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by ehnto 8mo ago
Your last point I think is the crux for now, if you can get so much more value out of talent then the market will eventually price that into wages. I think the idea some have instead is that I can use cheap, unskilled people to get the sam
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Well when you write it manually you are doing the review and sanity checking in real time. For some tasks, not all but definitely difficult tasks, the sanity checking is actually the whole task. The code was never the hard part, so I am muc
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Super cool, I have been extremely pleased with my switch to KDE. I have used MacOS as a daily, I have used Windows 95-Win10, I have used various linux distros all for long periods of time at work and home. KDE Plasma has really hit the swee
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by ehnto 8mo ago
It's true but it's also not real growth. It will look good the first time you do it. It also relies on there being no negative growth induced by AI not meeting the same quality of output that thousands of workers were once doing.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
What was actually booming in though, like why did we suddenly need so many more tech workers? It didn't make much sense to me at the time so I am not particularly surprised by a correction. The big AI companies don't really have h
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by ehnto 8mo ago
The hiring boom was post 2019, in the article's chart it is easy to see. It was a multi year hiring boom, that only slowed up in 2023/2024.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
And I already thought we hired more devs than needed pre-covid. It was pretty well surmised that big tech was hiring to starve other companies of talent, and thus employees were underutilised.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Even with well understood languages, if there isn't much in the public domain for the framework you're using it's not really that helpful. You know you're at the edges of its knowledge when you can see the exact forum po
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by ehnto 8mo ago
That was my insight also. As a manager, you already have the headcount approved, and your people just allegedly got some significant percentage more productive. The first thought shouldn't be, great let's cut costs, it should be g
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by ehnto 8mo ago
I had that revelation for embedded software. After years of live service hosted software, I released an embedded device. It just runs happily, somewhere, who knows, not me.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
It did worry me though, as I had also never heard of it. Is it highly available like more regular DIMM or SODIMM ram? That is usually my concern with things like the modular ports and replaceable keyboards too. By the time I actually need t
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Jonathan Blow seems to stand very strongly on principles, and yet be extremely pragmatic while executing them, which I feel is a good balance that still results in shipping games. That said if he didn't have the work ethic that he does
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by ehnto 8mo ago
My guess is there there is no internal pathways between the code representation of a CAD model and the language, concepts and experience of an object in 3D. They can often communicate to you the deficiencies of a picture of the model, but s
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by ehnto 8mo ago
LLMs are non-deterministic, you would end up with a different output even if you paste the same conversation in. Even if the model was identical at the time you tried to reproduce it. Which gets less likely as time passes. Also, why would y
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by ehnto 8mo ago
You definitely did see a difference between people who just copy pasted from stack overflow, and from people with good fundamentals. The uncomfortable truth though, is that the industry didn't need good coders, it needed a bucket load
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Are most side projects in competition? I wouldn't think so. Even if they were I disagree that 10x more ideas being produced means 10x more products in competition. You could leverage AI to execute but still have terrible ideas, leaders
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by ehnto 8mo ago
It is currently developing in Australia, we will probably find out what the limit is if it starts impacting the vote.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Agree, one of the great parts of HN is that we can still have wholehearted, earnest discussions with people we disagree with. I don't think bringing the combative nature of other platforms makes sense here. We're not at war with e
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by ehnto 8mo ago
They did this for a while, I don't know what the outcome was.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
I'm not thinking of any, we wouldn't know until we had infallible ever present enforcement.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
I am very torn on this, because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking. On the other hand, such pervasive and ever present law enforcement is oppressive. If the majority of
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Some places still allow it in civil aviation too.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Simplify your tools and build processes to as few as possible, and pick tools with fewer (or no) config files. It could depend on what you're doing, but if it's not for work the config hell is probably optional.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
Do you misunderstand the risks or just accept them personally? The issue is usually that you are imposing the risks onto others without consent. I did not sign the terms and conditions of your cloud providers data collection. You can be rec
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by ehnto 8mo ago
We are really getting into the cyberpunk dystopia now. Adversarial tech in everyday wearables, hardware cat and mouse. Next step is offence as defence, ICE daemons counter hacking autonomously in the background.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
I was having this conversation at work, where if the promise of AI coding becomes true and we see it in delivery speed, we would need to significantly increase the throughput of all other aspects of the business.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
My intuition from talking to people across different parts of the industry, is that adoption at bigger companies is really limited or slow, or totally banned. Additionally some developers are not seeing it help their specific roles all that
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by ehnto 8mo ago
That's a great insight about iterating on bespoke tools. I have seen the most speed up when diving into new tools, or making new tools as AI can make the initial jump quite painless, and I can get straight to the problem solving. But I
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by ehnto 8mo ago
I'd prefer we look to other trust metrics, rather than change for the sake of other's interpretation of who we are.
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by ehnto 8mo ago
It's a good time to mention Safe Harbor laws, because not every country has them and so not every person can host something like this without taking on personal liability for what travels through or rests on the "platform".

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