jimbokun

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by jimbokun 6mo ago
I’m too lazy to tell the AI what I want to say, then copy and send its output. I just type what I want to say and hit send. YOLO
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
I think the “taste” approach at Apple died with Steve Jobs.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
I remember my first semester university writing class, when on the first day the teacher told us we had learned to pad our writing in high school, and now we were going to learn how to be short and concise because every assignment would be
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Sounds like JIRA is a very important tool.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Tickets become the correct tool once the organization exceeds a certain size. It might be easier to collaborate with one other person through email or text message history. Or even two or three people. But beyond a certain point having ti
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Very small startups with only people selling the product or building the product can often deliver functionality much faster than corporations with all those other roles.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Maybe some have changed their views because circumstances radically changed?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The number of bugs tends to be linear to lines of code written meaning fewer lines of code for the same functionality will have fewer bugs. So I’m pretty skeptical that reviewing 2000 lines of code won’t take any more time than reviewing 20
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
But why would the lines in the 2000 case be easier to review per line?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
It’s about the price subconsciously influencing the client’s evaluation of your competence.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
> I just treat it as if I'd asked a public forum the question like reddit. Because that's likely the source of the answer it's giving you.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
If you anthropomorphize it as a world class bullshitter that you have to check everything it utters...you'll probably be fine.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Humanity has spent millennia creating and evolving institutions to address exactly this problem, and have recently decided to essentially throw out the whole lot and replace it with nothing.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Those phrases are not anthropomorphizing the computers. Just various forms of analogies and broadening of word meanings. An example of anthropomorphizing is the people who have literally come to believe they are in romantic relationships w
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
> but Daniel Dennett’s idea that the most straightforward (possibly only practical) way to create the external appearance of consciousness is a real internal consciousness does float around in my thoughts. I would say LLMs are very stron
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
These engineers are becoming the real life equivalent of this Office Space scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo "I HAVE LLM SKILLS! I'M GOOD AT DEALING WITH THE LLMS!"
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Ah, I see, you are not American. In the US we don't have the luxury of believing our governments will act in the interests of the voters.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
It's precisely because AI systems are not safe that it's imperative that as individual humans we are vigilant about how we interact with them. As individuals, we are not going to be able to shut down the AI companies, or avoid A
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Literally try entering a "tab" character in a Hacker News reply. For me in Safari, it changes the focus to the "reply" button. It's literally difficult to enter a "tab" character into many text entry fiel
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Like the Michael Bolton character in Office Space.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Curious what would you say is the sweet spot to pay for a bicycle before rapid diminishing returns? I still feel like if you go out for a long ride on a Huffy from Walmart you might hurt yourself.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
In tennis I’m sure the real way to turn money into competitive gains is personalized coaching. Not sure about cycling. But a general physical trainer wouldn’t hurt.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
It’s net positive when there’s useful new functionality, but phone software has been mostly a wash for a while now.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Sounds like his money was better spent on the trips than spending more on a car that wouldn’t make the trips any better.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Well played. Atoms >> Bytes.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Sounds like you’re living the FIRE dream.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Working a paid job does nothing to help those less fortunate than you. Maybe by retiring early you can free up time to help others in more creative ways?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Having the resources to retire is a great way to do productive work, because much maybe most highly compensated work isn’t productive at all.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
That just comes down to luck. Some people at 70 are in great health, some not so much.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
OK if you were in grad school, ski passes, multiple flights to NYC per year, living in LA and saving 20-40% of your income, your wife must have been making a hell of a lot as a consultant.

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