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by dakiol 1y ago
I think you don't get the point. If there's no gap between the boss and the LLM, the boss is accountable for whatever the LLM produces. That sort of accountability will be rejected by any boss. In the real world, bosses rely on t
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by dakiol 1y ago
This goes against what you said above: > Because, until recently, it was very costly to replace the code. AI "programmers" will create completely new code in a few minutes so there's no need to maintain it. If there are ne
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by dakiol 1y ago
> If there are new problems tomorrow, they'll generate the code again. What's the difference (from an LLM point of view) between code generated one week ago and code generated now? How does the LLM know where or how to fix the
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by dakiol 1y ago
That's not the goal of LLMs. CEOs and high-level executives need people beneath them to handle ambiguous or non-explicit commands and take ownership of their actions from conception to release. Sure, LLMs can be configured to handle va
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by dakiol 1y ago
Is it just me or BGP is something I never learnt about until I heard about it causing issues? It seems it's essential to the internet, just like TCP/IP, but nevertheless I learnt about the latter in the university, during my caree
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by dakiol 1y ago
Well, yeah : )
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by dakiol 1y ago
I think that until LLMs can assertively say "no" to your requests, we won't be able to rely on them autonomously. The greatest downside of ChatGPT, Copilot, and similar tools is that they always give you something in return,
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by dakiol 1y ago
Code can't easily be replaced. It's "soft"ware sure, but why do you think banks are still using Cobol? Why do you think my old company is still running a deprecated version of Zend (PHP framework)?
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by dakiol 1y ago
> but I think with enough context [...] I think that's the key. The only ones who can provide enough accurate context are software developers. No POs or managers can handle such levels of detail (or abstraction) to hand them over vi
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by dakiol 1y ago
Yeah. I think this is the elephant in the room. I keep stumbling upon "We need to verify you are a human" by Cloudflare in many sites around the web. Crazy.
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by dakiol 1y ago
Didn't one of the major ISPs in Spain go down like a weeek ago (movistar) and that caused some emergency numbers to not function properly for some time? I wouldn't be surprised if critical (digital) infrastructure would rely on Cl
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by dakiol 1y ago
How they usually address the fact that 50% of their target market is already wearing glasses? Would they just ignore that 50% in their first iteration and then sell customised smart glasses ?
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by dakiol 1y ago
I think the problem here is traffic and cars. Seems crazy to think that it’s normalised to be in alert mode 100% of the time when out of your home because of cars. Every corner, every cross, I need to stop and double check for cars otherwis
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by dakiol 1y ago
> Virtually all the jobs mentioned can already be replaced with AI for a fraction of the cost. I’m not so sure. First, they are already paying pennies to the writers. Second, who’s gonna write the prompt? The bosses certainly not, so the
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by dakiol 1y ago
Fuck the mission. Fuck the culture. You are doing nothing but shoveling money into founders, investors and shareholders pockets. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32165794
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by dakiol 1y ago
I don't think that's the solution. Proprietary LLMs will just keep growing, and it doesn't seem like the open source alternatives are gaining much traction. I guess it's because you need a lot of money to train high-qual
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Ask HN: Don't You Mind That LLMs Are Mostly Proprietary?
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by dakiol 1y ago
No. The "golden" end state of coding agents is free and open source coding agents running on my machine (or in whatever machine I want). Can you imagine paying for every command you run in your terminal? For every `ls`, `ps`, `kil
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by dakiol 1y ago
How does one pay taxes when selling minor side projects? I have never been a contractor/freelancer and I have never setup a company. This is the main pain in the ass for me when it comes to generating some side income. I'm in Euro
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by dakiol 1y ago
Thanks, Sherlock. Now, tell me, when senior engineers start to retire, who will replace them? Ah, yeah, I can hear you say "LLMs!". And LLMs will rewrite themselves so we won't need seniors anymore writing code. And LLMs will
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by dakiol 1y ago
I see this as a contradiction to be honest. On one side, yes, I like to "walk" the city (to go for groceries, to buy some tech stuff, to buy clothes, to go to restaurants, cinemas, etc.). One the other side, I don't want to l
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by dakiol 1y ago
I guess it depends. I'm not really good at relationships, but I can be a very normal guy in almost every scenario. So, I'm not like asking my manager what did he do during the weekend (but if he talks about it, I listen and follow
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by dakiol 1y ago
Umm, I think any respectable human would simply deny writing a haiku. So, a bot can simply mimick that behaviour.
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by dakiol 1y ago
Why are you worried? It's not that you are goning to do the work of 2 weeks in 1. Just work as before; some things will work out and others won't.
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by dakiol 1y ago
I think the reason to split the marketing page from the dashboard one is that you can deploy one without the other. I would actually prefer to have all the marketing stuff in its own repo away from any dashboard code.
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by dakiol 1y ago
I’m not sure where’s the downside. The engineers got paid, they managed to put “founder” on their cvs, and enjoyed the ride. Now they are more prepared for their next adventure. The only ones who lost money were the investors, but nobody c
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by dakiol 1y ago
Same here. It’s fine for me to use the ChatGPT web interface and switch between it and my IDE/editor. Context switching is not the bottleneck. I actually like to go away from the IDE/keyboard to think through problems in a differe
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by dakiol 1y ago
> people used to take much greater care in their craft even when they were paid less I think people used to care more when there were less BS involved in the software development process. Nowadays you get: scrum masters, product managers
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by dakiol 1y ago
I guess it depends. If they have been developing mobile apps, and now want to develop a web app, then they definitely need to learn something like PHP, or Go or Python kr Java. On the other hand if they have been doing web development and
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by dakiol 1y ago
All it takes is to provide a slightly better prompt (“write the answer in a natural prose style, no bullet points, no boring style, perhaps introduce a small error). It’s not that difficult.

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