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by hintymad 7mo ago
The slides got stuck at https://perl.petamem.com/gpw2026/perl-mit-ai-gpw2026.html#/6 . The right arrow disappeared. The down arrow was flashing, but did not respond to any clicks. I tried different browsers on my m
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> If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours. I saw meme in X the other day, which roughly says that one does not have to learn if she learns
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No AI Silver Bullet(smartmic.bearblog.dev)
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> A sufficiently detailed spec is code This is exactly the argument in Brooks' No Silver Bullet. I still believe that it holds. However, my observation is that many people don't really need that level of details. When one promp
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> hell its better than Go for industry purposes Yet if you ask people in the bay area, especially the those who are under 35, they would tell you that "Use Java? Over my deadbody". It's just amazing that people always chas
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I was not saying that humans are always right. I was assuming that humans probabilistically would make fewer obvious mistakes, which of course could be wrong and hence my questions. Speaking of QA, we would require AI to generate test cases
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by hintymad 7mo ago
How do people ensure that AI don't produce subtle and stupid mistakes that humans usually don't make, like the one in Amazon that deleted the entire production deployment? When a person writes code, the person reasons out the code
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by hintymad 7mo ago
Doesn't AI just replace the coding that other people have done many times? That is, we don't have to do repetitive work because of AI. Yes, I don't know how to write a React app even though I can vibe code it quickly, but tha
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I think what’s really interesting is that the first version of db9.ai is done by a single person by commanding AI. There must be tons of invaluable lessons learned.
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> Review by a senior is one of the biggest "silver bullet" illusions managers suffer from Especially in a big co like Amazon, most senior engineers are box drawers, meeting goers, gatekeepers, vision setters, org lubricants, VP
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I was not talking about theoretical foundations like Analysis or measure theory, but just basics in college-level math class. There can be other examples. The point is that many people didn’t have intuitive understanding of what they use ev
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> It has no real world model, no ability to learn in any but superficial ways I also think so, and in the meantime I have to admit a lot of people don't learn deeply either. Take math for example, how many STEM students from elite u
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by hintymad 7mo ago
> when does AI flip from "powerful automation with humans propping it up" to autonomous output? Another scenario of economics is that AI does not not necessarily output autonomously, but does output so much so fast that compani
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by hintymad 8mo ago
Dario himself said that he was against using Claude to build a fully automated weapon because the technology was far from perfect, so he didn't want to hurt our soldiers or innocent people. I think his description matched a killer robo
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Honest question: why do people automatically equate "fully autonomous weapons" to something like killer robot? My immediate reaction is that even the best-in-class rapid-fire gun has a hard time identifying and tracking drones. So
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by hintymad 8mo ago
There has been tension between Qwen's research team and Alibaba's product team, say the Qwen App. And recently, Alibaba tried to impose DAU as a KPI. It's understandable that a company like Alibaba would force a change of pro
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by hintymad 8mo ago
> I cannot be alone in feeling that titles (within "tech" in particular) are almost completely arbitrary? I remember that 10 years or so ago, an E5 in Google is considered a pretty prestigious position. In Amazon, L6 is such a
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by hintymad 8mo ago
Isn't being an engineering manager about leverage? Someone needs to organize people, allocate resources, or even decide the direction of products. We may say that ICs can make equally good such decisions, but every company has a hierar
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by hintymad 8mo ago
“Winning” is just the the subjective word I quickly picked. It certainly can be another one, such as the success due to a great product as you mentioned
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by hintymad 8mo ago
Richard Gabriel wrote a famous essay Worse Is Better ( https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html ). The MIT approach vs the New Jersey approach does not necessarily apply to the discussion of the merits of coding agent, b
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by hintymad 8mo ago
So essentially California is becoming more and more like EU? It's curious to see how it pans out. Maybe EU's model turns out to be better than a more laissez-faire world like the US. Who knows. What's even more curious is tha
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by hintymad 8mo ago
> save face from the absurd overhiring that they did in 2022 and 2023 I wonder how we all of sudden got so many candidates back from 2020 to 2022
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by hintymad 8mo ago
Speaking of Cursor, we use cursor's agent nowadays more than its IDE. But then why should a company pay for Cursor instead of just signing deals with the top model providers and then using things like OpenCode or their own coding agent
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I assume that new business scenarios will drive new workflows, which requires new work of software engineering. In the meantime, I assume that computer science will drive paradigm shift, which will drive truly different software engineering
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> It might make the technology itself hit a ceiling because it's no longer being fed novel human problem-solving at scale. My read of the recent discussion is that people assume that the work of far fewer number of elites will defin
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by hintymad 8mo ago
> I don’t believe people who have dedicated their lives to open source will simply want to stop working on it, no matter how much is or is not written by AI. Yeah, hence my question can only be hypothetical. > I wonder what all we mig
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> we especially need 50,000 people writing poems at Google, we do still need poets. I'd assume that an implied concern of most engineers is how many software engineers the world will need in the future. If it's the situation li
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by hintymad 8mo ago
In the latest interview with Claude Code's author: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product... , Boris said that writing code is a solved problem. This brings me to a hypothetical question:
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by hintymad 8mo ago
Or software engineers are not coachmen while AI is diesel engine to horses. Instead, software engineers are mistrels -- they disappear if all they do is moving knowledge from one place to another.
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by hintymad 8mo ago
My guess is that Gemini team didn't focus on the large-scale RL training for the agentic workload. And they are trying to catch up with 3.1.

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