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by etruong42 10mo ago
Those in power (such as those in the corporate managerial class) are trying to consolidate power by replacing humans with AI. There is the nice story of trying to improve overhead and increase efficiencies. There is also the ugly story of t
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by etruong42 10mo ago
Power tries to centralize and consolidate. See the largely successful attempts to consolidate media outlets like local news stations as an example. The abstract suggests that elites "shape" mass preference, but I think the degree
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by etruong42 10mo ago
> At the new place, perf doesn’t care if you use AI or not- just what you actually deliver I work at Google, and I am of the overall opinion that it doesn't matter what you deliver from an engineering perspective. I've seen lau
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by etruong42 11mo ago
That's presuming a healthy culture. In an unhealthy culture, some people will feel pressure to uphold some comment that someone "senior" made offhand in a meeting several months ago, even if that leader is no longer attending
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by etruong42 11mo ago
Spot on. I would suggest a slightly different framing where the antagonist isn't really the "approving" teams but "leaders" who all want a seat at the table and exercise their authority lest their authority muscles
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by etruong42 11mo ago
As a Googler, I wish I was as optimistic as you. There is an internal sentiment that valuable roles are being removed that aren't aligned with strategic initiatives, even roles that are widely believed to improve developer productivity
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by etruong42 11mo ago
I am finding this to be the new "meta" for the software development lifecycle. Given this new reality, it's getting harder and harder to actually invest in ambitious, green-field projects. In this new meta, individual contrib
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by etruong42 11mo ago
AI will also further cement the status quo and existing power structures. Incompetent leaders in many arenas would be even less beholden to actual experts and expertise. AI will provide answers that are "good enough" to keep incom
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by etruong42 11mo ago
This is an easy mistake in large organizations. Any project often already has so many stakeholders and politics that they are incentivized to avoid adding more stakeholders to the project if they are politically capable of doing so. Unless
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by etruong42 1y ago
To build excitement in a project and potentially release new versions with new features, all more safely than adding C code.
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by etruong42 1y ago
This post is so eloquent! This post describes a lot of ideas that I have been thinking about, and Tao has created a framework that lets me describe many of these thoughts. I think people have been really underestimating the power of small o
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Projects motion of pixels to a voxel, detect distant objects with cheap cameras(github.com)
2 points by etruong42 1y ago|0 comments
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by etruong42 1y ago
I've had Influenza A before in my mid-30s. To be honest, I couldn't even tell I had it. I had the sniffles, went to get a COVID check, and came back Influenza A-positive. I did my usual, ran a few miles on the treadmill, did famil
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by etruong42 1y ago
I am also at Google, and I can corroborate this experience personally and corroborate this based off of comments teammates make to me, in group settings, and in team retrospectives. There are a lot of technical challenges in maintaining cod
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by etruong42 1y ago
Could this be an evolution of astrology? Or an evolution of the underlying attraction to astrology? This need to label things (libra vs scorpio vs etc) and the assignment of character traits and behaviors to these labels? This need to push
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by etruong42 1y ago
This is precisely why I compare this technological revolution with the electronic spreadsheet. Before the electronic spreadsheet, what used to take several accountants several days to "compute a whole spreadsheet" after changing &
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by etruong42 1y ago
The author argued that the American Dream that the "boomers" had access to is still available, and I believe that American Dream did mean having to uproot, much like the settlers before them. Perhaps you feel like this needs to be
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by etruong42 1y ago
> Its value rises and falls based on how long the hype train can keep running Exactly - money is hype. Hype is money. Which goes into the foundation of money to begin with: confidence and faith. And the levers of power which move that co
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by etruong42 1y ago
I've been treating the LLM as a conversational partner rather than as a "superhuman brain augmentation". Their output still needs to be digested and deeply challenged. If their idea seems finished and polished, perhaps we are
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by etruong42 1y ago
I love some of the ideas you pointed out. > Precise but not accurate. Since it is always open to interpretation, it simply cannot be used for verification Agreed - the main way I try to manage this is to have a very coarse interpretation
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by etruong42 1y ago
I'm going to assume a hetero relationship, in which case your experience is a common one. Intersex communication is trickier than intrasex communication. The lived experience between men and women are different (duh). One way I have ra
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Google just changed its 'G' logo(theverge.com)
14 points by etruong42 1y ago|10 comments
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by etruong42 1y ago
Will the Gates Foundation help keep alive USAID programs? Should it?
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by etruong42 1y ago
I don't hate the sentiment, but realistically, big bulky companies would go down in flames with much collateral damage from lobbying the government, regulatory capture, anticompetitive practices, squashing creative destruction that mig
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by etruong42 1y ago
The intro sounds awfully familiar... > Sam’s Letter to Employees. > OpenAI is not a normal company and never will be. Where did I hear something like that before... > Founders' IPO Letter > Google is not a conventional comp
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by etruong42 1y ago
I have seen this as well, watching customer support issues get escalated to engineering. Many times, engineering tries to blow off the issue. It was fascinating to me how quickly an issue got escalated to numerous engineering managers, dire
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by etruong42 1y ago
I agree. Any thoughts on how to stop and maybe reverse the proliferation?
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by etruong42 1y ago
This is exactly what I see as well. At a general level, I believe there are other options - changes/features need to meet some level of usage or it is scrapped out of recognition that supporting all these features make bugs more likely
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by etruong42 1y ago
> Software seems to perform exactly as well as it needs to and no more The cynical spin I would put on this idea is that software performs as poorly as it can get away with. MSFT is feeling the need/pressure to have Office load fast
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Google discontinues Nest Protect smoke alarm(theverge.com)
2 points by etruong42 2y ago|0 comments

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