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by imiric 7mo ago
The obvious solution is to use "AI" to do these interviews for you. If the company doesn't want a human to represent them, why should the candidate? I can see how "AI" applications can be annoying for companies as w
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by imiric 7mo ago
Good addition, but there's little chance this will work out in practice. Humans with morals follow rules, sometimes. Probabilistic software acting autonomously or following commands from amoral humans doesn't.
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by imiric 7mo ago
> Your tests are an assertion that 'no matter what this will never change'. That's a strange definition. A lot of software should change in order to adapt to emerging requirements. Refactorings are often needed to make tho
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by imiric 7mo ago
My comment is based precisely on using these tools frequently, if not daily, so what's wild is you assuming I don't. The impact that lack of training data has on the quality of the results is easily observable. Try getting them to
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by imiric 7mo ago
> every AI coding bot will learn your new language as a matter of course after its next update includes the contents of your website. How will it "learn" anything if the only available training data is on a single website? LLMs
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by imiric 7mo ago
Peculiarly, having used Emacs for a decade as my main editor, and Git for much more than that, I never could get used to Magit. Maybe it's due to muscle memory from my CLI Git setup (nothing special, just some aliases, scmpuff, delta,
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by imiric 7mo ago
It can be handy. It gives you an additional safety net on top of the VCS that runs automatically in the background. It doesn't take much to configure it to your liking, e.g. [1]. [1]: https://gist.github.com/imiric&#x2F
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by imiric 7mo ago
Well, of course I will test this thing you built in 2 days[1] for you! [1]: https://xcancel.com/kumareth/status/2023534527113818625
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by imiric 7mo ago
Like you say, some people are interested in keeping the discussion for humans only. Although we can't really know whether any opinion expressed here is coming from a human or not, including this one. As for "AI" companies,
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by imiric 7mo ago
I agree with you, but... > Blogging, sharing blog posts, reading them, commenting on them--these are all acts of human communication. Not anymore. Bots are now the majority of producers and consumers of all content on the internet. The s
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by imiric 7mo ago
> Being on the front page regularly is evidence that people enjoy it or find it informative. What makes you think that it's people who get it to the front page anymore? Or that most people aren't simply fooled by technology des
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by imiric 7mo ago
"Not belonging on HN" is an open invitation to flag anything someone disagrees with. Many posts are flagged simply because they express an unpopular opinion. Community moderation won't fix this problem. It can only be mitigat
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by imiric 7mo ago
> I don’t think there are any genuinely new capabilities that AI agents would need in order to take my job. They’d just have to get better and more reliable at doing the things they can already do. The "just" here is minimizing
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by imiric 7mo ago
It's an easy copout. Tool works as expected? It's superintelligence. Programming is dead. Tool makes dumb mistake? So do humans.
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by imiric 7mo ago
You're right. Automation often trades quality for speed and quantity. The difference between automating the creation of software and automating the creation of physical products is that software is everywhere . It is relied on for mos
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by imiric 7mo ago
The game currently has a Mixed (65%) rating on Steam. Granted, some negative reviews are shallow, but some mention important issues. Regardless, a Minecraft clone is not exactly groundbreaking in terms of gameplay. This is to say that techn
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by imiric 7mo ago
In what world do these new tools help with "laying bricks", but not with ensuring that the structure does not collapse? How is that work any more difficult than producing the software in the first place? It wasn't that long a
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by imiric 7mo ago
Which users? The future you're concerned with defending includes bots being a large part of this community, potentially the majority. Those bots will not only submit comments autonomously, but create these projects, and Show HN threads
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by imiric 7mo ago
The layers of stupidity on this shit cake are staggering. I don't even know where to start... Let it be known that this rotten industry brought us here, and that all people working for these companies are complicit with what is happeni
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by imiric 7mo ago
> There are standards and common conventions for a lot of this in the Windows 9X/2000 design language, and even in basic HTML. These challenges could have been solved (for values of) by using them consistently [...] The thing is tha
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by imiric 7mo ago
That's not necessarily the case. In fact, if implemented well, keyboard/command-driven UIs can be much easier to discover than GUIs. Consider the "Command Palette" and similar features that are part of many UIs (VS Code,
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by imiric 8mo ago
After nearly 30 years of tech life myself, I've come to the realization that the best UIs are not graphical. They can have graphical elements mostly for visualization purposes, but all of them should be as minimal and unobtrusive as
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by imiric 8mo ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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by imiric 8mo ago
> It's incredible how quickly we've devolved into full-blown sci-fi dystopia. How so? The steps towards where we are now have been gradual over the last 2 decades, at least. This recent step has opened the door for those in pow
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by imiric 8mo ago
The levels of irony in this case are staggering. The employees of these companies are complicit in creating the greatest data harvesting and manipulation machine ever built, whose use cases have yet to be fully realized, yet when the govern
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by imiric 8mo ago
This is not something I would ever use. The idea of giving a probabilistic model the permission to run commands with full access to my filesystem, and at the very least not reviewing and approving everything it does, is bonkers to me. But I
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by imiric 8mo ago
> And if we switch to a payment model, then the internet becomes another system where the poor are naturally disadvantaged and the rich get unlimited benefit As opposed to the current system where everyone is disadvantaged and the rich g
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by imiric 8mo ago
> AI will be generating movies and videos on the fly, either legally or illegally infringing on IP. > If you want to see a photo of you and your family from 15 years ago, it will generate slightly better versions of yourself and your
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by imiric 8mo ago
Technical concepts can be broken down into ideas anyone can understand if they're interested. Token prediction is at the core of what these tools do, and is a good starting point for more complex topics. On the other hand, calling thes
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by imiric 8mo ago
A technology that aims to replace all cognitive work done by humans seems fundamentally different than all past technology. Whether or not it will actually succeed at that is another topic, but we're not even ready for the effects of t

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