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by apwell23 2y ago
yep i had the same reaction doing a quick read. Whats the insight here?
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by apwell23 2y ago
you are assuming that cost is stopping from ppl using these technologies. These things are not actually useful. They hyper optimzed it for coding usecase but it still sucks balls at it.
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by apwell23 2y ago
none of the newer kids or managment now care about actual software engineering, unit testing or any such stuff.
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by apwell23 2y ago
oh look another out of touch 'leader' . So sick of these ppl. His career advice should be how to get your work done while appeasing "leaders" like him at work. my company now has mandate that 'all coding work must
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by apwell23 2y ago
> Many companies that were stable, durable market leaders are now in tenuous positions because foundational models threaten to erode their advantage. uh.. which companies are these ? Chegg?
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by apwell23 2y ago
This guy probly doesn't doesn't do any actual work just reads ppl like Mario Damadai who are out there claiming 90% of coding will be done by llms in next 3-6 months. "thought leaders" are a plague on working ppl.
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by apwell23 2y ago
euros genocided all of south america.
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by apwell23 2y ago
Chinese want revenge on the west for colonizing them. You think they just forgot about 'century of humiliation' and just moved on? naive
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by apwell23 2y ago
It always amazing to me how close some of these buildings to the site are. These look like ordinary middle class buildings too. your view from your bathroom is an ancient temple from 3 century AD ?
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by apwell23 2y ago
my wife couldn't breastfeed because there was no milk production. That's the top recommendation? Now what will happen to my son?
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by apwell23 2y ago
usa has a whole agency for it National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). edit: to ppl claiming this must be useless because its in usa is incredible ignorant and insulting to ppl who work there. pls do minimum of resear
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by apwell23 2y ago
well..giving out exact dates is different from 'some path to breakthroughs' . Why do you think Dario is giving out exact dates?
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by apwell23 2y ago
This is not real though.
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by apwell23 2y ago
i live in chicago and just stared taking my son to preschool on the local El train. Would love to do that when he goes to school.
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by apwell23 2y ago
my comment from another thread applies here too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362343
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by apwell23 2y ago
L5 and chill
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by apwell23 2y ago
how about working for state govts like IL or CA. I have friends in both but they are not worried (yet).
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by apwell23 2y ago
you believe AI will double human lifespan by 2027? Is this some sort of cult that i am not a part of.
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by apwell23 2y ago
Coding is one thing that all these LLM companies crazy optimized for and yet its only marginally useful. Dario Amodai calming yesterday that 90% of coding will be done by AI in next 3-6 months. These ppl need to be held accountable for thi
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by apwell23 2y ago
I think these sort of articles are CTO fodder, i have friends who have their company mandate that "all coding should now use AI " .
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by apwell23 2y ago
Yep exactly. If what this person is claiming is true we would've seen major acceleration in number of long standing bugs/issues in an open source project like pytorch. I don't see any such thing. Is this Addy Osmani person so
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by apwell23 2y ago
AI isn't "astonishingly good" at 70% of things. I have to manually check everything it produces and 90% of time it gets something wrong. I feel like i am living in an alternate reality than these ppl. wtf am i am i missing h
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by apwell23 2y ago
No. Not at all.
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by apwell23 2y ago
> Last year I read an article saying like 30% of children in India are stunted. We were solidly middle class in india that never went hungry. All our kids in USA now are atleast 3-4 inches taller than us. They are often taller than their
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by apwell23 2y ago
> Do you know what self care you need? How can you start making time for it? Can your wife / parents / in law help? Can you hire someone? Or can you combine stuff? yes skiing is my passion in life. I feel like it was brutally t
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by apwell23 2y ago
> Right now every buyer of American kit is feverishly evaluating non-US alternatives. they are doing what they should've been doing this whole time?
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by apwell23 2y ago
> invest that time where you're sure to derive meaning from it. all my time is taken up with doing work, chores at home and childcare. I feel fucking depressed.
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by apwell23 2y ago
late 30s is the prime dating market for men when scales tip towards their favor. enjoy!!
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by apwell23 2y ago
too mental to see who you are responding to ? maybe worry about your own health first.
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by apwell23 2y ago
> Were you in a coma until a couple of hours ago and just read this thread without any prior context? lol whats with you and personal insults. maybe step away from the screen, take a breather, drink some tea or something.

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