doug_durham

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by doug_durham 7d ago
Why are you spending your precious time and energy trying to guess if something was written by AI? Does it make you happy? Does it add value to your life? Why do you do this now when there has always been low quality content generated by
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by doug_durham 7d ago
Hyperbole much? When I see this type of low-effort, low-care response I ignore it. Perhaps take more time to express your thoughts.
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by doug_durham 7d ago
You are conflating the use of AI with effort. It does not need to imply low effort or low care. I’m hoping this tired narrative dies out soon.
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by doug_durham 7d ago
I love the idea of using unexpected styles. I think it can be very creative. I appreciate it if someone does that deliberately as a humor.
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by doug_durham 7d ago
You can do that exact thing with Ableton if you want. If you want to put in low effort you can do that. You can find beats labeled “1980’s pop” and use presets from other people. You can put in high effort using AI tools and fine tune eve
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by doug_durham 7d ago
It is exactly “another tool”. Just like Abelton with an automated drum machine is another tool for creating music. As the posting shows the tool isn’t doing the entire activity for you. The author is reprompting the tool to generate a re
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by doug_durham 7d ago
Not every poster has that issue as you can see from the posting. It is a simple matter of caring enough to look at the output in more detail. These are issues that can be overcome.
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by doug_durham 7d ago
No. There is a limit. Most non-trained people don’t know how to draw a straight line or layout type. If you go to a restaurant and see a poorly laid out menu you often think of the food more negatively. I think that the opposite is true
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by doug_durham 7d ago
I love this posting. Taste is something that needs to be worked for. It doesn’t matter how well the tool renders the output if the tool user has not taste (me included). In the future I think that users will learn more, and tools will get
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by doug_durham 9d ago
I would consider the approach in this posting to be rude. I feel like they are shoving a bunch of information at me without context. Part of the purpose of the salutation is to allow the call receiver to orient themselves. “Who is callin
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by doug_durham 11d ago
Thanks for putting the effort in on this. The author pointed out that no LLMs were used in the production of the blog post. To be honest the first thing I did was put the blog post into an LLM and asked it to simplify. The LLM did a grea
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
Really? Did you read the article? I did. It read as quirky human to me.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
I'm still paying OpenAI $20/month for a product that has gotten massively more valuable. That's the problem. They aren't getting any more money from me for a product which is much more valuable.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
I was a hiring manager. H1B candidates got exactly the same wage as native born. There were no differences.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
It's clear you are not a hiring manager. There aren't thousands of highly qualified engineers looking for work. I can't tell if this a troll post or not.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
I want them, which violates the Universal qualifier on your statement. Discrete math for the win.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
That’s not an LLM issue, it is a human curation issue. The LLM only does what the human behind the wheel tells it to do.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
The article starts by talking about how interactive learning with Khanmingo failed, and then goes into depth about how watching videos isn’t enough. That’s disappointing. Khanmingo should be superior to passively watching a video because y
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
You can't say that. Also that isn't happening.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
This whole "nobody wants" narrative is getting tiresome. It is provably false, and is just a rhetorical tool.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
That's not how nuclear triggers work. There a multiple layers of safe guards. I would be more sympathetic to your position if you were to solve for the multiple layers of social engineering needed to fire a nuke. That is a more plaus
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
You think that the researchers in these labs are superhumans? There is zero indication that anyone is making progress in those areas.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
It's not quibbling details. The extinction argument fails to show how that might happen. AI technology has no agency. It can't control the physical world. Humanoid robots aren't going to be on the march to exterminate human
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
Because there aren't that many clusters and the ones that exist are tightly controlled. there are only a handful of data centers able to run the largest models and they're being used at full capacity people would notice if sudden
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
This paper is either written in bad faith or by people who are ill-informed. The repeated references to Stockfish and Go playing programs seems like a rhetorical tool rather than a genuine argument. The paper claims that advanced AI will
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
I don't see it being "crystal clear" that skill decline is real. People are doing work they wouldn't have been able to do before. They are getting a more broad exposure to technologies than they have before.
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
No one knows the ramifications. They won't be known for many years. That's the way software has always worked. No one knew the ramifications of the internet.
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
I could not agree more. Thank you for stating this. Software Engineering is about building things. You don't do it for status, you do it for passion. There are a lot of unhappy individuals who got into CS because of the money or st
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
Most popular fiction is formula entertainment like Tom Clancy novels. Tom Clancy novels are their own industry now. I have zero doubt that AI tools can generate countless variations of good guy US special OPs going after bad guy terrorist
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
What is the purpose of copyleft when there are tools that can generate equivalent code? Copyleft keeps software free by using copyright to protect the effort of human creators. If tools can create the code is it is in the public domain t

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