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by le-mark 7mo ago
> but rather subsume products, and this makes them an existential threat to the software industry. The US stock market has priced this in already. Many software only companies are perceived to be under threat by ai. It represents a wonde
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by le-mark 7mo ago
> First they’ll take our gasoline cars then our guns!!! Courtesy of Fox News.
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by le-mark 7mo ago
I think inadvertently found some insight on this. I’m typical and have failed to maintain friends over the years. As an old dad who’s spent a lot of time at kids parties talking to men; men just aren’t that pleasant to talk to. Best case is
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by le-mark 7mo ago
We’ve all worked on projects where it took months to get requirements from the business. Sometimes to see the project cancelled after months of sitting around waiting for them to decide on things. Coding has never been the roadblock in soft
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by le-mark 7mo ago
Early employees often have difficulty with the new reality. In the early days everyone is involved in making product decisions, helping with sales by implementing features, doing support for customers. If you hired juniors this is all they
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by le-mark 7mo ago
I don’t think it’s a surprise that statically typed, immutable functional languages are the easiest (most suitable?) translation target for LLMs. I am surprised Haskell wasn’t represented in the table. Ocaml and Standard ML would be interes
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by le-mark 7mo ago
It’s a big book, can you describe what parts you use and how?
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by le-mark 7mo ago
I’ve often thought balloon internet aka googles abandoned project loon would be ideal for this use case. Specifically point to pint microwave to receivers near the front line.
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by le-mark 7mo ago
This the way I interpret it and didn’t realize until reading this oddly.
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by le-mark 7mo ago
This concept is assuming a formalized language would make things easier somehow for an llm. That’s making some big assumptions about the neuro anatomy if llms. This [1] from the other day suggests surprising things about how llms are intern
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by le-mark 7mo ago
I haven’t seen much discussion about this point other than “llm handle languages x y and z because there’s a lot of training data”. Watching Terence Tau using llm for writing proofs in Lean was a real eye opener in this regard.
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Ask HN: People outside the US how are your countries talking about AI?
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by le-mark 7mo ago
I’ve had Gemini out reason Claude in couple instances that really impressed me. I’m only on the free tier. I won’t pay google for anything due to their draconian no recourse cancellation policies. I don’t see that changing any time soon.
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by le-mark 7mo ago
The point of heroic tales such as Gilgamesh was to draw tribute and sacrifices to the temple of Ishtar. The analogy makes perfect sense.
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by le-mark 7mo ago
Can you describe when the actual need is much simpler? I mean throwing documents into elastic search is really easy and the search is really good.
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by le-mark 7mo ago
That’s actually a pretty cool idea. When I think about my internal mental model of a codebase I’m working on it’s definitely a compacted lossy thing that evolves as I learn more.
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by le-mark 7mo ago
There are certainly black budget dollars at stake as well, which are much more lucrative.
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by le-mark 7mo ago
Don’t feel bad please. There’s a flip side to all these sociable people which you are sensing. It’s the fallacy of “winning friends and influencing people”. Suppose you are sociable and use the tricks to get to know people (take an interest
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by le-mark 7mo ago
Netanyahu is leading Trump around by the nose apparently. And here we all thought Putin owned Trump. How the wheel turns.
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by le-mark 8mo ago
Who else had ai implement an emulator? Raises hand. A 6502 emulator in JavaScript was my first Gemini experiment.
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by le-mark 8mo ago
This is an intellectually dishonest response. The person I responded to clearly attempts to place blame on one side, ignoring the facts of when the violation of norms began. It does matter that one side has destroyed all norms.
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by le-mark 8mo ago
Selective memory as usual, outright dishonest at that. Let’s remember MTG heckling Biden. The when and who started heckling the sotu is well known.
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by le-mark 8mo ago
This and problematic Gemini pro availability are why I pay for two other ai services and won’t pay google.
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by le-mark 8mo ago
You mean sent to palo with no opt out? That’s hard to believe.
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by le-mark 8mo ago
LLM change the dynamic so an individual or small team can replicate the work large companies. Especially if they worked on that large application before.
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by le-mark 8mo ago
If post AI software engineering is a thing then this is NOT a bubble.
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by le-mark 8mo ago
I’ve been a nay sayer up till two weeks ago when I actually sat down and coded a non trivial feature with AI and I was blown away. The problem was one that there may have been at most 5 open source versions that they had been trained on. To
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by le-mark 8mo ago
Please explain what do you mean by “cost”?
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by le-mark 8mo ago
Gavin King, creator of hibernate has said many times that you don’t have to use it for everything. Indeed your code can use the entity manager to execute sql. The problem is sql databases are hard, data modeling is hard, it requires a lot o
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by le-mark 8mo ago
This applies to “friends” also. And discovering how many of them are actual idiots. Oh, these people can’t put 5 words together to form a coherent sentence and their spelling grammar suck to top it off? I don’t miss it at all.

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