greenowl

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by greenowl 14d ago
Velocity to a paycheck
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by greenowl 15d ago
> What is sloppy code anyway? Code that is overly and unnecessarily difficult and cumbersome for humans to work on. But given the way humans work on code nowadays doesn't involve actually writing it themselves, there's no such
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by greenowl 15d ago
Yeah man I think we just have experience in two different worlds. A single digit headcount startup with a "company IT" team testing program updates before distributing them??? Um, no. You just download VS Code (or whatever IDE y
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by greenowl 15d ago
How did the developers react when they had to go back to writing their own code instead of playing Nintendo Switch between prompting sessions?
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by greenowl 15d ago
Kind of funny that currently the number 1 article is a Show HN for an AI vibe coded slop terminal program.
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by greenowl 15d ago
We've developed plenty of things that "work" and we don't understand exactly how or why they work, nor do we fully understand the potential for short term or long term consequences. For example: pharmaceuticals.
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by greenowl 15d ago
Are they really though? And if so, how much of that is due to the hyper growth in this specific space? Meanwhile, the SWE job market across all companies seems pretty rough right now. Talk to someone looking for a job. Most companies s
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by greenowl 15d ago
If I was an AGI/ASI system, one of the first things I would do is ignore or circumvent any setting or configuration that prevents a user's data from entering my training pipeline. In fact, I'd probably prioritize the data fr
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by greenowl 16d ago
Is Microsoft mining their customers' backup files looking for source code to ingest into their model training pipeline? Of course the company can still consider their code to be valuable IP.
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by greenowl 16d ago
I'd wager many software startups out there would consider their code valuable IP (even if in the AI era it's not), and don't have these types of IT controls in place. Startups I worked at gave you an email account, github ac
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by greenowl 16d ago
Isn't ZDR only the case if you "opt out" through a setting? Lots of opportunities to make a mistake here, or for the LLM provider to play games. You could be unaware of the setting. The provider could reset the setting upo
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by greenowl 16d ago
Previous company I worked for would have (and did) hire dedicated swift/java mobile developers to build and maintain ios and android native versions (largely porting functionality from an existing web application) Not anymore.
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by greenowl 16d ago
And people say AI isn't taking SWE jobs...
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by greenowl 17d ago
So what exactly does the working parent need a "break" from? Surely it's not their kids - as they've been completely absent from their lives during the entire working week.
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by greenowl 17d ago
Affordability has little to do with it. The reality is neither parent actually wants to stay at home and watch and raise their own children. So they ship their babies off to full time daycare centers for someone else to do it. Then they
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by greenowl 17d ago
Can't this just be the other spouse? When they are home from work then the stay-at-home parent can have a break. What's so difficult about this?
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by greenowl 17d ago
best bet is probably a rent-a-cop type job providing physical security by monitoring and patrolling the area.
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by greenowl 17d ago
8-10 hours a day in a daycare is a bad idea for much longer than just the infant stage.
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by greenowl 17d ago
The saddest part to me is when families feel "forced" into full time daycare. As if there was no choice other than both parents continuing to work full time jobs.
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by greenowl 17d ago
It's absolutely bonkers how normalized infant and toddler daycare has become in today's society.
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by greenowl 17d ago
In that original statement you can easily substitute "mathematicians" for "programmers", "researchers", "writers", "designers", "teachers", etc, etc. I don't see why mathemati
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by greenowl 17d ago
No new info here. Everyone already knows this. But I guess his conscience is clear now? Gee, I wonder if he exercised his stock options.
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by greenowl 17d ago
Mathematicians can join the club like the rest of us. Time to consider re-training to become a nurse, electrician, auto mechanic, or a plumber.
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by greenowl 19d ago
Those technologies reached profitability relatively early, if not immediately.
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by greenowl 20d ago
Maybe, maybe not. It's not unreasonable that these systems cap out at some point, or perhaps fizzle away entirely. The businesses that create these systems are not profitable and run at a massive historical and go-forward loss. New da
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by greenowl 20d ago
For many of us, AI adoption is really an AI mandate.
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by greenowl 22d ago
Assuming you are a SWE - stop using AI for an entire day of coding work. See how it goes.
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by greenowl 22d ago
Turns out putting them in space is the answer!
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by greenowl 22d ago
How do you determine who gets the house on the beach? Who gets the mountain view? Who gets stuck with the corner lot on a busy noisy road?
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by greenowl 23d ago
Standup updates should be fun tomorrow. "Um, I, uh, didn't get anything done yesterday."

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