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by mgfist 1y ago
> A search result might take me to the wrong answer but an LLM might just invent nonsense answers > This is a fundamentally different thing and is more difficult to detect imo 99% of the time it's not. You validate and correct&#x
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by mgfist 1y ago
Yeah I strongly disagree. I want to spend time figuring the things that important to me and my career. I could care less about the one regex I write every year. Especially when I've learned and forgotten the syntax more times than I ca
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by mgfist 1y ago
Yes. It's so dramatically better it's not even funny. It's not that information doesn't exist out there, it's more that an LLM can give it to you in a few seconds and it's tailored to your specific situation.
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by mgfist 1y ago
I like how you clearly used AI to create this comparison. Probably used ChatGPT for it
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by mgfist 1y ago
People have said the same about all the big tech companies and now they all print cash and are worth trillions. Will it happen? Who knows. If investing was easy to predict we'd all be very rich ..
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by mgfist 1y ago
Good point
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by mgfist 1y ago
All of this is hard to quantify. How much better than the average engineer is John Carmack, or Rob Pike or Linus? I consider myself average-ish and I don't think there's any world in which I could do what those guys did no matter
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by mgfist 1y ago
My biggest takeaway from using AI is that (1) for my day job, it doesn't make me super productive with creation, but it does help with discovery, learning, getting myself unstuck, and writing tedious code. (2) however, the biggest unlo
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by mgfist 1y ago
> When you do that, you get the benefits. It also gets very very expensive (maybe not in this case specifically). For example in NYC buildings often just leave scaffolding up permanently because it's cheaper to do that than to assem
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by mgfist 1y ago
Sure, but this mentality always would result in missing out on the trillion dollar companies that followed these types of growth curves. Surely you must understand that prioritizing growth over profit makes economic sense in the long run f
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by mgfist 1y ago
Ok, and? Last I heard were talking about OpenAI, not Enron.
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by mgfist 1y ago
Irrelevant at this stage.
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by mgfist 1y ago
> OpenAI’s business continues to surge. DealBook hears that the company’s annual recurring revenue has soared to $13 billion, up from $10 billion in June — and is projected to surpass $20 billion by the end of the year. This is why. Of c
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by mgfist 1y ago
You can just look at the empirical evidence. Where are homes being built? Primarily Texas, Florida, Nevada, Arizona. Where are they not being built? New York, California, Illinois. Do with that information what you please.
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by mgfist 1y ago
0.2% of Americans are homeless. Why is housing always about the homeless? Yes, getting people off the street is important. But there's few other topics where a solution that helps 99.8% of people is dismissed because it doesn't
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by mgfist 1y ago
There's other gotchas too. Ratchets, liquidation preferences, restructurings (recapitalizations) etc etc There's many opportunities for VCs and founders to screw you over. And that's assuming things go well enough for that to
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by mgfist 1y ago
This is true, and in general people are usually financially better of getting cheap stuff and replacing it. But a lot of us like getting hobbyist stuff just because it's more fun. I have an expensive espresso machine because it's
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by mgfist 1y ago
Sure, but this isn't a back&forth interview - it's a blog post. The author could have included a section with clarifying questions they expect the candidate to ask, and responses to those questions. As it stands, we still don&
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by mgfist 1y ago
> The point is that all kinds of people have the option to live in the same area Well not really. Very few people have the option of buying a $2m home. But I get your point. > Sure, people gravitate to some extent to their own 'c
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by mgfist 1y ago
In a time when people are becoming less social and more isolated, I think creating communities like this is super cool.
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by mgfist 1y ago
> But as nice as it would be to have ALL my besties nearby, we do just fine with phone calls, texts, social media, and seeing each other at events. I don't recall the article, but I remember reading an anecdotal piece where someone
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by mgfist 1y ago
> How can it not be, where you want to build an enclave of 'like' people (alike in friend connections, education, outlook, not only race, which is what you seem to assume). There's a strong implicit assumption here that st
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by mgfist 1y ago
You might like this guy's website - https://kdrag0n.dev/ (it's not me, I also don't know him personally)
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by mgfist 1y ago
His comment got deleted but it was funny hearing him say PG hasn't created anything while commenting on a website PG created
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by mgfist 1y ago
"momentum" is a tricky word. Zig has more momentum than C++, but will it ever overtake the language? I'd bet not.
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by mgfist 1y ago
The only way to achieve that would be hyperinflation, which would be a worse option than the debt crisis
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by mgfist 1y ago
I often listen to podcasts while walking. Or I think. I also own a walking pad and walk while working (1h in the morning, 1h in the afternoon - not every day but most).
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by mgfist 2y ago
This can broadly be alleviated by regulations that make it far cheaper and easier to build. Currently, demand is the only access by which housing markets are dictated in heavily NIMBY areas like SF. Supply is an underused level due to cost
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by mgfist 2y ago
Not necessarily. You hear plenty of stories of companies who raised money they never ended up needing to touch. What matters is why. Is it because growth is so bonkers that your burn stays minimal/zero despite increasing costs? Or is i
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by mgfist 2y ago
What's better, seeing a beautiful view from the mountain after being driven up, or never seeing the view at all?

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