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by pydry 2mo ago
Unless you subscribe to the view that This Time It's Different(tm), they seem pretty pertinent.
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by pydry 2mo ago
If you want toys then sure. If you want something that, say, reliably calculates your taxes you might want a little more...certainty.
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by pydry 2mo ago
My experience is 50/50 - half have dropped them, half still have them. I also don't find most QA to be worthwhile compared to a good, quality focused dev. There are several cultural issues with how QA are treated (low pay) and how
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by pydry 2mo ago
Search for the phrase "gold marks" in your link. This is the key. Gold denominated debts != paper denominated debts and Weimar debts were always gold denominated. It might seem like a minor distinction but it's actually very
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by pydry 2mo ago
neither of those countries owed money in their own currency. when I said "monetarily sovereign" I think you probably didnt understand what that meant.
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by pydry 2mo ago
it's to do with skill, not position and I don't think that was about luck.
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by pydry 2mo ago
>governments don't literally just print money, but sells bonds at market rates no, sometimes they literally do exactly that. google for quantitative easing. that's what it is and it's a tool that can always be used by mo
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by pydry 2mo ago
Total debt / GDP is the wrong metric for that. There's no limit to the serviceability of debt in a currency you print. It makes more sense to conceptualise it as the total size of a giant savings account run by the government. We
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by pydry 2mo ago
IME if a technical task is tedious and repetitive it is nearly always because the system was badly designed or because it wasnt automated properly. My job is automation and system design, so if I can't fix or work around these things
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by pydry 2mo ago
They'd be 10x better than us already if task tedium was the problem. It's design sense that they're missing. I find that in the areas where people think that LLMs excel at coding and don't like doing manually it's u
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by pydry 2mo ago
No, but programmers fetishize speed. Customers usually value it far, far less than many programmers think. Ive seen many a programmer gagging to rearchitect to speed up an app 2x or 3x when there are 9 other things a customer genuinely want
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by pydry 2mo ago
Asking permission to fix tech debt is a rookie mistake. You need to bake the fixes into the ticket. Half of my job as a lead is to cajole, threaten and convince juniors into spending 5 days on a ticket to do it properly rather than spending
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by pydry 2mo ago
>It plays out like this. To get to product-market fit you are going to have to zig and zag 20 times. Everybody optimizes for the first step of this journey and then on the second step they optimize for that... and by step 5 or so the arc
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by pydry 2mo ago
It being extreme is what makes it contrived. It's also a requirement programmers often overemphasise due to the McNamara fallacy.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Price discrimination isn't about wealth. A poor person who books a flight the day before because of an emergency pays more than a rich person who books it 3 months out. Pharmaceuticals lobbying hard to get the UK to stop buying drugs o
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by pydry 3mo ago
When I did it the biggest problem is writing the spec. It was longer and more complicated than the code itself. If you have bugs in the spec you have bugs in the code.
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by pydry 3mo ago
Once wind and solar is routinely overproducing what the grid and grid storage can consume, lots of things like this start to become economic. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas to help manage seasonal flu
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by pydry 3mo ago
From what ive seen we see no more features and quality is getting worse. OP is ascribing magical powers to AI which it does not have. sure, it can replace a shitty poorly coded todo app. but nobody wanted that anyway.
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by pydry 3mo ago
can't do that with a project in production users are depending on
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by pydry 3mo ago
Before LLMs you either built good abstractions to make it possible to not understand large chunks of the code base or you flailed. A lot of the time people flailed. The one thing Ive never seen an LLM do well is shape clean, coherent abstra
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by pydry 3mo ago
Ive often wondered what people do when the mess is so bad that Claude hits a wall and nothing works.
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by pydry 3mo ago
iirc Linus actually conceded this very early on and said that he thought it would be better if it were used as infrastructure to build tools on rather than the tool itself. no idea where I saw that though and it was many many years ago.
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by pydry 3mo ago
>Limiting by total income disincentivises companies to spend heavily to produce e.g. films, plays, video games, whatever. I'm not sure we'd be any worse off as a society if, say, Disney wasnt incentivized to make 34 marvel movi
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by pydry 3mo ago
Indeed, the comparison isnt fair. The US is complicit in a genocide recognised by the UN and many of the US's own allies.
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by pydry 3mo ago
For anything that isnt generic I find the effectiveness drops off very quickly. It's already 100x better at writing todo apps than the average senior developer but when I get it to try and achieve something unusual using a relatively o
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by pydry 3mo ago
No, I think it's correct. One artefact of programming for decades is that I ended up thinking in code directly without "translating" from English first. Thus the push to use LLMs has felt a little bit like being a fluent Fren
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by pydry 3mo ago
In China the state rules the corporations and in the US the corporations rule the state. Neither is a system worth fighting for. Swiss style democracy maybe but not autocracy and not oligarchy. >OTOH in Europe, US human rights policy was
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by pydry 3mo ago
Boomers are a scapegoat, used a bit like immigrants, minorities and AI as an excuse for attacks on the working class. The US is an plutocratic oligarchy, not a boomerocracy: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-2
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by pydry 3mo ago
I talked to an NHS consultant and they said similar things about waste in the NHS - there is still waste, but by and large it's been honed into a very lean and efficient (albeit budget starved) machine. This excludes corruption based i
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by pydry 3mo ago
>Unless you’re claiming that AIs will suddenly (and very soon) stop improving Most technologies level off sharply after bouts of boundless improvements. In 1968 they thought we'd be flying to the moon by now but instead we're f

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