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by jimbokun 6mo ago
LLMs really are just like an intern in their first coding job!
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
If Haskell coders could get past their obsession with naming all the important functions using only punctuation characters that might be true.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Well yeah. Dropping the ceremony means all that’s left is the ideas and the intent of the code. Which is exactly what you want for optimal readability.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
At least we have people who understand the technology underlying nuclear weapons!
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The software specialists may be replaced entirely by subject matter experts. No need for specialized commercial software, if everyone can just explain to the computer what they want in English.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
At some point there needs to be an uncomfortable conversation about how if all they’re doing is copy pasting everything they get from you into ChatGPT, you can do it yourself for much much cheaper.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Give them work in smaller chunks.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
So the infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters approach.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
That approach has its advantages, but sometimes I want to generate code for a language or kind of project I’m not experienced with using the accepted best practices.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Has anyone tried to calculate the break even cost of buying a PC to run an LLM locally, vs the amount of tokens you could get from an AI provider?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Heat dissipation is even harder in space
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
If Steve Jobs was alive Apple would have already demoed this as a new line of Macs with open weight models pre-installed with hooks into all of their existing content creation software. And he would have the audience believing all the demos
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Or find a way to make government respond more to voters than dollars.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
If they were competently evil they would have just done it quietly.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
What’s your ROI for that $1000?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Employees seeing wave after wave of their coworkers laid off. You won’t win much loyalty that way. This latest one releasing the NUMBER and DATE of the layoffs a month in advance without naming WHO is a whole new level of stupid. Let’s de
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
That and the large technology companies don’t really have many ideas for new software or features that will make them more money. Can only increase profits by reducing costs.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
A lot of time I will just say “Gemini/Claude is telling me…” just like I would for a Google search result. Sometimes helpful to use the common wisdom embedded in the LLMs as a starting point for the discussion.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Calling it “information“is generous.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
What corporations even offer “good” work any more? In the sense of not making the world a net shittier place.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Will they still be offering enough compensation over the next 7 years for that to be true? Not sure their stock price will continue to rise as it gas in the past.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This certainly fits with everything in the article.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This version is infinitely better.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
So you have the model write the if statements and put itself out of a job.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Good question. But it is orthogonal to the question of evaluating 2000 lines of AI code vs 200 lines of human written code. Either the human or the AI could produce idiomatic code for either language, given sufficient training data in the
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
> I did that in an hour while sitting in on an online meeting! And they say meetings aren’t productive!
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The rest of the work is inventing new ways to increase their compensation.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Yes and this is why small startups can often beat them .
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
LLMs are great at replacing repetition with an abstraction.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The AI needs to update the 42 statements to all use the same function so it can be updated in just one place going forward.

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