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by jimbokun 7mo ago
And there's some company out there that has very important Word documents that will fail to open if you take away the unicorn and gnome icons table border feature.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
We call the complete specs "source code".
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
What if your work isn't benefitting anyone?
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
> If a SWE could truly output 20x their effort, that person would probably be better at freelancing or teaming up with another SWE. Yes but this requires the willingness to take on the additional stress and risk of managing your own sale
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
But that's really not the point of this particular article. The point being made is, do you know what financial impact your work is having in terms of increasing revenues or decreasing costs? If the company revenue is going down and co
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
> Actually programming the thing always took up the most time and money. I'm curious is any quantitative research has been done comparing time writing code vs time gathering and understanding requirements, documenting, coordinating
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
No, that's exactly the topic of the article. The claim is that most software teams do not consider the financial impact of their work. Is what they are doing producing value that can be measured in dollars and cents and is greater tha
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Not if it requires the toaster company to maintain a different SKU without the LLM chip and sells very few units.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Any guides for tmux configuration that works well with Emacs? The use of Ctrl and Meta for basic operations conflicts with a lot of Emacs commands.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
The open weight LLMs seem a prime candidate for Innovator's Dilemma style disruption.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Meaning software has eaten the world and there's nothing left to eat.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
ELI5: how do LLMs facilitate better robotics? I don't see the immediate application of language generation to navigating and manipulation in the physical world.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Yes it's not clear to me that AI companies have a defensible moat against open models.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
> The lack of robotics mention somewhat undermines this article. True but in common parlance "AI" has come to mean LLMs. > Software is eating the world The premise of the article is software ATE the world and there isn'
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
It's disingenuous to say ChatGPT is not novel relative to older chatbots. The capabilities of ChatGPT compared to what came before were astonishing and continued to improve at a rapid rate.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
What is the AI equivalent of wind-resistant clothing or fireproof materials? So far the only product AI is producing is layoffs.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
What's the AI equivalent of industrialized polyester in your analogy? From a consumer perspective, AI isn't really producing any new products with real market demand. Chatbots are fun, but there's no indication consumers are
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
> do people really believe no novel things will be unlocked with this tech? That it's all about cost-cutting? The cost cutting is the only revenue producing models for the AI companies so far. It's being pitched as a way for c
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
In the US this is due to the overall failure of trust in our institutions. No one trusts Congress or the US government to effectively regulate AI for the greater good of the population. Each party believes regulations proposed by the other
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Because the info is no longer in their brain.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Lisp macros had pretty much solved the boiler plate problem decades ago.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
The staggeringly effective compression of LLMs is still under appreciated, I think. 2 years ago you had downloaded onto your laptop an effective and useful summary of all of the information on the Internet, that could be used to generate co
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Note the "very mild" jolt, not quite enough to rise to the level of switching to Notepad (or Emacs in my case).
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
The web did have HTML and CSS, but as the author notes those have been bypassed for Web Assembly and other technologies. Date picker and credit card entry should always always always use the default HTML controls and the browser and OS shou
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
I have a very mild jolt of anxiety every time I want to enter a new line in Teams or Slack, wondering if it will send a half completed message I will need to edit after the recipient has seen the half completed message, or it will enter a n
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
That shop owner was a good salesman.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Time to teach the LLMs and the vibe coders one of the timeless lessons of software development: https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
That will still result in more abstraction than the average programmer.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Well that’s stupid and completely ignores the meaning of the word “purpose”.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
I just appreciate the honesty of Amodei telling us pretty much straight up we’re all fucked because the AIs are taking all the jobs in a couple years or less.

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