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by frankc 1y ago
The day to day of a software engineering job has changed and will change more depending on how advanced llms get (and all bets are off if we do get to AGI). However, I don't really think you will see a massive drop-off in employment f
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by frankc 1y ago
I think category A is too broad. I enjoy building systems, not typing code. You can still get that joy having an LLM do the coding. You don't need to let it do the systems design. Also, some of the building process is the system I c
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by frankc 1y ago
This is just wrong. I don't know how else to say it as this point. If you are doing something novel, you need to be a lot more specific in what you tell it to do, but it can still put it together 5x faster than you can do manually. It
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by frankc 1y ago
I wonder if this is what it was like for people when they learned that the earth revolved around the sun.
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by frankc 2y ago
I love this book but yes, you really need to understand when it makes sense to apply these patterns and when not to. I think of these kinds of architectural patterns like I think of project management. They both add an overhead, and both g
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by frankc 2y ago
I find the SqlLab in apache superset to be very good, and I have duckdb as a data source (anything that supports SqlAlchemy works). It works very well. To be honest, when I first saw the screenshot, I thought it was SqlLab. I haven't
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by frankc 2y ago
I don't think it's really an appeal to authority. No one is saying it must be true because this guy says its true. However, when a very respected figure in software engineer culture like Steve Yegge gives an opinion, that is mor
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by frankc 2y ago
I think the interest has more to do with who is doing the tweeting, don't you think?
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by frankc 2y ago
I haven't got to trying claude code yet, but absolutely with cursor and windsurf you can have the agent be reading the output of what it writes and runs and it can fix things it sees. You can also have it review code. It also help so
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by frankc 2y ago
Well I have also worked on systems of multiple millions of lines, well pre-llm, and I sure as he'll didn't actively understand every aspect of it. I understood deeply the area I work on and the contracts with my dependencies as w
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by frankc 2y ago
My experience has gotten better by focusing on documenting the system (with ai to speed up writing markdown). I find reasoning models quite good at understanding systems if you clearly tell them how it works. I think this creates a virtuous
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by frankc 2y ago
This is wrong. There are plenty of quant strategies that aren't a race.
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by frankc 2y ago
I have the same experience but I am still 5 to 10 times more productive using claude. I'll have it write a class, have it write tests for the class and give it the output of the tests, from which it usually figures out problems like &
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by frankc 2y ago
I think this is what the kids call "copium". To be honest, when people think like this it makes me smile. I'd rather compete against people programming on punchcards.
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by frankc 2y ago
This is that old finance chestnut. Two finance professors are walking down the hall and one of them spots a twenty dollar bill. He goes to pick it up but the other professor stops him and says "no don't bother. If there was twent
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by frankc 3y ago
If they run out of duck species, then can move on to duck preparations. Peking duck, smoked tea duck, duck l'orange etc.
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by frankc 3y ago
forget index funds, you could say the same thing about supermarkets. Pointless middlemen!
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by frankc 3y ago
I think what ozim is trying to get across and I agree with, is that "it's who you know" does not imply that its just a good ol boys network for it's own sake. Working with people you know and trust is normal. There is n
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by frankc 3y ago
Yes, especially in, but limited to, portfolio construction. Check out the mosek portfolio construction cookbook.
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by frankc 3y ago
I don't think that is true, or at least I have not seen that anywhere. My understanding is this bill removes any kind of non-competes. It was already basically unenforcible to have an unpaid non-compete in New York (through common law
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by frankc 3y ago
It's not usually a deal breaker because of how common it is, but it does matter. You are going to be disadvantaged against someone who can start sooner. I fully support this legislation. Non-competes are anti-competitive, period.
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by frankc 3y ago
Not really. It's widely understood that NY won't enforce a non-compete if its not paid. It's very common in the hedge fund world to get paid your salary for a year to do nothing, even for junior developers. It depends on if
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by frankc 3y ago
Thats a good point but also it means you will see particular areas be more dramatically affected by this. For instance, I have noticed big price buts in some ski areas where I have though about buying a small second home or condo.
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by frankc 4y ago
Homeownership has never been anything close to 100% of the populaion. Historically I think its about 65%. It's probably more like you need a median income to afford a 25th percentile home. I don't have the actual data on that but
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by frankc 4y ago
I don't even think it requires that in a strict sense. No one knows how long the cycle time is or if you are will reach a new long-term mean or not. Another important point is its not the case that all the hiring is LIFO. In fact we kn
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by frankc 4y ago
"The average person has more business sense than the CEO of Zoom and its entire board of executives who allowed rampant hiring because I could've guessed during COVID, despite the surge in demand given all of the work-from-home du
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by frankc 4y ago
I am really curious what the person writing this article thinks people will take away from it is. You failed three oral exams but were let through anyway because meritocracy has gone of out of fashion. Ok. I guess the article is just a sli
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by frankc 4y ago
You are right but calling this 'obfuscate and save face' is a pretty uncharitable take. "let's take this offline" is just a polite jargon for 'this is off-topic or inappropriate for this venue'. I generall
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by frankc 4y ago
> What if I also told you that memorising facts is not the same as learning? It's interesting, I believe this but recently have come to a little bit of a modified conclusion. I might not fully grasp a particular concept, but the bra
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by frankc 4y ago
When reading this I was thinking that this distinction sounds more like what I know as profit center/cost center. I was glad to see a sidebar mentioning that he thinks its related. Maybe its more common to use that terminology in finan

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