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by mjr00 7mo ago
For a good senior, yes you get massive returns, which is why those good seniors are in incredibly high demand right now. For average to low-performing intermediates/seniors... there's not much difference in output between them and
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by mjr00 7mo ago
In my experience, tech employment is incredibly bimodal right now. Top candidates are commanding higher salaries than ever, but an "average" developer is going to have an extremely hard time finding a position. Contrary to what
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by mjr00 7mo ago
Whoops yes, thank you. Too much LLM usage has made me start doing math about as well as them.
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by mjr00 7mo ago
This is touched upon in the article: > Last year, OpenAI released estimates on the number of ChatGPT users who exhibit possible signs of mental health emergencies, including mania, psychosis or suicidal thoughts. > The company said th
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by mjr00 8mo ago
Because the traits that make code easy for LLMs to work on are the same that make it ideal for humans: predictable patterns, clearly named functions and variables, one canonical way to accomplish a task, logical separation of concerns, clea
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by mjr00 8mo ago
Yet these sites now use AI to generate more "content" (slop) than ever, leveraging their high Google rankings and SEO to lure people in. The people who haven't switched to an LLM for search, anyway. Truly an ouroboros of garb
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by mjr00 8mo ago
Your example is a great example because the secretaries are clearly filling in the gaps, such as 1. How much can you spend on this trip? 2. Is first/business class necessary? 3. Is a layover acceptable if it's cheaper? 3a. Is it b
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated at all (do you really need to be reminded to make coffee?) I've posted about this before, I call it the Jarvis effect. > For years we h
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by mjr00 8mo ago
Payment processing is one of the most tightly regulated, and some might say corrupt, industries. Replicating the tech wouldn't be difficult. The social and regulatory part is effectively impossible for anyone who's not already in
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by mjr00 8mo ago
I don't think it's copium because it doesn't really matter if it's due to AI or COVID-era ZIRP-infused overhiring. If your company hasn't done multiple rounds of layoffs since 2022, they're going to come.
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by mjr00 8mo ago
No, I don't think OF models aren't using AI to respond to chat. Where did I say I thought that?
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by mjr00 8mo ago
Even ignoring the model censorship making high quality sexual imagery/videos not possible, this is a crazy take. You think OF models are making money because it's the only way to see a nude man/woman with particular character
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by mjr00 8mo ago
This is something I predicted when image/music/other creative art models first came out, as many were crying that art as a medium was dead thanks to Stable Diffusion. And it does seem like I've been right (so far). The introd
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> Personally, it feels like taste only buys you time and taste is easy to copy. No offense, but only someone without taste would say this ;) Taste is not easy to copy. If that were true then there would be no bad major Hollywood movies
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> Not that long ago, it was perfectly reasonable to be as invisible as possible. But now, this strategy is not only not easy, but also has drawbacks, when compared to being visible ( and understood as useful by the masses ). That's
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> That may be, but it's also exposing a lot of gatekeeping "Gatekeeping" became a trendy term for a while, but in the post-LLM world people are recognizing that "gatekeeping" is not the same as "having a set
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by mjr00 8mo ago
IMO debugging is a separate skill from development anyway. I've known plenty of developers in my career who were fully capable of writing and shipping code, especially the kind of boilerplate widgets/RPCs that LLMs excel at genera
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> However, niche stuff like vertical-specific CRUD apps that used to be able to charge a heavy SaaS premium simply because they could develop CRUD apps and UI faster than their customers are toast. You'd be surprised how many indust
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> business is not about profit. Have you ever run a business? Literally all anyone cares about is profit. When I talk to potential investors, banks for loans, even the government for grants, all they're interested in is cash-on-ha
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by mjr00 8mo ago
What, you mean a person who has only previous interacted with computers via smartphones taking a 6 month "JavaScript bootcamp" and getting a $150k/year salary on the other side isn't sustainable?
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by mjr00 8mo ago
Maybe. I'm actually a big fan of Claude/Codex and use them extensively. The author of the article says the same. > To be clear: I like and use AI when it comes to coding, and even for other tasks. I think it’s been very effecti
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> Microsoft’s AI CEO is saying AI is going to take everybody’s job. And Sam Altman is saying that AI will wipe out entire categories of jobs. ANd Matt Shumer is saying that AI is currently like Covid in January 2020—as in, “kind of under
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> 1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going.
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by mjr00 8mo ago
> 1) there is only one OpenClaw and only one Peter; Again, Peter is a good/great AI product manager but I don't see any distinguishing skills worth a billion dollars there. There's only one Openclaw but it's also be
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by mjr00 8mo ago
... Why would they pay 9 figures? It's not like Openclaw required specialized PhD-level knowledge held by <1000 people in the world to build, and that's what Meta and the other AI labs are paying ludicrous salaries for. Openc
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by mjr00 8mo ago
I'm one of those developers who is now writing probably ~80% of my code via Claude. For context, I have >15 years experience and former AWS so I'm not a bright-eyed junior or former product manager who now believes themselves a
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by mjr00 8mo ago
Yeah, as I say in a sibling comment, it's a fair reading of the movie that it's ultimately pro-surveillance because it shows that despite being immoral, unethical mass surveillance catches the bad guy. But "surveillance is un
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by mjr00 8mo ago
Of course. The use of mass surveillance in the movie is not-so-subtly referencing the PATRIOT Act. But again, it's presented as a moral dilemma, and multiple protagonists acknowledge that it's far too powerful to exist, and its us
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by mjr00 8mo ago
The Dark Knight was released in 2008. In that movie, Batman hijacks citizens' cellphones to track down the Joker, and it's presented as a major moral and ethical dilemma as part of the movie's overall themes. The only way B
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by mjr00 8mo ago
The tractor, or more generally farm automation, was maybe the biggest single destruction of jobs in human history. In 1800 about 65% of people worked in agriculture, now it's about 1%. Even if AI eliminated every single computer progra

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