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by onion2k 9mo ago
The G in GPT stands for Generalized. You don't need that for specialist models, so the size can be much smaller. Even coding models are quite general as they don't focus on a language or a domain. I imagine a model specifically
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by onion2k 9mo ago
I regret not actually writing several books.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, th
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by onion2k 9mo ago
All we need is one major crash caused by AI to scare the capital owners. All the previous human-driven crashes didn't change anything about capital owners' approach to money, so why would an AI-driven crash change things?
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by onion2k 9mo ago
A consistent and well-organised approach across the data that could be used by AI, ideally with journalling and tracking to understand how things have changed over time.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
In my opinion, data and documents are the real AI benefit, or threat, to developer jobs. Specifically, how good a company's data is will determine how effectively it can leverage AI in the future. The public data is pretty much mined t
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by onion2k 9mo ago
What exactly is the point of a manager if they’re just passively receiving information from their reports? The only thing I've said here is that you shouldn't be waiting for your manager to ask for updates. If you read that as m
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by onion2k 9mo ago
What I said is that the world produces enough food for everyone (and then some), so 'over population' is not the reason for people not having enough resources. I was careful to point out that was all I was saying in several places
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by onion2k 9mo ago
It takes some judgement for sure, but that comes with experience. It's far better to over-communicate than under-communicate until you can gauge it yourself so I'd always recommend sharing everything when it happens. If it's
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by onion2k 9mo ago
For: A massive network of people you can draw on that surpasses literally anything you could build yourself. A decent chunk of money. Against: Giving up a bit of equity, but if you're precious about that you wouldn't be considerin
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by onion2k 9mo ago
We shouldn't have any expectation of talking to a real person in a customer service role ever again to be honest, especially over a text interface. Chatbots are good enough that we don't need a person except in very limited edge c
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Spectrum Basic was my first programming language, so that gives me all sorts of nostalgia feels. Your work is awesome .
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by onion2k 9mo ago
A common cause is multi-page forms that silently push URL changes to your browser history stack, and also set headers that block pages being cached by the browser properly. On mobile that means an accidental swipe up takes you 'back&#x
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And yet those five companies are among the most valuable in the world. ... after Nvidia.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Driving the car is surprisingly easy. If there's a single hack for your career it is simply telling your manager when things happen. Shipped something? Tell them. Broke something? Tell them. Blocked on something? Keep that quiet. No, w
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by onion2k 9mo ago
I don't understand the title. It says autosave is not recovery, and then the article talks about a form that evidently didn't have an autosave feature, and how the author wrote a library to add autosaving to forms. Ironically, unl
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by onion2k 9mo ago
I understand the logistics very well. I'm not suggesting we move the food and water to the people. I'm suggesting we move the people to the food and water. Cities like New York have a population density of 50k/mile^2. We can
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by onion2k 9mo ago
The world has more than enough water, food, and energy to sustain a much, much higher population. The issue is that people in the areas with a lot of resources don't want to share - that's more of an observation than a criticism
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by onion2k 9mo ago
The goal should be to have teams who want you to be supporting them, not need you to be supporting them. Getting teams to the point where they don't need you isn't actually that hard. They might be only performing at 50% effec
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by onion2k 9mo ago
$1000 a month to make someone whose being $10,000 a month even 1.5x more productive is well worth the price.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
It almost reeks of insecurity from the Agent Evangelists and I wonder if all the "fear" and "uncertainty" they talk about is just projecting. That's probably true on some level for some evangelists, but it's
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by onion2k 9mo ago
In this case the LLM is just acting as a super-charged search engine. It isn't, because that implies getting everything necessary in a single action, as if there are high quality webpages that give a good answer to each prompt. There
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by onion2k 9mo ago
History seems to indicate that in the absence of law, those with the most people inside a fortified structure and position are the most likely to survive. I don't think that's true. I imagine the people with the highest chance o
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by onion2k 9mo ago
And before some smart aleck says you can be creative on these types of optimization problems: not in two hours, it’s far too risky vs regurgitating some standard set of tried and true algos. You're both right and wrong. You're r
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft do a lot of things that aren't profitable in themselves. There is no reason to believe a company will kill a product line just because it makes a loss. There are plenty of other reasons to keep it running.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
It took decades for my wife to finally get through and explain not every problem she voices is something that needs a solution. Some times people just want to be heard. I'm glad she managed to solve this problem in the end. ;)
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by onion2k 9mo ago
I'm writing a point and click adventure game, and for that I've built a dialogue editor that uses a local text-to-speech model to turn speech into audio that runs in WASM (or WebGPU if it's available). From what I can tell WA
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"If I asked what people wanted they'd have asked for a longer range horse." Henry Ford, probably.
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How does that compare to those of us with 15-50 years of software engineering experience working on giant codebases that have years of domain rules, customers and use cases etc. At most of the companies I've worked at the development
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When the people you're interviewing with are 'already senior' (e.g. direct reports to the CEO), you can sometimes make your case worse rather than better, because it feels like you're going over their head. If that hap

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