can tell with my own eyes that the technology is extremely useful, but also that it has limits. On the internet however you'll see a decent amount of randos claiming that they're one-shotting h
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I'm an experienced programmer but currently picking up C# for a masters course on Game AI. I appreciate having the LLMs at hand but I am surprised by how much of a step down the quality of the code output is compared to Python.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
A similar thing could be said about traditional tech CEOs like Benioff - that it's part of their fiduciary duty to stakeholders to say things like that. I don't disagree with you; I'm merely saying it's the nature of the
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I have literally seen dozens, if not hundreds of people claim here, on Reddit and LinkedIn things like "we have downsized our engineering team from 50 to 5 engineers", "I produce 5x the amount of code", etc. A few tech C
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by aerhardt 1y ago
How? Now you need to deal with all the traditional infra, plus a bunch of specific infra dealing with LLM apps, even if you’re just a wrapper using vendor APIs. How are things in any way simplified? I only see more layers of complexity.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Nah it’s going to be more like those standing seats that some low-cost airlines have been planning for a while. That’s more than enough for you and your headset. The very best workplaces will also provide a small elliptical bike at your fee
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Are agents all LLM-based or do you use other AI/ML techniques?
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by aerhardt 1y ago
DuckDB, Python and LLMs. I can write in more detail when I have time!
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I've read Marx and I'd rather commit seppuku than live in what he prescribes from his intellectual ivory tower. I can see why some smart people bought it for about a century, but by now there's too much empirical evidence tha
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Clarify that you can buy this shit you probably don't need in three comfortable instalments?
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I whole-heartedly believe in free markets, but at the same time, fuck everything about the circus clown show that is modern techno-capitalism.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
What’s the root cause? It certainly makes functional semantics in Python suck. Comprehensions don’t make up for it.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Yea I now see that, but what ever happened to the word “boyfriend”? It does the job and doesn’t sound like something out of 19th century literature or “clandestine” as a sibling commenter is saying. I see the same thing happening in Spanish
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by aerhardt 1y ago
As clickbait trash, it is nevertheless sublime.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Business books and self-help books are for the most part utter garbage and you are possibly going to generate more economic value for your business or your career by reading Vargas Llosa or Tolstoy than by reading all that airport drivel.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
The scenario you paint sounds very implausible for non-trivial applications, but even if it ends up becoming the development paradigm, I doubt anyone will be "left behind" as such. People will have time to re-skill. The question i
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by aerhardt 1y ago
> So far the biggest limiting factor is remembering to use it. Even people I consider power users (based on their Claude token usage) agree with the sentiment that sometimes you just forget to ask Claude to do a task for you, and end up
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by aerhardt 1y ago
> an instance of this from a few days ago. Bro I've been using LLMs for search since before it even had search capabilities... "LLMs not being for search" has been an argument from the naysayers for a while now, but very o
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I get that, and in that sense most languages are compiled, but generally speaking, I've always understood "compiled" as compiled-ahead-of-time - Python certainly doesn't do that and the official docs call it an interpret
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by aerhardt 1y ago
> the program doesn't compile The issue you are addressing refers specifically to Python, which is not compiled... Are you referring to this workflow in another language, or by "compile" do you mean something else, such as

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