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by jimbokun 4mo ago
I think that distinction was invented post-facto. For most people they were pretty much synonyms in every day usage.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
It's not just the nerds who enjoy lowbrow culture. It's almost tautological that most people enjoy middle brow or low brow cultural products. Reality TV shows, soap operas, romance novels, professional wrestling, etc.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
> These are subcultures obsessed with hero journeys, morality tales, escapism, and cartoonish black-and-white ethical systems. Which subcultures do not tend to value these things?
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
> I don’t know why you’d think “being interested in nerdy stuff like computers” would somehow translate into virtuous behavior. Whatever tenuous link there was between the two, only existed as long as computers were not really seen as a
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Yes. As AI improves every white collar job becomes a management job. With the previous conception of an Individual Contributor role disappearing.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
How so? The models get better and better at understanding the intent of a prompt and doing more useful work with less intervention.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
The problem was very few nerds realized this was the most likely outcome as they devoted themselves to improving machine intelligence.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
> ... through to theory of mind and the dream of making silicon think. I think part of your naiveté was thinking this goal was likely to turn out as a net benefit for humanity. Maybe it eventually will. But the current scenario was alw
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
This is because there are far more people wanting a quiet academic life than there are jobs providing a quiet academic life with a livable wage. And this is likely to become even more out of balance as college enrollment declines and there
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
There's a lot of wisdom here.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Why is publishing papers an unreasonable expectation? Isn't that the primary mechanism for exchanging knowledge and driving discussion among academics? If not, what should replace it?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
This does nothing to make government less powerful. It just makes government stupider so even if they decide they want to do the right thing, now they can’t because they don’t have the information needed to make effective decisions.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
The LLMs decided to use you as the model for the pinnacle of human communication style.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’m waiting for when it replies “AGAIN simonw? Do you really still need a pelican on a bicycle for every new release. Sigh, ok if I have to…”
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Um, Anthropic are using their models to improve themselves right now. They say that publicly.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Yes! Claude is THAT team member who will go to any length to answer a question…except ask another team member for help.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Go away. I enjoy simonw’s posts and the discussions about them here. Your vague unsubstantiated criticisms are very trollish and less useful, less insightful, and lower effort than the content you are criticizing.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Yeah I was thinking of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
It’s possible to produce 10x the lines of code. But that’s not the same as producing 10x functionality that will be used or is wanted by users or customers.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Best to shelve something and not ship it once you know it won’t work, than to continue to throw even more money down the whole after it.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
My favorite new-to-me cathartic feature is Safari’s hide distracting items. Probably easier with an ad blocker or just Reader view. But I really enjoy tapping on all the overlays and moving ads and videos and see them evaporate one by one,
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I often find it helpful to see the entire commit and message leading to a specific line of code getting into its current state. That’s about it.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I guess it would be perfect for pair programming in a remote work environment.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Maybe there’s a case to be made for a system that combines issue tracking, Slack conversations, PR reviewing, angent harness, and collaborative editing in a single tool. And Zed could make a nice system to build that tool on top of.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Although the collaboration functionality has been there from the beginning.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’ve seen Zed promoted as an alternative to Slack or Teams and you describe how that can be true for development where the collaboration revolves around text files. Which makes more sense I think than describing it as an alternative for Git
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Cheap branching for features and experiments, ability to rollback specific commits quickly, reading the commit message for the last time a line of code changed, are all incredibly important and made possible by distributed version control s
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Hmm has there been much success just feeding mermaid diagrams to an agent and having it generate code to implement it? I imagine many people have tried this but I haven’t yet. And mermaid swim lane diagrams are my go to tool for designing
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Too many managers have nowhere near enough real work to do or actual business concerns to worry about, if they are spending all their time observing every keystroke of every developer working for them.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Maybe the person reviewing your PR is too busy to also provide therapy for your internal thoughts while writing the code?

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