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by hibikir 5mo ago
Given that it is no a monopoly, and changing providers is very easy, it's not going to be all that easy for anyone to charge a lot more than inference price. It's not someone in cloud A, facing huge costs to migrate to cloud provi
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by hibikir 5mo ago
It's not that a shareholder won't care, but that the modern US company is such a large basket of businesses, it's impossible to put any pressure on a random business unit throwing money away. So, in practice, there's ver
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Even if there is first principles traversal of some parts of the codebase, there are other bits that definitely not change, and where exploring every time is a massive waste of tokens. My arguments with claude often have to do with making i
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by hibikir 5mo ago
This was a relatively widespread opinion 20 years ago. I had Roy Blunt, Republican senator from Missouri at the time, come to talk to us, telling us that he thought a science Ph.D should come with a green card stapled to it. But the politic
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Very few people are paying their way to MIT's graduate programs, so it's not as if it's a matter of AI scaring people into not paying for expensive education or anything. Graduate programs are full of international students t
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Visibility doesn't always get you value though. See the many companies that unify their ticketing to something like Jira, and end up running reports on in. The actual accuracy of the aggregates is rarely great, and instead leads to peo
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by hibikir 5mo ago
A non-trivial part of the big difference between the juniors that seem talented and "get it", and those that don't is precisely their ability to form accurate enough world models quickly. You can tell who is going at the &quo
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by hibikir 5mo ago
There's companies out there with mid 8, possibly low 9 figure monthly AWS bills. In that world, letting people pay through said AWS pipeline gets rid of so much red tape. Supporting Bedrock was already a big winner vs OpenAI in the rac
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by hibikir 5mo ago
No, we can't. Once could lower the rate of increase of housing prices (and, more realistically, land values), but "gentrification" isn't really just about pricing, but a change in preferences: Areas close to urban center
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Yes, but as the price of getting work done goes down, a lot of companies that were priced out of custom software before now can hire devs, as the value hiring a few can provide just goes up. Fewer people per product, absolutely. No more tea
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by hibikir 5mo ago
In my experience, it's been the complete opposite. The very experienced engineers that are actually willing to use top of the line tooling are much better than they were before, including those that are over 40, and over 50. Part of th
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by hibikir 5mo ago
The amounts of API tokens many large companies are using through, say AWS bedrock are quite high. We've seen leaks on the bills for real world use cases. It's not unreasonable to see normal individual subscriptions as possibly sub
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Many a big company migrated because they have those very same slow procurement problems with internal data centers. I saw multiple cloud migrations because internal friction was at a level that the price didn't matter: 6 months for the
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Given Facebook's current size, and how many people are relatively disgruntled, but work there because of the pay being quite good, the chances of leaks for wide coms approach 100%. The level of internal, upward trust you need to have f
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Happens to other collectibles too. There are some Games Workshop miniatures that are made in resin, and you can tell the clones appart because they use far better resin, which bends less. For some old plastic molds it's the same thing:
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by hibikir 6mo ago
Because we've been automating large parts of our former jobs for decades. Otherwise we'd all be trying to build things in the least efficient way possible to maximize how long the job takes, which IMO isn't a great idea. Huma
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by hibikir 6mo ago
It reads your other code so it can match the style, it runs the compiler, if any, it runs the tests, and if anything fails through any of it, it handles the errors and works on it. If you ask it to, say, update the major version of some lib
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by hibikir 6mo ago
In my experience, it sure saves time. a lot of quality has significant mechanical components LLMs do great. Hey, this series of 300 functional tests are reusing the same few patterns without helper methods clarifying intent. Give me an over
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by hibikir 6mo ago
On liberal arts is simply a matter of what the students want to get out of the class, vs what the teacher wants the students to do: There's a huge disconnect in goals and expectations, so there's no way for the teacher to actually
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by hibikir 6mo ago
LLMs don't lack the virtue of laziness: it has it if you want it to, by just having a base prompt that matches intent. I've had good success convincing claude backed agents to aim for minimal code changes, make deduplication passe
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by hibikir 6mo ago
And yet the divisions that built those smart speakers have been reduced to almost nothing, because the monetization capabilities were minimal, as their common use cases are rather low value. The devices were priced quite low to try to gain
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by hibikir 6mo ago
The idea that LA is an unbelievably dense location is puzzling. My Spanish hometown is significantly denser than Los Angeles. Even large parts of NYC are not in any way dense by global urban standards. As for people parking in the street in
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by hibikir 6mo ago
When we look at automobiles, we also see that there were many ways to adapt to them. It's true that there's many parts of the anglosphere where, without one, you are a second class citizen at best: The lived environment was built
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by hibikir 6mo ago
That's quite the uncharitable view. Let's try a better one. Changes on what humans need to remember what to do have, for as far as we have written records, changed the skills humans hone over time. They change our fitness function
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by hibikir 6mo ago
It's not that juniors are replaceable, but that hiring them is a high variance move. Few, if any, know whether a candidate is just memorizing leetcode and is going to be a dud, costing you effort before they get a PIP, or you are hirin
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by hibikir 6mo ago
People often undervalue scaffolding. I was looking at a bug yesterday, reported by a tester. He has access to Opus, but he's looking through a single repo, and Amazon Q. It provided some useful information, but the scaffolding wasn&#x2
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by hibikir 6mo ago
Within the US, it's far more common than you think. That's typical senior dev money in a large company in cities like St Louis or KC. What is rare outside of the biggest markets is the whole "enough RSUs to double your salar
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by hibikir 7mo ago
On a topic like cybersecurity, we never win by not looking: One needs top of the line knowledge of how to break a system to be able to protect it. We have that dilemma dealing with human experts: The same government sponsored unit that tell
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by hibikir 7mo ago
When we go with any other good in the economy, price is always relevant: After all, the price is a key part of any offering. There are $80-100k workstations out there, but most of us don't buy them, because the extra capabilities just
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by hibikir 7mo ago
My favorite uses of Claude code is to do code quality improvements that would be seen as a total waste of time if I was doing them by hand, but are perfectly fine when they are done mostly for free. Looking for repetitive patterns in unit t

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