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by overgard 5mo ago
Honestly, I'm baffled that a software engineer would want to work at those companies. Like, you think they're going to keep you around once their AI is good enough to improve itself? Or are they just holding out hope that they can
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by overgard 5mo ago
I hate the term "democratization". It's putting a respectable face on something that shouldn't be respectable at all. In the age of the internet, coding and other creative skills have always been largely democratized to
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by overgard 5mo ago
I think a few things are simultaneously true here: 1. async/await is a huge improvement over callbacks. 2. doing asynchronous programming through callbacks has always been a messy hack, primarily coming from languages that couldn'
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by overgard 5mo ago
I don't see how that's a lie; calling an async function from synchronous code is generally a mistake. There are cases where it's appropriate but it's rare
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by overgard 5mo ago
I call AI a bubble because none of the finances make any sense. Everyone save for nvidia is losing money at an absurd rate (Anthropics "profitable" quarter is basically an accounting trick, not a real change). Circular financing i
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by overgard 5mo ago
I said they want to eradicate the middle class, I didn't say they'd succeed at it. But your logic is faulty either way: > How can something be both a bubble and also eradicate the middle class's ability to make a living? E
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by overgard 5mo ago
I find it unsettling that a company who wants to eradicate the middle class's ability to make a living, possibly bring about the singularity (I don't think they'll accomplish it, but they want to), and are actively creating o
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by overgard 5mo ago
There are a lot of things that are fine individually that are extremely problematic at scale. Like "reading a book" vs "ingesting all the books and art that ever existed into a plagiarism machine"
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by overgard 5mo ago
I think it's worth being skeptical of this.. there's a way too common pattern of "AI Lab Shows AI Doing Something Only Humans Can Do" only for a bunch of important caveats and limitations to be discovered after the initi
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by overgard 5mo ago
I imagine it'll take a functional legal body to do this IE maybe europe, but I think there should be a legally binding set of metadata you can attach to images to specify that they must not be used for training (with real penalties if
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by overgard 5mo ago
I guess the extra insult is that the summaries still suck. I feel like every time I google a technical question, I get something wrong which references a youtube video watched by 30 people about an unrelated subject.
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by overgard 5mo ago
Outside of coding agents, which are overhyped, I can't really think of any other agents that are particularly useful for getting work done. I installed cowork at one point and couldn't figure out anything I'd want to use it f
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by overgard 5mo ago
Pretty much all the worst crimes in history have come from idealists trying to create a utopia. The "true believers" are basically always wrong, and always make a mess for the pragmatists and worldly people to actually clean up.
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by overgard 5mo ago
I think sports betting is a lot less harmful than prediction markets. With sports betting if someone throws a game to get a pay day, for instance, the only real consequence is on the reputation of the sport. In prediction markets, people ca
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by overgard 5mo ago
I miss having a good search engine. Even before AI.
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by overgard 5mo ago
More people need to read Ed, especially tech journalists. I feel like he's one of the rare few people that are actually speaking about the industry honestly.
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by overgard 5mo ago
It's hard to know without knowing the terms of the settlement. It could have easily been something he knew OpenAI would find to be unacceptable. I think regardless it would be extremely hard for him to make people hate Altman et al. mo
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by overgard 5mo ago
That's fair although I didn't mean to imply that I thought it was a rational move. I think if he had won, it might have actually been worse for him (who knows what the collateral damage to the AI bubble would have been). I just th
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by overgard 5mo ago
PE's entire modus operandi is enshittification. If there's no enshittification to be done there would be no point in purchasing the company
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by overgard 5mo ago
Or just ruin their already shaky reputations.
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by overgard 5mo ago
My suspicion is that winning might have been a secondary goal. When OpenAI goes to IPO, all the testimony of former executives about Altman's behavior is going to be in the public record. A lot of that testimony makes OpenAI sound very
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by overgard 5mo ago
Even if defense keeps up it kind of depends on entities keeping up to date.. complex software stacks can make that hard, or falling behind a major version, etc. I think defense is harder than offense in this era
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by overgard 5mo ago
If you ever meet these people you're bound to have a "don't meet your heroes" moment.
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by overgard 5mo ago
This feels like a really verbose way of saying "things have been growing fast for a while so they should continue to grow as fast for just as long", and then he places the burden on people to prove him wrong. Um, no, the burden of
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by overgard 5mo ago
Look it might seem silly, but the point is to get all our employees to be travel-pilled. They just don't know how great travel is yet.
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by overgard 5mo ago
When I hear about features like this, at a certain point it looks more like compulsion/addiction instead of a useful thing to do. Like, if I'm at some sort of activity or event maybe I should just be at that thing instead of tryin
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by overgard 5mo ago
"We created a massive problem but it's up to you, the people that never wanted this, to clean up our mess."
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by overgard 5mo ago
The weird thing is it can't be that economically feasible to burn a ton of tokens in the hopes that you might get a bounty.. seems like a great way to set money on fire.
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by overgard 5mo ago
Industry-lite is a good way to describe it. I remember having a 300 level class which was supposed to be about real world application architecture but it was essentially just about making UML diagrams (because the professor happened to be o
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by overgard 5mo ago
I don't know, I went to a pretty well regarded CS program but some of the people I graduated with are definitely not people I'd want to work with. They might have hypothetically known what a loop is but I wouldn't expect them

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