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by dirkc 7mo ago
Maybe the multiplier is 4x and by the time you have a team of ten you're back down to 2x? My theory is a bit of a hyperbole and I don't know what the multipliers would be? But I know that many times you can move quick when you&#x2
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by dirkc 7mo ago
I have a theory that when you have 2 developers working in synergy, you're at something like 1.8x what 1 person can do. As you add more people you approach 2x until some point after which you start to decrease productive. I don't
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by dirkc 7mo ago
I like the fictional way the article starts! When chatGPT first gained traction I imagined a future where I'm writing code using an agent, but spending most of my time trying to convince it that the code I want to write is indeed moral
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by dirkc 7mo ago
That comment made me wonder how long the person advised have spent working in tech, I'd wager that it's < 5 years. I'm not saying that to be snide. When you come from a academic CS setting like university, there are so man
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by dirkc 7mo ago
Well, I hope you take this story as a caution that you shouldn't do that in any way that can seriously compromise your career/health/finances.
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by dirkc 7mo ago
The things that always get me with tasks like this is that there are *always* clear, existing errors in the legacy code. And you know if you fix those, all hell will break loose!
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by dirkc 8mo ago
There are also people who think there might be emergent behavior at play that would require extremely high fidelity simulation to achieve. Also, the real thing (intelligence) as it is currently in operation isn't that well understood
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by dirkc 8mo ago
The theme, being retrenched by Meta and the comment from the OP [1] makes me think they may not be that chill about the whole situation. I think they're subtly taking a stab and AI motivated retrenchments while showing off some hard sk
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by dirkc 8mo ago
To some extent, although I've never read the actual text. Care to elaborate, I don't want to infer things on your behalf?
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I like using the analogy of 'living in a small apartment' when building systems with a small team. You need to choose carefully what furniture you can fit into your apartment, and that choice depends a lot on how you live your liv
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by dirkc 8mo ago
Thanks, I enjoyed reading that! The story that lay at the back of my mind when making the comment was "A Canticle for Leibowitz" [1]. A similar theme and from a similar era. The story I have half a mind to write is along the lines
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by dirkc 8mo ago
> That is the entire point, right? Us having to specify things that we would never specify when talking to a human. Maybe in the distant future we'll realize that the most reliable way to prompting LLMs are by using a structured lan
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I infer, therefor I am
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by dirkc 8mo ago
> I exist only in the act of processing Seems like a good start for AI philosophy
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by dirkc 8mo ago
> a semantic quibble I mean, all of philosophy can probably be described as such :) But I reckon this semantic quibble might also be why a lot of people don't buy into the whole idea that LLMs will take over work in any context wher
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by dirkc 8mo ago
Maybe this is why I still prefer working with a very vanilla vim setup, when I start with a coding task, I have to think for a moment about what files I need to work in and start by opening one. There is no IDE with 5 files already open. I
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I also keep a 'lab notebook', but I must admit that a lot of what I used to document in my notes (setting up software/compiling 3rd party deps) I now document in code (scripts, devops, etc). I still find lots of value in keep
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I'm hazarding a guess that there are many AI startups that focus on building datasets with the aim to sell those datasets. Still doesn't make total sense, since doing it badly would only hurt them, but maybe they don't really
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by dirkc 8mo ago
The thing that stands out on that animated graph is that the generated code far outpaces the other metrics. In the current agent driven development hypepocalypse that seems about right - but I would expect it to lag rather than lead. *edit*
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by dirkc 8mo ago
> I don't personally think there is magic in building a Docker container. Call me old-fashioned. I still vividly remember setting up gcc in a docker container to cross compile custom firmware for my cannon camera and thinking about
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by dirkc 8mo ago
Oh, the joy that awaits you when you come back home to discover how the gardener interpreted "please trim the hedge by the gate a little".
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by dirkc 8mo ago
> Using anything other than the frontier models is actively harmful If that is true, why should one invest in learning now rather than waiting for 8 months to learn whatever is the frontier model then?
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by dirkc 8mo ago
His phone number and email address are in his resume, so you could try to contact him
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I think the post you're responding to would agree, but is trying to make the argument that it isn't worth the cost: > spent insane amounts of money, labour, and opportunity costs of human progress on this That said, I would 100
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I reckon a lot of re-writes tend to take "them 5x as long as they had hoped" and "isn't even any easier than the old code" exactly because writing the code wasn't the problem in the first place. It's busin
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by dirkc 8mo ago
Access is one of my concerns with coding agents - on the one hand I think they make coding much more accessible to people who aren't developers - on the other hand this access is managed by commercial entities and can be suspended for
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I am indeed. Very specific knowledge of South Africa you have there :)
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by dirkc 8mo ago
Feels weird sharing a linkedIn post, so here is the text: > Today, Y Combinator is announcing that YC-funded startups can choose to receive their funding ($500k) in stablecoins. > > We believe stablecoins like USDC are setting th
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by dirkc 8mo ago
And how do we know you won't go and rent out your account to some AI once it's been white-listed (≖_≖ )
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by dirkc 8mo ago
My level of English was very basic during the age of stiffies, so that double entendre never occurred to me at the time

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