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by jdlshore 3mo ago
It’s a letter to the editor.
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The GDPR states that websites that serve EU citizens are subject to it, no matter where they are. Many US news organizations chose to geo-block the EU rather than going to the trouble of figuring out compliance.
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A Reddit spam tool makes $90K per year ($60K ARR, $30K one-time payments), split 50% with “a larger partner.” The founder’s prior salary was $84K, so with the revenue split and cost of operations, the business is not yet recouping its costs
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Quality is more about maintainability, IMO, which comes down to consistency and clarity of design, sensible abstractions, cohesion, decoupling, etc. I don’t think a rework metric tells you that.
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> If you can narrow the problem down, then you could design a much better interface for it than a text box and free form text (unless that's the better solution). Yes, I agree, in that the chatbot we built probably would have worked
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
As @simonw said, the Ford example isn’t a good one. As for AI-assisted engineering going well, I think the jury is still out. Here on HN and with the engineers I know, you see people claiming multiples of productivity on coding tasks. But y
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Their company does data projects. That plus context makes me think they’re talking about internal work process automation type of work, although it also seems like they’re talking about conversational interfaces (chatbots). I completely buy
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Bell curves are probability distributions. This is a time series, so it can’t be a bell curve. It just has the same shape.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
It’s Digital Transformation all over again, which was just the latest name of a proud tradition of IT consulting going back decades. They all have the same promise: unlock business results in your company by deploying work process automatio
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Microservices don’t reduce complexity, they just move it to the interactions between services. You have the same fundamental design problem. In other words, if you can’t design a modular monolith, you can’t design a set of microservices.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Incredibly hard problem, but METR had a good method. They had people estimate how long a task would take (before knowing whether AI would be used), and then randomly assigned each task to “with AI” or “without AI.” When the data was in, the
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Oobleck (corn starch and water) will do this too. But presumably they already knew that. The article describes it as being known to happen in “complex fluids,” but that it was news that it happens in “simple fluids.” Presumably silly putty
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I think your underlying point is correct, but "buy" is also "buy+maintain." There's a real cost to keeping up with dependency upgrades, especially for big frameworks that like to change their fundamental public-faci
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Yep. Very slop-like. I found it grating and had to stop reading, even though I thought the subject was interesting.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Agreed. The article is very sloppy, but that doesn’t mean the central thesis is wrong. I’m not conversant enough with financial theory to say one way or another. Anybody care to critique this?
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
If it’s a headline, it’s coming from a press office, not researchers. The “why” is the same as for any other journalism: to get clicks.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Ramp is an expense reporting tool with minimal LLM functionality and reasonably decent ML for reading receipts and categorizing expenses. This is bog-standard content marketing, not some conspiracy to sell you AI.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Age. Hip replacement surgery is common among the elderly.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Jesus, this is the sloppiest of slop I’ve ever seen. I can’t extract any meaning from the noise.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Thank you, @dabluck, for sharing what failed. I think stories of failure are incredibly valuable, and more useful than stories of success, which are often post-hoc rationalizations. I’m sorry all the airchair geniuses in this thread feel co
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
I think it’s incredibly poor form for somebody with the reach and clout of Jon Gruber to be naming and shaming an individual engineer like this. At the very least he could have tried to get the other guy’s side.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
I think it’s more that they can’t recognize the downsides of AI. They work with AI and it’s so smart! And magical! They don’t have the expertise to recognize the problems in its output, and they’re confused by complaints. It looks like stub
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
> Unfortunately I think we're entering (have entered?) a period of insanity. It’s been true for a long time. One of the hardest things as a senior leader in software is dealing with people demanding “accountability” (by which they m
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
This really needs an editor. It starts off great, with a compelling story about responding to a roadside emergency, but then it veers off the interstate and meanders through the countryside. The paragraphs — they compound. The em-dashes — t
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
As VPEng, I didn’t use metrics to assess individuals. Too prone to metric gaming. Instead, I had a career ladder with a detailed rubric describing the skills an engineer at each level was expected to have. (Including communication and peer-
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
I’m not really a fan of the ideas. They’re not wrong, exactly, but I think they’re overstated. Instead, here’s some alternatives: For design, Evans’ Domain-Driven Design does a good job of representing classic object-oriented design, and Fo
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I clicked the link hoping for a critique of the ideas in SOLID and Clean Code, but what I got was an ironically long-winded critique of Bob Martin’s speaking style. Martin and I have our differences, but this article isn’t really useful. Ma
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What concrete business advantage are you getting from LLMs?
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Republican states are mostly lower population than blue states, so they have disproportionate representation in the electoral college. This would give Democrats more power in presidential elections than they currently have, if I understand
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My experience with AI plans is that they’re a wall of text that’s very hard to extract meaning from. Combined with it not doing a good job to begin with, I don’t think plan+revise is a great use of time.

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