irvingprime

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by irvingprime 3y ago
That was pretty close to my thought when I read this. I start out suspicious of the full stack requirement anyway. Basically it is asking for 1 developer to do the work of 3. Then, on top of that, they want a specific language that is not u
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by irvingprime 3y ago
I would say you are partially right. The number of people jumping on the AI bandwagon, hoping to get rich quick is incredible. In that, it resembles crypto, especially the NFT hype of a surprisingly short time ago. Many of these companies e
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by irvingprime 3y ago
Well, it is an evil corporation. Whether that particular action was evil is a different question.
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by irvingprime 3y ago
SEEKING WORK / The wilds of NY / ALWAYS REMOTE My name is David Vandervort and I help companies improve their use of AI. I have a long background in tech, programming, architecture and research. I've built products and teams
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by irvingprime 3y ago
Yes. I was unimpressed by GPT 3 as well. 4, on the other hand, is VERY useful.
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by irvingprime 3y ago
So you're looking to confirm your bias? Nah. Never mind.
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by irvingprime 3y ago
You left out the most annoying category of meetings: Meetings for the sake of having meetings. They are usually billed as project updates, or planning meetings or something. They are useless and ubiquitous.
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by irvingprime 3y ago
There are some tricks you can try. But the most important one is to communicate to people that you don't think you're needed in a particular meeting and you're not going to attend. You might also defer some meetings to your m
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by irvingprime 3y ago
+100 for the most effective use of sarcasm I've seen today!
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by irvingprime 4y ago
I talked to some startup CEOs back in those days and was amazed at how naïve they were about the implications of what they were doing. They tended to believe that a) Having cool technology was enough to get rich; b) An ICO was a quick way t
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by irvingprime 4y ago
In my work with it, chatgpt has never produced very good code. I have not noticed a drop in its already mediocre to poor performance. I have to wonder about your weird perception that it was "superb."
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by irvingprime 4y ago
+100
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by irvingprime 4y ago
When covid started and companies all over the world were laying people off (or furloughing them), I asked my manager if there were going to be layoffs at our company. He said, "I'm not allowed to say one way or the other." I
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Yeah. I especially find it interesting when Netflix says something you couldn't pay me to watch is a 92% match with my profile (or however they phrase it). But part of the problem the algorithm has is that content is of very uneven qua
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by irvingprime 4y ago
So far
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by irvingprime 4y ago
The current state of the economy is not the permanent state of the economy. Many tech workers will see new opportunities, though not necessarily soon enough to stave off real hardships. That being the case, there is no harm in learning anot
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Yes. Yes, ChatGPT is largely overrated. Yet it is still a modern marvel. It WILL change the world. But most of the stories about it are still garbage and I'm very tired of endless breathless and misleading headlines. Anyway, Chinese ba
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by irvingprime 4y ago
When ChatGPT gives me a wrong answer, and I point out that it is wrong, ChatGPT immediately apologizes, every time. I have not seen it argue that it's actually right. I've also seen it give different answers when asked the same qu
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by irvingprime 4y ago
It's not hard. We just don't care.
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Some random thoughts: Energy is an illusion. What most people really mean by it is "mood." Am I in the mood, or not? But mood is a terrible way to regulate your work. It is too easily affected by fatigue, the weather (particularly
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by irvingprime 4y ago
It sounds like doing a full rewrite with the same team will just spend a lot of time to develop something just as crappy. This is unlikely to be a successful route. There are some things it should be easy to sell to both the team and to man
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Whether or not the TOS can be said to be legally nullified (not being a lawyer, I have no idea) canceling or suspending someone's account without telling them some kind of reason they can do something about is absolutely unethical. It
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Personally, when a company asks me to do a take home, I say no.
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by irvingprime 4y ago
I have been in the software industry, mostly writing code, for longer than some of the people interviewing me have been alive. It took me about a year of hunting to find my current job. I rejected a couple of offers. I walked away from a co
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by irvingprime 4y ago
I'm another one of those guys who literally has a gray beard. Recently spent a long time looking for a new job. When I interviewed at my current company (for about 6 weeks now) my wife went to the website, looked over the pictures of t
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by irvingprime 4y ago
In most job ads, "full stack" means, "we don't want to pay for a full team so you'll have to do everything." You have the misfortune of being a generalist in a world that does not value generalists. Best bet is
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Functionally, you don't usually need to know this kind of thing. But it's something that is taught in CS 101, pretty close to day 1. Yes, you should know stuff that basic! A better fit for your question would be, should a dev know
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by irvingprime 4y ago
I just started a great new job yesterday. In my case, a recruiter found my resume on one of the boards (Dice?) and reached out to me with an opportunity that had not been posted anywhere. At the time I was actively looking. I applied for mu
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by irvingprime 4y ago
You're making a category error. The posts you're looking at are marketing speech, intended to generate hype. They are not intended to be informative. Also, C-suite-types may not have the slightest idea what approach the technical
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Define "focus." Sometimes, when a problem is interesting, I find that my mind naturally stays on it for a couple hours at a time. Rarely longer but if it's very interesting, after a 15 minute or so break I'm ready to div

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