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by jongjong 1y ago
My experience is that Claude has a tendency towards flattery over long discussions. Whenever I've pointed out flaws in its arguments, it apologized and said that my observations are "astute" or "insightful" then exp
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Yep I agree. It does make senior developers more efficient at building new features but it's maybe like 20% more efficient in the grand scheme of things... But this efficiency saving is a joke considering that companies spend most of t
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by jongjong 1y ago
I think the first big AI disaster almost certainly did happen already but we don't know about it and will likely never know because of media filter bubbles which the AI creates. Disaster news about AI will never propagate because this
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yep, agreed, it's quite different with LLMs since the endpoints are very straightforward. It's kind of unfair how little lock in factor there is at the base layer. Those doing the hardest, most innovative work have no way to diffe
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yep spot on. Price does not equate cost. Especially in our current economy where profit has been artificially made a non-factor. To know the cost, you'd have to look at hardware resource usage per query. Given that recent models have o
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by jongjong 1y ago
QF is an awful idea. Literally every assumption it relies on is wrong... And probably it exacerbates the situation as implementing QF likely causes further degradation of the underlying assumptions... By Goodhart's law "When a mea
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by jongjong 1y ago
Quadratic funding is a terrible idea. It doesn't make sense to separate things into quadrants. From the linked article: > So how about non-excludable goods that are rivalrous in nature? This intersection represents common goods such
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by jongjong 1y ago
Resonates. I've been thinking about a tech technology bubble (not financial bubble) for years now. Big tech companies have just been throwing engineers at problems for many years and it feels like they completely stopped caring about t
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by jongjong 1y ago
Agreed, same with business/entrepreneurship. Employees don't get much credit, even the really talented ones. Also, competitors don't get any credit, even though they may have added valuable competitive pressure which may have
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Yeah. TBH I highly doubt the mainstream, condensed narrative of history. The focus is always on individuals; each invention conveniently having just one inventor, one hero... Whereas in reality, it's almost always a group of people sha
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The stuff about laws no longer being aligned with shared ethics makes sense. Nowadays, there seems to be a lot of focus on the wording of the law rather than intent or ethical principles. This focus on wording reflects a lack of moral groun
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by jongjong 1y ago
I believe that AI is very useful in software development but I don't buy the narrative that AI is responsible for layoffs over the past few years (at least not most of them). I think that narrative is a convenient cover for systemic mi
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by jongjong 1y ago
What I hate about office politics is that it feels like all the planets have to align to get what you want. It's not reliable. I'm way too clumsy and unpredictable for this 'one shot to make an impression' approach. Duri
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This is an interesting idea. I solved this problem in a different way by loading each resource/JSON individually, using foreign keys to link them on the front end. This can add latency/delays with deeply nested child resources but
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This resonates. Quality of mass market products decrease to the upper limit of the average person's perception/expectations... Which itself seems to be declining over time.
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I think the conclusion about software engineering having the potential of being both the first and last job to be automated by AI makes sense. It is an extremely unequal profession. The skill difference between a junior with 1 year of exper
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by jongjong 1y ago
I remember writing web pages using invisible tables and other HTML hacks. I also remember later using CSS hacks and different properties for each major browser... Sometimes you would use underscores in the CSS property name so that it would
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by jongjong 1y ago
Saving cash was actually a fine strategy when cash was backed by gold or even (to a lesser degree) some time later when the national debt wasn't over $30 trillion - This massive public debt is forcing the government to print money at a
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by jongjong 1y ago
The trend towards increasingly low-quality, mass-produced code started long before AI but AI has greatly accelerated the trend and taken it to levels not previously possible. Short-term, this is destroying software dev jobs, long-term, it&#
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by jongjong 1y ago
I don't like DI as a concept because it typically obscures the path/source of the file where relevant code is located. DI trades off long term readability for short term implementation convenience. Maintainability requires strict
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by jongjong 1y ago
Poorer individuals, who need retirement most, don't tend to live as long. Millennials and Gen Z are already victims of old, no-longer-applicable narratives (e.g. save cash, avoid debt, go to college...) and these ones about life expec
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by jongjong 1y ago
The whole DNS and TLS system is overcomplicated and was designed to allow a small number of orgs to dominate the internet. I've been thinking of using a Blockchain to register domain name-to-IP-address mappings in a cryptographically s
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My take is that the US likes to export US dollars... Then wealthy foreigners don't know what to do with them, so they pour them into the NASDAQ and NYSE and fill the pockets of US executives. The US can also leverage its powerful milit
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by jongjong 1y ago
I've been trying to get this point across for some time but people tend to ignore incentives when discussing technical matters. These arguments often come across as 'hand-wavy' even though the effects are significant in pract
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I feel like some articles tend to downplay LLMs a bit too much. It's not just about form, LLMs do bring some substance as well. When you ask coding questions it can often generate code which refers to your unique variable names. It can
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This reminds me of how I wrote a simple query language which can be written inside HTML attribute tags. Its killer feature is that it doesn't need quotation marks to represent strings. It knows if something is a property/variable
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by jongjong 1y ago
AMEN. This resonates so strongly, it's like the choir preaching to the pope while god is staring him in the face.
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No. Me write better article.
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Yes, but a lot of the complexity is unnecessary bloat. Almost every project I've ever seen or worked on was full of unnecessary complexity. People naturally tend to over-complicate things, all the programming books, including software
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Yeah it's a case of falling in love with the solution, not with the problem. The real reason for tight coupling is simply complex interfaces. That means a range of things; complex function signatures which rely on highly specific param

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