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by bonesss 8mo ago
These giant firms aren’t uniform monoliths, especially MS. Microsoft has some clear ‘A’ teams (compilers, industry leading languages, F*, pioneering web tech, OS innovations, etc), but also ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ teams, and MS is often reactively
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I can’t help but feel the logical conclusion to such context conundrums is that” what if we spoke Haskell to the LLM, and also the LLM could compile Haskell? ” And, yeah. Imagine if our concept-words were comprehensible, transmittable, exha
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> Measure productivity by all means—I’m all for accountability—ideally as tangible business impact… proxy business metrics are fine too… Just don’t try to measure the individual contribution of a unit in a complex adaptive system, becaus
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Recent experiments with LLM recipes (ChatGPT): missed salt in a recipe to make rice, then flubbed whether that type of rice was recommended to be washed in the recipe it was supposedly summarizing (and lied about it, too)… Probabilistic gen
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I think the web/system dichotomy is also a major conflating factor for LLM discussions. A “few hundred lines of code” in Rust or Haskell can be bumping into multiple issues LLM assisted coding struggles with. Moving a few buttons on a
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Compare both approaches to mature actor frameworks and they don’t seem to be breaking much ice. These kinds of supervisor trees and hierarchies aren’t new for actor based systems and they’re obvious applications of LLM agents working in co
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Not to mention data retention and upgrade management. When an update script jacks up the guaranteed-to-be-robust vibed data setup in this first of a kind, one of a kind, singular installation… what then? The pros have separate dev, test, QA
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F# and C# are typed scripting languages. F# is quite similar to python in script form (.fsx), and has OCamls expressiveness, exhaustive pattern matching, and type inference. That results in highly expressive, terse, and ergonomic domain co
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A company I worked at years ago had a devious and exploitative approach to market domination: hiring older super experienced workers and plugging them into teams with young over-eager programmers… People with deep industry knowledge who wer
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For mature Enterprises my understanding is that the financial math works out such that the cloud becomes smart for market validation, before moving to cheaper long term solution once revenue is stable. Scale up, prove the market and establi
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Working faster, but at what? LLM workflow: Describing to Claude that I need an edit made in the second paragraph of the third section feels easy, comfortable, and straightforward. I’m using my speech centers, speech to text, and then I wait
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I see Microsoft throwing spaghetti at the wall just in time as “AI” functionality hits government and educational procurement procedures. The copilot product is obviously borked, and is outshone by ‘free’ competitors (Gemini, ChatGPT). Bu
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I feel the market forces kinda point the other way, though, since the customization of the SaaS is also cheapening, but faster and more targeted than these internal teams. Over time I believe that’ll lead to more, not less, SaaS consolidati
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We all use floats down here.
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by bonesss 9mo ago
It’s older than that - lots of my boomer bosses did it to seem cool over email in the late 90s. I viscerally remember starting my day with my inbox saying “ cum c me ”… I know what you’re trying to do, bro, but damn. We are young and old al
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The part of X’s reaction to their own publishing I’m most looking forward to seeing in slow-motion in the courts and press was their attempt at agency laundering by having their LLM generate an apology in first-person. “ Sorry I broke the l
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Talking and typing feels far more productive that staring and thinking, and there is a cumulative effect of those breaks to check Reddit while something is generating. Humans are notoriously bad at estimating time use with different subject
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> AI can write the code, but it doesn't refuse to write the code without first being told why it wouldn't be a better idea to… LLMs combine two dangerous traits simultaneously: they are non-critical about suboptimal approaches
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by bonesss 9mo ago
I think it makes more sense if you invert the manufacturing cycle. Automated asteroid mining, and asteroid harvesting, are potential areas where we have strong tech, a reasonable pure automation story, and huge financial upsides. Trillion d
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How come if I download code from GitHub, rename some stuff, and republish it under another license I’m a bad guy, but if I ask ChatGFY to do it for me I’m a 10x Chad? … someone is gonna figure that part out in court. I remember what code SC
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My experience with good outsourcing firms is that they come back with heavily-documented solutions that are 95% of what you actually wanted, leaving you uncomfortably wondering if doing it yourself woulda been better. I’m not fully sure wha
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I think you’re highlighting an aspect of agentic coding that’s undervalued: what to do once trust is breached… ? With humans you can categorically say ‘ this guy lies in his comments and copy pastes bullshit everywhere ’ and treat them cons
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Thinking hard about how CoPilot fits into the MS ecosystem (Power BI, SharePoint, Dynamics, Office entrenchment, etc), and how their consultant mills work, I’m convinced there’s a meaningful space for unnecessary, unpopular, or suboptimal L
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On the .Net VM you’re describing F#, mostly by virtue of being based on OCaml. Contrasted with TypeScript and C#, F# is smaller, more expressive, stricter, with mature pattern matching and type resolution baked in from the ground up. F# wa
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Microsoft’s market position is reliant on Linux and access to Linux development to keep Azure competitive. Cross-platform capabilities on the .Net VM are critical to compete with the JVM and associated databases. C# has been windows-first
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About a year ago I made an ChatGPT and Claude based hobo RAG-alike solution for exploring legal cases, using document creation and LLMs to craft a rich context window for interrogation in the chat. Just maintaining a basic interaction frame
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Key differences, though: Humans are reliably unreliable. Some are lazy, some sloppy, some obtuse, some all at once. As a tech lead you can learn their strengths and weaknesses. LLMs vacillate wildly while maintaining sycophancy and arroga
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That completely glosses over the actual behaviour of Microsoft, and ignoring the kinds of career, business, project, and reputational damage those tactics did. MS’s attacks on open source, open formats, and free software impacted and still
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The MS of today is actively reaping the benefits of the EEE & openly shady business years. Their behavioural changes can be framed as an intentional reformation, but also as exhausting high-value targets, losing monopolies, and settling
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I think that transition, from OS/Desktop company to a Cloud Services Provider, is where the rot comes from. The financial incentives are to upsell incompetent IT departments onto forever subscriptions. The poor products lead to fat ove

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