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by mjr00 6mo ago
> In 5, maybe 10, certainly 15 years, I don't think as many people are going to want to learn, browse, and click through a gazillion complex websites and apps and flows when they can easily just tell their assistant to do most of it
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> That's all very true, but what you're missing is that the proportion of codebases that need this is shrinking relative to the total number of codebases. There's an incredible proliferation of very small, bespoke, simple,
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> However, code quality is becoming less and less relevant in the age of AI coding, and to ignore that is to have our heads stuck in the sand. Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. Strongly disagree wit
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> "vibe coded" is NOT the bad thing you think it is. It's not inherently bad in the same way that a first draft of a novel is not inherently bad. But if someone asked me to read their novel and it was a first draft that th
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> People know what they want and need The multi-decade existence of roles like "business analysts" and "product owners" (and sometimes "customer success") is pretty strong evidence that this is not the case.
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> assume it is only a matter of time until they will be useful tools in the hands of even the untrained masses. IMO this vastly overestimates how good the "untrained masses" are at thinking in a logical, mathematical way. Appar
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> Many men (Not all, but many) are there simply because they want to get laid. They're not looking for a relationship, they're looking for a hook-up, and they're not honest about their intentions. In fairness, this is not
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by mjr00 7mo ago
I was really confused how this could be possible for such a seemingly simple site but it looks like it's storing + writing many new commits every time there's a new review, or new financial data, or a new show, etc. Someone might
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by mjr00 7mo ago
Molyneux is obviously a well-known gamedev figure, but he's always been much more on the design side than programming side, as opposed to someone like Carmack or even J Blow. I wouldn't take his opinions on minutiae like coroutine
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> Beyond the initial 2-3 minutes of novelty, what do AI generated videos really have to offer when there is no shortage of people making professional, high quality content on competing platforms? I don't know where they got Septemb
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by mjr00 7mo ago
AFAIK both of these use cases had many millions of invested dollars dumped into them during the Blockchain hype and neither resulted in anything. It might not be an exact match for (1), but there was famously the ASX blockchain project[0] w
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> why are the examples given of futuristic capabilities always so visionless - it's always booking a flight or scheduling a meeting. This AI wave is filled with "ideas guys/gals" who thought they had an amazing awesom
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by mjr00 7mo ago
edit: Removing, not productive to engage with this.
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by mjr00 7mo ago
edit: Removing, not productive to engage with this. pre-emptive apology to dang/tom if this gets cleaned up, most of this thread is not productive and I should not have continued responding much earlier.
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by mjr00 7mo ago
Nothing more to discuss here, the commit history (and your lack of coherent responses beyond hypothetical "it's technically possible it COULD have happened this way") speak for themselves. Thanks for trying though. edit: Wait
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by mjr00 7mo ago
I asksed you specific questions and you failed to answer all of them, I think that says everything. Thanks.
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> Again, I ask you -- what is the reason for them to edit commit history to show incremental progress as if it were written in a weekend, when it actually was not? Answer this question or we're done here, thanks. > Almost certai
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by mjr00 7mo ago
Okay, so there's overwhelming evidence that their public github history is accurate and Nemoclaw was written in a weekend, and the only reason to think it's not accurate is that... it's technically possible to edit git histor
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> It's extremely normal to have work in one, perhaps internal, repo which you then blast over to a public repo in one (or a few) big commits. Did you even read the commit history? That is not what is happening here. This is turning
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by mjr00 7mo ago
There's nothing clean about the history. You think commits like [0], with the commit message "improve", count as "clean"? What do you think the motivation for the author would be to modify git history to make it app
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> it's the new norm that you put together stuff, it works and you show it off. You're probably right, but it'd be nice if the new norm were you put together stuff quickly using AI-assisted coding, you use it yourself and i
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> Sorry to be the one to inform you that we edit history in git. Who is "we"? Do you work for NVidia? > There has been reporting on nemoclaw for the last couple weeks. The earliest reporting I've seen was yesterday. Can
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by mjr00 7mo ago
No they didn't. You can see all the commits as this was built iteratively[0]. This project started development on Saturday morning and now it's here. This is pretty common now, people love to rapidly throw together stuff and show
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by mjr00 7mo ago
Sure, but we were talking about using microwaves as your primary cooking appliance.
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> cooking with an oven is more of a special occasion thing than the default cooking method that it was before. This is an incredible self-report. If you consider microwaved meals to be your default method of cooking and not something pri
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> It's an entirely different thing; he made a thing, sold it, and then when he couldn't sell more of it, gave it away. You're right and it's worth pointing out that a lot of open source has the opposite lifecycle: the
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by mjr00 7mo ago
Even if the stats are off by a factor of 10 it wouldn't matter. You could remove the numbers from the user axis entirely and it would paint the same story: there were massive user influxes after the 2024 US election and the inauguratio
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by mjr00 7mo ago
Ultimately the goal "build a nice community where people can enjoy social interactions" is fully incompatible with "build the next Everything For Everyone Social Website like twitter/facebook/instagram/youtube&
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by mjr00 7mo ago
> How many offers did you receive? Companies have also adopted your strategy: interviewing candidates "to see what's out there" - there's a job I interviewed for that's still open after 10 months. On the hiring s
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by mjr00 7mo ago
I have hired a lot of people and I have never seen a situation where candidate A and B are both within the target salary band but one was chosen because they were cheaper. You'd always choose the one that was better. I can only see a s

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