munksbeer

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by munksbeer 7d ago
>Then we can look at Europe, you have this demilitarized continent that is doing things like seizing Russian ships because they are confident that the US will step and fight a war with Russia on their behalf. Well, they are going to lear
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by munksbeer 7d ago
Please, lets revisit in the next few years. I think one of us is blinded by bias, and I think it is you, and I think the only way to judge is evidence, since arguments obviously don't make any difference.
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by munksbeer 7d ago
Here is a prediction for you. AI coding is only going to increase. Eventually coding is going to join several other fields where it is much more about verification than the building of the code. I predict that eventually most programmers ar
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by munksbeer 7d ago
This was the exact line I heard during the brexit debate here in the UK. I am not from the UK. I'm not from the EU. I don't know whether than makes my view biased or not, but I hope that I was as unbiased as I could be during that
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by munksbeer 7d ago
Never use analogies when arguing online. It only ever results in exactly this, people nitpicking the metaphor. You've essentially given them a way to "be correct", about something irrelevant.
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by munksbeer 8d ago
You're not an outlier. The anti-AI stance is likely to be vocal online. They're quite incentivised to talk about it. Most programmers have adopted AI assisted programming (my own assertion) and most will feel like you and I, that
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by munksbeer 10d ago
That depends on how you see it. I started off studying physics, but transitioned to CS. I found I was good at CS and loved tinkering, but the tinkering was always for the exploration of problems. That was always the point, not typing charac
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by munksbeer 11d ago
I don't really think about it too much, it works fine. We don't use Optionals, I'm not sure why you brought that up. I'm not a dogmatic person in this respect, rather pragmatic. I'm sure Kotlin is great, and I'
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by munksbeer 11d ago
We have a java monorepo of relatively large size and sophistication, driving our entire fintech, and I haven't seen a NPE for years. Use NullAway and it basically makes the problem go away. Our application won't build if it detect
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by munksbeer 11d ago
I can't remember when I started reading HN. Possibly as late as around 2017/18. I lost one account I had when I changed company, and this is my latest account. Obviously you can't tell for sure, but I know that I am not a bot
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by munksbeer 11d ago
If they don't have the required knowledge before coding, how are they going to have the required knowledge if you skip the design and just hand them the finished code?
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by munksbeer 12d ago
Vibe code, maybe. But a lot of developers use AI as a pair programmer, and I doubt you'd be able to tell the difference.
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by munksbeer 12d ago
But how would you know if someone was just lying when they added "[HUMAN-CODE]"?
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by munksbeer 12d ago
It isn't obvious which technology you mean by this. I'm assuming you mean LLMs. Even then, you're almost certainly incorrect. The goalposts get moved constantly, this is just the latest. Within a few years this isn't goi
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by munksbeer 14d ago
In what possible manner could this be true? China produces so many of the leading minds already and they'll eventually just develop their own means of creating better hardware. People let their racism blind themselves.
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by munksbeer 14d ago
I feel the opposite. Human history is depressing overall. I imagine AI will eventually lead to less scarcity and better lives overall.
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by munksbeer 15d ago
Hold on, you've just ignored the point of the post you're responding to. What isn't being received well is hearing that others are close to publishing on a solution to a problem, so quickly using your power imbalance (million
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by munksbeer 16d ago
> If tests are hard enough and have unlimited retakes, kids will learn that practice is worth it and do it with way more focus than if it was forced. Wow, I haven't thought deeply since seeing this comment, but on the surface this i
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by munksbeer 16d ago
If the allegations are true, I can't see that collaboration lasting. Unfortunately, researches need to earn a living too, and being front run by a lab for everything you do isn't going to pay the bills.
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by munksbeer 16d ago
I don't think most people care if it does bring a few billion people out of poverty, that's the point. They don't care either way, they just want their "meaning" (well paid US tech jobs) preserved.
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by munksbeer 17d ago
How do you control the model to such an extent? How are you making Astra "not do chain-of-thought"? EDIT: Sorry, ignore me, it's in your article.
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by munksbeer 17d ago
Obviously it is a ludicrous example, but there are books for this: The Culture novels by Iain. M. Banks. I'd be quite happy as a citizen of The Culture. But, on a more serious note, or more realistic, I find it vaguely insulting that y
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by munksbeer 17d ago
People will cling to views as long as they possibly can, despite evidence slapping them in the face. Eventually it won't matter. Arguments over whether LLMs are "truly" intelligent are going to be a matter of philosophy, and
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by munksbeer 19d ago
Yeah, we don't do any of that stuff. I guess it's just luck. Well done.
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by munksbeer 20d ago
How?! Are you children a lot older now?
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by munksbeer 20d ago
I have to laugh at this, because on here I see a lot of people talking about family and meaningful relationships. As the father of two young, insanely challenging boys, a lot of the stuff on this list is non-existent and hasn't existed
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by munksbeer 22d ago
Not the person who asked, but yes, that sounds like a small lack of judgement, but hardly a huge problem. You just correct it and move on. I work on some reasonably sophisticated stuff (not inventing a new form of compression sophisticated,
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by munksbeer 22d ago
If I understand your comment correctly (and highly likely I missed something), I am very similar. Using stuff at work the AI team tries their best to ensure we don't leak our internal data or code. But for my personal use, I'm tot
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by munksbeer 23d ago
>Then you've never actually Pair Programmed. It's not "someone looking over your shoulder", it's literally two people writing the code together, one person at the keyboard and the other person saying what's
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by munksbeer 23d ago
I can understand companies not wanting to leak sensitive data or information, so not wanting their inputs used for training. But the individual level moral perspective confuses me. You object to your own input being used for training "

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