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by bagacrap 1y ago
Unfortunately the MBAs don't seem to want to judge LLMs on their merits, so we're stuck with option 3: LLMs aren't good but still displace programmers. And also capitalism, so if you're out of work you also don't ge
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Except that "to work" really means "to seem to work on the first try"
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by bagacrap 1y ago
You could not do that where I work because no one would sign off on your changes.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Feels like he's overestimating his own diligence. After all a couple weeks is not enough time to discover all the shortcomings of this output.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Can you come up with other examples of forced tool usage that retrospectively made sense?
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by bagacrap 1y ago
And there are delusions of grandeur that non engineers get from vibe coding.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
But presumably if you could get 4x done in the office you'd only have to work one week for every month you worked from home. Seems worth it even if lazy? I agree with the second paragraph. I seek out ways to be more productive, whether
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by bagacrap 1y ago
It's funny because certain ones of my coworkers want to use AI to understand code for them, which they apparently can't do just by reading it. The suggested comments are either wrong or bland even when they just describe a single
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I dunno, I don't find it so bad. I know what I'm about to type, and occasionally the AI guesses right, so it saves me some keystrokes. I don't bother reading/understanding what it suggests if it doesn't match what I
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I think there's a U shaped curve here. Make it all the way to Principal software engineer and you might be expected to work longer hours and bend your personal sense of ethics in service of the company's mission.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
found the guy who's sick every other Monday ^
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by bagacrap 1y ago
It's because the AI coding fans already don't know programming languages, so they're learning a new language/interface either way. That, and their software doesn't actually have any users, I find.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
So LLMs are always phoning it in, on a bad day, etc. Great. I recently tried to get AI to refactor some tests, which it proceeded to break. Then it iterated a bit till it had gotten the pass rate back up to 75%. At this point it declared vi
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by bagacrap 1y ago
My experience is that AI enthusiasts will always say, "well you just used the wrong model". And when no existing model works well, they say, "well in 6 months it will work". The utility of agentic coding for complex proj
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I can already copy paste existing code and tweak it to do what I want (if you even consider that "software engineering"). The difference being that my system clipboard is deterministic, rather than infinitely creative at inventing
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by bagacrap 1y ago
There are a lot of human engineers who do a fine job in these situations, akshwally. If it isn't easy to give commands to LLMs, then what is the purpose of them?
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Plus it's the mega monopoly that is already being scrutinized by the government. Every tech company seems to start out with too much credibility that it has to whittle down little by little before we really hold them accountable.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I do tend to be a bit suspicious of the one-day "under the weather" events. However I do think we need to make extra room for parents (I am not one, yet). I'm going to need a doctor who's younger than me when I'm 80
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by bagacrap 1y ago
There is an assertion at stake here along the lines of "he took advantage of me" which is either objectively true or is not objectively true. It may be impossible for us to know what his actual motivation was at the time the undis
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by bagacrap 1y ago
"Figma is a massive success [...] because of the company’s innovative growth" Given that this sell side analyst defines success as growth, this seems rather like a tautology.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
It's also not "your" startup once there are shareholders, including employees. If it's a one person shop, then sure it's "yours", and the FTC can't block you from being hired (that I'm aware).
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by bagacrap 1y ago
You concluded that these "accusations" (your word) are perhaps "the truth" (your word) based only on the information that some facts are worked into the accuser's story (we can assume some details are factual as nei
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Not saying I know the truth here, but you are falling for the oldest trick in the book. Effective lies always work in little tidbits of truth (as externally known/validated by the audience).
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by bagacrap 1y ago
All your replies in this thread make sense only if you see zero value in security. Security is not about being "technically pristine".
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Doesn't sound like it was worth it to the paying customers/guinea pigs whose data became vulnerable bc your friend said "security? Lol". But I guess that's true of normie-coded startups as well.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I blame the tech industry less than I blame the financial industry. Meme stocks, after all, don't have much to do with technology, aside from telecommunications enabling mass coordination among retail actors. Bitcoin doesn't eithe
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Just build nuclear.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Never heard of corporate bonds? When developers/investors fail, they do take down projects with them. See: Oak Knoll/Lehman Brothers. But yeah, I don't believe the state of California is going to do any better.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
> There might be a story here about the hypocrisy of a CEO and an HR officer having an in-house affair that might get lesser-ranking employees fired. Uh, what? They did get fired. It doesn't matter what level of the company you occu
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Nobody would have recognized he was a semi public figure

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