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by alexpotato 2mo ago
I recently stumbled upon the technique of asking the LLM to create a Dot Viz (or mermaid) flowchart of the program flow. The LLMs are great at: - understanding the flow - making diagrams - running the code with logging they add to to even b
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
Create a bag of rocks and leave them in an area with lots of waves. Let nature and physics do the rest.
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
Couple examples in my Twitter thread on FinTech outages that were basically that: https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1215876962809339904
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
It's still free to write code... e.g. I can ride a bike for free compared to driving a car where I have to pay for gas. And their are pros and cons to both. e.g. bikes are easier to park but not great in bad weather and vice versa
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
Couple points: > Instead of waiting, I spun up another agent to do something else. Then I did it again. > I wasn’t intentionally building a parallel system. I was just filling the time between tasks. I have ADHD. I got distracted. I p
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
> Every ARM reset was known, dated, and contractually inevitable from the moment of origination. Aggregate those reset schedules and you get the most damning exhibit of the era: the reset wall. One of my distinct memories from this era i
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
> To be fair I think its far easier to automate leadership jobs despite how they believe in greater self-worth. Speaking as someone who has worked at multiple companies all the way from IC to team lead and even up to senior manager with
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
Fascinating to me that YouTube comments went from "pit of hell" to "one of the most wholesome parts of the internet". Not sure how that happened though.
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
NASDAQ at one point wanted to have "special characters" e.g. *()/ etc in ticker names too. EVERYONE said it was a bad idea but they kept pushing it. Repeatedly. Eventually, smarter heads prevailed and they got rid of the idea
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
> but it wasn't until relatively recently that I thought about it seriously that it occurred to me that a touring celebrity musician's life can be stressful and the drugs can be (or start out as) a pressure valve release The 20
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
IIRC he worked for a large financial services company (Merrill Lynch?) and was able to transfer to the Nashville office so that Taylor could be closer to the music scene.
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
> But of course, there is one key clue missing from the photograph: the smell Have been re-reading At Home by Bill Bryson [0] and just started the chapter on the bathroom. He mentions that home bathrooms often smelled b/c the "
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
> USA is that restaurants are almost always over staffed there. > European restaurants typically use a team service model, which greatly reduces the number of staff needed 100% this. US restaurants have a "zone" model and al
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
One thing that isn't often mentioned in these discussions: Making sure that the work was actually done. I've been a Staff Engineer and managed engineers and it's pretty shocking what people consider to be "done". A
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
I spent the early part of my career (mid 2000s) working on a registration system for sports tournaments. I had two jobs: 1. Writing the actual software for the registration website 2. Going to the events and managing the registration tent w
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
I always thought the below was much simpler: 1. love bombing - make you feel welcome/loved/accepted - lots of attention etc 2. isolation - "you weren't appreciated before so why hang out with those people" - "y
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
gpu-6000adax1-48gb RTX 6000 Ada GPU Droplet - 1X
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
100% on the gear. I started with a couple of $40 Jabra USB headsets + a MacBook. MacOs comes with a built in equalizer that lets you "merge" two inputs into a feed. You can then use Audacity to record one user on the left channel
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
> the only difference is I setup a persistent drive, Going to try this out vs the snapshot! I also really like this experiment b/c it's a mix of LLMs and old school IaaC/DevOps.
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
It's actually a bit less than $2 but I rounded up just to make the math easier. And yeah, did a lot of work with Vast AI at a past job and it's pretty wild the variety of prices/hardware that they have.
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
I started a podcast recently and two things are VERY in line with this post: 1. If you listen to tons of podcasts, you slowly internalize what is a good vs bad interview. e.g. you learn to automatically ask leading questions, direct the gue
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
Had the same reaction so had Grok create a script to: - find a free GPU droplet on digital ocean - fire it up - pull in a snapshot of the model + extra files/packages etc - set up a ssh tunnel so that the localhost:8000 routes to the a
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
> 12MB email attachments It was a different time.
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
I just wrote a Twitter thread about how LLMs are like chainsaws [0] In short: - they are very powerful - beginners feel like they are just as good as experts - but they can cause a LOT of damage if you don't know what you are doing - e
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
Also fell into this bucket for a short while. In hindsight, I realized it was b/c I hadn't found subjects in high school that really resonated with me (although HS science was cool). When I got to college I majored in computer sci
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
There is an excellent blog post from [0] a guy who, due to a circulatory issue, ended up temporarily dropping down in IQ. In summary, he felt much happier b/c he wasn't constantly seeing broken systems everywhere and feeling frust
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
old iPads are the device I wish more than any other could be recycled via running Linux etc.
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
Everyone is also assuming that each person's Claude has the exact same context. e.g. a DevOps person's LLM may have very different context than a marketing person. In other words, if I'm in marketing and the website is down,
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
When I was in high school, my dad was an executive at a large international Fortune 500 finance firm. His main job was to fly around the world and train salespeople on how better attract and retain clients. One year, he was traveling for 18
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by alexpotato 2mo ago
With regards to automation and outsourcing more generally, there was an Odd Lots episode [0] that had the following discussion: - Guy owns a wholesale bakery that delivers to restaurants - They do one delivery a day in the morning to each o

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