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by andrei_says_ 5mo ago
“ I don't know, but here's my attempt to help.” “I don’t know” would be so much more productive and respectful than “here, this may be useful or completely useless, figure it out on your own time. Took me 30 seconds to produce…” A
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by andrei_says_ 5mo ago
You could, with a large enough captive audience.
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by andrei_says_ 5mo ago
I sometimes wonder, what does one need a second 500 billion that the first 500 billion is not enough for?
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Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags(arstechnica.com)
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by andrei_says_ 5mo ago
The lesson is that if you’re too big to fail no laws apply to you and there unlimited money to be made. It has been learned very well. The brazen violation of intellectual property was a precondition of making this technology useful. Taking
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by andrei_says_ 5mo ago
Also the replacement of craftsmanship with mass produced lower quality output possible for workers with less training and partial understanding to produce. Processes are more efficient, machines are faster, workers are easily replaceable. T
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by andrei_says_ 5mo ago
As someone who also designs, the few web page designs I saw produced by LLMs were ugly, generic, not accessible… unusable. Even after prompting, I had to throw away all. No useful ideas just slop. I’m sure there’s a lot to philosophize abou
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
People continue making amazing art and surely keep writing. Slop is however flooding the space. I think at this point curation and trusting existing sources is crucial.
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
Better for privacy? iOS. Better for voice search/assistant? Probably Android. Better for voice dictation? Android. Better keyboard? Android. Better integration with other same-os devices? iOS. Better UX? Likely whichever you’re used to
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
The equivalent of a student copying their homework. Schools are not publishing houses for homework assignments. Struggling with the homework is the process training the student. Was
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
Do you use principles of nonviolent communication in your work? Or another framework to establish nondefensive listening?
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
> If we generate so much code using AI that no one is really looking or reading the code anymore, just verifying end functionality, we can really just skip all that and go straight to assembler, no? We could also just autogenerate the co
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
Web agencies talk to clients and provide them with packaged services in understandable language. Coding is a part of what clients pay for. Agency clients want nothing to do with coding. So make that part cheaper and faster and use the compe
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
I wonder if there’s a central repository of now exploited chrome extensions? The chrome team does not seem to see security as a high enough priority.
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
What are the meetup themes? What brings the interesting people in?
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by andrei_says_ 6mo ago
I’m genuinely impressed by the speed of mass slopification raising the toxicity of the whole internet. And now poisoning human attention and the very ability to reason. At scale. Makes me think of Kali Yuga, the age of ignorance. Are we doi
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
Bikeshedding seems to have shifted from code to LLMs which is a step further. We used to have the very difficult task of producing working scalable maintainable code describing complex systems which do what we need them to do. Now on top of
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
My dentist is more skilled at dentistry than 99.999% of humans. Why would I want to replace her with a machine which is more skilled than 99% of non dentists but 1000 times worse by an educated experienced dentist?
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
Stupid but industrious and prolific. Also very confident.
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
The question is, who made the new framework? Was it vibe coded by someone who does not understand its code?
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
Care, initiative, long-term thinking, clear communication, collaboration skills, soft skills, candor, technical expertise.
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
An infinitely patient and somewhat schizophrenic teacher.
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
For the time being. Their manager is under constant pressure to lay them off and replace them with “ai”.
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
Which is fine if we are fine with pretending to do our jobs. But deep down I know that slop is noise and words no longer represent understanding.
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
That’s 385g vs Bose QC45’s 240g (8.5oz).
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
Important to remember that these skills evolve iteratively and often best in an apprenticeship environment. No one started with these abilities. They get developed by solving problems and getting better at it.
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
What ai? LLMs are language models, operating on words, with zero understanding. Or is there a new development which should make me consider anthropomorphizing them?
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by andrei_says_ 7mo ago
Turns out for a photo gallery json is just a bit tiny-er than html. And static html is so much simpler. With proper links just working with the browsers built-in nav.
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by andrei_says_ 8mo ago
> Leaders haven't all gone insane, they answer to difficult questions with the narrative of least resistance. Brilliantly said. I’d like to add - a distorted narrative actively, intentionally established and maintained by the entiti
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by andrei_says_ 8mo ago
Maybe it depends on whose office? C-suite management who salivate after reducing software engineer headcount?

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