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by pchristensen 1y ago
There’s a huge difference between “a bad job market for new grads“ and “none of you will have jobs next year“
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by pchristensen 1y ago
There's setting expectations, but saying "none of you will have jobs after graduation" feels criminally cynical and counter productive, especially coming from a teacher.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
People have bolded important points to make text easier to scan long before AI.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
I definitely didn't get that feeling. There was a whole section about how their infra resembles Meta and they've had excellent engineers hired from Meta.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
I have had reservation about Ng from a lot of his past hype, but I thought this talk was extremely practical and tactical. I recommend watching it before passing judgement.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
There are many people whose job revolves around churning through emails (sales leads, recruiters, etc). This is a huge win for them.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
It was definitely not a barrel of monkeys, but I think it is an important expression of the costs of war on the innocent, and the effects of societal inequality in general. It's powerful in a way that statistics cannot deliver. You&#x2
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by pchristensen 1y ago
I was really hoping that this was about a grilled ground beef sandwich opining on a German city :(
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Agentic Engineering(zed.dev)
2 points by pchristensen 1y ago|0 comments
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by pchristensen 1y ago
LLMs are also great to ask questions about existing code. It's like being able to converse with StackOverflow.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
On the flip side, most people shouldn't pay attention to it, but for those that care, it's an incredible gift of creation.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Harper talks a lot about using defensive coding (tests, linters, formal verification, etc) so that its not strictly required to craft and understand everything. This article (and several that follow) explain his ideas better than this out o
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by pchristensen 1y ago
This made the rounds recently: https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/ That quote really misrepresents his writing.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
That was Apple's same reasoning for shutting down that iMessage client app. These leaks seem to justify their concerns.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Context: I've read this and The Vital Question and watched several interviews with Nick Lane, so a lot of his ideas have blended together in my mind. A lot of the detail in this book went over my head, but it was well written enough to
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Controlling demand (developer workflow and mindshare) is a good position if you're trying to build scale on supply.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
This video from Gene Kim and Steve Yegge, authors of one of the books in the original post, and the description of what’s happening in it, is a good presentation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lessons-learned-during-my
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by pchristensen 1y ago
The ship has sailed (originally “is sealed”, voice dictation error) on the original definition. Sorry Simon. But the work that Gene Kim and Steve Yegge are doing talking about chat oriented programming is really interesting, and I recommend
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Echoing davidw's comments down thread, I would love if HN put a collapsed, expandable LLM summary like this after every Youtube link.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Kindle.
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by pchristensen 2y ago
Don’t forget Truth Social
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by pchristensen 2y ago
That graph looks like willful ignorance.
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by pchristensen 2y ago
Funded and enabled by the federal government, but routes and locations were largely chosen by local political leaders.
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by pchristensen 2y ago
There's so much demand for housing and construction in the Bay Area, that with the stroke of a pen (figuratively), you could increase building activity by 100x. That would create a huge price spike at first, but construction businesses
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by pchristensen 2y ago
Urban renewal, massive concentrated public housing, and highway construction through cities burned a lot of goodwill towards building. I'm very pro-building, but there's a lot of scar tissue (physical and mental) from last century
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LLM Schemas(simonwillison.net)
5 points by pchristensen 2y ago|1 comments
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by pchristensen 2y ago
Those were generalizations covering 100M+ people in each category, just in America, and my guess at what the original author meant by the statement that GP was surprised by.
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by pchristensen 2y ago
Suburbs are typically more socially homogenous, with more institutional connections between residents (kids go to the same school, people work for the same local employer, same church, etc) with a physical environment less conducive to conn
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by pchristensen 2y ago
Those stores are more locked down than the Apple App Store.
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by pchristensen 2y ago
You're in for a treat!

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