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by n_ary 1y ago
Will actually open more ad opportunities of marketing more private contents and detecting preferences at higher level. This data will also of course cater to more advertising money from questionable industries, which in the end goes to Face
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by n_ary 1y ago
While this is most alarming and sad state of affairs for LLMs being peddled to lowest denominator of anything valuable to replace lonely-heart scammers with more platform engagement. I believe, this should pull away people from other scams
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by n_ary 1y ago
> "One example I heard: Microsoft integrated AI into Word and other Office tools--and the first thing most users tried to do was figure out how to turn it off. That tells you something. These companies aren’t necessarily in touch wi
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by n_ary 1y ago
AI will survive us. In fact, I am worried about the current trend and see feeding the mighty AI as being a mandatory thing in future. Unchecked monopoly has a way of mandating things that are net bad for everyone except the middle man. Prev
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by n_ary 1y ago
You should try with lowered temperature(0.1 or even 0.0). Usually accuracy improves dramatically.
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by n_ary 1y ago
Tbh, your job is secured as long as your boss is not brainwashed and FOMO by the infinite cash burning and lobbying to sell LLM as the all solving holy grail. Depending on how long it takes to brainwash all leadership into thinking, LLMs ca
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by n_ary 1y ago
Gaming was sort of their major thing until the cryptocurrency wave gave them a major boost and GPUs were rare luxuries suddenly. But as crypto was fading and GPUs were suddenly becoming affordable, GenAI wave hit and again gave a major boos
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by n_ary 1y ago
The number of times real human powered support caused me massive headache and sometimes financial damage and the number of times my lawyer fixed those because me trying to explain why they were wrong… I am not surprised that AI will do the
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by n_ary 1y ago
Are we sure that the damage is in “millions”? Could it not be just the same old “vocal and loud minority”, who will wake up tomorrow and re-activate their subscription before the lunch break once Cursor team comes and writes a heartfelt apo
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by n_ary 1y ago
Having some experience with weaker models, you need at least 1.5B-3B to see proper prompt adherence and less hallucinations and better memory. Also models have subtle differences, for example, I found Qwen2.5:0.5B to be more obedient(prompt
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by n_ary 1y ago
Please share more about this half-cooked agent on Linkedin. I am getting very curious.
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by n_ary 1y ago
Correct. My dusty Intel Nuc is able to run a decent 3B model(thanks to ollama) with fans spinning but does not affect any other running applications. It ks very useful for local hobby projects. Visible lags and freezes begin if I start a 5B
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by n_ary 1y ago
> Is it just hard to maintain that level of enthusiasm over time? Is the sum of possible money just too desirable? I do not recall the book/essay or the original author, but I recall the quote that “everybody has a price they can’t
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by n_ary 2y ago
Here is a different take. The GenAI is just another revenue stream for big players with scale or resources. At work, I was tasked with building some magical agentic stuff, working on it for a while, I realized that, HN shouts, oAI/xAI&
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by n_ary 2y ago
Off-topic: In 2024-2026 s/app/AI/ How the cycle repeats, just the deliverable changes.
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by n_ary 2y ago
I still use search engine. LLMs are great but often get outdated by 6-12 months. Usually, I search for random coding topics and asking LLMs will often reproduce the outdated top(most voted) answer verbatim. However, there are some nice folk
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by n_ary 2y ago
<quote:esperent> In theory, vibe coding can let someone with very limited technical expertise build complete apps, so understandably a lot of people are excited by it. </quote:esperent> Actually it is booming. In bsky, X an
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by n_ary 2y ago
To correctly vibe code something useful, I find that I need to religiously give faith to the tool and forget all about SWE principles and best practices and instead treat it like a child who makes mistakes and corrections while the adult mu
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by n_ary 2y ago
So, “previously a shoot would cost 5-figure […] now a kid can do it for $500”. “Soon we will no longer need musicians, due to rise of AI”. “If a director can do it with AI writing I want X, Y, Z” A strange pattern. In all three cases, are w
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by n_ary 2y ago
While I sometimes hangout with non-Engineering folks, I see following activities: - preparing various letters, reports, audits, notices, terms/contracts etc. by modifying or using very specific templates and Office tools are very well
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by n_ary 2y ago
But if those aspiring juniors stop asking those questions and the seniors not answer them in open web, neither LLMs nor juniors have new training data and both become stagnated. How do we solve this? At my early days, I learned more reading
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by n_ary 2y ago
The article appears to be a rant and panic piece… At this point, I am totally confused. When I attend expensive courses from Google or Amazon, the idea in the courses are that, tech has become sooo complex(I agree, look at the number of way
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by n_ary 2y ago
Off-topic: Mistral already had web search enabled for a while on there free tier. Caveat: Mistral reasoning model on free tier is super slow(2-5 token/sec).
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by n_ary 2y ago
What do you mean 08:00PM. We have enough sunlight up into 09:47PM(21:47) during mid to late summer and darkness falls after 10:30PM(22:30). Winter is… Sunrise at 08:12AM and Sunset by 04:00PM(16:00). You can technically use this info to gue
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by n_ary 2y ago
I believe, you are a specific minority actually. What the OP described “gal flipping between FB/Insta” is actual reality around me when I am outside and look around me. Young and adult, all are flipping, the younger they are more TikTo
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by n_ary 2y ago
I meant red(dead). Also losing a lot of valuation after jacking up to that point is not fun. Also a business paying $1M/year in cloud bill is neither poor nor tiny. We have very different definition of tiny and poor. Meta is very well
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by n_ary 2y ago
The real answer is, leaders chase trends, so to keep them satisfied you need to also chase trends. Some advises can be: * learn prompt engineering to impress your boss and next employer * adapt AI IDE at work, of course don’t go for cline o
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by n_ary 2y ago
> Steer away from skills like web development that are clearly getting eaten by LLMs On the contrary, here in my corner of EU nearly 60% of new jobs are frontend or full stack. Anything else left is mostly SAP consultant or DevOps. I thi
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by n_ary 2y ago
Actually, all stocks are dead and tech heavy Nasdaq has entered the correction zone this year. It will be a real while before the stocks return to their pre-correction value. The AI hype drivers have lost massive value, hence the desperatio
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by n_ary 2y ago
I believe, we are beyond the point of “bad software written, bad software deployed, business as usual” point long ago when AWS/GCP/Azure became an important requirement in job description. A bad piece of software can be decently h

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