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by prmph 1y ago
> I had become the go-to person for making things run smoothly, for fixing urgent problems, for delivering. But every time I pushed toward more strategic and ambitious directions, there was a lot of can-kicking and “let’s think about it”
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by prmph 1y ago
Did you look at the link I sent?
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by prmph 1y ago
What the heck, the code generation _is_ absolutely still a bottle-neck. I dare anyone who making these arguments that LLMs have removed the need for actual programming skill, for example, to share in a virtual pair programming session with
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by prmph 1y ago
You're still talking past my points. Look at the example I gave. Does it seem like the problem was due to an ambiguous prompt? Even if my prompt was ambiguous, the LLM has no excuse producing code that does not type-check, or crashes i
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by prmph 1y ago
In a sense, yes, but my point is that it is not a given that making LLMs bigger and bigger will make them qualitatively much better than they currently are.
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by prmph 1y ago
> Claude [almost] never breaks any of these rules. Well it does for me, frequently. An example is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126962
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by prmph 1y ago
Your response does not address the example I gave. Sure, if what you are doing is a variation on something that's been done to death, then an LLM is faster at cutting and gluing boilerplate together across multiple files. Anything beyo
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by prmph 1y ago
It's ridiculous to equate lines of code to amount of engineering work or value. A massive amount of valuable work can result in a few lines of code. Conversely a millions lines of code can be useless or even have negative value.
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by prmph 1y ago
I just don't believe this. It's weird; I just don't know where folks are getting these extreme productivity gains from. For example, the other day I asked a major LLMs to generate a simple markdown viewer with automatic secti
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by prmph 1y ago
Chess is a bad example. Even a "stupid" computer that is sufficiently powerful can just brute-force-search its way to a win. There's nothing special here, it's basically just deeper and deeper search. Put another way. th
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by prmph 1y ago
There's something fundamental here. There is a principle (I forget where I encountered it) that it is not code itself that is valuable, but the knowledge of a specific domain that an engineering team develops as they tackle a project.
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AI code assistants have a long way to go
2 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
Use reader mode to bypass paywall. A most fascinating book about the story of a man behind a scam called ‘one of the most fascinating – and lucrative – in modern history’
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A Man Who Conned the World(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by prmph 1y ago|1 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
IDK, after almost 70 years of the software business, we can't even yet have package repositories that are not subject to supply-chain attacks. SQL, with all its warts, has not been dethroned. HTML is still king.
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by prmph 1y ago
And yet no LLM can one-shot a simple markdown viewer with automatic indentation based on section levels. I tried.
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by prmph 1y ago
Weird arguments you are making. I'm talking about startup business. > Hustles don't fail Then by definition there should be few engineers with financial problems, right? Almost every engineer wants to succeed with their side h
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by prmph 1y ago
Exactly, even AGI would not be able to answer that question on my behalf. Which means it cannot architect a software solution just by itself, unless it could read people's minds and know what they might want.
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by prmph 1y ago
Yep, but most hustles fail, the number of startups that succeed is like, what, 5 or 10%?
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by prmph 1y ago
I don't know where you get the impression that customer's don't value quality. They value quality, a lot. If customers didn't value quality, then every startup would have succeeded, just by providing the most barely func
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Ask HN: Can any LLM one-shot a Markdown viewer with automatic indentation?
1 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
> When the original post has no clue what model ... Well, that's the point. As long as they are using a recent-ish model it really doesn't matter. Not that there are no differences in performances between models, it's that
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by prmph 1y ago
You're still perpetuating this myth that it is about the tools, when every interaction I've had with coding assistants and LLMs veers into the territory OP describes. To be fair, the work I am doing is pretty complex and novel. An
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by prmph 1y ago
Ok, that's the "you're holding it wrong" thing. When I start to stray into even moderately complex work, LLMs become pretty useless quick. Tell me your setup, and I will give a quick sample task that it will fail at. Sto
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by prmph 1y ago
It's not about the tools. The complaint here is a general one that shows up no matter what tools you are using
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by prmph 1y ago
Since I had so much trouble managing my entire digital information universe [1], I decided to scratch my itch and solve it for myself and maybe others as well. Here are my ideas about my product: - Manages the entire range of personal (and
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Tell HN: I'm building a tag/file-based universal personal information manager
3 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments
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The Nilar: A Gold-Based Currency for African Economic Sovereignty(afrindependent.org)
2 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
Why is it so hard to export your own messages out of Discord, Slack, etc? We have regressed from the open email standard and gone back to these opaque islands of data that do not adhere to any standard. Slack refused to show me my own messa
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Hedy Lamarr(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments

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