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by jongjong 1y ago
Yeah terrible position to be when your own government is investing in your competitors' company using your own tax dollars. As a software engineer, this isn't an entirely new concept.
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by jongjong 1y ago
A lot of things can happen to break a self-perpetuating cycle. But it's usually some extreme event. The cycle keeps optimizing in a particular direction and this eventually leads to an extreme situation which becomes unsustainable. The
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by jongjong 1y ago
Haha yes. I meant to say the more public speaking you do, the easier it gets so the more often you want to do it.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Also, I'm convinced that the reason humans intuitively struggle to figure out causality is because the vast majority of causes and effects are self-reinforcing cycles and go both ways. There was little evolutionary pressure for us to u
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by jongjong 1y ago
The project foundation is everything. LLMs are sensitive to over-engineering. The LLM doesn't have an opinion about good code vs bad code. If you show it bad code and ask it to add features on top, it will produce more bad code... It m
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by jongjong 1y ago
I'm shameless but it's not a strategy, it's just that I have no pride (or shame) left. I've been reduced to a pair of eyeballs drifting through space and time. If I avoid shame, it's to avoid consequences, not to ma
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by jongjong 1y ago
>> ... culture shock trying to reconcile the scale of the monetary waste ... Your entire retirement fund spunked in two weeks on a project that was doomed to fail from the offset. I can very much relate to this point. I once worked fo
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by jongjong 1y ago
This article is highly relatable. IMO, everything is done better in startup land except one single thing; enterprise people are willing to concede that everything is complex. This is the one piece of wisdom that enterprise people understand
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by jongjong 1y ago
In a corporation-dominated economy, LinkedIn can't produce anything different... People are limited in what they can say. On LI, you are representing your employer to some extent. You can't just post all your juicy gossip or crazy
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by jongjong 1y ago
People thought it was the end of history and innovation would be all about funding elaborate financial schemes; but now with AI people are finding themselves running all these elaborate money-printing machines and they're unsure if the
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by jongjong 1y ago
New generations spend more time, money and effort than ever to educate themselves... Only for the system to become increasingly less meritocratic. Not only is the education becoming less valuable because of more competition, but it's a
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes but the coercion is so powerful psychologically that it won't even be recognized as such. The victim is violated and then conditioned to think it was all 100% their own decision. It's both mental and physical. E.g. OnlyFans. A
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes, CoT reasoning is a mirage. What's actually happening is that we've all been brainwashed by Facebook/Meta to be hyper-predictable such that whenever we ask the AI something, it already had a prepared answer for that quest
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by jongjong 1y ago
This usually happens when a lot of people were forced to use a library or tool by their boss as part of a company mandate... They're already frustrated about not having a say about their tools and so when something goes wrong with the
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by jongjong 1y ago
I'm convinced that different people process handwriting (and movement) differently. This is true with latin languages as well. I think this may explain the difference between recognizing shapes versus drawing them for some people. I re
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by jongjong 1y ago
No but more aggression and assertiveness is needed. I hope this won't correlate but I really think our generation will end up in a place worse than we can imagine if we don't grow a backbone. Already millennials are being coerced
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes this is an astute perspective. I would say a lot of consulting firms are basically little more than narrative devices in the bigger story of 'the economy'. The children of elites need an avenue to fulfill their parents' e
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by jongjong 1y ago
Makes sense. The anthem of enterprise is "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM."
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by jongjong 1y ago
Maybe it's for the best. I think new generations are way too passive. We've been trained to live our lives passively and vicariously... Engaging in the cheapest possible alternatives to various life experiences, quantity over qual
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by jongjong 1y ago
What annoys me most is how they keep hiding the address bar everywhere so I don't know the location of my files anymore. As a developer, this drives me insane.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Good point about no one batting an eyelid over Mac or Windows laptop mandate but people are shocked at a Linux mandate... But imagine their second shock when they realize how good Linux is nowadays. I always had the sense that Linux has bee
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by jongjong 1y ago
I've used LLMs to generate code for a custom serverless framework which I wrote from scratch that it had never seen before. The framework follows some industry conventions but applied in a distinct way with some distinct features which
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by jongjong 1y ago
I guess it's possible that most people who turned out to be scammers had good intentions initially. Still, I had a real plan to drive adoption and create something positive in crypto. I did implement something positive on the tech side
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by jongjong 1y ago
Oh and I didn't mention how these founders went on to raise more and more funding. It's like there is no connection to performance.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes it's obvious this has to happen. AIs tend to promote certain products a lot more than others. If a training set costs billions to process, the incentive to sneak your product into the set... Maybe give it a few additional training
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by jongjong 1y ago
IMO the legal system is in disarray due to extreme asymmetries in how the law is selectively applied. First of all, the way certain platforms get sued for certain activities while others are left alone is unfair and creates significant mark
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by jongjong 1y ago
This is one advantage of living in Australia. I didn't even realize LLM usage limits were still a thing. Last time I encountered one was during the rollout of GPT4.
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Yes for sure companies are already paying for having their products added to the training set of popular LLMs.
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I once worked for a company which outsourced the development of a Silverlight app for $1 million and then canned the whole thing one year later. It's just crazy how these life-changing amounts of money are thrown around like garbage in
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I think this is unwise. There are a lot of things that clients need to take into account which cannot be described by WSDLs (e.g. timing related or language specific considerations which require careful thinking through). I don't buy t

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