andrekandre

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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> For a variety of reasons, we no longer cultivate long term familial bonds or friendships, employment, or even product purchases. If you ask me, the world has increasingly become a series of short games that are being exploited by
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> They're happy because LLMs speed that up by a lot, at least initially. Then there are people who enjoy the process and craft of writing code. For them it's hard to let go of manual coding because that's the enjoyabl
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> If AI makes a 10x engineer into an 100x engineer and unlocks this whole world of productivity, getting them to actually deliver 100x requires the proper culture where they aren't blocked by environmental factors, management,
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
i mean, basically your talking to claude through a human proxy at that point... (and yes, i've experienced this exact phenomena as well)
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> - 25% planning & aligning with other teams > - 25% coding > - 25% testing/verifying > - 25% code review/rework legit question: has anyone got ai to do all the above? i've heard people trying ai
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
i see this every day in the field with new juniors... they cant fix anything that would be a 1 line change if they could actually read the code but instead spend hours churning the ai to get the answer... if thats all they could do i'd
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
its basically the end of capitalism... for better or worse...
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> then having more employees would be beneficial, because each can produce even more output this is true even without ai. the issue is does a company have enough ideas/runway for all those employees to generate new value...
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> This doesn't mean LLMs will be as useless as the metaverse, but a lot of the biggest proponents of the technology within companies are those most clueless about it which feels like a red flag. (n=1 here) the end-goal i see
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> a point where training a new model is done only every 5 years or so not to take away from your point, but 5 years is a long time to be out of date (esp with programming languages)... or maybe im misinterpreting?
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
i think it was cory doctorow (?) who said in an interview: "its just a plugin" for your ide... what i see at $employer is wanting to do everything with ai from start to finish (and i mean everything) but from looking at the output
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
well, just to add to that: you cant even have any kind of economy at scale without some central authority to enforce property rights or contract law etc anyways...
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
yes! as an aside: two books that made it almost impossible for me to deal with management "goals" at large corporations anymore: 1. the goal - by goldratt 2. out of the crisis - by deming highly recommended!
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> If 10 workers pre-AI yields you 10x, and post AI yields you 100x, you don't cut down to 1 worker so you can keep delivering 10x. in that scenario then should we be expecting to see a 10x or so boost in revenue as well?
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> So that is to say, if they aren’t happy with the price now, how will they feel when it goes up again compared to just keeping a certain headcount? that got me thinking: how are companies expensing ai costs? as personnel expense
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
i really do wonder what the reason for all this circular financing? what are they trying to accomplish here?
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
yep, to keep them "free" you have to "interefere" with them as an aide, the overloading of the term free is really annoying because it muddles things so much...
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> and unwanted React apps stares at codex "native" app that is actually react/electron [0] [0] https://www.kitze.io/posts/codex-electron-app-technical-brea...
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
well free markets meant something very different in adam smith's time; what they meant by free was 'free from rents' whereas today its usually mean in the milton freedman terms as 'free from any interference' which
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> the era of mass public social networks will come to the end. its just my unsubstantiated guess, but i feel like this is the end-goal of these age-verification laws... but if that were true, what i don't understand is why d
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> some type of like... room... maybe call it a "court"... where people could "judge" whether a person fell on the allowable or disallowable end it sounds a bit difficult to pull it off, but i'm all for i
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
that would be interesting to see with a large longitudinal study any new technology also introduces new bottlenecks, so i wonder if its a 2 steps forwards 1 step backwards (or vice versa) situation (e.g llm summarized my email conversation
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> Why do some software engineers love AI and some hate it? n=1 but i'd say 3 aspects for me: 1. its forced on me at $job; its just a tool so let me use it when i need it and stop making my work-life miserable with childish t
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
i might have agreed with you 4 months ago, but today with open source models i am surprised as anyone with the progress compared to frontier... so much so that i also picked up one of those $250 cards!
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> At minimum, social cohesion requires the ability to sustain and motivate a critical mass of the population. yep, and its right in the name/symbol: the fasces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
is this something you actually tried?
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> Mother Theresa off topic perhaps, but i would hope they were not like mother teresa at all [0] [0] https://allthatsinteresting.com/mother-teresa-saint
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> monitors appear to be installing adware on Windows PCs without asking for permission thats insane, does that mean windows security is basically being bypassed? (as an ex windows user i may ask this already knowing the answer,
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
> Datacenters are willing to pay $50k for a single high end GPU. its true for now, because capital is flowing like a torrent, but how long will that last if returns start to be expected (aka the bubble pops)?
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by andrekandre 3mo ago
the local models open source harnesses are really improving quite fast; just a few months ago i couldn't get any tool calling to work, and responses were very slow (thinking going on too long etc) but now with some newer models on my m

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