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by dasil003 1y ago
Yes, and also writing for an LLM to consume is its own skill with nuances that are in flux as models and tooling improves.
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by dasil003 1y ago
I liked your point about tribalism up until you said one tribe is rational and the other not. The distribution of rational behavior does not change much tribe to tribe, it's the values that change. As soon as you say one tribe is m
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Feels a little like AWS in that regard, no?
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by dasil003 1y ago
Credo!
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by dasil003 1y ago
Your criticism of the specific details rings true, but I also liked the overall thrust of the GP which is that two common failure modes for working software engineers are either being overly academic and not efficient at practical applicati
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by dasil003 1y ago
Life’s not fair in general. Personally though I have no regrets starting my career in 2001. Sure it was harder to get a job and it paid less, but it made me more willing to join a startup which gave me experience and skills that opened mo
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by dasil003 1y ago
One of the beautiful things about the human experience is that there can be multiple points. The greatest works of art can be appreciated in many ways, and the viewer's perspective can add a lot of richness that goes beyond the origin
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by dasil003 1y ago
I don’t know your company but this thinking doesn’t necessarily follow logically. In a large company the value of developers is not distributed evenly across people and time, and also has a strong dependency on market realities in front of
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Two things are very clearly true: 1) LLMs can do a lot of things that previous computing techniques could not do and we need time to figure out how best to harness and utilize those capabilities; but also 2) there is a wide range of powerfu
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by dasil003 1y ago
This article glosses over what I consider to be the killer workflow of Fugitive. Specifically the ability to trace history extremely efficiently across any kind of refactoring. The flow is: 1. :G blame to blame the current file in a locked
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by dasil003 1y ago
What percentage of revenue do ads and hardware contribute to the bottom line in Apple and Google? That answer will tell you more about leadership incentives than just hand-waving away the discussion based on the fact that big tech companie
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by dasil003 1y ago
It’s weird to frame Belicheck as a talent picker first. Yes, he had a lot of control but he was a coach first, not a GM. The thing that made him extraordinary was not identifying talent it was orchestrating a team system to take advantage
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Of course there’s a survivorship bias. Everyone’s gotta eat, and the path of least resistance is to get a job and do what you’re told. Finding an alternative path is much harder of course, but in the grand scheme of things well supported
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by dasil003 1y ago
What? No, caching means a specific thing: keeping a copy of data away from the source of truth, closer to where you want to read it. Caching always makes systems more complex, it never makes things simpler, and it damn sure doesn't s
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by dasil003 1y ago
Shades of "you need a thneed"
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by dasil003 1y ago
This article sets up a strawman by talking about someone from HR asking for an exit interview. Well yeah, you shouldn't give unfiltered feedback to HR because HR is clueless about engineering and have tenuous context at best about the
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by dasil003 1y ago
Uber couldn’t exist before a critical mass had a smartphone with GPS in their pocket. I don’t see what the bar is if we don’t consider it revolutionary. Anything that goes mainstream is going to eventually feel pedestrian and watered down
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by dasil003 1y ago
Intelligence and rational thought is useful, but like any strategy it has its tradeoffs and limitations. No amount of intelligence can overcome the chaos of long time horizons, especially when we're talking about human civilization.
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by dasil003 1y ago
I find it helpful to ignore the hype and the pitches, and instead focus on how AI tools are enabling better software to be made. I may personally prefer old workflows, but if they are inefficient and I cling to them, then my value as a sof
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by dasil003 1y ago
You mean that people lie and cheat? That's always been the case. The point of honesty and character is precisely that they reflect a person's ability to value a higher good than their immediate self-interest. Let's not thro
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by dasil003 1y ago
The title is incongruous with the conclusion.
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by dasil003 1y ago
I am squarely in the bucket of AI skeptic—an old-school, code-craftsman type of personality, exactly the type of persona this article is framed again, and yet my read is nothing like yours. I believe he's hitting these talking points
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> The roadmap to success will most likely start with training or fine-tuning on data from human professionals performing the task, and proceed with reinforcement learning in custom environments designed to capture more of the complexity
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by dasil003 1y ago
You said exactly what I came here to say. Maybe some day AI will truly be able to think and reason in a way that can approximate a human, but we're still very far from that. And even when we do, the accountability problem means trusti
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I don't disagree with the opinion, but what individual experts think does not factor in much when you have a groundswell of adoption like the web did. At that point people are going to hack whatever they can on top of it, and there ar
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by dasil003 1y ago
I always had more respect for Nielsen’s lineage of human-computer interaction than I did for Nielsen himself. At the time I remember thinking how neither designers nor classic HCI people (or programmers) really got the web. Nielsen was at
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I don't disagree that top posting is often the result of laziness, but I think the logical thread of the articles starts to break down at this point: > But when the thread is long, and when your reply is to a point deeper inside, s
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I tend to agree with you, but there’s another saying: “play to your strengths”, because people don’t all have the same potentials. I think it’s healthy to always strive for self improvement, but going with the grain of one’s personality is
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This is why blameless postmortem culture is so critical, because in any large organization there will be blind spots due the challenges of coordinating hundreds or thousands of individuals, so if you want to even have a chance of making t
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by dasil003 1y ago
This really resonated with me because I'm also working to avoid becoming more cynical as I gain experience and perspective on what problems "matter" and what solutions can gain traction. I think in this case the cognitive dis

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