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by jimbokun 6mo ago
It’s also a workplace whose success is in the past and has started the glide down into lower profits, revenue and wages.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
We need an Office Space 2 just about AI shenanigans.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
If only Scott Adams were alive to write Dilbert comics about this.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This but unironically. The speed of generating code is now faster than the time it takes to plan and estimate how long it will take to generate the code.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This is hilarious and utter genius.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
What happened after development was out sourced to Indians: developer salaries continued to rise much faster than general wages.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
How much is your budget for tokens?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
I hope you have quoted him a very very high hourly rate.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Humans who have been writing systems like that for many years know how to maintain and modify them successfully. It’s just that our industry has a bias towards youth who don’t think they have anything to learn from those who came before th
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Those design principles it will take us 20 years to learn are just the principles for writing good maintainable, debug-able, understandable code today. Will just take 20 years to figure out they still apply when AI writes the code, too.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This reminds me of Rich Hickey’s “Simple Made Easy” and his approach in making Clojure. Even before LLMs generating entire programs, complex frameworks allowed developers to write the initial versions of programs very quickly, but at the co
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
I would imagine with AI generated software this kind of replacing off the shelf software with internally created software will only increase.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This article is about the UK.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The point was still the credentials. Otherwise what signal does “prominent family and graduated from Harvard” have over just “prominent family”?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
My computer science education has been invaluable for my career.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
That’s because the value of the university is the assessment, not the education itself. They are vouching for the intelligence, knowledge acquisition and work ethic of their graduates. If they lose that signal, they lose the ability to gat
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Sounds like a poor and offensive attempt at humor.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The take home tasks are only useful for assessment if paired with an oral question and answer session with the instructor about the work turned in. It becomes apparent really fast which students just delegated the work to AI. Of course it’s
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
If the signal to corporations disappears the wage premium to a college education disappears and the students disappear along with the tuition paying the professors’ salaries.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Surely some better versions of yourself would make more money or be happier?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The purpose of the university has always been certification. “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library." - Will Hunting
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
> The buildings, of course, will remain, to be observed and treated respectfully — like old cathedrals, mainline Protestant churches, and most of the European continent. Ouch.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Like the most widely used browser and most used mobile phone operating system?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Consumer version: BE_EVIL=true Internal version: BE_EVIL=false
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
All of that is sophistry in defense of fucking over those who choose not to cheat.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
What do you think schools do currently?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
That sounds like some nice engineering.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Well a number of people here work at those corporations.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
More people travel overseas than ever before. To the extent major tourist destinations are having to take measures to limit the number of tourists coming there.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Ask Claude to teach you about the language instead.

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