r_lee

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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   I'm not saying we should tax everybody, what I'm saying is that right now there simply isn't enough work for everybody, so if we get rid of these safety nets then we will get into a system of no education, no higher productiv
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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   and I don't think anybody likes getting AI written emails, at least if I smell any AI I immediately get a sour feeling
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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   I think they just need to unleash more agents on it to get the ball rolling. any day now...
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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   can't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with t
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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   that will not restore the job market... it'd just create an American system of struggle where you need to do doordash to make ends meet
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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   is he wrong though?
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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   I don't see how that would be a good future... how is thinking suffering?
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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   Sounds like the perfect employee honestly. I bet he's beloved by the upper management
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   by r_lee 5mo ago

   if they don't think it's OK, then they should have a bug bounty program. why are companies so entitled to get free security research/audits?
10. 310.▲
    by r_lee 5mo ago

    > You could have bought languagemodels.co.uk off me and used that! this is a joke, right?
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    private equity, what would we do without you?!
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    I'm curious, how do you think people around you there are taking it? I just can't help but feel like that is unsustainable and everyone is just going to burn out
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    I keep seeing this point made, but what happens when there is not enough demand for all this code that's being produced? I'm always seeing these "I can finally make my projects and slack off at work!" but I just can&#x27
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    I think it won't be like assembly, because it takes more information vs building blocks that have more dense information in them, kind of like how we use libraries and frameworks
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    I don't think it's a training issue, it's simply that there's no inherent "I don't know" in the transformer architecture unless it's really like something completely unknown, otherwise the nearest nei
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    > I gave them a hypothesis but I said my "real answer" was that it's not worth our brain cycles to figure it out, you just shouldn't write code that requires knowing operator precedence. It's just such desperatel
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    honestly I'm pretty sure opus could solve a rubiks cube if you just gave it the layout if the sides and looped until it would solve it or even just take a picture of the thing, since they can digest visual input now
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    and so how exactly are you supposed to provide for your family in this scenario?
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    from what I know, Chinese engineering grads are becoming food delivery couriers because there's not enough opportunity?
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    what my experience says is that, when you get "really good" with X, then you can easily write a prompt that says exactly how it needs to be done and you'll be able to do it much faster than writing it all yourself because you
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    as in that it reflects market prices in any way. I feel like anybody who works in this field knows that Dell etc. rip off naive customers this way and you can either negotiate it back to reality or just buy 1 small drive and order your own
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    > I was quoted $18K for a 3.7 TB Dell NVMe disk surely you don't actually think that's realistic pricing?
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    I see a lot of this talk on HN yet I don't see anyone question whether management will be just as excited to see that less work is needed and that it'd just result in layoffs
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    its Military-grade cardboard
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    then you're just thinking in a very naive way. you'd need everybody to be onboard, be it your neighbor, the guy 8000 miles away from you on the other side of the planet, all the nations if even one goes "well ill just keep go
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    he's not one of its "biggest, most prolific users" moving away from X would just result in less visibility
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    any serious business should bite the bullet and use markmonitor or something similar where you get a named support guy
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    > The AI era is turning about to be most disappointing era for software engineering. this has been obvious to me since like 2024, it truly is the worst, most uninspiring era of all time.
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    I 100% thought you were yelling a the clouds lol. see it way too often on HN
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    by r_lee 6mo ago

    another one is swap. UnlimitedSwap was deprecated and you can now only use LimitedSwap which restricts how much swap you can use, so you can't take full advantage of zram, which sucks for those looking to run lean