jkubicek

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by jkubicek 7mo ago
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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by jkubicek 7mo ago
It’s not possible to make the AI smart enough to avoid being tricked. If the AI can run curl it will run curl.
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by jkubicek 7mo ago
Have you read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual? https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
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by jkubicek 7mo ago
Jira takes a measurable amount of time to make bulk-changes to a single ticket, which is insane. If they’re going to fix anything, fix that .
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by jkubicek 7mo ago
I’m learning Godot and writing a basic game for my kids. Coding agents are amazing and make me (feel) productive, but they really suck the fun out of programming. I’m sure it’s possible to create a Godot-based game with an LLM, but I’m not
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by jkubicek 7mo ago
I have the same thing; it's a TUI app written in python; all it does is create files with the proper format and has some mild browsing capabilities. It's super nice.
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by jkubicek 7mo ago
Knowing who is making the bets doesn’t prevent mildly corrupt officials from driving the outcome that’s going to win them some cash. Knowing that high-level DOD official were betting on us invading Iran does us no good if the only reason we
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by jkubicek 7mo ago
I’m going to defend Claude. If you give a robot the ability to delete production it’s going to delete production. This is 100% the user’s fault. This problem has not yet been solved and will never be solved .
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by jkubicek 7mo ago
There’s no point in listening to anything this administration says. Top to bottom they all just say shit. Sometimes it’s true, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it has some basis in reality and sometimes it’s wholly fabricated. Hegseth called A
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
No, the point was to demonstrate how you’d design a complex system. If a valid answer was “just use Postgres” then it just wasn’t a very good interview question. In real life, the answer almost certainly would be “just use Postgres” and eve
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
That’s the lesson we should be learning, but I’m worried the lesson we’re actually learning <sees 18yo crypto bro drive by in a Lamborghini> is that regulations hinder innovation.
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
Doesn’t that 10m lag make it seem more like insider training? An automated trade would happen nearly instantly, 10m is plenty of time for insiders to send some texts or make some calls.
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
We should show @blell some grace. Not everybody is born knowing everything. Today is the day they learned about climate change.
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
It's especially funny since my answer is wrong anyway! The other top answer is much better. I did get a lot of early SO brownie points from that one answer though.
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
I'm not sure if I'm the one to blame for this or not, but the earliest reference to ".gitkeep" I can find online is my 2010 answer on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4250082/28422 I
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
I don’t get your analogy. If you paid the ghost $20/month for its services and configured that ghost to play with fire with no supervision, then it is 100% your responsibility that the house burned down.
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
It doesn’t really matter who wrote it, human or LLM. The only responsible party is the human and the human is 100% responsible. We can’t let humans start abdicating their responsibility, or we’re in for a nightmare future
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
Fighting for what you believe in isn’t remotely something to admire if all you believe in is self-enrichment
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by jkubicek 8mo ago
Sesame Street is still putting out new episodes. Turns out the "learn to count" and "be nice to your neighbors" industry wields a lot more power than anyone thought.
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by jkubicek 9mo ago
Lockdown mode works by reducing the surface area of possible exploits. I don't think there's any failures here. Apple puts a lot of effort into resolving web-based exploits, but they can also prevent entire classes of exploits by
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by jkubicek 9mo ago
Good rule of thumb: it should take less time to consume content than it does to create it. I don’t know how long it takes Ciechanowski to create these explainers, probably a few months? It shows and it’s well worth spending your time readin
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by jkubicek 9mo ago
> you probably understand what people are trying to say when they talk about "chemicals" My understanding is that when someone complains about "chemicals" in their food, it's because they've seen something t
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by jkubicek 9mo ago
Just like Carmex lip balm. The stuff everyone was “addicted” to in the 90s
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by jkubicek 9mo ago
> what the contingency plans are if new work is discovered (reducing specific scope, moving more people (who are hopefully somewhat ramped up), moving out timelines) I think this is the most important. You can't just HAVE contingenc
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by jkubicek 9mo ago
Man, US immigration has been dysfunctional my entire life and it's only gotten worse during the last 10 years. I can't imagine being trusting enough to fork over a $15k bond to the US government. What are you going to do when you&
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by jkubicek 9mo ago
> > Actually, you operate on the next level for certain amount of the time. You work with your manager to file for your promotion case. That's how the typical big corps work with promotions. > This has always struck me as a pr
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by jkubicek 10mo ago
I haven't been on the job market as a new PhD in (my god) nearly 20 years now, but at the time I was looking for work, having a PhD on my resume was the only reason I was able to snag interviews at Apple/Google/McKinsey&#x2
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by jkubicek 10mo ago
> In the same way, LLMs should speak to us in our favored format - in images, infographics, slides, whiteboards, animations/videos, web apps, etc. You think every Electron app out there re-inventing application UX from scratch is ba
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by jkubicek 10mo ago
Maybe, but also having those hard conversations and delivering a well-scoped project on time will probably overcome any minor butt-hurt from being told "no".
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by jkubicek 10mo ago
For sure, but for this to work you need someone downstream to notice those messages and prioritize the work to migrate off the deprecated code paths. Some teams will respond, but many won't. No matter how loudly you declare that the

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