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by kaesar14 3y ago
Spend some time in New York and San Francisco and say with a straight face the problems are correspondingly that much worse in New York (which has a population of 10x vs SF) per capita. There's probably LESS homelessness, visible drug
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Yeah, definitely. I started with what I call “bootstrapping” the language, which is learning enough to understand at least a few sentences of unbroken spoken French - this I accomplished with listening to the first 2 seasons of Coffee Break
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Learning French despite not living in a Francophone country. During the pandemic I wanted to see what the process is really like for a language that I had no prior experience in. Turns out the entire popular consumer facing industry for thi
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Losing millions of your own population isn’t something that can be brushed off.
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Sure but parent comment is blowing off a lot of factors working against Germany’s spectacular recovery lol. “Several million young dead men” is a bit of an understatement too
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by kaesar14 3y ago
And World War 2 saw a complete leveling of most of the country…
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by kaesar14 3y ago
To my research, SF AQI has never topped 249. New York just topped out at 342 today with no sign of letting up. I won't dispute that SF wildfire season being so frequent and long lasting, there's been nasty periods, but no it'
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by kaesar14 3y ago
The upside to this technology is allowing a few people to communicate who have neurological damage. The downside is every government on earth being able to read your mind. Sounds like a good trade!
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Stunning how scientists who work on this stuff delude themselves into thinking it'll do more good than harm.
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by kaesar14 3y ago
If you're in a market with 100k high quality devs and 80k choose to work at FAANG vs a market with 20k high quality devs where 10k choose to work at high paying regional companies, you're still winning on the talent pool. And I&#x
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by kaesar14 3y ago
I don't think it's such an unreasonable question when VCs are trying to maximize their investment, and being in a hot tech market has shown to be an accelerator in finding talent and growing a startup
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by kaesar14 3y ago
I'd also include Nepal and perhaps even Bhutan here.
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Learn how to use the tools to stay relevant. Humans will be a part of this process for a long, long time. Maybe using AI will be fun!
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Not appreciated, hope this is flagged.
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Ask HN: What are your optimistic takes on the SWE job market post AI?
43 points by kaesar14 3y ago|63 comments
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by kaesar14 3y ago
By this logic, Tesla is also "state-affiliated". A huge amount of companies in this country receive government subsidies, are they all "state-affiliated" media? The NPR journalists act independently from any government o
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Isn't this company's business model completely shattered by ChatGPT?
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by kaesar14 3y ago
I think with things like this, it's staying ahead of the curve that's key. Remember to consider what the entirety of this industry is. There's hundreds of thousands of software developers employed doing what is the equivalent
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Scott Aaronson is one of the best professors and researchers in this field in the world.
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Fwiw Scott Aaronson is maybe the most well respected researcher in this field. I don't think this is a case of some shitty professor asking his students to regurgitate useless information
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by kaesar14 3y ago
ChatGPT (GPT-4) is pretty excellent at taking react code I write and rewriting it in the format I ask to be more idiomatic or concise!
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by kaesar14 3y ago
This is pretty incredible. I guess the thing that we have to keep in mind is that we really can't compete with an AI that understands natural language this well and also has the entirety of the internet as its reference materials. Mayb
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Absolutely fantastic point. If AIs make all useful software, why does anyone get to benefit from that as an owner? NOBODY is doing the work.
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by kaesar14 3y ago
More or less, but I guess this was to be expected. Why would making prompts be difficult when LLMs are already capable of fairly difficult programming?
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by kaesar14 3y ago
This is pretty alarming tbh. Anyone already making a pivot out of SWE?
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by kaesar14 3y ago
The only counterpoint I have is that it seems the gpt models have trained on most available information on the Internet. So what’s the future progress there exactly.
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by kaesar14 3y ago
Another tool will just take it's place. It's too useful
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by kaesar14 3y ago
It does seem somewhat hard to imagine being employed as a SWE in 5 years without being proficient in incorporating some sort of generative AI into your work. Edited to include “in 5 years”
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by kaesar14 3y ago
FIRE is definitely attainable, easily moreso without children. Also lucky enough to have an even higher earning fiance. Hope our futures can work out before OpenAI destroys half the economy.
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by kaesar14 3y ago
I’ve been thinking hard about it and my best current plan is hoping my Series B startup moons and I have enough of a nest egg to work a service job and live day to day off wages. Retraining efforts are gonna hit us all. There will be no esc

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