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by mjr00 1y ago
> Is there any particular reason to believe that they'll stop getting better at this point? Are they better now? When ChatGPT came out I could ask it for the song lyrics to The Beatles - Come Together. Now the response is > Sorry
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by mjr00 1y ago
Saying that a Tesla can drive autonomously from LA to NYC, except it can't in reality because other cars are on the road and it might kill someone, is an odd way to frame it. It's like saying Windows 95 doesn't have any secur
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by mjr00 1y ago
Self-driving vehicles are the perfect example of how something that seems so close can be so far away. April 29, 2014 - "Milken 2014: Driverless cars due in five years"[0] Nov 24, 2015 - "Ford is 5 years away from self-drivin
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by mjr00 1y ago
> What jobs will AI create that AI cannot itself do? Part of the problem is the definition of "AI" is extremely nebulous. In your case, you seem to be talking about an AGI which can self-improve, while also having some physical
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by mjr00 1y ago
> "Each time you have to make a decision, make the right one" would be what I would say in a commencement speech. Truly sage advice. It honestly is great advice. Most (useful) business advice I've seen amounts to "how
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by mjr00 1y ago
> Lots of people who learn to do this cause lots of chaos and destruction in their wake. At the same time, lots of people who do this end up being extremely successful. The difficulty is knowing which rejection and criticism to ignore.
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by mjr00 1y ago
The environment is drastically different from how it was 1-2 years ago, but the average white collar fortune 500 employee is still not going to post anything too controversial on Twitter under their real name and picture. If they are postin
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by mjr00 1y ago
> The biggest problem that sucks about discord is that it isn't normally publicly searchable. This is a feature of the platform, not a bug. Because of the lack of discoverability people act more genuine, for better or for worse, tha
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by mjr00 1y ago
What does this have to do with my comment? Did you mean to reply to someone else? I don't understand what this has to do with AI adoption at MS (and Google/AWS, while we're at it) being management-driven.
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by mjr00 1y ago
From talking to colleagues at Microsoft it's a very management-driven push, not developer-driven. Friend on an Azure team had a team member who was nearly put on a PIP because they refused to install the internal AI coding assistant.
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by mjr00 1y ago
The great part about side projects is that unlike a business, it doesn't matter how much money it makes or how much traction it gets on social media. You can build something that you think is cool or useful and release it to the world
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by mjr00 1y ago
> What seniors learned by doing is now written down and available to LLMs, often in multiple sources, explained by some of the best minds in the field. It may shock you to learn that this was true before LLMs. There was a website called
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by mjr00 1y ago
IMO you're way overestimating how much hand-holding juniors need. Juniors coming out of college have a decent grasp of basic tooling like git, IDEs, debuggers, and yes AI coding assistants. We just hired two recent graduates and they w
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by mjr00 1y ago
> Zoom’s got 7,412 employees a small team of say 7 employees could make a noticeable difference here What would those 7 engineers specifically be working on? How did you pick 7? What part of the infrastructure would they be working on, a
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by mjr00 1y ago
> That’s irrelevant here, the fully featured product can also be fast. So why is it so rarely the case? If it's so simple, why hasn't anyone recognized that Teams, Zoom, etc are all bloated and slow and made a hyper-optimized,
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by mjr00 1y ago
> You are comparing applications with wildly different features and UI. That's neither an argument for nor against performance as an important quality metric. I never said performance wasn't an important quality metric, just th
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by mjr00 1y ago
> the market sells as if all goods were high-quality The phrase "high-quality" is doing work here. The implication I'm reading is that poor performance = low quality. However, the applications people are mentioning in this
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by mjr00 1y ago
> juniors stop building real intuition because the LLM handles all the hard thinking. You get surface-level productivity but long-term skill rot. This was a real problem pre-LLM anyway. A popular article from 2012, How Developers Stop L
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by mjr00 1y ago
> I have yet to see a microservice architecture that automatically runs end to end tests before deploying. One of the big tenets of independent services is that your APIs are contracts that don't change behaviour. As long as each in
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by mjr00 1y ago
I was at AWS RDS when they upgraded the shared control plane code from Java 7 to 8. IIRC it was about 6 months for 5-10 developers more or less full-time. Absolutely massive timesink. The move to separate services happened shortly after tha
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by mjr00 1y ago
Monorepo is orthogonal to services though. You can have a monorepo with multiple services in it. Even with a monorepo, you will hit a point where you have 1, 10, 100 million lines of e.g. Python, realize you should upgrade from 3.8 to 3.1
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by mjr00 1y ago
Folder and file structure and separation of concerns doesn't change the fact that if you have one deployable artifact, it's all sharing the same runtime when deployed. Which means the underlying versions of Java/Go/Pytho
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by mjr00 1y ago
aha makes sense! Yeah it'd be nice if you could divine the intended python version from the uv configuration/`.python-version`. Thanks for all your hard work, looking forward to the full release!
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by mjr00 1y ago
> The way these type checkers get fast is usually by not supporting the crazy rich reality of realworld python code. Or in this case, writing it in Rust... mypy is written in Python. People have forgotten that Python is really, really s
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by mjr00 1y ago
Artists playing live is the end result though. If anything, the fact that people go to see Katy Perry in concert and not Max Martin, or how Tiesto is still a massive festival draw despite everyone knowing he's used ghost producers fo
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by mjr00 1y ago
Generative tools and AI are great for finding inspiration. Same as using presets (which many do still think is "cheating" despite everyone doing it). Ultimately all listeners care about is the end result, not how it was made.
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by mjr00 1y ago
Honestly I don't think Suno knows who's supposed to be using their product. There's valid use cases for typing a text prompt and getting a song with zero fuss: background music in YouTube videos or corporate training videos,
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by mjr00 1y ago
Yeah 4.5 definitely improves a lot, but I can still hear washiness in the high end. Probably not noticeable to most in isolation or poor audio devices like low-end phone speakers, but would be very noticeable on a good soundsystem in a play
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by mjr00 1y ago
Suno songs also sound really poor from a technical perspective. The high end of the frequency spectrum is always very washy, reminiscent of the days of 128kbps mp3s. It sounds ok in isolation but it's very noticeable when it's thr
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by mjr00 1y ago
Distribution services like Distrokid, CDBaby, Tunecore etc will handle the mechanical license for covers. As long as you don't change the lyrics or melody, a cover will remain a cover, even if you change a genre from metal to country.

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