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by camdenreslink 3mo ago
I wonder about his marketing channels. If it was primarily SEO, that has taken a huge hit especially for programming related searches since AI answers showed up at the top of the SERP.
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by camdenreslink 3mo ago
Really depends on the suburb. Where I live in NYS (a suburb of Buffalo) all of those things are within walking distance if you live within the village limits.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
In some languages you can create a type that is equivalent to a string, but it’s own distinct type (sometimes called the New Type pattern). Which I guess is the same as a struct with a single field, but languages have syntactic sugar, and d
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
I had a repeatable process set up with o4-mini that gave very good results. It generated output in a structured format, and the results were fairly formulaic but good. I did a lot of runs of this process and observed a lot of output. I set
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
Yea, more likely for the majority of the code nobody reviewed it. It was over a million line diff.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
Most people have no need for a SOTA model, and even a model from a year ago would be fine for their needs (a little bit of research, small bits of writing prose, etc).
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
It's true for computer science and any STEM discipline. Even if the PhD eventually does account for increased wages (it often doesn't), you usually have to work decades at that higher rate to make up the foregone wages. I would on
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
I think it just depends on the workflow. A lot of times (probably the majority of the time) a well crafted deterministic process is what people want. Sometimes you can have a multistep deterministic workflow with a decision that needs made
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
The real best case scenario is using LLMs to help build deterministic systems. Instead of asking an LLM to do some task that you know will be repeated, instead ask the LLM to build a program (Python script or whatever) to do the task.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
Getting a PhD is almost never worth the foregone wages if your goal is to be in private industry. For sure, people should get one if they are interested in research, or specific jobs that are only available to people with PhDs. But otherwis
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
I agree, it seems like the current most popular languages and frameworks will become ossified, because they have the highest amount of training data. It's hard to see a future where Python and JavaScript aren't the most popular la
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
> many are doing class-wide weighted adjustments Isn't this just grading on a curve, which has been done probably as long as universities have existed? The key is the instructor making sure a high standard is met (which seems to be
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
You should probably use software to do such large transformations (especially in dynamic languages). In Python LibCST is available, not sure what exists for Ruby.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
I'm sure the many software engineers employed in his companies love to hear that.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
I think you agree with me? It is unambiguously associated with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
To be fair PwC is a very well established initialism. It would be like saying HTTP but actually referring to something other than the well understood meaning of that thing.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
Humans also make mistakes in ways that other humans can understand or expect. Sometimes LLMs make mistakes in a way that makes you say “no human would have ever done that”.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
The original post said “in college”. It might be true for PhD candidates halfway through their program, but that’s like 0.5% of college students. The vast majority of students are leagues behind their instructors in domain knowledge.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
People game benchmarks for fake internet points to get their favorite web framework to the top of the list. I'm pretty sure they will do it for billions of dollars.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
Even Python is very old (in programming terms), version 1.0 was released in 1994. Many here weren't born yet.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
Why would you create a homegrown port of Docker? Docker the container software, or Dockerhub the image repository? This is just confusing. If you didn't want to use Docker there is a perfectly good well tested alternative called Podman
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
> Any eng that is only using Claude Code or Codex or whatever, is frankly not entitled to talk about AI's limits since they are using the most basic harnesses. They literally don't know better. I really doubt big tech has much
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
> Let's not pretend that someone with prior software skills will be able to produce larger scale and/or higher quality work compared to someone with no experience. This seems like a really confident prediction. It isn't tr
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
If an email address with a + symbol doesn't work then that is a bug because that is a valid email address.
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
This hasn’t been my experience. State of the art models available to the public still do all sorts of bandaids and bad hacks. Putting code where it doesn’t belong. Stapling types onto variable (in TypeScript) when abstractions/types al
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
There are some really obvious things that are definitely bugs. If login doesn’t work if your email address contains the letter “e” when the expectation is all valid email addresses should work, then that is a bug. It isn’t “indistinguishabl
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by camdenreslink 4mo ago
There are a lot of instances where you don't want to create an abstraction that will tie two disparate areas of the code together even if they happen to be using a similar pattern you want to copy. For example, when you expect their im
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by camdenreslink 5mo ago
Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in action
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by camdenreslink 5mo ago
I believe they also excluded stock-based compensation from their calculation, which could easily tip them in the non-profitable direction.
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by camdenreslink 5mo ago
The low budget marketing channels that worked in the past are harder in this post-LLM world. SEO seems to have changed a lot, email marketing now involves trying to escape the Promotions tab, organic social media marketing is much harder to

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