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by angarg12 4y ago
I have an academic background and I feel exactly the same. I find it difficult to take anything not backed by data seriously, unless it's pure opinion (and presented as such). However these kind of posts are commonplace and often very
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The same goes for interiors really. Instead of looking at AirBnB, which is biased, have a browse in any real estate website, where you can see picture of places regular people actually live in. Most of them aren't curated and well pres
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I discussed my experience using ChatGPT in HN before and I was accused of being skeptical. But it isn't true at all, I think LLMs are a wonderful tool that will change software development. However I'm not worried about losing my
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by angarg12 4y ago
Is not skepticism, it's curbed optimism. I don't feel that my job is at risk of disappearing. Instead I think we'll be using LLMs as tools to do our job better.
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Last week I used ChatGPT for the first time for a real world task at work. It was a self-contained lambda function to perform some admin tasks, so it seemed like an ideal fit. Although the experience was good, it's far from the end of
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by angarg12 4y ago
Are anonymous Blind posts really worth of HN front page?
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by angarg12 4y ago
It is exhausting. I get bombarded daily by a deluge of hustle culture paraphernalia. Start a side hustle. Monetize your hobbies. FIRE by 30 (I'm too late for that). Build the next big thing. Optimize your life. 10x your productivity.
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by angarg12 4y ago
My cynical take is this: if you are worried about LLM taking programming jobs away, why do you think your alternatives are safe? Not gonna lie, as an experienced engineer I'm also worried and anxious about ChatGPT (combined with the ec
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I'm definitely getting better at asking questions, but the tool still seems to have some very rough edges. Here is my most egregious example. I asked ChatGPT to produce code for a very specific approach. It produced ok code, but I didn
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I keep reading examples like this, but every time I used ChatGPT at work it ends up saving me a bit of time completing my task (at best), definitely nothing as impressive. I wonder if these examples are heavily cherry-picked, or if I'm
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When I studied my BsC in Computer Science 20 years ago it was a grueling 5 years with lots of cruft and fluff. Even the more useful parts weren't particularly current, e.g. we used waterfall for all of our projects. I'm convinced
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> I consistently pay attention to what Amazon does, as the company has read the market well for the past decades: both from a business perspective, and also from how to attract and retain software engineers - doing this in a frugal way.
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There is something magical about the 10 years mark that compels people to write blog post showering us with their wisdom. I crossed that line several years back and my biggest realization is how little I knew back then. I believe it's
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I see this in the ML space as well. I'm working in a team doing ML and ML-ops, and every time we open a position we get a flood of applications. Some have masters degree in ML but many are regular devs who want to move into the ML spac
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I hope people will excuse my cynicism Step 1: Rehash a bunch of existing ideas together (PoC, vertical slice, strangler pattern). Step 2: Give it a flashy new name. Step 3: Market your consulting services as an expert for flashy new name. S
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This sounds like the kind of high risk gamble that relies on prices continuously going up to work out. It might work out for some and hit it big, or the market can go belly up and leave you in ruin. I'm also a bit weary of having to ma
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by angarg12 4y ago
Thank you for this comment, in case someone misunderstood my original post. I'm from a working class family myself. My parents were factory workers, and they managed to buy a new 4 bed apartment in a new part of town and raise 3 childr
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Cost of living is definitely much bigger than you make it to be. Just paying rent, car, bills, etc. easily cost 5k a month. A good chunk of my comp is stocks, which could go up or down with time, so a bit of a wildcard there. My wife is a f
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Funny reading some comments. I currently live in the northern part of Kirkland, in a very average suburb. This isn't rich people houses folks, these are middle (possibly lower middle) class houses. Most people here didn't pay 1M f
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Nope, Greater Seattle Area. Still, we are a couple nearing our 40s, it seems insane to me that we need to "settle down" for a 1 bedroom flat while making ~3x the median local income.
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I'm a new immigrant to the US, and housing is my single biggest worry together with my work visa. Our household income is north of 300k, but housing still seems unaffordable. It might sound like whining, but we only achieve this level
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by angarg12 4y ago
That's a very judgmental reply that also misrepresent my comment. I don't work at Google, so I cannot speak for them. My company does have studies and experiments around interviewing, but again, the metric they use for success is
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I work for a big tech, and I have yet to see any evidence that leetcode-style interviews lead to better hires. If that data is being tracked anywhere, it's kept very secret. In fact the metric that recruitment uses for success is &quot
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My general take on successful people giving advice is to ask yourself "how reproducible is this?". When the advice hinges on a unique set of circumstances that you can't reproduce, then they are likely giving you their lotter
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It seems to me that one of the issues is that the (more extreme) woke culture has put the entire burden of communication on the speakers rather than the listeners. Is not enough that you intend to offend, or that you say something that offe
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I work for a big tech co, and our interview training explicitly says to not ask candidates about systems they have built in the past, but to ask them to build brand new systems from scratch. This seems completely backwards to me. Is like sa
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I was part of the Cards and Accounts Management team, and I never witnessed anything that would make me think of fraud. Sure, I saw some weird things, but not "billions of euros fraud" weird. I honestly doubt that anyone but a v
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by angarg12 4y ago
I worked for Wirecard in ~2017. Now that the company is no more I guess I'm free to talk about it. Wirecard is without a doubt the worst company I worked for. Nevermind the legacy ball of mud, the whole work environment was toxic. Blam
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Quite a few years back I had a conversation with a colleague about how "curator" would be a hot job in the future. I envisioned an internet awash with content from the "creator economy", and a breed of people picking up
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