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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
Software developers are so aware of "enshittification" and yet also bullish about this generation of AI, it's baffling. It's very clear the "value" of the LLM generation is to churn out low-cost, low-quality ga
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
I've interviewed some candidates (more senior than TFA) and I agree with OP that it is a uniquely uncomfortable experience. Candidates who rely on AI seem to just be totally turning their brains off. At least a candidate who was embell
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
It's not surprising that people who love AI and NFTs are willfully ignorant about what makes art meaningful. It's a sadly transactional view of the world.
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
I don't think you're going to see 10 years of linear progress increasing the complexity of generated code, the same as you're not going to see a steady march towards factually correct LLM answers. We've had a step improv
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
The service seems designed to bypass anti-scraping measures. If site owners don't want their content scraped by AI this is subverting their will. It also obfuscates responsibility between the AI vendor and the scraping service. One can
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
Canada has imported a lot of the same culture war BS as the US. If you're LGBTQ or support human rights Canada is not much better.
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
The state of "the law" in the United States is that you can be grabbed off the street at any point, denied a trial and detained indefinitely. As someone outside the US I would not risk visiting even if it's "unlikely&quo
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
You should name and shame companies that have this policy. Who the fuck is making people be on-call 365 days a year?
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
> Obviously people out there that can handle this lifestyle, but I couldn't No I don't think anyone could. What you're describing is an insane policy of abusing employees. Most on-call is done on a rotation, not permanentl
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
1U is a "pizza box", you don't have to rack it to use it. Lots of people have bigger rackable switches and servers just sitting on a desk.
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by hbsbsbsndk 2y ago
As someone who has attempted to escape from tech industry employment, the high status and salary are very alluring. If you leave your 6 figure tech job to live in a van by the river and plant trees you're a burnout loser with no money.