cleandreams

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by cleandreams 3y ago
My question is, how do you become a senior developer when the junior developer just keeps throwing "working" "good enough" code at you? I think companies will want more code faster to the extent that fewer people will em
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I am worried that AI assisted code will be a competitive advantage so that the downsides will not be addressed until there are serious failures in critical code. Boeing but for power plants, for example.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I've been an engineer at FAANG. I think the problems consultants face are simpler than the ones confronting engineers who need to become expert at million line code bases. There are coding standards, styles, security practices. I think
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by cleandreams 3y ago
My experience also. Whenever a site doesn't work I try it in chrome and bing -- and it doesn't work there also.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
After all the layoffs we still have an unemployment rate of of 3.4% (as of Nov). In Seattle it is 3.6% (as of Oct). Also the fact the population is increasing probably reflects job hires. It's expensive here. Who else would move here?
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I live in SF and I think the doom loop narrative is true of downtown. So many job cuts (though I think the AI boom is already gaining traction). However the neighborhoods are dreamy, as good as ever. The city lost population during the pand
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by cleandreams 3y ago
Yes, Nadella.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I have several issues with coding assistants. Over time, will less skilled programmers produce more critical code? I think so. At some point a jet will fall out of the sky because the coding assistant wasn't correct and the whole profe
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I worked for a startup acquired by Microsoft and suffice to say, MS is a culture killer. Our open dynamism and free discussion withered under a blanket of MS management. I don't think it's possible that the cultures of OpenAI and
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by cleandreams 3y ago
The last compiler I wrote needed to be translated to another implementation language. The translator found one bug in it. It was effectively bug free. I am a good coder. I recognize most of these feelings though. Struggling through them is
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by cleandreams 3y ago
Uh, no. Generative AI does not have a standard of truth. It generates text according to the probabilities given what it learned from its data set. There is no systematic modelling of a world that it can test its assertions against. What are
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I had a student in my class who wrote about being from a "low caste" background. So when a friend hosted a woman from India on her podcast who said there was so caste discrimination in India I spoke up about this. The podcast gues
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I went to a dentist for 20 years. He was a visiting professor in a dental school and was of the school, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." My teeth are basically good and I take care of them well. After he retired the ne
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by cleandreams 3y ago
This is SEO. I read a food blogger on this. She had to make her recipes long, long, long with lots of fluff or it wouldn't get a good ranking. Google should stop this. It's just going to make ChatGPT more attractive.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
Why should we imagine that?
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by cleandreams 3y ago
This has literally never happened to me. I started using it almost daily 3 years ago.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I have begun to find bing search invaluable. It's annoying to use google although I don't even like the bing user interface for AI search. Much too hard to get to. I don't want a single extra keystroke.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
Once you've trained on the internet and most published books (and more...) what else is there to do? You can't scale up massively anymore.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
One problem in San Francisco is that the private schools are truly expensive. One good high school, Urban, has a tuition of 55K year. That means it is hard to leave the public system even when it has these awful flaws. San Francisco has nev
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by cleandreams 3y ago
Property theft is bad, significantly worse than the other 20 largest American cities. However murder and aggravated assault are about 50% lower than the average in the same set of cities.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
Wow. I've lived in SF since 1980 and I don't know a soul who had a home invasion robbery. I know several in Oakland.
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by cleandreams 3y ago
My B.S. C.S. was a fabulous deal. It's funding my retirement. I will be forever grateful to the State of California for the inexpensive solid education available to me. I did not go to a fancy school but it was enough to get me into a
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by cleandreams 3y ago
Living in SF for 30 years I am over, over, over severely mentally ill people killing themselves and harming others. No, they don't take their meds. The consequences mean they do need involuntary hospitalization. This has to be done wit
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by cleandreams 4y ago
I once read a shocking statistic that children of the poor in London during the Industrial Revolution were 6 inches shorter than children of the rich. What raised the standard of living was bloody, persistent labor revolt. It wasn't pr
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by cleandreams 4y ago
It's not just issues of tech and economics but perhaps more importantly, of power. If workers have political representation (power) than these productivity increases can feed into wage increases and hour reductions. A big if. In USA, w
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by cleandreams 4y ago
So much about this is funny. Microsoft! ha ha ha. I bet google is rolling in the aisles. AI hallucinations! I've had a view. A great way to liven up the work day. The only distasteful part is the accuracy checks that are necessary...
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by cleandreams 4y ago
With you. It's excellent fun.
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by cleandreams 4y ago
sometimes I wonder what havoc would break loose if we ever had a serious conflict with China.
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by cleandreams 4y ago
I totally agree. I was an SAT high tester in an unsupportive home. I was not a good student. I had actually flunked a grade in elementary school though they let me pass. BTW, I ended up as a principal level at Microsoft. When I tested 99.9
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Microsoft takes axe to Metaverse, Project Bonsai(rcpmag.com)
5 points by cleandreams 4y ago|1 comments

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