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by fhd2 3y ago
I think rather than saying a company can only do one thing, one could argue a product should only do one thing to extract value from it: 1. One time payment 2. Subscription payments 3. Usage-based payments 4. Selling personal data (to other
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by fhd2 3y ago
I'd doubt anyone would get that rich without a) being incredibly lucky b) lacking any notion of "good enough".
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by fhd2 3y ago
That's a nice analogy! If I feel at a disadvantage (as in, other people produce better work with LLMs), I'll just adopt them too. But I'm really about quality over quantity, and for my kind of work that's not looking lik
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by fhd2 3y ago
I wouldn´t require disclosure, I think that's simply not realistic, for the reasons you describe, and also because people may just forget. I was wondering if I should declare that I did _not_ use any text analysis or generation tools i
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by fhd2 3y ago
I don´t want to come off wrong here: I totally don't mind if people use GenAI to produce text responsibly and carefully. I do find it fair to communicate it however: As a reviewer, I'll look at something entirely written by a huma
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by fhd2 3y ago
I write a lot of documents for my consulting work - technical due diligence, analyses, that sort of stuff. The kind of stuff where some hallucination I forgot to double check could cause bad business decisions. Until now it didn't occu
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by fhd2 3y ago
Apples and oranges: The authors in question obviously missed ChatGPT generated nonsense ("Regenerate"), who's to say they didn't miss anything else? A spell checker helps you _not_ miss inconsequential mistakes. ChatGPT
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by fhd2 3y ago
It's only mythical if you keep moving the goal posts the closer you get - that's what I'm talking about. I've been there (to a degree), I've seen others who've been there. And that's what I'd call an
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by fhd2 3y ago
Sorry to hear that! I have a positive outlook. I deal with the problems I encounter and enjoy the little things. This year was pretty good, I pulled off some stuff I didn't know I could do. Now I feel more confident that I can deal wit
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by fhd2 3y ago
From what I've seen, amassing riches is either a weird game to people, the means to a lifestyle they truly crave (status, luxury, ...), or an unhealthy obsession with security (both for themselves and their offspring). I was, maybe sti
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by fhd2 3y ago
I used to have my own (rather extensive) config, and switched to prelude a bit more than a year ago. I think the whole key to prelude is that it promotes useful packages, with an eye on beginners. I did change a whole bunch of things, but t
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by fhd2 3y ago
This lady seems more successful than me, but I managed to build a respectable one man consulting business, and I have zero intention to grow that. My job already feels like 50% sales, I'm not looking to make that 100% and add the anxie
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by fhd2 3y ago
Yeah, it's just arguing semantics. We do need better vocabulary and stop it with the anthromorphism IMHO. Intelligence is already ambiguous in humans, see IQ tests. It's just not linear, much less binary. Whether something is dete
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by fhd2 3y ago
If you invest (significantly) into a test suite that realistically mirrors the real world, that argument doesn't fly. Think Chaos Monkey squared. But it's neither cheap nor fast. Sure, some rare edge cases are probably impossible
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by fhd2 3y ago
Not sure. I rather envision lots of thinly veiled self promotion and bad con-artistry with a "cool" tone spamming all kinds of threads. At least with LinkedIn I know to run for the hills based on post length and the first sentence
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by fhd2 3y ago
Thank you, it's great to get positive feedback after investing so much energy. Reach out to me if you need help with your sales strategy!
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by fhd2 3y ago
It's weird to admit, but ever since Twitter jumped the shark LinkedIn has become my main replacement. Closest thing to vaguely broad views and updates from people most of which I know to some degree. It _is_ cringe, but not the stuff m
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by fhd2 3y ago
I dunno about that. I honestly tried to extract _any_ value in my day to day work from LLMs, but aside from being an OK alternative to Google/SO, I mostly did find it to be a crutch. I never had issues with quickly writing a draft or t
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by fhd2 3y ago
All ticketing system are wrong, some are useful. I remember 12 years ago, when we were just starting out as a remote company in a world that looked like it had a single digit number of those. We heavily borrowed from Mozilla since most of t
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by fhd2 3y ago
I think a tool that allows you to see the generated SQL and maybe edit it should help achieve what I wrote about! And looking at the code, it shouldn't even be a big change in this one. Sure, some people might not bother/think, th
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by fhd2 3y ago
It's a risk for Bob, I think he should be the one judging whether it's worth it or not, since he'd probably get in trouble over this. What I take away from this is that it'd be helpful if the tool clearly warned him of t
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by fhd2 3y ago
I wish more companies would be able to work with KPIs as _one_ part of the equation, rather than the be all end all. I haven't seen a lot of that :( In my experience, data driveness quickly leads to an unhealthy focus on short term res
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by fhd2 3y ago
As a German with an expat partner, I'd say this depends very much. If you're working for consumer facing startups - sure. There's tons of those in Berlin and plenty in the other big cities (Germany is quite decentral). But if
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by fhd2 3y ago
I find it quite helpful to understand why people don't use a product or are unhappy with it. If there's none of that, all I'm left with is reading marketing claims.
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by fhd2 3y ago
I fully agree. Our industry is obsessed with tools, frameworks and methodologies, but when it comes to people, I find those barely useful for anything other than teaching those without any experience. All models are wrong, some are useful.
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by fhd2 3y ago
That's a fair assumption in my experience from running companies. I've seen management with ethics, but even then, eventually new people are in charge, shares (or the whole thing) get sold... That's what contracts are for, co
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by fhd2 3y ago
Fair, not the best example of regulation countering the tragedy of the commons, because it's just made up. Unfortunately, any real world examples I can think of (nature preservation, gun control, ...) are seemingly controversial.
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by fhd2 3y ago
I think it's about more than just efficiencies of scale. You kinda play by different rules at a certain scale (not just based on employee count, also based on revenue), and suddenly you're subject to a lot more regulatory scrutiny
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by fhd2 3y ago
Awareness barely helps, it's the tragedy of the commons. I can't think of a solution other than regulation. But then if some countries regulate and others don't, you're right back at the tragedy of the commons at the int
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by fhd2 3y ago
I've seen a slight majority of managers have a huge appetite for solving specific problems with generic solutions. I never quite understood where that's coming from. The programming equivalent would be a full rewrite because someo

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