bobxmax

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by bobxmax 2y ago
No, LLMs have not exited for two decades. What a stupid comment. Millions of people are spending thousands of dollars because they're recieving tens of thousands of dollars of value from it. Of course it's impossible to explain th
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by bobxmax 2y ago
The bigotry is assuming this is a low expectation for a country that gained independence less than 60 years ago.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
How triggered you are betrays your insecurity lmao.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
None of this stuff even existed 3 years ago and you're asking like we're talking about self-driving cars. What hubris. My god.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Yeah I was a jr developer for a year before I became a PM. That's the definition of being "somewhat non-technical" as I put it. you've been a developer for some decades which is why your reality is threatened that your c
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by bobxmax 2y ago
lol "fortune" whatever you say. that's why you're desperately snooping my other comments including that lame "gotcha" to find some confirmation I'm lying? it's ok, all craftsmen who got automated away
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by bobxmax 2y ago
In my experience it's usually a few devs doing the most of that, and the rest are largely banging out features, debugging, refactoring. There's also just a lot more efficiency when you shrink the team.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
If any of that is happening, society is already a fascist dystopian hellhole and my 23andme DNA is least of my problems
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Nope. They were talented devs who all (well, most) landed in great companies after. We just didn't need them anymore because LLMs and tools like cursor are insanely good.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Whatever helps you sleep at night, while the rest of the world zips past you.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
They were good... probably a bit bloated. Without AI we could probably be 5 devs. With AI we can do it all in 1-2.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Guess what happens when you can suddenly build features ahead of schedule? You can make them bulletproof instead of cutting corners. Our code is better and more robust than it's ever been. Our rate of user-reported bugs have dropped mo
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by bobxmax 2y ago
You're willingly naive and blind if you think this isn't happening everywhere around you.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
This is just silly. LLMs have a) More knowledge than the most senior developers b) Can work at ridiculous throughput 24/7
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Probably a bit of both.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Yes, I'm a developer. LLMs allow engineers to become product people themselves.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
I work at a company relatively well-known in Startup-land and I've replaced a product team which had 9 devs 2 years ago with 2 devs with AI. Devs are just coping so hard around LLMs its hard to watch. OTOH the few engineers who have em
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Vibe Coding is a trigger word for devs who insist it's a pointless exercise because it doesn't do 100% of the job. Devs don't seem to realize that's not the point - the point is you can hire less devs if you're only
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by bobxmax 2y ago
I don't believe that's true at all. LLMs, especially reasoning models, tend to be quite good at calling out gaps in their knowledge and understanding. LLMs also don't have the ego, arrogance and biases of humans.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
It's quite odd that people think of hallucinations as a dealbreaker for LLMs. Have they ever even met a human being?
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Humble craftsmen have long been getting replaced by automation and technology. Devs are resisting the same way as everyone else did before them but it's futile. It's just especially poignant/painful because developers are bei
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Two parties, each controlled entirely by corporate interests ferrying out puppets for the populace to choose from The American republic is failing in exactly the ways Plato and Socrates would've predicted it would.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Not at all. Monopolies don't imply an anti-rigid price curve. In fact, monopolies almost never have that. A monopoly means a company has enough leverage to corner and disproportionately own the market. This is entirely possible (and us
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by bobxmax 2y ago
If you can do a $200/mo service for $10/mo, the closed source will reduce their prices to $15/mo and beat you This is just a weird dichotomy you're introducing. Open source will introduce price pressure as any competitio
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by bobxmax 2y ago
As did almost every large tech company today. Amazon lost money for decades. Are we really still doing this nonsense? If Open AI wanted to become profitable they could do it inside of 12 months - growing companies don't care about prof
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by bobxmax 2y ago
The vast majority of people couldn't care less about open source
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by bobxmax 2y ago
ChatGPT is literally generating billions in revenue. Cursor is the fastest growing company of all time. This lame HN trope of LLMs having no business model needs to die.
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by bobxmax 2y ago
It's been interesting seeing those with an entirely materialist understanding of the universe try to grapple with and deal with consciousness as LLMs have emerged. To maintain that belief you have to either believe there is a physical
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by bobxmax 2y ago
"America is awesome for ambitious people" FTFY
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by bobxmax 2y ago
Totally. And where do you work that's so much more succesful? lol No, millions of people smarter and more succesful than you TELLING you it's useful is what makes it more useful. But when you're this arrogant it'll never

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