pydry

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by pydry 2mo ago
especially since apple customers are more likely to shell out $$$ to buy the developer's wares.
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by pydry 2mo ago
an AI can be just as good a prompt monkey as you are
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by pydry 2mo ago
I was mainly doing architectural work as a coder long before LLMs came along. So was everyone else who wasnt slopping out boilerplate.
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by pydry 2mo ago
It took a while before the MBA hivemind woke up to this happening because of outsourcing two decades ago.
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by pydry 2mo ago
The economics of code and carpentry are different though. A really good piece of code to, say, calculate taxes can be written once and used by a million people. Or, a million people might generate a one off piece of slop to calculate their
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by pydry 2mo ago
I don't think you do get it. Caring about craft and wanting to write things like compilers are two very distinct things. One is liking a mental challenge - like a crossword puzzle. The other is having pride in the quality of your work.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Yea there were layoffs blamed on AI even when GPT 3.5 couldnt write a line of code to save its life. That's public relations for you. No exec wants to chalk up a layoff to a faltering company that can't grow sales even if it'
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by pydry 2mo ago
The patient with heart disease doesnt give a shit about exercising and eating healthy they just want the doctor to make them better. No business has ever appreciated my craft directly and why would they? Theyve just enjoyed the indirect ben
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by pydry 2mo ago
The culture of the tech industry started going to shit in 2022/2023 after rates were hiked and before LLMs were capable of anything much. There's more toxicity, more waterfall, more authoritarianism, less autonomy, more pressure.
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by pydry 2mo ago
>For people I know who are in tech for the tech nothing changed. Yeah it did. The environments became a lot more toxic and the decisions became a lot more stupid. I also miss working with people who actually cared about the craft. They e
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by pydry 2mo ago
>I sense there is this air around of "demand our jobs keep being relevant" I sense the inverse: a demand that we make ourselves irrelevant to satisfy interest rate inspired demand for cost savings. Executives have developed a r
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by pydry 2mo ago
The collapse did take about 1,000 years.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Spewing out tons of boilerplate has always been the hallmark of a bad engineer.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Apple used to be the standard bearer for that. These days I'm not so sure.
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by pydry 2mo ago
>Now there is a plagiarism machine built on top of decades of this work that seemingly solves 3 and promises to solve 2 (badly, but usually this matters little I think people underestimate just how much users scorn buggy, flaky technolog
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by pydry 2mo ago
well, it is over 2 years since July 2024
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by pydry 2mo ago
Empire
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by pydry 2mo ago
If there is a way China or Russia could theoretically use it to compete with western propaganda there is often a hamfisted crackdown.
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by pydry 2mo ago
>In july 2024, Zitron wrote at length about how the economics of OpenAI were likely to collapse in the next 1 to 2 years [1]. One of my clearest memories of the first tech bubble was of a number of people who accurately identified that i
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by pydry 2mo ago
It's like having a bunch of walmart sized pets.coms.
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by pydry 2mo ago
"Our allies pushed our gas prices up 1000% how dare you not cancel your pre-scheduled maintenance!"
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by pydry 2mo ago
They installed it and then they took the pipeline down for planned maintenance. it's a little rich to accuse them of playing games with gas after the stunt Canada pulled and most especially after a western partner subsequently blew up
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by pydry 2mo ago
Germany was shamed endlessly for not shutting down coal plants fast enough by the same nuclear fans who didn't make a peep about Poland making a decision to be 80% coal for ages. It raised some interesting questions about priorities.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Canada sanctioned the repaired gas turbines needed to operate NS1. They flip flopped on their decision some time later though. This was spun as a Russian decision, but western countries were clearly trying to force Germany's hand.
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by pydry 2mo ago
there was an element of drinking their own kool aid. the economic religion of the late 90s and 00s was the theory of (static) comparative advantage vs export oriented industrialization. China was only shooting itself in the foot, it was arg
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by pydry 2mo ago
China cleverly identified America's Achilles heel: the greed and shortsightedness of its oligarchs. Give them an extra 5% profit and theyll sell out the entire country and reduce its industrial base to ashes.
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by pydry 2mo ago
might be a symptom of writing complex code. I'm sure on basic CRUD they can figure out most bugs since most of them have happened 1000 times before.
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by pydry 2mo ago
bug fixes not so much. when I encounter a bug the first thing I do is ask an LLM and not only do they usually fail to get the correct solution, they often slap virtual duct tape on it which makes other bugs more likely.
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by pydry 2mo ago
theoretically a browser could have the same vulnerability and has a vastly higher attack surface. has there ever been an example of such a vulnerability in openssh?
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by pydry 2mo ago
I always found that if you are good enough at whittling down boilerplate that coding becomes something akin to pure architecture. I find that mediocre programmers and LLMs are bad at both. They're helpful if you want to shit out some r

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