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by fhd2 1y ago
I'd appreciate it! It's cool and I wish you success. Just hope that when someone says "We're using Symbolic AI" a year from now, it won't be even more ambiguous than today :D
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by fhd2 1y ago
What bums me out a bit - "Symbolic AI" is already well defined: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intellig...
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by fhd2 1y ago
Give them a year or two. Once they figured out how to run a small shop, I'm sure it'll just take a bit of additional scaffolding to run a large infrastructure provider.
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by fhd2 1y ago
A bit tangential, but I noticed quite a discrepancy between augmented coding done well, and augmented coding how I actually see it done in the wild. There's a lot of posts about how to do it well, and I like the idea of it, generally.
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by fhd2 1y ago
I think it's not that easy. Musk was _extremely_ present in the media for months and months. Whatever apology or change of heart he could do, he would need to manage to get a similar level of exposure for that. If he's no longer i
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by fhd2 1y ago
Funny thing about US salaries: Based on my limited reasearch, freelance rates and hourly rates for employees seem pretty close there. For employees, there's also no particular job security, sick leave, vacations in any guaranteed way,
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by fhd2 1y ago
Pure coincidence, I'm sure :)
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by fhd2 1y ago
On the surface, radiology seems like an image classification problem. That's indeed something a small NN can do, already 15 years ago. But it's probably not really all it is. I can only imagine what people picture when they think
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by fhd2 1y ago
Certainly a relatively tight feedback loop, but not too tight. Syntax errors are very tight, but non negotiable: Fix it now. Test failures are more explicit, you run tests when you want to and deal with the results. Code review often has a
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by fhd2 1y ago
Appears to align with good old Ironies of Automation [1]. If humans just review and rubber stamp results, they do a pretty terrible job at it. I've been thinking for a while now that in order to truly make augmented workflows work, the
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by fhd2 1y ago
Even of the people invested in these tools, hype only benefits those attempting a pump and dump scheme, or those selling training, consulting or similar services around AI. People who try to make genuine progress, while there's more mo
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by fhd2 1y ago
People who like Waymo (and those who hang out on HN) are probably to a good degree neuro diverse, so I wouldn't write off humanity just yet. My experience with the majority of people is that they do like interacting with humans. I gues
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by fhd2 1y ago
From my personal experience, yes, but your mileage may vary. I tried to like Flutter multiple times, but can't. Capacitator etc feel fairly hacky. All the other options are comparatively obscure. It helps that I like React alright. I d
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by fhd2 1y ago
It's not. But I think you might be able to use your energy in ways that don't make the noise problem _worse_. Sure, if you don't do it, somebody else might, that occured to me. So what can one do? 1. Perhaps pivot to building
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by fhd2 1y ago
The reaching out might work, I know some people actually appreciate it. I personally don't, it feels like an attempt to circumvent the system, and the system is in place for a reason: It attempts to make the insane volume of candidate
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by fhd2 1y ago
Things are turning truly bonkers right now. I've hired two developers in the last couple of weeks: 1. One from my network, just announced it, someone I had worked with in the past reached out, quick chat, hired, great. 2. One with the
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by fhd2 1y ago
And even if you do, you might have trouble recognising the brand you hear about in the news. The cheap brand names seem to be mostly arbitrary strings of uppercase characters.
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by fhd2 1y ago
Not a fan of Facebook or React (though React Native is IMHO the one eyed among the blind for cross platform mobile development), but I think that's a bit far fetched. I do think Facebook has (or had?) genuinely an engineering culture t
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by fhd2 1y ago
Consumers certainly get annoyed if their software is hard to use, has errors, is slow or down. I've run many user tests with arbitrarily selected test subjects, and this part is universal. This is what good software development can fix
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by fhd2 1y ago
Agents no, LLMs yes. Not for generating code per se, but for answering questions. Common Lisp doesn't seem to have a strong influx of n00bs like me, and even though there's pretty excellent documentation, I find it sometimes hard
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by fhd2 1y ago
I'd bet money that in less than six months, there'll be some buzz around a "programming language for agents". Whether that's going to make sense, I have some doubts, but as you say: For an LLM optimist, it's th
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by fhd2 1y ago
I dunno about the US, but every lawyer I've ever hired was like this. Maybe it's more regulated in Germany or something. They run the math with you and find the optimal strategy (or the least bad one), not create a black hole of c
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by fhd2 1y ago
Foreign workers are to my knowledge effectively always a service contract, since it's pretty complicated (if even possible) to hire FTEs across borders without subsidiaries, which are expensive to maintain. I'm curious if contract
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by fhd2 1y ago
Yeah, that's my thinking with these tools. I think it needs to be more of a standard. Either Markdown++ or Org Lite. I'll take either :) I'm not a fan of coupling formats and tools tightly.
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by fhd2 1y ago
Nice! I love how practical gptel is :D
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by fhd2 1y ago
I switch between Markdown and Org Mode a lot, the syntactic differences don't bother me too much, but I guess I like Markdown's a bit more. But what I really miss in Markdown: 1. Collapsible headlines and headline search. 2. Execu
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by fhd2 1y ago
Ha, same. How do you use it? I tried all the fancy context management stuff multiple times, but I mostly just have a chat buffer open and copy paste stuff manually. Text wrangling is so damn efficient in Emacs. I pay around 10$ to Anthropic
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by fhd2 1y ago
Yeah I have the same. In general, writing (and experimenting) is how I _think_. If I read code, it takes me a lot longer to understand. Sure, I save some time by not having to do any trial and error, I'm looking at a solution that alre
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by fhd2 1y ago
Yup. To counter my own points a bit: I could also argue that the word "design" has a connotation strictly opposing emergent behaviour like evolution, as in the intelligent design "theory". So not the best word to use per
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by fhd2 1y ago
Considering how software is increasingly made out of seperate components and services, integration testing can become pretty damn difficult. So quite often, the public release is the first serious integration test. From my experience, this

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