dmurvihill

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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
What you are saying is that 9 out of 10 never experience domestic violence despite cohabitating with 10-20 other people during their lifetime.
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
I believe AGI is possible. Also that LLMs are a dead end as far as that goes.
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
It's funny, because this decision by Joel in 2006 prefigures TypeScript six years later. VBA was a terrible bet for a target language and Joel was crazy to think his little company could sustain a language ecosystem, but Microsoft had
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
Very cool. Let’s see it!
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
How do you know they’re not lying?
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
This says it all: > I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t believe artificial intelligence has the potential to be one of the biggest technological developments of all time, reshaping both daily life and the global economy. You’re trying to we
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
If it makes a 5% improvement, that would make it a $9 billion dollar per year industry. What’s our projected capex for AI projects next five years again?
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
Frankly, I think Universities are still turning out great programmers. The problem is industry doesn't want good programmers and doesn't promote them.
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
ding ding ding
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
Sorry, these studies don’t show that AI is “good at automating away junior work” _at all_, or even claim to (and what little empirical research exists points the other way). What they show is that hiring managers think they can use gen AI t
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
Not 2 million assets. 2 million cash.
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by dmurvihill 10mo ago
And he had access to a computer terminal at his high school in 1968.
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by dmurvihill 1y ago
Maybe that’s true of each individual case, but we still have the systemic problem of the way these AI tools interact with human psychology. It tends to turn off the user’s brain, even people who know better.
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by dmurvihill 1y ago
There is precious little alternative employment that cares about the long-term sustainability of their software, is the problem.
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by dmurvihill 1y ago
You have it exactly backwards. If you are consuming my time with slop, it’s on you to prove there’s still a net benefit.
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by dmurvihill 1y ago
I haven't yet found a "boring, easy" problem that an AI could generate more easily than Vim.
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by dmurvihill 2y ago
The screen locking bugfix had already been backported to Debian stable on the day it was released.
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by dmurvihill 3y ago
I just finished an implementation of this algorithm for node.js: https://www.npmjs.com/package/big-shuffle