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by dakiol 5mo ago
True, but in my experience teams don't make the whole codebase type hinted. There's always something that escapes.
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by dakiol 5mo ago
I want to use Obsidian... but I won't as long as it's not open source. I know I can keep all my files as plain text, but that's not enough for me. Using a KB on a daily basis shapes my workflows and having to change that from
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by dakiol 5mo ago
Problem with Python and other non-strict typed languages is that if you let an LLM to write some stuff, you cannot truly be confident that nothing has broken. Even if your tests all pass. The LLM could have broken some path that only gets r
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by dakiol 5mo ago
We're forgetting one thing: we (mere engineers) have control over nothing. The vast majority of us are at the mercy of executives and investors. Before AI we had some sort of grip because our skills weren't so much a commodity, an
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by dakiol 5mo ago
That doesn't hold because the goal for executives is to increase revenue and the main sales pitch of Anthropic et al is to pay for agents instead of paying for engineers. That means 80% of the workforce is out no matter what. Whether o
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by dakiol 5mo ago
I've come to the conclusion that using AI is: - good for me in the short term (e.g., I can fulfill what my company asks from me) - good for the company in the short term (see above) - bad for me in the long-term. E.g, I'm starting
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by dakiol 5mo ago
When are we gonna start hearing the same stories about Anthropic/Openai/etc? The whole AI thing kinda smells like the early days of AWS: everyone was getting onboarded, but later realized they'd built up a pretty big dependen
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by dakiol 5mo ago
The way I understood op is that we don't necessarily have to pay to use linux or postgres (when self hosting, for example). But we have to pay to use claude code... which sucks big time (also, open source models are behind private mode
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by dakiol 5mo ago
I guess it's anecdata. Polish engineers I've worked with weren't that good at technical stuff nor communication (in English). They're overprotective with "their" code and in general we've had more luck wit
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by dakiol 5mo ago
> And AI clowns will cheer and applaud this, not seeing that they're now doing the job of 5(!) people with the same salary. Why is nobody talking about this? Exactly. People are too naive these days
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by dakiol 5mo ago
If you're a regular engineer like me, there's no real upside to using AI in a company setting. They're boiling us. Of course, the HN elite (investors, execs, celebrities, and top-tier engineers) will say otherwise because &qu
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by dakiol 5mo ago
I see engineers addicted to Claude the same way non-tech people (friends of mine) are addicted to instagram. At the end it's all the same: making multibillion dollar companies richer every day
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Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft
21 points by dakiol 5mo ago|18 comments
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by dakiol 5mo ago
Right. It seems then that all these "elite" engineers on HN aren't as smart as we thought (and yeah, I include myself in that bag). It's deeply sad to see how our most beloved work (those side projects we pour ourselves
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by dakiol 5mo ago
Same can be said about Claude, Codex, etc. These tools are amazing (technically speaking) but they don't play in our favor (most of us are regular, replaceable employees). Only the usual suspects benefit from AI (executive layer, inves
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by dakiol 5mo ago
> and there would be no hope of the company ever improving. I don't see anything wrong with this. My integrity and values are above any company's. Companies can go to hell for all I care
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by dakiol 5mo ago
You could quit, for starters
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by dakiol 5mo ago
Invest in local and open source LLMs. They are not as advanced as proprietary ones, but we can all use them and define them as the standard. We don't need closed models
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by dakiol 5mo ago
C'mon folks, let's stop using Claude|ChatGPT|etc en masse. It's time to start the revolution (from our beds, at least)
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by dakiol 5mo ago
Why are we still building stuff in TS/npm? Given that LLMs can code in any language, I'd expect people would use "better" languages at this point.
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by dakiol 5mo ago
So, I typically follow blogs from people I already knew (online) pre 2022. In that regard, I'm sure about the quality of such places. I don't have social media accounts (HN counts as one?) so whatever happens in IG, YT, Twitter or
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by dakiol 6mo ago
$25K. Really? They make $65 million a day, so they pay you what they earn in about 33 seconds for a critical vulnerability. WTF
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by dakiol 6mo ago
> On the flip side, there are hundreds of ways that these tools cause genuine harm, not just to individuals but to entire systems. Yeah, agree. I think it's the first time I'm asking myself: Ok, so this new cool tech, what is i
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Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall(finance.yahoo.com)
94 points by dakiol 6mo ago|103 comments
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by dakiol 6mo ago
That's fine. When the "best of the best" is offered only by a couple of companies that are not looking into our best interests, then we can discard them
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by dakiol 6mo ago
> I completely see your point, but when my / developer time is worth what it is compared to the cost of a frontier model subscription, I'm wary of choosing anything but the best model I can. Don't you understand that by ch
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by dakiol 6mo ago
Where's the evidence of competitors being 10x more productive? So far, everyone is simply bragging about how much code they have shipped last week, but that has zero relevance when it comes to productivity
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by dakiol 6mo ago
We dropped Claude. It's pretty clear this is a race to the bottom, and we don't want a hard dependency on another multi-billion dollar company just to write software We'll be keeping an eye on open models (of which we already
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by dakiol 6mo ago
I struggle to understand the "hackers" in HN vouching for proprietary LLMs. Like we have so much so good open source software that is top notch like linux, git, postgres, http, tcp/ip, and a long etc., and now we have these b
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Tell HN: Always ask "is that how it works or"?
2 points by dakiol 6mo ago|0 comments

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