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by claytongulick 3mo ago
I love the aesthetic, and I really love that they implemented it as a web component library.
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by claytongulick 3mo ago
Losing your job, being "cancelled", publicly vilified and unhirable is not the same as being executed, so therefore we should dismiss it as a false equivalency?
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by claytongulick 3mo ago
LLMs are the tech in question, not ML (AI?) in general. LLMs are fundamentally limited by their architecture to only return a token predicted by a statistical inference, essentially lossy decompression. It's like arguing that taking an
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by claytongulick 3mo ago
Alternatively, you can walk away from your career in disgust, taking your skills and experience with you, as many people are. Should be interesting to see what happens to the programming profession when there isn't anyone around anymor
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by claytongulick 3mo ago
Richard Sutton apparently disagrees [1]. He argues that it's impossible for anything novel to come from a LLM. [1] https://youtu.be/kEbVTcncuX0?is=gEMe5zD9sXWD4ONy
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by claytongulick 3mo ago
That's like saying "there's no way to remove emotion from a conversation". Of course not, emotion is always present. But adults practice emotional regulation and work hard to prevent it from interfering with relationship
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by claytongulick 3mo ago
I've been writing code since the 80s, professionally since the mid 90s, in almost every major language, platform and operating system, from 8 bit microcontrollers to large scale web platforms. So, not sure that counts as "serious&
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by claytongulick 3mo ago
Mattermost's licensing is a little confusing, but from what I understand, you're only really super-restricted if you use the prebuilt binaries (which have a different license than the source code). IIRC if you build it yourself it
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
I can't find it, but I read an article somewhere that many "blue zones" also had grossly skewed metrics due to public benefits fraud - relatives weren't reporting the family member's death so that they could continu
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
Firefly
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
I think the genie gets put back in the bottle, at least partly. I don't think the future is massive data centers running at a staggering loss to generate questionable code. The future is rethinking IDEs to have local models work in par
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
I guess that means there will be at least two of us.
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
I agree with your nitpick, I think. If your argument is that LLMs are more effective and less costly than typical low-quality outsourced code, I generally agree with that, depending on the details. For prototype/POC stuff, absolutely.
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
Yes, we have, though that wasn't my point - I was comparing LLMs to offshore development. But since you bring it up, those of us that have been around a while have used many code generation tools that took care of tedious work like mod
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
> Software is now very easily replicable How? Do you mean by AI? I haven't seen any evidence of this. It was always possible to get code generated at large volumes for low cost (offshore/outsource market) but we didn't see
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
Not sure if you read the same paper I did? From the abstract: "Research over the past decade has demonstrated two co-occurring patterns of spaceflight effects on the brain and behavior: dysfunction and adaptive plasticity. Evidence ind
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
> but might have zero influence in your thinking at the brain operation level Most of the people that I follow that research this stuff at the doctoral level say that they (and modern science) have very little idea about how consciousnes
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
My impression is that the fundamental issue is that LLMs attempt to extract reasoning (executive execution) from data (relationship between tokens). There's an open question about whether this is theoretically possible, but it doesn&#x
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
This is a great article, and I agree with most of it. The problem is that the wrong eyes are seeing it. We need these kinds of articles to be published in places that executives read, and tailored to their audience. AI recovery is going to
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
I had to stop reading after: "This is not just another incremental release. OpenCV 5 is a major step forward." If a human can't be bothered to write a piece, I can't be bothered to read it.
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
At least in my case, I don't think that's where the anger is coming from. If LLMs were truly able to replace me, I'd be disappointed, sure - I've spent 30 years developing mastery of a craft, it's sad to see it go.
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by claytongulick 4mo ago
I loved mine. Had it since the 90s, working perfectly. One day a few years ago my dad came by and was admiring it (it was a QS8) and asked to borrow it so he could play piano again. I, of course, said sure, but was feeling a little salty ab
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
Maybe? I don't know. I used to agree with this, but after the umpteenth time of Claude recommending some obsolete or dead old library, old version, getting major version breaking changes dead wrong, writing code for it that's not
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
I was offered a project to develop a game for this sweet old lady once. She'd heard that if you made a video game and sold it, you would make a lot of money, so she'd decided to take her life savings, $200k, and hire someone to ma
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
Oldtimers 'round these parts call it "slashdotted"
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
And that's the problem. The companies that agree with you will be at an interesting place when they have piles of AI slop code and no talented developers.
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle...
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
I just finished talking to a dev manager friend of mine at a household name company. He told me they are massively pulling back on the AI stuff. Right now the lashback is about cost, because that's the most easily measured pain point.
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
A series "H" for $65 billion and no path to profitability is existing fine?
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
> Honestly, there is nothing in my head that Claude cannot handle. One idea is that maybe it could figure out how many L's are in the word "google" [1] Or, maybe which days of the week have a "d" in their spellin

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