rafterydj

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by rafterydj 6mo ago
Yeah, LOL. "Nothing leaves your machine except network payloads containing all of your personal data." Private and secure!
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
ChatGPT 3.5 came out coming on 4 years ago now. I don't think a human generation (~20-30 years) needs to be the benchmark here, but new juniors in the industry for a handful of years can be said to be a whole "generation". Th
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
No, but what else is there to do? If, despite best attempts for me to communicate facts to them within our common language, they still can not recognize basic truth or fact from their subjective truth? I don't really see that a problem
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
Stuck it on my calendar, looking forward to it.
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
This reads like an LLM plagiarizing this video from Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/pP44EPBMb8A?si=fSwWPOCnCsC1QEny
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
No, turning it around doesn't work because it's cause and effect. "Present the facts and all the people will cheer and support stop using coal" -> correct "If not it means stopping using coal is a bad idea?"
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
Unsure why you're getting downvoted. I know politics is generally frowned upon here but this is absolutely relevant to the conversation.
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
Well, on the software design side, there's plenty of scenarios where undocumented behavior crops up on unexpected network interruption. In the example above, Windows can even pre-download updates on metered connections during one time
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
I don't disagree about the core CS fundamentals - 100% the same page. I suppose this really boils down to a difference in what constitutes "training/education". Any $PROGRAMMER_TITLE worth their salary can learn a new st
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
I've definitely felt this kind of way in the past. But these days I'm not so sure. Setting aside the AI point about it, the idea of people becoming essentially irrelevant to the economy is an indictment on society. But I'd ar
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
I agree - I was mostly trying to think of an example against OP's rather facetious attitude towards the time and effort required to maintain engineering performance. In my experience, a lot of the Rust fighting with the borrow checker
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
Point still stands. You're going to take up the mantle for suggesting a computer science degree from 2000 completely qualifies someone for work in 2026? No further education needed?
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
How wildly dismissive of the foundation of the X$ billion dollar software industry. You think humans just stumbled into writing code by accident or something? How does building agentic systems, a "really hard" problem, not just en
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
This argument falls apart if you consider what field we're talking about. At what point would going to school for 5 years give you the whole education you actually needed? Does learning C in 1995-2000 prepare you for Rust in 2026? No,
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
I mean, sure, for programming macros. Or programming quick scripts, or type-safe or memory-safe programs. Or web frontends, or a11y, or whatever tasks for which people are using AI. But if you peel back that layer to the point where you are
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
I see this line of thought put out there many times, and I've been thinking: why do people do anything at all? What's the point? If no one at all is even reviewing the output of coding agents, genuinely, what are we doing as a soc
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
Hey look, someone else has the exact same problem I do! I even use Excalidraw for diagramming as well, and have been wondering about how best to generate them according to some kind of binary format.
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
I definitely think there's a middle ground here, that the commenter to which you are replying may also be alluding. If a human is scanning resumes, job titles tend to be more important than the company, although both are obviously rele
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by rafterydj 7mo ago
What an interesting glimpse into the blogosphere. That post in particular is interesting, given the much larger discussions that followed it on essentially the same topic: how to decide what people can and can not say when there are those w
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by rafterydj 8mo ago
Hey, that sounds like OpenAI!
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by rafterydj 8mo ago
Super interesting. I don't know why, but something about this comment made something click for me, as an "AI fatigued" engineer. From the view you describe, it seems AI just lets you experiment faster, when all you want to do
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
This is a woefully naive view on the nature of monopolies. You could have made the same argument for Standard Oil.
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
What are you saying? "None of the doomsday predictions have come to pass." -> nothing is wrong and the USA is fine "There's been major impact to some things" -> so bad things have happened "but for the m
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
That's a false equivalence. You might read a blog post about engineering from someone who paid a maid to clean their house, and sends their laundry out. But would you read their blog post on laundry tips? No - it's just as easy fo
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
I tend to agree with you, feels to me like the root of this is essentially whether foundries will "go all in" on AI like the rest of the S&P 500. But why trade away one trillion-dollar customer for another trillion-dollar cust
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
I'm not sold on the idea that commits and PRs are always easily tied back to tickets. Ideally, sure. In practice? Not always.
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
I'll be contrarian to the thread sentiment and say: Mozilla has misstepped in the past, and will continue to do so, and they're partially funded by competitors for antitrust reasons, etc. That said, I can't really disagree wi
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
Thanks for pointing out this section, but "race baiting garbage" is a strong term, no? There were historical inaccuracies, some of which I expected like timeline issues and things like that, as well some things which were actually
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
This is inflammatory, dismissive, and hardly constructive for discussion. Flame wars are discouraged by the rules. All said, you're comment worked. I'm angry now. Good job.
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by rafterydj 9mo ago
Do you have any concerns about production bugs or human-in-the-loop?

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