dasil003

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by dasil003 2y ago
Classifying a comment in that way is pretty much the opposite of Daoist
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by dasil003 2y ago
Yeah I think you summed this up nicely. "Entitlement" is an easy go-to explanation since the internet is filled with it, but it's one sided. If you're pitching a language to people and they put a lot of energy into buil
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by dasil003 2y ago
If you didn't see the Daoist angle in what I wrote then you're not as far along as you think
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by dasil003 2y ago
This could be valuable advice for someone who is beating themselves up about not being perfect at controlling their focus (if they are ready to hear it). However it’s also stated in a way that’s disrespectful to the discussion. It’s okay f
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by dasil003 2y ago
Do you mean the leading producer of unbelievable stupidity?
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by dasil003 2y ago
Just because you don't support the decisions about how the military is deployed doesn't mean you don't benefit from its existence. Being an American citizen already comes out of the box with a bunch of benefits, and I'm
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by dasil003 2y ago
I'm not "thinking about it wrong", I'm saying that I don't like the analogy. Of course all analogies are imperfect, and I get that LLMs greatly accelerate the production of code, but here's the gap: code is no
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by dasil003 2y ago
The problem with this analogy is that the hard part of writing software isn’t about bulk jobs that are easily specified with cut and dried success criteria. It’s about designing and implementing things where many tiny details matter and ar
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by dasil003 2y ago
Fair criticism, but saying "we are destroying software" is not actionable. I want us to do better, but I also want to be effective, and not just sit around impotently wringing our hands about how bad everything is.
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by dasil003 2y ago
Sure. I'm just explaining why the term exists. Of course it is often applied by clueless managers, there's nothing you can do about that except go find a better manager. Just don't make the mistake of thinking its all bull
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by dasil003 2y ago
> I'm all with Antirez here. Software came here, because we developed the software just for the sake of it, and evolved it to production ready where needed. Not the other way around (Case in point: Linux). Growing up in the 80s an
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by dasil003 2y ago
Because the software we are paid to write has an external purpose. As scale increases, supply chains lengthen, and roles specialize, inevitably more and more people are missing the forest for the trees—this isn't an indictment, it&#x2
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by dasil003 2y ago
Software, being arbitrary logic, just doesn't have the same physical properties and constraints that have allowed civil engineering and construction code to converge on standards. It's often not clear what the load bearing proper
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by dasil003 2y ago
Writing code isn’t the bottleneck though. What LLMs do is knock out the floor because you used to need a pretty significant baseline knowledge of a programming language to do anything. Now you don’t need that because you can just spray an
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by dasil003 2y ago
In many ways I share your pessimism, but let me challenge you: > A half assed effort is worse than no effort, because a half assed attempt can easily be weaponized This part I'm not following. I don't see the EU effort as ha
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by dasil003 2y ago
At least someone is trying. I don't see anyone doing better anywhere else in the world.
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by dasil003 2y ago
Brands matter a lot, but a CEO who believes the logo should always be visible on the website in pursuit of brand strength doesn't actually understand the first thing about brands.
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by dasil003 2y ago
I'm confused. Are you saying this ironically or have you literally pitched management with the risks of using your product?
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by dasil003 2y ago
The thesis and opening section is interesting for sure, because it shows how mechanisms and incentives that exist today could lead to really bad outcomes. However then it leaps to: > Because this disempowerment would be global and perm
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by dasil003 2y ago
I like the analogy directionally, but I think it understates the problem significantly. A hammer is a tool used by an actual builder, the analogy for software engineers would be an IDE or perhaps certain programming languages or infra comp
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by dasil003 2y ago
I think he's talking about a server-side session store (or perhaps an encrypted cookie payload)
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by dasil003 2y ago
I think the challenge is largely a matter of scale. Once you have thousands or tens of thousands of people, communication becomes by far the dominant factor in outcomes. You can set up different structures and cultural norms to try to nud
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by dasil003 2y ago
Remember when every other Quora answer felt like this? In retrospect maybe that was peak Web.
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by dasil003 2y ago
That's a weird take, he's talking about youthful ambitions. Tenured professor is a pretty standard bar for academic success, and startup us shorthand for building a scalable tech company from scratch. These seem like perfectly c
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by dasil003 2y ago
svn is perfectly fine and intuitive as long as you never want to branch and merge
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by dasil003 2y ago
This is such a low effort learned-helplessness response. Look, there are good CEOs and bad CEOs, I'm not here to defend them, but one thing you have to understand is that CEO action is an extremely blunt instrument. Of all the proble
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by dasil003 2y ago
You're talking past my point. I understand there's cynicism at multiple levels. The cynicism about AI's capabilities is well understood, we're at the peak of the hype cycle. People are selling AI across the board, but
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by dasil003 2y ago
This kind of math is nonsense, even as a back-of-the-napkin exercise. Engineers productivity is not linear, both over time and team size. In fact there may be productivity improvements just be freezing hiring as adding too many people beco
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by dasil003 2y ago
The point of this announcement is to boost sales, not to save costs. He's selling AI hype. The only thing that matters if customers are buying the hype, not the reality of AI's limitations which I'm sure the board is well a
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by dasil003 2y ago
Hard for me to comment definitively here since I don't have the other side of the story, but I will say that I have seen teams operating based on all kinds of assumed constraints where we lose sight of the ultimate objective of buildin

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