drTobiasFunke

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by drTobiasFunke 6d ago
After the initial prototype, starting your own company is mostly marketing, people management and more marketing. This “start your own company if you dont want to answer to anyone” is so romanticized that its comical. Its also completely in
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by drTobiasFunke 7d ago
Majority of big tech. Leetcode was 100% irrelevant to the job before LLM and its 100% irrelevant to the job today. So nothing has changed really
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by drTobiasFunke 12d ago
PE is forward looking. Apple has the business model where people will continue to buy their newer phones and devices and use their paid services at the same or higher prices for the foreseeable future. Do you think GPUs will continue to be
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by drTobiasFunke 13d ago
By ambitious if you mean we are not like all the linkedin influencers with their “i one shotted an app this morning…” then no, we are not. Nobody is. I have been in software engineering for 18 years and 6 different companies including FANG
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by drTobiasFunke 13d ago
Really? My employer rolled back to opus 4.8 because 5 was expensive AND crap. Didnt even consider fable because it didn’t add any additional value. For most software eng and design work opus 4.6-4.8 just works fine. For everyday joe asking
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by drTobiasFunke 15d ago
India and Pakistan were late 90s. Japan and South Korea literally have 100s of American military bases on their territory. You really think they are sovereign nations who can pursue an independent nuclear program?
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by drTobiasFunke 15d ago
There is no large country left which is not an American client state to pursue nuclear weapons . India was in the 90s, and they pursued nukes, tested them and got sanctioned by the west.
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by drTobiasFunke 16d ago
Holy batman, are you me?? I too am 40 and so sick of this industry after the masks came off and AI greed forced all CEOs and execs to salivate like hungry hyenas.
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by drTobiasFunke 18d ago
Are you sure thats not because there is no concern of a deadlines, time to get things out faster than competition, politics, cross team opinions and competing business goals?
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by drTobiasFunke 1mo ago
Oh, not in that sense. I meant if you showed it data and business metrics, and asked for s tough decision, it is likely not going to make a decision by factoring in the race of the manager whose team isnt doing great, or get influenced beca
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by drTobiasFunke 1mo ago
If AI replaced all jobs, then how are those companies turning a profit? I dont understand this. Humans need to spend money and buy products for all the companies to make money. Do we imagine a parallel economy of agents spending money and h
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by drTobiasFunke 1mo ago
One thing AI is actually good at: look at a bunch of data, make informed, unbiased, objective and quick decision, have a backup plan if that fails. This is exactly what an executive is supposed to do. But since executives are the ones in ch
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by drTobiasFunke 1mo ago
Nvidia is a public company. What VC money?
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by drTobiasFunke 1mo ago
Yup. And in my experience, AI has made the communication and decision making overhead significantly worse thanks to 100x longer docs, code that noone understands and enormous pressure by executives to magically produce software that just wo
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
Open weight models are not open software. Its better than closed blackbox models sold by Sam and Mario, but Zuck supporting open weight models when he (and other big boys) hoards all the compute required to run any model, including open wei
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
Noone is questioning the volume of llm output. My question is whether all those points delivered improved your product and software in any meaningful way, or do you now have 20x more code that noone understands with the same quality of soft
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
Output of 3 or 4 2022 engineers? Its that your self assessment? Output as in number of lines of code?
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
This. Exactly this. Most ideas are bad ideas. Now noone can stop all of them from being sent to prod for everyone to deal with.
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
I hope you do know that your comments are straight up being pasted to an LLM that addresses or counters those, not the junior dev. They are likely learning nothing other than how to increase their PR counts for managers to see.
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
This is so accurate. I am a fairly senior individual contributor and its been more than a year since I saw a good design doc or quality design discussion. Before you can even question the design, someone has generated a 50k line prototype a
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
“Not in speed, but in quality” — unfortunately though, not a single CEO, executive, company, VC, investor or anyone with the power to make decisions cares about quality instead of speed.
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
Seriously? 99% of the ads are trying to sell stuff you dont need at all. But they want to sell that to you. Why would you rely on an ad to realize what you NEED and then buy it?
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
Inglorious empire is another good one by Tharoor. Provides letters and statements from British officials and officers to show the intent and exploits.
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
Yes, Genghis was a brutal conqueror so he was a monster (rightfully). But Alexander, who was also a brutal conqueror, killed millions and literally burnt down persian capital is “the great”. See how subtle propaganda works? You dont even re
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
The temples built were by hindu empires like the vijayanagara empire or the marathas later who ruled significant parts of India coinciding with the turkic invasion and occupation that you are conveniently not taught in schools. The trukuc i
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
And no, hindu and muslim conquests were NOT alike. Krishnadevaraya defeated kalinga. Instead of destroying konark sun temple, he came back and built a similar stone chariot in hampi. The same hampi was plundered and burnt down a century lat
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
Not true. It was rich, yes. The emperors took it all. The common people got nothing. Hence the big tombs etc. Indigenous institutions were destroyed, libraries and universities burnt. Religious structires destroyed and natives under constan
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by drTobiasFunke 2mo ago
Above comment is accurate. All Indian indigenous systems were destroyed (education, governance, taxation etc) during the 1000 years of foreign occupation. India still operates under the oppressive system imposed by the colonizers to subjuga
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by drTobiasFunke 3mo ago
Not a fair comparison. Unlike shoemaker or coopers who do ONE thing, a SWE doesnt do just one thing.. atleast in general. I churned through basic, logo, c, c++, java, c#, python, go and now agents. The executable building on single machine
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by drTobiasFunke 3mo ago
You are assuming that the amount of work is finite, so more productive people implies fewer people are required. Is that the case though? Has it ever been?

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