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by pydry 9mo ago
I remember half of the neoclassical economics focused articles about China from the late 90s and early 00s predicting that by not following ricardian comparative advantage China was shooting itself in the foot. They kept predicting collapse
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by pydry 9mo ago
Im glad al shamie is dead, but do you condemn the Maccabi fans recorded on camera in Amsterdam repeatedly chanting "death to arabs" and "there are no more schools in gaza because we destroyed them?" Do you condemn the
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by pydry 9mo ago
The evidence was there. They committed plenty of violence and were loudly and openly racist during their match in Amsterdam. It was pretty telling that this news story hyperfocused on the one AI image and didnt even address all of the actua
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by pydry 9mo ago
The level of racist violence we saw in Amsterdam is also quite rare. It used to be more common in the 90s iirc.
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by pydry 9mo ago
They were banned because during a match in Amsterdam they shouted racist abuse, sang racist songs, did plenty of vandalism, threw an innocent member of the public into a river and assaulted Muslim taxi drivers. Moreover, most of them have m
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by pydry 9mo ago
>That's the same energy as telling other professions to "just learn to code, bro" once they are displaced by AI. But I guess it doesn't feel nice once the shoe is on the other foot, though. It's the exact same ne
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by pydry 9mo ago
>It is an art. And it is very disheartening to see people without any skills to behave the way they do They've even got their own slogan: "you're probably just not prompting it properly"
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by pydry 9mo ago
yup. the things i disliked most about programming were hyped up bullshit and losing autonomy. These existed before but the culture surrounding AI delivered a double dose of both. I have no problems with LLMs themselves or even how they are
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by pydry 9mo ago
That's an assembly line just one churning out cheap crap.
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by pydry 9mo ago
>Don’t be the SWE working on the assembly line. The job is literally building automation. There is no equivalent to "working on the assembly line" as an SWE. >Not so many lower skill line worker jobs in the US any more, thou
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by pydry 9mo ago
This suggests that the latent demand was a lot but it still doesnt prove it is unbounded. At some point the low hanging automation fruit gets tapped out. What can be put online that isnt there already? Which business processes are obviously
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by pydry 9mo ago
>I agree with the issues, but it definitely doesn't suck if compared to every single other massive endeavor out there. Compared to what? I dont really see much aggregation being done at all on Wikipedia's scale. >What's
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by pydry 9mo ago
We still live in that fuzzy reality. Not much has changed. It doesnt really matter if the whole world has access to the same information if the whole world trusts completely different sources. For better or worse we trust those sources excl
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by pydry 9mo ago
I think for anything controversial we need a completely different model. Officially wikipedia is NPOV but an especially contentious and murky political mudfight decides what counts as a "citeable" source and what doesnt and what c
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by pydry 10mo ago
>I don't agree with (1) Neither do most people, probably but it's kinda neat how they suggested fix for github actions' ploy to maintain vendor lock-in is to swap it with a language invented by that very same vendor.
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by pydry 10mo ago
No, it is github's fault. They encourage the horrors because they lead to vendor lock in. This is the source of most of Microsoft's real profit margins. This is probably why they invented a whole programming language and then negl
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by pydry 10mo ago
Entry level jobs have been in decline for years though. I used to work on teams which were 50% entry level. Then just one. Then all senior teams became the norm. This all happened after I became senior but before AI came along.
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by pydry 10mo ago
>One of the key skills needed in working with LLMs is learning to ignore the hype and marketing and figure out what these things are actually capable of This is precisely what led me to realize that while they have some use for code revi
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by pydry 10mo ago
>If you think LLMs today are "as bad as 2 years ago" then I don't respect your opinion. That's not a credible thing to say. This exact comment started getting old a year ago.
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by pydry 10mo ago
The courts could easily decide whether a message has been paid for or not.
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by pydry 10mo ago
We're looking at a glut of all of these things once the bubble bursts and the mindless trend followers jump on a trend.
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by pydry 10mo ago
>tax reform needs to be progressive, meaning it hits rich people more, and it hits them when they spend not when they earn. This misses the point. It needs to hit them when they own not when they spend. >A progressive tax will tax the
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by pydry 10mo ago
Ive worked with a lot of people who sent emails at 2am and in each case it was not necessary but it was performative.
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by pydry 10mo ago
Unlike speed to market it doesnt manifest in an obvious way but I've watched several companies lose significant market share because they didnt appreciate software quality.
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by pydry 10mo ago
The difference between an artisinal car and a mass produced car is that the former can only be used by one person. This has never been true for "artisanal" software. It could be used by nobody or by millions. This is why the econo
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by pydry 10mo ago
This was already true before LLMs. "Artisinal software" was never the norm. The tsunami of crap just got a bit bigger. Unlike clothing, software always scaled. So, it's a bit wrongheaded to assume that the new economics would
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by pydry 10mo ago
I dont think the "meme" that LLMs follow instructions inconsistently will ever die because they do. It's in the nature of how LLMs function under the hood. >Also who sits around rerunning the same prompt over and over agai
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by pydry 10mo ago
It's a shame mozilla wont step up to fund it. They've spunked way more money on way dumber things.
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by pydry 10mo ago
The thing I find interesting is that there is trillions of dollars in valuations hinging upon this question and yet the appetite to spend a little bit of money to repeat this study and then release the results publicly is apparently very lo
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by pydry 10mo ago
The lesson I learned is that agentic coding uses intermittent reinforcement to mimic a slot machine. It (along with the hundreds of billions in investments hinging on it), explains the legions of people online who passionately defend their

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