misterderpie

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by misterderpie 5d ago
Preaching the choir. Another example of "More AI, worse app" is amazon.com for me lately. Alexa AI Chat keeps showing whenever I scroll up on the amazon.com mobile page. I don't want Alexa to search for products. Worst thing
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by misterderpie 5d ago
Genuine Q: Are they buying failing businesses because they see potential and want to get those on the right track, or are they buying them because their forecast tells them they can still make money, before shutting them down for eternity?
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by misterderpie 10d ago
Wasn't there an article here, or was it under another HN post as a comment? Someone pointed out that the before the dawn of LLMs, "bad contributors" had a rate limiter of sorts. Now anyone can prompt their LLM and throw their
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by misterderpie 20d ago
> And, in line with Ray Kurzweil’s predictions from the end of the XXth century (opens in a new window), we now find ourselves at the moment in history of computing where machine intelligence is starting to exceed that of humans in trans
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by misterderpie 22d ago
For anyone looking for the reference, it's stated at 10:16 [0] [0] https://youtu.be/nM86DBOqgPM?si=BdoZzp1Dxa4S3C_9&t=616
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by misterderpie 1mo ago
> Core parts of the product, like navigating to individual files in a code review, are broken I think this is a good argument to underline "It's not _just_ the scale". Adding to this, the Github Code Review experience is k
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by misterderpie 1mo ago
> Modern cloud systems shouldn't even have shell access, immutable containers with telemetry data. Genuine question, what is your alternative suggestion to accessing lower level features then? A hard time I have with GUIs is that th
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by misterderpie 2mo ago
> I'm using my skills to orchestrate LLMs and agents, and I can write better code much faster. The fact that the top comment on this thread calls it out, in a negative way, hints at that you aren't.
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by misterderpie 2mo ago
> every technical profession getting disrupted to oblivion Where is this disruption? The longer we go, the more people report that the supposed net-gain of easily 100s of percents is not visible. I do strongly believe "It's jus
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by misterderpie 2mo ago
I'm yet to see what part of AI really wealthy people would like to spend their money on. It's not like we can get AI Yachts and AI Rockets. What would the premium product for the upper class be?
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by misterderpie 2mo ago
If many people lose their jobs, thus consumers having less and less money, where would that money come from?