besterman23

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by besterman23 6d ago
Stop trying to pump your Tarot reader IPO
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by besterman23 10d ago
“Yes, there’s still enormous uncertainty about what the rest of our lives will look like, but as far as I can tell, there’s no longer any real uncertainty that it’ll all mostly revolve around AI, and the extent to which we succeed or fail
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by besterman23 12d ago
Suppose it matters what order you do it in. The best good thing possible for humans who are all suffering from an extremely painful, incurable disease might just be ending that misery. The worst bad thing possible in a perfect utopia might
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by besterman23 12d ago
Honestly I think it’s an apt punishment for ever inventing YAML in the first place.
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by besterman23 3mo ago
I wonder if multiple attempts at the opossum would produce better results. If we didn’t have the previous example I would interpret this as pretty solid evidence that labs were training on the Pelican “benchmark”. I just can’t imagine a mod
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by besterman23 3mo ago
Yeah if this is his “information he wanted for years” it’s pretty abysmal in terms of crashing the “ai bubble”.
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by besterman23 3mo ago
Yeah, this pretty much seals it for me that Ed has basically nothing. Sure OpenAI isn’t currently profitable, but this doesn’t say to me that they can’t become so soon(ish).
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by besterman23 4mo ago
I believe that AI is not a signal of all white collar jobs being replaced, it’s a signal that SWE was in its own bubble and this is the pressure to pop it. Most software is not needed, YCombinator itself works on the philosophy of “maybe 2&
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by besterman23 4mo ago
Wholeheartedly agree, there are some aspects to SWE that could be considered hard, but most of the time it’s rote pattern matching or simple logic resolutions. People were getting 6-figure salaries with 3 month boot camps before AI, any ran
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by besterman23 4mo ago
You’re arguing to a subset of people who have made work their entire life and have retroactively justified their sacrifices with thoughts such as high compensation means what I do is socially valuable . However, at the same time they work