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by empath75 1y ago
I think what you actually do is let it gradually degrade over time and then launch a new one.
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by empath75 1y ago
What actually happens is software development gets cheaper and you do more stuff with the same people.
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by empath75 1y ago
You should pretty much never trust magicians who "explain" how their illusions work. Sometimes they genuinely do explain it, but often, it's still another trick. Derren Brown does this a lot.
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by empath75 1y ago
Yeah, but I feel like there are sort of "substantial" and "accidental" dependencies to any invention. The example he gives of photography being dependent on firearms seem more of the "accidental" kind. Photog
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by empath75 1y ago
There is a split between people who think of labor as an end in itself and people who think of a labor as a means of achieving some other end and people in the former category are going to always dislike any kind of automation. Even though
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by empath75 1y ago
It's also great for writing documentation in a plaintext IDE, which I think is what _really_ drove a lot of the adoption.
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by empath75 1y ago
I think prompt engineering is closer to a people management skill than it is to engineering.
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by empath75 1y ago
> Except AI doesn’t do anything better than the human mind, There are all kinds of tasks that AI's are better at than most people.
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by empath75 1y ago
100% agreed. I think, in fact, that "intelligence" itself is a near-meaningless term, let alone AGI. The evidence for this is that nobody can agree on what actually requires intelligence, other than there is seemingly broad belie
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by empath75 1y ago
I think the article is in the general category of articles suggesting that planes would work better if they flapped their wings. AI's "think" like planes "fly" and submarines "swim". Does it matter if a pl
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by empath75 1y ago
I think watch out for Mexico. The cartels are swimming in cash and are already using drones to attack security forces and assassinate people.
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by empath75 1y ago
I think Ukraine could only have gotten away with this in the current situation where the US is detaching itself from supporting them, because if Russia genuinely thought that the US was behind taking out a large percentage of it's stra
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by empath75 1y ago
But the US can't manufacture them at the scale china can.
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by empath75 1y ago
https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/
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by empath75 1y ago
A shockingly large percentage of education in the US is teaching kids to produce bullshit essays, so it's no surprise that AI is blowing a hole in it.
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by empath75 1y ago
> But do you know what another part of being a senior developer is? Not just making them more productive, but also guiding the junior developers into becoming better, independent, self-tasking, senior coders. And that feedback loop doesn
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by empath75 1y ago
There is a sense in which LLM based applications do learn, because a lot of them have RAG and save previous interactions and lookup what you've talked about previously. ChatGPT "knows" a lot about me now that I no longer hav
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by empath75 1y ago
I've been writing Rust code in production for 4+ years, and I can write Rust pretty well, and I've learned a lot from using chatgpt and co-pilot/cursor. In particular, it helped me write my first generic functions and macros,
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by empath75 1y ago
It is not bad at rust. I don't think I could even function well as a Rust programmer without chatgpt and now Cursor. It removes a lot of the burden of remembering how to write generic code and fixing borrow checking stuff. I can jus
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by empath75 1y ago
You are in a magical place if you never have to do busy work.
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by empath75 1y ago
They save me a tremendous amount of time, you just need to be smart about what you try to get them to do. _Busy work_ is what you want to focus on, not anything that takes a ton of domain knowledge and intelligence. Just as an example from
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by empath75 1y ago
I was actually curious about this and chatgpt actually accurately and very slowly gave me the first 100 digits of pi one digit at a time. I have _no idea_ how that worked, it did not search, nor did it run code. As far as I can tell, it p
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by empath75 1y ago
you can just do this with archive.is/ https:// ...
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by empath75 1y ago
Funnily enough, I had a 3 or 4 hour chat with some co workers yesterday about an LLM related project and my feeling about LLM's is that it's actually opening up a lot of fun and interesting software engineering challenges if you w
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by empath75 1y ago
the LLM's themselves are making marginal gains, but the tools for using LLMs productively are getting so much better.
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by empath75 1y ago
Just the exercise of putting my question in a way that the LLM could even theoretically provide a useful response is enough for me to figure out how to solve the problem a good percentage of the time.
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by empath75 1y ago
I think it's important to point this out, but I don't think it matters because the purpose of a report like that isn't to find the truth or even to persuade, because they don't expect the "audience" for this to
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by empath75 1y ago
Okay, you have proposed a theory about a phenomenon that has some causal influence on the world -- ie, that there are spirits which can communicate with people and presumably alter their behavior in some way. How do you propose to experimen
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by empath75 1y ago
And also _whales don't have hands_
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by empath75 1y ago
He doesn't literally mean physically larger brains, he means brains with more connections.

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