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by dasil003 5mo ago
I vividly remember the moment this clicked for me. I had spent the better part of a decade being interested in programming and essentially learning recipes. It wasn't until I was a couple years into a CS degree and starting to work p
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by dasil003 5mo ago
This is why you need sufficiently senior engineering leadership (both IC leadership and management). If you have engineers who meekly do whatever a non-technical stakeholder asks then you have a vacuum of responsibility, and sooner or late
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by dasil003 5mo ago
This is very naive and reductive thinking. Experiments have a cost, you really have to think carefully about what you are trying to learn. Even when code is cheap, traffic and time are still huge constraints, and you better make sure your
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by dasil003 5mo ago
I agree with you, so far what I see is that AI amplifies an individuals output in many domains, but the value of that is 100% contingent on their judgment. It changes the economics of many tasks, but fundamentally it can't really help
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by dasil003 6mo ago
I get that working in the corporate world is often alienating, and also that one might have to accept a bullshit job in order to put food on the table, so on some level I say do what you gotta do. But beyond that, man this is such a depress
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by dasil003 6mo ago
Kudos on the analysis, the conclusion is right. I would go further and say even if the metric was completely fair and unbiased it would still not tell you anything useful, and any manager or executive that used it as part of any kind of he
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by dasil003 6mo ago
I agree with you, the "replacing people" narrative is not only wrong, it's inflammatory and brand suicide for these AI companies who don't seem to realize (or just don't care) the kind of buzz saw of public opinion
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by dasil003 6mo ago
This seems like dramatically overstating the mistake. Yeah it was expensive, and yes this could easily been foreseen, but that’s really small potatoes compared to mistakes I’ve seen. I mean I’ve seen promos off shit that never even fully
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by dasil003 6mo ago
Buy me a beer and I can tell you some very poignant stories. The best ones are where there is a legitimate abstraction that could be great, assuming A) everyone who had to interact with the abstraction had the expertise to use it, B) the d
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by dasil003 6mo ago
When you’re out in the infinite empty of space many light years from any livable environment, you damn well better know how your warp drive works to be able to fix it, and that is what Star Trek portrayed.
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by dasil003 6mo ago
This is such a middlebrow dismissal. Like yeah, people are speculating based personal experience and knowledge, so what? If you have a different viewpoint or something specific you'd like to see data on call it out and engage in the
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by dasil003 6mo ago
This article is not bad overall, but it does over-index on the cost of making software development costs and tradeoffs legible. Of course leadership does need to make decisions, and so the quest for better data and better cost modeling wil
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by dasil003 6mo ago
It seems really premature to talk about AI being the end of anything. What’s at an end stage is adoption of smart phones and monetizing human attention. That’s been the fuel that powered the last quarter century of tech gains, and while s
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by dasil003 6mo ago
Totally agree with this, the beauty of software is the right abstractions have untold impact, spanning many orders of magnitude. I'm talking about the major innovations, things like operating systems, RDBMS, cloud orchestration. But
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by dasil003 6mo ago
That's fair. Yes they are all individuals with their own unique perspective and approaches, and we should definitely hold them accountable for their impacts. I'm not saying the systemic incentives absolve them of responsibility,
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by dasil003 6mo ago
I guess the people in Wall-E didn't really seem unhappy so perhaps you're right. My gut instinct though, is that there is a qualitative difference in the level of abundance and concentration of wealth, power, and influence we hav
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by dasil003 6mo ago
I like Tristan Harris' take on the situation, which is both more nuanced and more actionable. The idea being that the system and incentives are set up to select amoral technologists who will make money for shareholders, so inevitably
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by dasil003 6mo ago
> technology rarely yields a net positive This is a super bold statement that I guest most people would disagree with, and I suspect if you somehow brought people forward from the past, even fewer would agree with. I do agree with you
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by dasil003 6mo ago
I think it's more fair to say that with every technology there are tradeoffs. Consider the wheel, before the wheel people probably were more physically fit, but they couldn't move as large of loads. Well, except in the Andes whe
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by dasil003 6mo ago
What do you mean? A kid is anyone younger than the speaker. My step dad used to refer to Bill Clinton as a kid because he was the first president younger than him.
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by dasil003 6mo ago
What was the Bjarne Stroustrup quote about two types of languages again? I certainly have gotten more mileage out of Markdown at this point in my long career as a programmer and web developer than I have out of hand-written HTML, XML, or o
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Define interesting. In my experience most business logic is not innovative or difficult, but there are ways to do it well or ways to do it terribly. At the senior levels I feel 90% of the job is deciding the shape of what to build and wha
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I agree that the way that today's generation of seasoned programmers learned their craft is going away, and that we don't know how the next generation will learn. I disagree very much with the conclusion: > They didn’t trade
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by dasil003 7mo ago
It's wild to me to hear this being spun as vanity, like it's some influencer clickbait or linkedin slop. You could argue anyone posting anything online is driven by vanity, but in this case we're talking about someone who to
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Agreed. One thing I’ve found striking is how far LLMs can get with pure language and the recognition that humans often operate with a similar kind of abstract conceptual reasoning that is purely language based and pretty far removed from f
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by dasil003 7mo ago
This is a weird hill to die on. As much as I resonate with many of the concerns, I don't see refusing to use AI as something that will actually help any of those things. Forking a stable version of vim is something I guess, but I do
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I love your take, but I had a hard time getting through the article because “science of entrepreneurship” already feels like a contradiction in terms to me. Each startup is a product of its unique time and context. There are huge swings i
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Agree the jury is still out, but "More code in less time" is a shallow strawman. The better question is what is it good at and what is it not good at, and what are the ways to best leverage those capabilities. I've seen eno
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by dasil003 7mo ago
These rules aged well overall. The only change I would make these days is to invert the order. Number 5 is timeless and relevant at all scales, especially as code iterations have gotten faster and faster, data is all the more relevant. Nu
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just telling you how some hiring managers might think, not endorsing the opinion and it's definitely not something I consider in my hiring. I will say it's a little weird to frame it as &qu

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