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by frank_nitti 1y ago
I agree with your sentiment. But where I struggle is: to what degree do each of those ads “represent one less person who would have been paid” versus those that represent one additional person who would not be able to afford to advertise in
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
Has there been a sufficient indication to conclude these weights will not (now or ever) be released?
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
We might be talking about two different things. Yes, under normal circumstances the setup steps involve software that defaults to using telemetry -- though I'd be surprised if it's not possible anymore to achieve those in an air-g
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
This, in particular, is a big motivator and rewarding factor in getting local setup and working. Turning off the internet and seeing everything run end to end is a joy
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
I'd assume they are referring to being able to run your own workloads in a home-built system, rather then surrendering that ownership to the tech giants alone
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
For me, this is essential. On priciple, I won't pay money to be a software engineer. I never paid for cloud infrastructure out of pocket, but still became the go-to person and achieved lead architecture roles for cloud systems, because
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
I’ve mostly used them for laughs with my friends. Sometimes generating “custom” songs with funny lyrics, but most fun so far is editing lyrics of existing songs to say ridiculous things for fun. No real clue how someone would use them for a
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
That’s fair regarding the OP, and if otherwise agree with your sentiments here. Some other threads of conversation get intertwined here with concerns about delusional management making decisions to cut staff and reduce hiring for junior pos
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
Some may have a better answer, but I often compare with tools like OpenAPI and AsyncAPI generators where HTTP/AMQP/etc code can be generated for servers, clients and extended documentation viewers. The trade off here would be that
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
What do you mean by “successfully using AI”, do you just mean some employee used it and found it helpful at some stage of their dev process, e.g. in lieu of search engines or existing codegen tooling? Are there any examples of businesses de
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
They do this in Mexico as well. Always just seems like an honor system thing unless they are checking people at the door to the hotel and/or room each time they enter, which only seems realistic in very small hotels who have no e.g. re
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
When you put it like that, it sounds much more enticing to me. Don’t remove it on account of comments like mine, especially if you have reason to believe it connects with the average person you’re hoping will use it. Since the term AI seems
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
I would hope from a deterministic algorithm. The parameters are finite and well-understood. I don’t understand what purpose an AI serves here
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
This would have been an easy sell for me, whereas the “AI-picked workouts” on this pitch was an immediate turn off. But there are others who are the opposite of me in this regard.
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
Or for the younger generation Go Diego Go
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
That is what I would assume. So, unless I am overlooking something, this seems like a very bad idea for a company to have zero engineering capability in-house who can read and validate the generated application code, test suites etc before
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
There are several commenters in this thread who actually see it as having zero software engineering team at all; there would not be a single person on staff who could read and understand application code. I would agree about needing fewer h
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
I wonder how a nontechnical PM would ever be able to evaluate the outputs well enough for their business to deploy model-generated code into production where end users’ safety/privacy/etc are at stake. If the answer would be rel
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
If there are no human software engineers, who will be legally and financially responsible for the code that is shipped into production? Will OpenAI, Anthropic et al assume responsibility for damages when critical systems fail for any of the
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
I strongly agree, and to me this supports the argument for heavier regulation (or any really)
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
Your comment assumes the conclusion that these comp sci kids were able to save billions while preserving the correct behavior of the system, i.e. if their changes cause even one person to miss one payment they should have received, then t
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
And the follies here seem to be many. I’m not following why this Marko guy would make a publicly-visible fork of a repo (though he seems to have deleted it since this story went big), and why they would openly request to have their accounts
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by frank_nitti 2y ago
I consider myself a “genuine communicator” insofar as I write messages thoughtfully and thoroughly. Though I suspect many of my emails go unread, and people have confessed that they ran my personal messages to them through an LLM to generat
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by frank_nitti 2y ago
Always a favorite https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11396045
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by frank_nitti 2y ago
I’m not certain that premise is valid: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/18/at-un-aaron-mate-debunks-...
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by frank_nitti 2y ago
Not GP but I'd say yes - if and when computers are as easy to operate to their desired potential, with as simple an interface as elevator buttons, then of course. The operations we desire from computing systems has a bit broader scope
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by frank_nitti 2y ago
If we had a crystal ball to know beforehand, then of course not. How can we know if someone will be incompetent in a role they have never been given the opportunity? If an excellent contributor/leader wants to take on more responsibili
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by frank_nitti 2y ago
It depends on the situation; I would absolutely consider someone homeless if they don’t know where they are going to sleep tonight, or three days from now, etc and does not have a safety net. A friend lets you crash on the couch a few days
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by frank_nitti 2y ago
Nader is the kind of leader we need, but don’t deserve. Dems employed some similar strategies with Sanders in 2016, despite his decision to run as a Democrat. It is interesting to look at the intersection of positions held by the likes of R
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by frank_nitti 2y ago
That would make sense and be a good use case, essentially doing what OpenAPI generators do (or Yeoman generators of yore), but less deterministic I’d imagine. So optimistically I would guess it covers ground that isn’t already solved by mai

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