jarjoura

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by jarjoura 6mo ago
I really do want to support artists, but I also feel super conflicted about what is actually at stake here if an AI agent generates a scene for me. I never would have hired a 3D artist before this moment, because there's no reason for
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by jarjoura 6mo ago
GitHub had no reason to sell to Microsoft, they could have remained the bootstrapped company they started as, and rode the SaaS boom, since they were profitable on day 1. Seems a bit unfair to blame Microsoft though, because it was the foun
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by jarjoura 6mo ago
I disagree. In college, I worked at a bagel shop, and one of my favorite parts of the job was washing the dishes and cleaning the equipment. It was incredibly therapeutic to have my headphones on, listening to music, and think about whateve
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by jarjoura 6mo ago
I always understood, going to China, as what the industry was already doing, and Apple was in the middle of coming out of bankruptcy, so pressured to get their costs down. Tim Cook, the process guy, would have been given the task to do just
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by jarjoura 6mo ago
So, social media is your news source, same as it is today?
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by jarjoura 6mo ago
This is 10000% OpenAI's fault. In 2022 the world was open arms, welcoming AI advancements. However, since 2022, OpenAI and all of its original founding researchers, had their dramatic fallout, and began screaming in public saying crazy
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by jarjoura 6mo ago
Don't conflate businesses that have tech organizations in them, with actual technology companies. They are not the same thing. Technology companies exist as investment vehicles for R&D. There are endless streams of projects when yo
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by jarjoura 6mo ago
No, this is 100% AI this time. These companies need liquid cash to invest in AI infrastructure, and so they're doing mass layoffs to give them the capital to invest. Simple as that. 2022-2024 was COVID reset. 2025-2027? is reallocation
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
One broken limb or scratch would likely mean you're not going to live much longer. It would have been especially horrific if you broke your foot or leg and weren't able to do anything about it. Also, children were easy food, and w
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
Can't imagine having to live with anxiety of just staying alive. Constant diseases, infestations, starvation, animal attacks. You would never feel like you have time to just, be. Instead you're focused on getting your next meal, a
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
> Neanderthals from 400kya are often classed as Heidelbergensis. Heidelbergensis is the last common anscestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans and us. We were all around for just as long, 400kya+, and before that, it was Homo Erectus. All of
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
My company uses Claude through our own private data centers behind our own proxy that logs all requests and responses in and out. However, Anthropic heavily steers these models during RL to respond a certain way to certain prompting, so tha
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
Or the more realistic, less tin-foil-hat reason, sophisticated chat bots are a real problem and dating platforms aren't immune to them.
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
I just find it ridiculous that we as a society have allowed CEOs to become that wealthy. It's one thing to make your money from lucky investments, and become a billionaire. It's another to get there by simply running a corporation
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
I'm confused by your analogy. A wiki run server is extremely efficient to run, and can be hosted from a tiny little raspberry pie. A search engine can be optimized to provide results near O(1). You can even pull up and read results on
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
On the flip side, if all this slop is floating around, and AI services do become untenable, think of all the immediate jobs that will open up to fix and maintain all the slop that's being thrown around right now. The millions of dollar
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
You do realize though that using Claude Desktop to "search" through confluence is like paying a world class architect on the hour just to give you some tips on how to layout your small loft to maximize sunlight. This is such a per
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
Not quite. Let’s first agree that code is the final output of a software engineer, and that a wooden object is the final output of a carpenter. A correct analogy would be, if a software engineer’s AI assisted output is reduced to assembling
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
I'd say, you are at the phase of this journey where you're feeling empowered. It's just one step along the path of AI adoption to execute on an idea and see in near real-time the idea you had baked in your head come alive in
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
It’s not that they believe AI tools are replacing workers, it’s using the new free cash flow allows them to invest in AI. They are betting that their AI business will be profitable, and need to cut costs to invest in it.
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
Ah, sorry, I guess I'm not sure what it is you're actually debating needs to be fixed. Are children being born today with more birth defects and we (society) now want to concern ourselves with the issue that if parents want to hav
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
VR was never the endgame though. It was always AR, except, the "metaverse" bet assumed people were going to adopt AR in the same abundance that they adopted phones. It was a cool concept, when you were dreaming it up while taking
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
This whole article is nonsense. Yes, the Trump administration fucked over a decade of university research with his weird DEI campaign. That same fuckery also blew up all kinds of research grants not tied to universities. I'm sure some
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
Who is "they" here? Having a single-income parent in a two-parent home was the norm for most of US history. It's also still the norm outside of the US. Where is the evidence that children are worse off because both parents wo
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by jarjoura 7mo ago
Before Musk made it cool to mass layoff, there was a genuine belief inside of Facebook/Meta that great engineers were extremely hard to find or hold onto and if they weren't on the payroll at Meta, they would go somewhere else. Th
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by jarjoura 8mo ago
I am constantly amazed how developers went hard for claude-code when there were and are so many better implementations of the same idea. It's also a tool that has a ton of telemetry, doesn't take advantage of the OS sandbox, and h
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by jarjoura 8mo ago
Looking at their integration, with cmake, they definitely took the hardmode approach to adoption.
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by jarjoura 8mo ago
I haven't heard writers make any kind of stance on software engineering, but Brandon Sanderson has very publicly renounced AI writing because it lacks any kind of authentic journey of an authors own writing. Just as we would cringe at
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by jarjoura 8mo ago
Well I guess I no longer believe that long term, all this code generation would make us more productive. At least not how the fan favorite claude-code currently does it. I've found some power use cases with LLMs, like "explore&quo
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by jarjoura 8mo ago
I frame the shift more like this: Systems engineering is an extremely hard computer science domain with few engineers either interested in it, or good at it. Building dashboards is tedious and requires organizational structure to deliver on

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