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by majormajor 2mo ago
> If I were to be real, my coworkers that post AI responses straight rarely had insightful comments before AI. There's never been a shortage of low-value coworkers because hiring is hard and firing is unpleasant and painful in many
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by majormajor 2mo ago
What have your or their manager said about this? About any or all of (a) slowing everyone else down with crap, (b) wasting company resources on generating crap, (c) not doing anything that a CI integration couldn't trigger the AI to do
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by majormajor 2mo ago
There are different ways to ask. "Can I do X" - yeah that's likely gonna get a no if there's any ambiguity or question about it. "The VP wants me to do X, what do I need to know" - probably a much more nuanced
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Yeah polish + consistency but also with busy-ness is a hallmark from what I've seen. It can be tamed, but takes effort. That said, the provided examples definitely are a clear step up from the "default" you'd get. Like
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by majormajor 2mo ago
There are many more countries with violent governments that don't tolerate dissenters than there are ones that have the technological success of China. Most of them are much less strategic about what they drive for. But a "more fr
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by majormajor 3mo ago
> If some other competing company had a similar or better product at a cheaper price and had reasonable safety measures that would also hurt them. Yet he's not arguing against that. Your argument is weak. Wouldn't it be interes
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by majormajor 3mo ago
> getting the grade that gets you the paper that gets you the job that gets you the money is the point, for them. If there's a revolution in work due to AI the first jobs to fall are going to be the ones that don't require a
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by majormajor 3mo ago
Their business model always seemed to be "become IBM, gods of the mainframe and server-side-computing" and that always seemed a bit unlikely to last forever considering how thoroughly the PC disrupted that by being "good enou
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by majormajor 3mo ago
Yeah, the top-end models still feel better at synthesizing and especially simplifying design. Any of the current GPT-5.6 models can overengineer their way around edge cases. Figuring out how to get the same thing without the overengineeri
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by majormajor 3mo ago
Sometimes that'll turn up real bugs, sometimes just overengineered designs, premature-optimization, and 1-in-a-million possibility "bugs". And sometimes it's not about the model, it's just about refining the search
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by majormajor 3mo ago
It's not hard to ignore an error in Rust, IME? Especially as someone who's read a lot of code written by newcomers to Rust.
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by majormajor 3mo ago
Optimization implies constraints. But multiple targets implies compromise. How do you optimize for multiple measurements without compromise? You have to decide how to weight each against the other. "How can I maximize my widgets-produc
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by majormajor 3mo ago
>Painters shouldn’t be mad at AI, they should be mad at the system. AI helps enable the system. It makes it easier for the haves to justify a lack of sharing—or need to share—with the have-nots. "There are more tools available for
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by majormajor 3mo ago
> ask a miner or house builder how fun their job is The average person on a residential job site I've talked to has looked and sounded like they're having as much fun as the average software dev. And none of them have said stuf
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by majormajor 3mo ago
Looks like Bernstein wasn't even a Supreme Court bench, the government loosened regs rather than appealing. Whether or not a Trump admin would do the same is wildly difficult to predict. On one hand, Republican security hawks influence
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by majormajor 3mo ago
Anecdotally I'm seeing a lot more recruiter activity/interest now than this time last year. But it seems more correlated with hype-cycle-stage than anything else. Right now a lot of founders seem to be convincing a lot of VCs that
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by majormajor 3mo ago
> We should be reviewing the actual working software. Systems that make it easy and instant to demo any proposed change are what is needed. Code (and specs) are going to fade into obscurity. PR review has already shifted towards validati
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by majormajor 3mo ago
If you abuse that it becomes a competitive disadvantage if others don't. The people making and selling the shows wouldn't want to make a deal with a studio who won't put it out for truly competitive bids. That's why you
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by majormajor 3mo ago
The 90s and earlier, yeah. But cable in the first 15 years of the 2000s is where TV peaked quality-wise. Streaming captured the max output, but peak TV quality was largely before streaming went from re-runs to new-production. The 2015-2022
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by majormajor 3mo ago
What? It famously didn't on the streaming side. It had everything on DVD. For years I kept both parts of Netflix because a lot of popular shows—newer ones especially—weren't on it. So I could get DVDs of past seasons. Or go to H
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by majormajor 3mo ago
Everyone uses "intelligence" to mean something slightly different, so for this to be a useful claim to make or refute we need to come up with new, intentionally-pedantic, terms (or new domain-specific definitions for vague existin
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by majormajor 3mo ago
At that point what's the value add of the PM (and maybe even the consulting company entirely), if the PM is just doing doing custom stuff? How many of those can the customer solve themselves with Fable? OR the support agent at the vend
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by majormajor 3mo ago
You can have the most everyday-setting movie or TV show imaginable and still have it VFX'd to hell and back compared to something shot on film 30 years ago. Not even just like Ted Lasso faking the stadiums/fields they were on, but
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by majormajor 3mo ago
It's not a particularly novel claim since at least Terminator (and even moreso Terminator 2) made it EXTREMELY mainstream. It was a topic in less-mainstream sci-fi well before that. And some more mainstream stuff like Star Trek TOS. Fr
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by majormajor 3mo ago
Calvinism is a variant of Christianity with the following tenets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_of_Calvinism ): - everyone is damned and depraved - god chose some people to save, at his own whim, for no re
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by majormajor 3mo ago
I generally don't agree with the original commenter here. I think many of the complaints about model regressions are the result of increased usage and increased scrutiny revealing gaps there were there all the time. I've been more
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by majormajor 3mo ago
> It's nobody gets fired for buying IBM all over again. I think that's the historical analogue. How is IBM doing compared to pre-personal-computer disruption? Initially-limited home OSes like DOS were good enough to eventually
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by majormajor 3mo ago
For a long time nobody knew how to monetize OSS outside of a few Linux vendors. There's a crapload of new repos and Github and similar things. And a lot of it is "hobby utility" stuff like you'd find everywhere pre-mobil
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by majormajor 3mo ago
It also created a cargo cult though. "What can we get rid of for MVP" as a design strategy vs a way to iterate fast, for instance. Cutting things isn't a way to product cohesion, especially if you never go back to do the full
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by majormajor 3mo ago
> Have any of these adult children successfully moved out after saving up money while living with their parents? Even if they do, it still means they failed to save up that money without having to live with their parents. This is just th

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