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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Remote or offshore ? I’ve worked with offshore teams (Infosys) that were vastly inferior to ChatGPT for writing code. We’re talking declares variables out of scope and checks that code in to source control. We’re talking forgets to remove
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Absolutely. Still, it’s possible that AI came at just the right time to “pick up” where FAANG’s “over-hiring purge” left off. Personally, I think people will find a reason to justify their feelings, and I think the feelings since at least 2
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
It’s hard to say how long we’ve been in a “recession”. My personal recession has been going since 2023. That’s when I last held a full-time job. I’ve been “1099 for table scraps for the last 2 years, and it doesn’t show signs of stopping. S
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
It’s empirically a bad time to be a SWE. We’ve seen more layoffs than any other field since 2022. Times is hard, but for us it feels unnecessary and artificial. You can break my balls about having “high standards”, but the reality is our in
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I would imagine the wording is very important here. Am I worried that my job will be replaced by AI tools? On one hand, I know that ChatGPT can’t replace me. On the other hand, companies seem seldom run by logic and empirical data these day
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I’m sure it’s also a ploy by C suite leadership to explain/justify whatever they want (layoffs, price hikes, budget cuts, et al.)
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I don’t want to jeopardize my (public, state) university’s ABET accreditation but it was an open secret that the comp sci department just waved people through. My own experience supported this- any assignments that involved writing code (be
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I’m freelancing for a lawyer right now and want out even though there’s nothing out there unless I want to commute 3-5 days/week and take a massive pay cut. The pay is good and consistent but… I would say the good lawyers are going to
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
We aren’t enthusiastic about having to do that either
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
I’m not optimistic. It’s the Wild West and comparing models for one’s specific use case is difficult, essentially impossible at scale.
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
Uh… May want to revisit that now.
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
No matter how many upvotes this comment gets it will never be enough.
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
It wouldn’t be unheard of.
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
Not many people realize that the Fed can’t really increase rates any more, because of that debt service. That’s a problem because if inflation comes back with a vengeance, the Fed can’t pull its anti-inflation lever. It’ll be interesting to
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
I haven’t run into anything where Python either couldn’t be used or shouldn’t be used, except for the browser of course. I think software engineers with any significant amount of experience recognize you can build an application that does X
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
I’m mainly interested in the performance implications. The less shit between me and the hardware, theoretically the better the performance. In a world where these companies want to build nuclear power plants just to power NVIDIA GPU data
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
True, although I believe Maxwell is the oldest supported architecture for the current CUDA 12.x. Maxwell (eg GTX 980) came out around 2013, if memory serves. 10+ years of support is not bad at all considering ROCm supports only like 3 consu
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
This is huge. Anyone who was considering AMD + ROCm as an alternative to NVIDIA in the AI space isn’t anymore. I’m one of those people who can’t (won’t) learn C++ to the extent required to effectively write code for GPU execution…. But to h
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
I would imagine as in the professional world, there are certain school jobs that attract sociopaths/narcissists/psychopaths. Yes, I’m talking of course about vice principals. My elementary, middle and high school principals were v
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
The IT admin at my high school was a prick and from what I’m told took it very personally when my friend was caught mapping network drives. The closest thing we had to a computer class was graphic design where you played with Photoshop and
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
Classic
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
The Florida Computer Crimes Act was passed in 1978 so as you can imagine it’s very draconian. I’m pretty sure it was a misdemeanor for 16-year-old me to boot Linux from a live USB as a means to get around the IE-only web filter the school d
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
In high school a friend figured out you could map any network drive to your desktop and access it (Windows XP), and since everyone in the entire school district had a username of {last name}{first initial}, you could gain read/write ac
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
1TB/s memory bandwidth is competitive with NVIDIA GPUs. But yes, I’m skeptical that there’s really a market for “runs the LLM, but it’s not usable in real-time”. I guess if you had a list of prompts and you ran them throughout the nigh
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
Certainly neat, especially the SFP port and Ethernet port next to the display ports. - How much will it cost? - How compatible will it be with existing AI assets (eg models, code for training and inference)? - Will there have to be a transl
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
The economic burden usually falls on governments, so, like StarLink, Alphabet is probably hoping for some of that sweet, sweet government subsidy/grants for military applications.
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
> In other words, all the things you want to spill but can’t post on LinkedIn. Eh. We need to normalize posting even the risqué stuff on LinkedIn. Much better reach than a random blog or other website. I post things on LinkedIn all the t
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
Yeah agree 100%. LLMs are overrated. I describe them as the “Jack of all, master of none” of AI. LLMs are that jackass guy we all know who has to chime in to every topic like he knows everything, but in reality he’s a fraud with low self-es
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
That’s a terrible article. It includes nothing to backup the claims it makes- that printers have a plethora of vulnerabilities. The reality is your printer probably isn’t a realistic attack vector. Your average network firewall will keep yo
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by gymbeaux 2y ago
It’s like unlimited data cell plans, if one does it they’ll all have to do it.

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