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by keeda 1y ago
But then a single car can carry multiple hamburgers to multiple people! Maybe that is still a better situation than multiple people driving multiple cars to each get a single hamburger :-)
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Large RCT finds GenAI integration boosts revenues 0% – 16%(arxiv.org)
1 points by keeda 1y ago|1 comments
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by keeda 1y ago
Preliminary draft, but notable in that it may be the first to show a signficant boost in actual business revenues, not just measures of productivity. They measure the impact on sales of integrating GenAI into various business workflows (pre
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by keeda 1y ago
Something the article glosses over is that we are the scariest monster in the woods because we are intelligent . We can "survive, adapt, control, kill, or wipe out" anything or anybody else because our intelligence lets us outsma
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by keeda 1y ago
If you're an extensive user of ChatGPT, or if you can give it some material about yourself like say, a resume or a LinkedIn profile, ask it to roast you. It will be very specific to the content you give it. Be warned, it can be brutal.
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by keeda 1y ago
> I frequently find myself watching them retype 100+ lines of code that I pasted in just to make a one line change. In such cases, I specifically instruct LLMs to "only show the lines you would change" and they are very good
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by keeda 1y ago
Yes! This has happened to me once as well. The car slowed down to a rolling stop because it saw a yellow light... and then just as the light turned red, the car took off and broke the red light. WTF! And just as you said, I had mentally swi
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by keeda 1y ago
I think we should just accept that vibe-coding has now semantically shifted to mean all AI-assisted coding. Actually, it makes sense to me even when a human is interacting directly with the code, because it feels a lot like pair-programming
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by keeda 1y ago
Hmm, my first thought was, 1.81% of 440M enterprise customers after two years sure sounds bad, but I had no reference frame to compare to. That's 8 million users, which is negligible compared to ChatGPT numbers, but it is also an enter
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by keeda 1y ago
Just so I understand correctly, you mean that with DWDM 2 strands of cables were equivalent to 8 since DWDM as a multiplexing technology increased the capacity of each fiber, right? > How much is a 10 year old GPU worth? Where is the “d
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by keeda 1y ago
Another thing we never had before is the huge skill differential between the jobs that will be automated away and the jobs that replace them. In the past, automation created new jobs that were higher-skilled, but still relatively easy for a
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by keeda 1y ago
Also, from the very same govexec link: > The lopsided donations do not necessarily reflect how the federal workforce is voting. The former State Department secretary led the businessman by 5 percentage points among federal employees in
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by keeda 1y ago
Totally agreed, learning the ropes is very different now, and a strong foundation is definitely needed. But I also think where that foundation lies has changed. My current project is in a technical domain I had very little prior background
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by keeda 1y ago
I'm a bit cynical at this point, but I'm starting to think these AI mandates are simply another aspect of the war of the capital class on the labor class, just like RTO. I don't think the execs truly believe that AI will repl
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by keeda 1y ago
I don't think that is a problem with AI, it is a problem with the idea that pure vibe-coding will replace knowledgeable engineers. While there is a loud contingent that hypes up this idea, it will not survive contact with reality. Pure
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by keeda 1y ago
We most definitely should, especially so if you're working in a team or organization bigger than a handful of people. Because it's almost certain that you may need to change or interact with that code very soon in the lifetime of
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by keeda 1y ago
I think the point is about Uber's profitability and not necessarily about their business practices or ethics, and we should be careful not to conflate the two. It is absolutely valid to criticize the latter, but that (so far) seems mos
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by keeda 1y ago
Or heck, just a plain old money transfer. I guess it is an exfiltrating vector of sorts, just not for data ;-) Banks can reverse such transactions of course, but cryptocurrency transactions not so much.
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by keeda 1y ago
An important caveat: an exfiltration vector is not necessary to cause show-stopping disruptions, c.f. https://xkcd.com/327/ Even then, at least in the Bobby Tables scenario the disruption is immediately obvious. The so
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by keeda 1y ago
Yeah that's why I like that one too, they address a number of points that come up in AI-related discussions. E.g. they even find negative productivity (-5%) in legacy / non-popular languages, which aligns with what a lot of folks
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by keeda 1y ago
> I didn't get into this career to be a fucking tech priest for the machine god. You may appreciate this illustration I made (largely with AI, of course): https://imgur.com/a/0QV5mkS The context (heheheh) is
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by keeda 1y ago
While this is sort of true, remember: it's not the size of the context window that matters, it's how you use it. You need to have the right things in the context, irrelevant stuff is not just wasteful, it is increasingly likely to
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by keeda 1y ago
Hmm, not an economist but I have seen other studies that look at things at the firm level, so definitely should be possible. A quick search on Google and SSRN didn't turn up some studies but they seem to focus on productivity rather th
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by keeda 1y ago
Most of those studies call this out and try to control for it (edit: "it" here being the usual limitations of LoC and PRs as measures of productivity) where possible. But to your point, no, there is still a strong net positive eff
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by keeda 1y ago
> The problem is, there are very few if any other studies. Not at all, the METR study just got a ton of attention. There are tons out there at much larger scales, almost all of them showing significant productivity boosts for various m
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by keeda 1y ago
At the risk of posting memes: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSXAMJRXkAA-cgI.jpg Updated for 2025: https://i.imgflip.com/a5ywre.jpg
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by keeda 1y ago
What are people's experiences using their current Email Routing service? Mine wasn't great -- right after I set it up I could not get a single test email through to my recipient account despite multiple attempts. No delivery failu
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by keeda 1y ago
And if they all just took the bus together they'd be coordinates?
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by keeda 1y ago
I have seen "czar" used as an informal title to denote ownership of a domain, e.g. the "security czar." I suppose it originates from the term "border czar" and others in politics e.g. https://www.pol
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by keeda 1y ago
I feel like this is a good use of standups rather than just status updates. "I have started working on X" should ideally be accompanied by "I am planning on doing this using Y and Z" if there is any chance that it could

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