netdevphoenix

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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. "Works on my machine" ain't it.
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> I often ask it "I have this bug. Why?" And it almost always figures it out and fixes it. Huge code base. Is your AI PR publicly available in github?
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> Not my experience. It excels in existing codebases too. Why don't you prove it? 1. Find an old large codebase in codeberg (avoiding the octopus for obvious reasons) 2. Video stream the session and make the LLM convo public 3. Ask
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
For the oblivious: /s
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
Consensus. People like to follow what the majority does even if it's suboptimal.
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> Crucially the end user should then be ASKED which to enable This doesn't work for literally 99.9% of the users out there. This is a classic HN's Dropbox symptom. You need overridable defaults.
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> Can you imagine not being fired when you can only do 2.5% of all tasks? You are not competing against LLMs though. You are competing against people (who in a pre-LLM world wouldn't be in tech) using LLMs tools to beat you in terms
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
You should wonder whether any of those devs will train themselves to become engineers and whether the supply of engineers will be lower than the demand for them. Because if any of them become true, you will likely struggle to keep your empl
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> I'm struggling to think of any scenario that doesn't also put most white collar professions out of work alongside me You don't need to be out of a job to struggle. Just for your pay to remain the same (or lower), for yo
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
How come that OpenAI and Anthropic both released their models pretty much at the same time? Does anyone know if the timing is coincidental?
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> are there modes of thinking that fundamentally require something other than what current LLM architectures do? Possibly. There are likely also modes of thinking that fundamentally require something other than what current humans do. Be
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
Waiting until the moment they get good enough is not a smart thing to do either. If you are a farmer and know it is going to snow, at some point in the next 5 months, you make plans NOW, you don't wait until the temperatures drop and y
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
Coal miners are cheap, easy to replace and have little negotiation power. Devs are expensive, harder to replace and have some leverage. Coal miners can take a pick or an axe with them when they leave. Devs can take away with them valuable o
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> I always try to learn and understand the generated code and changes Not to be pedantic but, do you _try_ to understand? Or do you _actually_ understand the changes? This suggests to me that there are instances where you don't und
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> Or I fixed a bug in a linux scanner driver. None of these I could have done properly (within an acceptable time frame) without AI. But also none of there I could have done properly without my knowledge and experience, even with AI Ther
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> If pay decreases it's because you're not required anymore or less Not necessarily, there are many factors at play here which are downplayed. The first one is education: LLMs are going to significantly improve skill training.
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> Surely making use of a new tool that makes you more productive would increase your value rather than decreasing it? Think wider. You, sharperguy, are not and will not the only person with access to these tools. Therefore, your producti
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
>using that tool isn't using AI It is though. App is using AI underneath to generate audio snippets. That's literally its purpose
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> The second group is one that thinks talking to a chatbot will replace senior developer No one is going to replace senior developers. But senior developer pay WILL decrease relative to its historical values.
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> I think software is about to become disposable and that’s uncharted territory. I agree that most software will likely head that way. I wonder what this means for the economics of the open source ecosystem most software depends on. In a
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
Neither do I. But with Windows slipping badly, Google could start encroaching on their core tech.
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
Fitness correlates with health though. Just because you don't have any conditions does not mean that you are healthy. And inability to meet certain fitness tests is correlated with lower health.
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
Your point doesn't really change what I said. There are many languages in the world but English is the most common one. Those two facts are true at the same time. This is the same, there are many types of software engineering out there
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
True, but since the vast majority of software engineering is web engineering and the title is clearly about web, it seems fit to mention that.
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
Site Reliability Engineering. It is the role that, among other things, ensures that a service uptime is optimal. It's the closest thing we have nowadays to the system admin role
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
You can probably automate the full economy. Both production and consumption
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
I believe (happy to be corrected!) it's the same reason juice has little to no fibre: particles in the liquid could potentially clog the data centre cooling systems. But Google should just include the filtering cost as part of their op
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
The amount of people here in the comments happily suggesting to let Google use the clean water for their AI datacenters and return dirty water to use in crops is a bit worrying
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> Having to micromanage notifications is why I have two phones - one without a SIM card. It's nice to be able to do stuff on the phone and know it won't bug you. I simply put the one with the SIM card elsewhere (other room, lea
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by netdevphoenix 8mo ago
> we're paid to solve problems as efficiently as possible and these tools, used wisely, can massively help with that. They can also help reduce the number of devs a company needs to operate and arguably reduce the skill level needed

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