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by holtkam2 7mo ago
Idk, anyone who wants to understand and apply the most powerful and transformative technology in human history…?
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by holtkam2 8mo ago
Has anyone noticed Amazon or AWS shipping features faster than their pre-GenAI baseline? I haven't
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by holtkam2 8mo ago
No matter how fast and accurately your AI apps can spit out code (or PowerPoints, or excel spreadsheets, or business plans, etc) you will still need humans to understand how stuff works. If it’s truly business critical software, you can’t g
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by holtkam2 8mo ago
What is so enjoyable about this is that it'll be all musk's fault when we look back and realize Tesla just died off over time. Once other companies started actually competing with him, he wasn't smart enough to hold the lead.
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by holtkam2 9mo ago
That’s insane. He’s the David Goggins of coyotes. Also, that water is cold as hell this time of year. I couldn’t do that. Give him a metal and enter him in the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon (I assume he can ride a bicycle?)
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by holtkam2 9mo ago
Also, if you find yourself saying “Trump is doing just what I would do in this situation!” that is not a good sign. Unless you have tons of experience and expertise in geopolitics and international relations, you probably wouldn’t make the
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by holtkam2 9mo ago
Well if you did, I’d say congrats, the arctic is now more secure, but your once loyal allies now dislike you. Was that worth the cost? In a hot war with a near peer you would want them on your side. The odds they would be willing to do so a
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by holtkam2 9mo ago
I’ll buy a cybertruck if and only if the board replaces Elon. I’m serious
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by holtkam2 10mo ago
I agree and disagree. In my day job as an AI engineer I rarely if ever need to use any “classic” deep learning to get things done. However, I’m a firm believer that understanding the internals of a LLM can set you apart as an gen AI enginee
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by holtkam2 10mo ago
You mean its ability to use powershell, or something else?
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by holtkam2 10mo ago
I’d go further: it’s not enough to be able to prove that your code works. It’s required that you also understand why it works. Otherwise you’ll end up in situations where it passes all test cases yet fails for something unexpected in the
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by holtkam2 10mo ago
If Tesla fires Musk I'll buy one of their cars that day
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by holtkam2 10mo ago
I know I sound like a snob but I’ve had many moments with Gen AI tools over the years that made me wonder: I wonder what these tools are like for someone who doesn’t know how LLMs work under the hood? It’s probably completely bizarre? Apps
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by holtkam2 10mo ago
Maybe the way we get our bosses to stop shoving AI down our throats is to build an AI system that is expressly designed to do the job of a Sr. Exec at a tech company. There's nothing about their jobs that makes them impossible to autom
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by holtkam2 10mo ago
Obviously you work at AMZN. This is the most Amazonish HN comment I’ve ever seen.
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by holtkam2 1y ago
I’m convinced this is the root cause of the strange phenomenon I call “LLM coding assistants don’t increase team velocity in the long run in real world settings”
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by holtkam2 1y ago
Trust me, these “vibe coding” tools don’t speed up productivity much in the real world. At the end of the day these systems need to be maintained by humans and humans are the ones held accountable when stuff breaks. That means humans need t
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by holtkam2 1y ago
I guess I was thinking about a smart fridge of the type you’d find in the year, say, 2031.
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by holtkam2 1y ago
Sounds like this is a great opportunity for competition to enter the market with a fridge that offers the same features, without being online. Its online-required features are all things that it should be able to do offline anyway. > Ano
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by holtkam2 1y ago
I don’t get why people think 996 is even optimal for productivity in the medium or long term. If I work hard past 8pm I can’t sleep - my brain is still whirring. That results in worse sleep -> less memory creation & skill consolidati
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by holtkam2 1y ago
He was right tho. AI is doing all the coding. That doesn’t mean you fire junior staff. Both can be true at once- you need juniors, and pretty much all code this days is AI-generated.
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by holtkam2 1y ago
It would be badass to get that same tattoo today. To carry the artist’s legacy forward. And also because it still looks cool. Talk about “timeless” artwork
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by holtkam2 1y ago
I would say, yes there is a flaw there, because salaries are often a huge chunk of R&D expenses, and for the sake of long term growth, we want to disproportionately incentivize R&D spending
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by holtkam2 1y ago
Honest question, is there a community / grassroots effort I can participate in so that this this section 174 change can be reverted to its pre-2022 state? I'm wondering, if such a movement doesn't doesn't exist already,
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by holtkam2 1y ago
No one on this site or on earth has any idea what the next 5, 10, or 30 years will bring. They will likely bring a world which is so radically different from today it's incomprehensible. But that doesn't mean strictly worse. Consi
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by holtkam2 1y ago
I loved this article and it is the strongest argument I’ve ever heard for “why I shouldn’t be freaking out about the future of my engineering career”. Now just for the heck of it I’ll attempt to craft the strongest rebuttal I can: This blog
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by holtkam2 1y ago
I loved this article. But for some reason my gut is telling it will age like milk. Can you imagine how effective these coding agents will be in, say, 2036? The concept of coding things by hand for the sake of higher quality will seem so out
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by holtkam2 1y ago
I feel like the fundamental bottleneck of software dev velocity will be human brains ability to understand the code being made. We can’t deploy code / packages / systems / apps we don’t deeply understand, no matter if those c
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by holtkam2 1y ago
Sure, all these seem like legitimate obstacles for him, but he has 3+ years to get rid of Brian Kemp and others who might stand in his way. With (near) infinite resources at his disposal he could create the highest paid and smartest set of
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by holtkam2 1y ago
They may not have been alluding to violence; perhaps something like democracy itself would be enough to take that lifestyle away from the middle class. If billionaires consolidate enough power & resources and push the tax burden onto th

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