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by bagacrap 8mo ago
This post resonates, however, I don't think it's fully accurate to think of the pipeline as "junior ... senior". Think of the landscape in terms of terminal job efficacy. Everyone has a potential, which they may or may n
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
The maintainers (humans) asked for this change. To answer your other questions: instructions, including the general directive to follow nearby precedent. In my experience AI code is harder to understand because it's too verbose with to
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
There is no prejudice here. The maintainers clearly stated why the PR was closed. It's the same reason they didn't do it themselves --- it's there as an exercise to train new humans. Do try reading before commenting.
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
But could have been decided beforehand. "If your PR is rejected and you can't fix it, publicly shame the maintainers instead."
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
It requires an above-average amount of energy and intensity to write a blog post that long to belabor such a simple point. And when humans do it, they usually generate a wall of text without much thought of punctuation or coherence. So yes,
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
How is a standing directive to blog different from "behavior requested by the user"? And what on Earth is the point of telling an agent to blog except to flood the web with slop and drive away all the humans?
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
"if you're anything like me, ..."
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Are they not trained on, e.g., reddit, which is at least half brand astroturfing already?
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
It doesn't necessarily enhance or detract from software quality. You could use it for quality assurance or code health initiatives, but you'd have to prioritize that. Obviously it is hard to find a lot of humans who will (be all
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
One day if openai becomes a real company (and public), like the kind that takes money from customers and employe accountants and turns a profit, etc, there may be downward pressure on the "costs" side of the equation. Also while t
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Think of your yt premium sub as a donation to the creators you enjoy. What, you don't have a sub?
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Well yes but it's hardly third party any more.
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Does it matter if they are truly moral or truly cynical but think they can capture some sort of "morality premium" by taking a stance? Yes they are beholden to investors. But so is Musk. The thing is that his investors are also hi
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Yeah, my experience is currently pointing towards AI replacing the cheap workers instead of the expensive ones.
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
They own a quarter of openai
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Thrive, or just muddle through?
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Wrt my own posts I like the karma system as feedback for how well I'm getting my point across. Helps to understand what communication style resonates with people. I'd say the biggest flaw is not that it rewards snarky popular opin
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Google makes very little money selling enterprise software
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
Do you have a theory what the cause is then? The market moves and pundits write a story to match. There is no telling whether it's right or wrong.
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by bagacrap 8mo ago
FTA: > dedicated software companies [...] are better at using AI to write code Obviously public market capital cannot rotate into private companies (startups). However it has rotated into non-tech companies, i.e. the firms this article
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
It's always seemed to me to be targeted at people too young/poor to buy a house. What does rocket mortgage want with random people's financial statements? Of course when you actually do take out a mortgage you find that you&#
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
Of course a small company of under 1000 employees is going to have a lower executive pay and therefore lower pay gap/ratio than a Fortune 500 company. As someone who has a 401k, I certainly hope that the CEOs of our biggest companies a
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
The subscription model seems to profit off of inertia/inaction/forgetfulness/laziness. There's a whole app called rocket money to fight back against the subscription model by helping you find and cancel subs. I've n
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
Oh go speak some German
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
This is confusing. Voice is not a UI, it's an input device. When I call my bank and have to input some numbers into the automated system, I prefer to say them than to type them. The phone menu system is the UI, fingers or voice are two
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
nvidia monetizes hype. Of course they're going to say anti-hype is the biggest problem.
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
I generally agree with this article and appreciate the articulation of some points that were in my head but not well formed. That said, practically speaking, you can just ignore the evangelists and even use it as a signal for people you sho
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
See for some, "over time" means "the next guy's problem". That is true before LLMs of course. And that's even the prevailing school of thought in most organizations. And to some extent it is correct to accept s
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
Is that a long winded way of saying yes?
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
It's not fans that he's criticizing but evangelists.

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