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1y ago
No, that's the Silicon Valley-specific "Sigma Grindset" Dream
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1y ago
Maybe a tenth the total cost is getting the code into the terminal, the other nine tenths is maintaining way more code than you'd otherwise have to.
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1y ago
The person qualified to review with that level of detail must have some really interesting party tricks
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1y ago
Your Jewish neighbors might not feel quite as nonchalant
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1y ago
if you're for removing subjectivity, then you should be calling for them to remove the option for a vanity plate entirely
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1y ago
Something like Reader View in safari / firefox?
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1y ago
I don't think that's quite the comparison we're looking for though, because this wasn't just rote data retrieval. It was the recognition of patterns that humans could have noticed given enough time, but had not. It
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1y ago
It doesn't even have to be on paper. That computer science exam can be done on a monitored university computer. The only bit that needs enforcement is not using outside resources, to show that a particular knowledge and how to apply it
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1y ago
Let's assume that the 46 multiplication algorithm was known, prior to AlphaEvolve re-discovering it. AlphaEvolve still has made an improvement to a performance critical area that has had likely had thousands of engineer-hours put int
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1y ago
Oh cool all I have to do is go sue a giant bank, I’ll let you know how that goes
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1y ago
they’d’ve
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1y ago
That and “witches, 21st century edition”
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1y ago
Like the old saying goes, a sufficiently complex next token predictor is indistinguishable from your average software engineer
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1y ago
As long as it delivers the message with "I can't let you do that, dymk", I'll be happy
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1y ago
I think it's a perfectly cromulent choice of words, if things don't work out for Mr. Chat in the long run.
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1y ago
Uber, for a long time, was trying to build their own, not buy third party
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1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliche
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1y ago
You sort of can, the OBD port dongles offered by some insurance providers take things like braking and acceleration into account to determine rates
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1y ago
Alright, enjoy your RCEs. I’ll be over here being productive, despite my skill issue.
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1y ago
I dunno what to tell you, I am able to get consistently good quality work out of eg 3.7 sonnet and it’d saved me a ton of time. Garbage in garbage out, maybe the people you’ve observed don’t know how to write good prompts.
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1y ago
I shit you not his personalized context for his OpenAI account started with “you are the CEO of a successful <industry here> startup…” to set the tone of responses.
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1y ago
All the leadership that didn’t got fired so I’m inclined to agree
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1y ago
Last startup I worked at, the CEO would tell the team to go do X, Y, Z because he asked ChatGPT and it said so. Despite it not having explanations for things, he trusted the LLM output more than the engineers telling him “no, that won’t wor
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1y ago
Gets normalized? This has been the norm for a very long time. Almost all the fast food chains have something like this.
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1y ago
Have you tried an AI coding assistant, or is that just the impression you get?
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1y ago
And yet I keep meeting programmers who say AI coding assistants are saving them tons of time or helping them work through problems they otherwise wouldn't have been able to tackle. I count myself among that group at this point. Maybe t
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1y ago
Cool all they'll need to do is find $20/month per person for the subscription, how hard could that be in rural South Africa or Nepal?
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1y ago
If you're savvy to the price discrimination. You have to use the app to get the lower prices.
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1y ago
This guy is getting exactly the kind of lawyers he deserves, and it’s nobody’s fault but his own
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1y ago
That sounds in conflict with “The company is a future adversary”
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