dolebirchwood

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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
This is awesome. LLM-powered NPCs is one thing I'm most excited about in the future of gaming. Characters repeating the same scripted dialog over and over again is one of the biggest immersion breakers.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Weird analogy, but I don't want my neighbor fixing my fence -- let alone stepping onto my property to do anything else for that matter.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
The other problem I encounter is designers working in B2B, but designing like they're working in B2C. For B2B (especially enterprise B2B), your software is just a tool your customers' employees need for their day jobs. Fancy anima
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
That's cool, but not all art is good. A lot of it sucks, regardless of the technical acumen involved in its production. This is one of those cases.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
I do frontend work (React/TypeScript). I barely write my own code anymore, aside from CSS (the LLMs have no aesthetic sensibilities). Just prompting with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Sometimes Sonnet 4. I don't know what to tell you. I just ta
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Mine once asked if I'd like a referral to a doctor who was quite liberal in approving people for medical cards in my jurisdiction. I said, "And end up being tracked as a known user in a government database? No thanks." Safer
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Lemmings all the way down... I look forward to the day when AI really can do all coding and replace every single human programmer on the face of the Earth, for no other reason than that I will no longer have to see this insidious phrase eve
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
It would be more sensible if the "10x" moniker was dropped altogether, and we just went back to calling these people what they've always been: "geniuses". Then there might be more realistic expectations of only find
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
If nothing else, you're certainly making your case stronger with each successive comment.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
> It does feel like modern designs are treating everyone like children. UIs have immense spacing and big fonts, icons always accompany text, company branding tends to have strong bold contrasty colors. While those might all be things 7-y
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
That's cool. But "avoiding animal suffering" isn't the only reason people stop eating meat. Sometimes the reason is as simple as: I just think meat is gross. No judgment on anyone else who eats it.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Fair enough. Thanks for sharing.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Do you believe Linus was interested in "winning a friend" in that conversation?
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
There is a tendency among conflict-avoidant people to lionize "keeping cool" as a moral virtue. This strategy of putting passionate (yet justifiable) anger to shame ensures there is minimal rocking of the boat, thereby allowing al
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
> In your 20’s it unlocks taking big risks and swing for the fences. YC bets in this, for example. What can ambitious kids do when they don’t need to worry about money? That might be true for maybe 5-10% of 20-somethings. The rest will b
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Small piece of feedback: It takes far too much scrolling to get to the list of open roles. Maybe that's deliberate, so you know your applicants are truly serious about working for you, but I could see a lot of potentially highly-qualif
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
> product building > vibecoding These should not be deemed equivalent.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Is it "really" disingenuous, or is it just a misinterpretation of what it means to be "compensated for"? Seems more like quibbling to me.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
I ordered replacement earpads from Amazon for one of my headphones. Ended up developing a rash around my ears. So it's not just about clothing, and, yes, you should be concerned.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Thank you for having this attitude. I have never attempted any blogging because I always figured no one is actually going to read it. With LLMs, however, I know they will. I actually see this as a motivation to blog, as we are in a position
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
The skill amounts to determining "what information is required for System A to achieve Outcome X." We already have a term for this: Critical thinking.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
Or they just aren't sociopaths, so they don't think that way?
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
My anecdotes are all I've got, bro. If they come a little creamy, well, YMMV.
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by dolebirchwood 1y ago
> Here’s the thing from the skeptic perspective: This statement keeps getting made on a rolling basis. Dude, just try the things out. It's just undeniable in my day-to-day life that I've been able to rely on Sonnet (first 3.7 a
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by dolebirchwood 4y ago
> improving Over the last 2 years, he's been bringing on fewer and fewer tech-related guests while injecting more and more of his own (often political) commentary into the podcasts rather than simply asking good questions. The podca
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by dolebirchwood 4y ago
These are reasonable points in the context of normal everyday life. However, when making a hiring decision, there are likely to be several competent candidates who could all do the job just as well as any other. If you've got an easy w