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by extr 2y ago
I'll work in a factory if it means I get to be an engineer. Adjust the machines, get results, tweak gizmos etc. Nobody wants to be an assembly line worker of course.
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by extr 2y ago
Same thing happens with Apple Intelligence. You might join a waitlist for dinner reservations and get a text that says you'll be notified when your table is available. And then the summary will say something like "Your table is av
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by extr 2y ago
The OP is clearly just a fun tech demo to show off their platform, they're not seriously advocating to replace CEOs with LLMs.
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by extr 2y ago
You can basically get the same experience as aider with an MCP server like https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw . It's not perfect - sometimes has trouble with exact syntax of find/replace. But it's free to
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by extr 2y ago
I've been a paid Claude user almost since they offered it. IMO it works perfectly well still - I think people are getting into trouble running extremely long conversations and blowing their usage limit (which is not very clearly explai
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by extr 2y ago
I don't even really feel like this is a PM-specific trait. The best engineers I know stay focused on immediate priorities and what needs to happen to see particular outcomes. The worst PMs I know derail meetings with suggestions/c
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by extr 2y ago
The ChatGPT UI/UX is pretty middling. They still don't have a proper answer to Claude Projects, plus they are focusing on shipping stuff like this instead of fixing the numerous papercuts with the chat experience in their UI. How
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by extr 2y ago
Hallucinations are not a big problem with SOTA models at this point, especially grounded against an actual news article.
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by extr 2y ago
Yeah, so what? That's how a lot of life works. If I had to practice maximal empathy and view every misfortune I hear about through the lens of "Oh my god, what if it happened to me!" I would be catatonically depressed and wou
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by extr 2y ago
It's possible for things to be both sad and funny from different perspectives. Hope that helps.
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by extr 2y ago
Lol this article doesn't even include the best part which were the pictures the scammer was sending. It's like 10 low res photos of Brad Pitt in a hospital bed, I think some of them lifted from movies. I don't even think AI r
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by extr 2y ago
I never message recruiters cold. Only wait for them to message me, or hit up recruiters I have existing relationship with.
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by extr 2y ago
I've found almost all my career positions through recruiters. I find it's about 100x more productive of an experience. You know the job exists because they're paying someone to fill it. You get to talk to someone on the phone
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by extr 2y ago
Bartenders are special, they've always been traditionally tipped and also they also manage an informal queue. In cases where I'm tipping $20 (or more) up front it's because it's busy and it's literally a bribe to pu
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by extr 2y ago
For me it's been a slow boil with the PoS terminals asking for aggressive tips on small $ transactions. Recently I decided - Tip generously for in-person seated dining where I'm waited on (20-30%) - Tip generously for bartenders (
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by extr 2y ago
Try again without the phrase “middle manager” which has a derogatory meme attached to it, as evidenced by this very comment section. If you think you’ve invented a better (scalable) system than having ICs report up through a hierarchy with
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by extr 2y ago
IMO it's less about the size of the company and moreso the nature of the integration. Users are more forgiving of 95% accuracy when it's used to enhance/complement an existing (manual?) workflow than when it's used to wh
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by extr 2y ago
Responded to the same sentiment elsewhere but my general sense is that for many use cases users simply do not care about high 9s accuracy/consistency. A 95% solution using AI is "good enough" if you can ship it quickly and gi
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by extr 2y ago
It's true, it can be maddening (impossible?) to chase down all the edge-case failures LLMs produce. But outside of life/death applications with extreme accuracy requirements (eg: medical diagnostics) the attitude I've seen is
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by extr 2y ago
That's kind of what I was getting at in point 2, about "new use cases" opening up, but yeah you stated it more directly. It's hard to argue with. With a heuristic driven approach we know we will need expertise, dev hours
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by extr 2y ago
I have pushed back in a similar way many times (wrt LLMs), the response I typically get is some combination of: - A custom/heuristic driven approach would perform better but will take much longer to build so would be lower ROI. - There
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by extr 2y ago
Yeah I find Iosevka extremely readable and love how narrow it is. Basically the only monospace font I use.
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by extr 2y ago
Eh, maybe the "real me" wasn't the right choice of words. I just know these guys in a way that when I see them I inevitably fall into fits of laughter in about 5 minutes. I know they aren't going to ask me a bunch of bul
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by extr 2y ago
Not really the case in my situation. We moved to be closer to family (both sets of parents had coincidentally had relocated to the same area of the country late in life, but before we met). The choice between friends vs family complicates m
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by extr 2y ago
Nothing is wrong. We moved to be closer to family which in retrospect was a great decision and one I'm still happy with. We don't have much of a social circle here outside of that, but we have kids < 2 so it's hard to get
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by extr 2y ago
I go back and forth on this. I still keep in touch with a bunch of high school and college friends. For better or worse those guys know "the real me" and the history and relationships are impossible to replace. They all still live
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by extr 2y ago
I'm surprised the authors didn't try the "dumb" version of the solution they went with: instead of using fancy cosine similarity create to implicit clusters, just ask it to classify the comment along a few dimensions and
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by extr 2y ago
If every car is self driving, there is still the question of where to go.
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by extr 2y ago
I saw this on twitter and actually came on HN to see if there was a thread with more details. The demo on twitter was frankly unbelievable. Show me a water droplet falling...okay...now add a live force diagram that is perfectly rendered by
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by extr 2y ago
Very timely post/update, was just checking out your product. IMO it is one of the best solutions I've looked at. Appreciate your dedication to self hosting, for us it's not really practical to have traces with potentially sen

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