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by madrox 7mo ago
Touche
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by madrox 7mo ago
Even before AI, the human social internet was loaded with bots and disingenuous actors. You want the imperfect human internet that is also pristine and curated. I've been socializing on the internet since 1994, and I feel fairly confid
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by madrox 7mo ago
I think you will find you will get farther by offloading this unpleasantness to an AI and open sourcing it rather than teaching etiquette to the internet, a place not known for its decency.
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by madrox 7mo ago
I think it is reasonable, yes, but I don’t think it’s ever been reasonable to expect reasonableness on the internet. We have a difficult enough time showing each other decency.
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by madrox 7mo ago
Yet how are the alternative ways of thinking about it better? Spending your time angry about what others can do? In any era, that’s a poor life philosophy. The problem is the same as it has always been. Figure out how to use your time and a
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by madrox 7mo ago
> If I'm asking humans, I want to see human responses I find this fascinating, honestly. It shouldn't matter as long as it addresses your ask, yet it does. I also wish I could filter social media on "it's not X. It&#x
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by madrox 7mo ago
I find that I don't have a lot of sympathy for people angry at this type of behavior, even though I share the disdain for someone else's AI output. The people doing this kind of thing are not the kind of people to be reading this
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by madrox 7mo ago
Not the author, but did a LOT of research on this during my time at Disney while working on Disney+ prior to its launch. This is, effectively, no different than a carousel of algorithm-recommended content. However, UX studies have found use
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by madrox 8mo ago
This assumes everything about current capabilities stay static, and it wasn't long ago before LLMs couldn't do math. Many were predicting the genAI hype had peaked this time last year. If you want it to be a question of economics,
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by madrox 8mo ago
If you give an agent a task, the typical agentic pattern is that it calls tools in some non-deterministic loop, feeding the tool output back into the LLM, until it deems the task complete. The LLM internalizes an algorithm. Another way of d
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by madrox 8mo ago
I encourage everyone to RTFA and not just respond to the headline. This really is a glimpse into where the future is going. I've been saying "the last job to be automated will be QA" and it feels more true every day. It'
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by madrox 8mo ago
Every job in engineering is changing right now. Managers aren't immune. I've been an EM for almost 20 years in some flavor or another, and I've been thinking a lot about how I want to adapt to this era. This is the first time
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by madrox 8mo ago
I've been thinking about this as well, and I'm glad the author is talking about it. However, I don't think he took it far enough. It is correct to say there's near-infinite demand for AI, and supply is limited. It stands
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by madrox 8mo ago
If you read the statement, they explicitly state these guardrails don't exist today, and they want to develop them. Though I have a feeling we're talking about different things. In Claude Code terms, it might want to rm -rf my cod
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by madrox 8mo ago
I have found that to be utterly untrue
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by madrox 8mo ago
I got my first tech job in 2001. I've been doing this a while and ridden all the waves. There are two kinds of waves. The ones that don't require collective belief in them to succeed, and those that do. The latter are kinds like c
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by madrox 8mo ago
I think it is a reasonable moral stance to acknowledge such things are possible, yet not wanting to be a part of it. Regarding making it technically impossible to do...I think that is what Anthropic means when they say they want to develop
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by madrox 8mo ago
I have noticed, if I hit my session quota before it resets, that Claude gets "sleepy" for a day or so afterward. It's demonstrably worse at tasks...especially complex ones. My cofounder and I have both noticed this. Our theor
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by madrox 8mo ago
If only we could look into the future to see who is right and which future is better so we could stop wasting our time on pointless doomerism debate. Though I guess that would come with its own problems. Hey, wait...
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List of obsolete occupations(en.wikipedia.org)
35 points by madrox 9mo ago|3 comments
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by madrox 9mo ago
As a guy in his mid-forties, I sympathize with that sentiment. I do think you're missing how this will likely go down in practice, though. Those giant codebases with years of domain rules are all legacy now. The question is how quickly
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by madrox 9mo ago
It's doesn't work...yet. I agree my stomach churns a little at this sentence. However, paying customers care about reliability and performance. Code review helps that today, but it's only a matter of time before it is more pe
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by madrox 9mo ago
You're describing genetic algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm
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Reflections on Writing an AI Novel(horn.gg)
2 points by madrox 10mo ago|0 comments
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by madrox 11mo ago
You're describing the GM (general manager) model, sometimes called the single threaded leader. This does work well in large scale organizations...especially ones where teams are built around projects and outcomes but exist for a finite
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by madrox 11mo ago
That's usually a consequence of bad incentives. Either leadership is selecting for that kind of behavior in managers or they don't know how to properly unselect for it. If a bunch of crap code gets shipped, it isn't always be
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by madrox 11mo ago
I worry a lot about fads in engineering management. Any time you proscribe process over outcomes you create performative behavior and bad incentives in any discipline. In my observation, this tends to happen in engineering because senior le
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by madrox 1y ago
what did they want to do with pull down instead?
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by madrox 1y ago
Design moves at the speed of culture; not technology. It took 3 years of people messing with mobile phones before it occurred to someone to implement "pull down to refresh" and much longer for it to be common practice that people
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by madrox 1y ago
The whole thrust of anti-vibe UI sentiments remind me of when Twitter Bootstrap came out. The unlocks were huge because suddenly people who didn't know how to make nice looking UI didn't have to do much more than drop in a stylesh

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