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by moezd 2mo ago
This. The landing story is uncharacteristically soft, surrounded by English speaking colleagues in an international company. On average, you'd find that Germans tend to grow weary speaking in English sooner and almost press you to spea
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by moezd 2mo ago
Writing code is cheap. Coming up with a plan to stay updated on specs and verification are not so cheap, and you need more attention there than ever, because an LLM will take your half-assed spec and claim victory as it prints linted code t
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by moezd 2mo ago
Rough opinion: If you're a developer who chose to be a meat proxy, you shouldn't whine if/when you're laid off, because clearly LLMs can do your job.
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by moezd 2mo ago
That is the point: Make "X can be done by AI" common discourse and watch industries "being disrupted". At least with open weights we'd be able to verify the claims.
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by moezd 3mo ago
When manufacturing turned into electrified factories and conveyor belts, there wasn't waves of massive layoffs. And AI these days come nowhere near close to conveyor belts or electrification at scale at all. Debt cycles could fund it t
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by moezd 3mo ago
Replace LLM mentions with actual humans and this sounds a lot more serious: Rouge employees break into another company to steal hackathon answers (pinky promise)? That's not a marketing stunt at all, if anything, more of a call for bet
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by moezd 3mo ago
VPN is a legit technology with real applications, not a toy you spin when lawmakers hurt you. And it's for Anne Frank's diaries out of all disputes? EU lawmakers follow tech trends by a lag of at least a decade and lay waste as th
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by moezd 3mo ago
That doesn't sound good, but out of curiosity: How do you exactly hide debt? Circular economy is easy to understand, but what else is cooking?
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by moezd 3mo ago
I doubt it will ever become a $1T company ever again.
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by moezd 3mo ago
Imagine building your solution using a 3rd party library, it still builds during your PR reviews and when you merge, it no longer builds. How would you feel?
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by moezd 3mo ago
Yes, and you can also write two different sentences using two different pens in your hands.
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by moezd 3mo ago
So, how do their overall financials look these days?
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by moezd 3mo ago
With tools like GitHub Actions and some added constraints, it's not always possible. You literally need a commit to trigger the CI workflow and it starts to trash your branch. Besides, aren't we all familiar with git commit -m &qu
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by moezd 3mo ago
guess they already ran out of fresh context huh Coming up next: You harness takes daily backups of your entire disk and restores.
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by moezd 3mo ago
Hard agree. I used to have a tuned setup where I could force it to do research properly, summarize in chunks that it would remember and form the synthesized response that way. Nowadays it's just like "oh I forgot about using that
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by moezd 3mo ago
I couldn't find architecture.yaml in the repo.
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by moezd 3mo ago
This. And don't forget the occasional refinement meetings during which you think you're making a group decision but your manager and the other senior (both German, speaking German, having spoken in private without your awareness)
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by moezd 3mo ago
Agents struggle with this: DRY means they create helper functions and classes for a testing scenario and maybe it's called two times. When you ask for a refactor of your code and tests to follow, these helper functions are also ignored
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by moezd 3mo ago
Oof. That's a bright red flag: Regulated industry and own laptop? Please tell me at least if they asked you to install a new harddrive and company VPN. If not, the company is probably compliance theater and has no business being in the
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by moezd 3mo ago
correlation vs causation https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by moezd 3mo ago
Chinese whispers, simulacra... I don't have the energy to argue after being name called, but you get the point. Yes LLMs are useful in building automatic telling machines, but ask it to do anything more substantial and all you are doin
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by moezd 3mo ago
Intelligent humans are capable of following diverse and intricate analogies and draw lessons from seemingly unrelated events. Try asking an LLM to summarize an article and use an imprecise way to state your view. Ask it to push back. You wi
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by moezd 3mo ago
Let Rust vs C battle commence with renewed haste!
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by moezd 3mo ago
LLMs are still next token predictors, just because you can give it more vague instructions and it still finds the right steps to follow, it doesn't mean it's intelligent. It means you're speaking the same language as the harn
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by moezd 3mo ago
Memory used to be the bottleneck because it was the slowest after SSD and NVMe arrived. Now they became the bottleneck again but for a different reason. One has to wonder.
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by moezd 3mo ago
Sometimes they are just too addicted to gossip by the water cooler. For all the information that flies in and out of different teams, departments and organisations, water cooler is probably the best place to learn enough to position yoursel
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by moezd 3mo ago
Empowering speech for all beginners in all fields for sure. If you're struggling today because LLMs seem to eat your lunch in one way or another, it's a good feeling to remember this. And yet, it's also a sign of how far we&#
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by moezd 4mo ago
That's maybe wishful thinking from my part, but more towards like other engineering fields: Project engineers design it from scratch, everyone must speak architecture, customer and compliance at once, and we will have standards and &qu
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by moezd 4mo ago
Seemingly similar mechanism here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_eart... Devastating stuff. Hopefully they get help soon. First 72 hours are critical.
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by moezd 4mo ago
SpaceX + Twitter + XAi + Cursor is the perfect combo to collect government contracts. You want exposure in social media? Use Twitter. Civil servants want AI? Use Grok. Developers want AI? Use Cursor. All space heading business? Contact Spac

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