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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> if your boss asks for honest feedback giving it to them with both barrels is a career limiting move Or, from another point of view, expanding your career's event horizon. Imagine how much longer you might have languished in that s
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> Footage from inside your home is, of course, what you’re paying for the cleaning service with. On its website, Shift says customers’ “privacy is fully protected,” with sensitive details like names, faces, or personal information from s
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
About as strange as letting someone else work on your car. Some people can do it without any discomfort. Could not be me.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Does the un-regulation cut both ways? A landlord usually needs to notify tenants 24hr in advance if they're going to enter the property. Does an AirBnB host need to follow any similar rules? It's not like the renters have a lease,
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Well, before we get too far ahead of our skis, let's wait until someone makes a good film with AI. This company didn't, nor will they. It's not their business. Whether anyone ever will is an open question.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
False equivalence. A large studio production still retains the voice and editorial oversight of its director, which is why you can differentiate between films by their directors. There are undoubtedly many filmmakers who collaborate on such
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> Higgsfield, a San Francisco startup valued at $1.3 billion.. I don't think these are filmmakers. They aren't here for the art, they're here to find product market fit and, increase revenue, and raise another round at hig
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
The mantra of Silicon Valley tech: Always Be Defrauding
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
No worries! The recovery was much slower and more gradual than the onset, it probably took about a week. This was compounded by the congestion and general cold symptoms. I suspect my sense of smell is still impacted ~3yr later, but I have n
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
That's a good point, this does seem qualitatively different. Like dialect translation. In that case the specification is really precise, it's just the old code. Building something new or adding functionality to existing software t
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
they spent a lot of time on it!
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Right, but most of them don't already work as software engineers, at least it hasn't been my experience of my colleagues. However, companies that are aggressively adopting AI coding tools aren't (at least nobody has shown i
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Which is greater? The cost of refactoring or the cost of not refactoring? If the consequence of not refactoring is having to deploy twice as many services and libraries every time you add a feature... that sounds pretty risky to me over t
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I'm curious whether you have any insights into why high quality LLM-assisted (or enabled?) projects seem so relatively rare? Instead it seems like the preponderant contribution is a deluge of low quality slop. You didn't share you
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
You might be surprised how low the clearance is on some over-the-road trailers. Especially the long ones for hauling heavy equipment, their breakover angles are atrocious. Most roads are navigable regardless, and they know how to pick route
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
At least they didn't paint it red. And it's a good thing Enzo isn't here to see it.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
It happens in poorly factored codebases. If you find it happening that's a sign you need to refactor. If you find it happening repeatedly in the same codebase that means you failed to refactor properly the first time.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Sprintz looks interesting, I hadn't heard of it thanks for the link.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Could adtech really be used for something better? The capability is to precisely model users' emotional reward centers and then bombard them with content that targets those reward centers. Is there any way you can imagine this being
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> it's starting to terrify me how it seems that the worst people in the world are more than willing to wield this power, while good people opt out Maybe it's just that the capability is bad . Adtech, for example, isn't so
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> There is a relative lack of actual documented architectures that work. Not only do you need the details but also the usage of these systems so as to judge what "good" is. Mostly these things are the secret sauce (or at least
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> Smaller companies will have departments that distill larger models into something more specifically manageable and useful for them. In order to do that they'd have to make a concrete business case to justify the headcount and comp
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Tech products improving, for one. If everyone is a 10x engineer now (and has been for years ) why isn't everything better? Instead, we're seeing github outages increasing in frequency, consumer products degrading left and right (
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
100%. Just because you can plagiarize basic correspondence doesn't mean it's OK.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
The trouble with this narrative is the evidence doesn't actually support it. If it is so powerful where are the results? If it was actually all that powerful it would be obvious. There wouldn't be any question. Nobody says "n
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Why not? Blacksmithing and coding have a hell of a lot in common. In both disciplines toolmaking is extremely important. Often you have to make custom tools to accomplish a design--e.g. a twisting wrench or a form tool. Sometimes you have t
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> Cope bias is powerful. Have you stopped to consider whether this statement might be more applicable to yourself? "Myopic lies" is at the very least highly exaggerated phrasing, if not itself myopic and a false characterizatio
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Language is often ambiguous! You have to guess the intended meaning based on context clues. Unambiguously phrased language sounds less natural, because it is. Incidentally, this is part of what makes natural language such an awful fit for c
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
The problem is natural language is a horrendously bad human-computer interface. Even if they're running nondeterministic software, computers are very precise machines. You wouldn't talk to your lathe or milling machine and expect
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I lost my sense of taste and smell for a few days when I had covid, I was eating a bowl of spicy ramen at the time and I completely lost the ability to taste anything over the course of about 2 minutes. No spice, no salt, nothing. I usually

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