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by n_ary 2y ago
Agents, LLMs are real cool stuff these days but it is too early to say that this topic won’t fade in next few years if we can’t return to ZIRP. Robotics on the other hand is entrenched segment and will always be there and will probably gain
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by n_ary 2y ago
Interesting article but sounds like lobbying and fear mongering. Previously, blockchain and crypto currency would kill the banks and give control to the people again, visa/mastercard/whatever would be replaced by executives and bu
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by n_ary 2y ago
No, LLM needs excellent communicator. It can statistically spit out knowledge but someone has to embed that knowledge. Given how vague and contradictory most requirements are and how complete and excruciatingly detailed prompts must be, LLM
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by n_ary 2y ago
> How much risk investors are willing to undertake for this prize is evident from their investments, after all, these investors all lived through prior business cycles and bubbles and have the institutional knowledge to know what they&#x
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by n_ary 2y ago
I believe that, their brand “ChatGPT” is the moat. Here in EU, every news media and random strangers on the streets who don’t understand anything beyond TikTok also knows that AI=ChatGPT. The term is so ubiquitous with AI that, I am willing
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by n_ary 2y ago
Not sure about US, but here in EU, most big ones use LLM(or AI!) based platforms to rank and summarise applicants. While I do not have a public stats, but I can tell it from my friends’ account that a rejection takes 1-3h after submission.
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by n_ary 2y ago
Without reading any comments below, I want to praise the author for fighting fire-with-fire. From what I hear from my new colleagues and ones laid off, the landscape got pretty dystopian. HMs want to minimize their effort to 1% by happily r
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by n_ary 2y ago
From what I have seen and experienced, we don’t need AGI, we just need good salesmen to sell high level management into accepting subpar results to cause mass layoff in the short term in name or cutting costs. Eventually, when the bill come
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by n_ary 2y ago
And of course, if you didn’t touch all of cloud stuff, how will you explain to the junior randomly promoted to tech lead(sometimes CTO!) that you are worth hiring when your current corp decides to lay you off? /s
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by n_ary 2y ago
Very strange piece of article without any real reference or factual sources to back any claims. All of the claims are “trust me I know”. Also, I do not recall my CS courses teaching me fullstack/backend/frontend, rather OS, compil
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by n_ary 2y ago
> it kind of massages our ego, like yes, they can measure other sorts of productivity, but not ours, oh no, we're too complex and intelligent, there's no way to measure the deep sorts of work that we do! Which, yes, OK, we&#x27
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by n_ary 2y ago
I recall the Code Generation from class diagram and then low-code declared as death of all devs. The current generation of LLMs are immensely expensive and will become further more if all the VC money disappears. A FT dev is happy to sit th
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by n_ary 2y ago
> I overheard a daughter talking to her mother about ChatGPT and KI (Künstliche Intelligenz, the German for AI). Given the fact that how much ALL of our media beating that drum since GPT-3, I am hoping that my cat will start talking abou
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by n_ary 2y ago
> IMO they're glorified intellisense To me, LLMs are actually two-step shortcut to previously 1) query google 2) select most voted/accepted answer on StackOverflow 3) copy+paste example code in IDE 4) update some chars to match
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by n_ary 2y ago
They have Bitbucket already.
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by n_ary 2y ago
I would say that they are getting more tolerant. At the risk of appearing promotion of domestic abuse, my parents resorted to cane when I was not acting “socially acceptable”. Presently, children resort to tantrum if parents do not bow down
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by n_ary 2y ago
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/yYVus Opinion: I am extremely tired of this same old bs about “almost 60% developers use AI”. Yes, 60% developers use AI because the previous glorious Google/Bing has drowned in s
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by n_ary 2y ago
Journalism needs to pursue facts and produce new information as events take place or new developments emerge. Also, a lot of investigative journalism takes work and fearless collection of sources and other dangerous activities. For me, news
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by n_ary 2y ago
In a sense, internet was this neat thing to share knowledge between academics and all but now we predominantly serve media and ads over it and all the SEO spam that makes real money. AI is now this neat little thing to play around and has s
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by n_ary 2y ago
> I use Claude and Chatgpt EVERY DAY […] What other innovation in the last decade has been this disruptive? I use some sort of IDE everyday. Previously at my early days, I was a “true-hacker” and using Vim in console to type out massive
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by n_ary 2y ago
On the contrary, Junior positions will be more and growing because now you do not have the fear of Juniors being liability for a while as with very little guidance they can get stuff done while Seniors keep an eye on bigger things and have
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by n_ary 2y ago
Looking at history, anything in its first few iterations costs insane and stay as luxury or is sold at massive loss. Once the research goes on for several years, the costs keep coming down first very slowly and then in avalanche . The quest
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by n_ary 2y ago
On the contrary, I see immense lack of devs yet every 2 months new levels of invented management hierarchy and more management. At one point, I saw 16 POs(there were 3 POs who didn’t even have a team but were running around and having coffe
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by n_ary 2y ago
I suspect, this comment is entirely made up with zero reality and rather explains the wet dream of a manager who had some bad run up with some Dev team. I would take this with a grain of salt. Aside, India’s IT situation is fairly decent(if
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by n_ary 2y ago
Sadly, HR doing pre-screening does not understand GIS or PI/Arduino, they do keyword match over known things, mostly known PL, popular framework, something stating that said tech were used in some activities. If they can’t pass through
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by n_ary 2y ago
If I were Waymo, I’d try to gain some market majority(or competitive majority, e.g. taxi vs uber), and then slowly start test pilot of showing ads while the ride is running… Or even audio ads works, pretend it to be radio fully generated wi
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by n_ary 2y ago
Also, from watching a diverse group of colleagues and hearing migration process details, I have come to believe that, India has better diplomatic connections with most of the West compared to other APAC nations and the network of existing n
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by n_ary 2y ago
Usually, I have become good at pretending that no one is watching. Given my seniority, I explain to the people watching that, I will first prepare something, they are free to watch, I will also write comments so they know what am thinking(u
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by n_ary 2y ago
My performance falls to zero when someone(less familiar) is watching my screen, unless it is a colleague doing pair-programming. Also random manager, “dude!! How do you even read those texts? So tiny” when passing by behind me. (I use “More
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by n_ary 2y ago
Could be because Uber or Taxi is trying to make most trips and maximize day earning while Waymo do not have that rush and can take things slow… Of course Waymo needs money but if the car made fewer trips compared to Uber/Taxi, it is no

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