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by remich 1y ago
But, isn't improving tools and the LLM's integration with them improving the model? Caveat that we don't fully understand how human intelligence works, but with humans it's generally true that skills are not static or si
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by remich 1y ago
Having a large audience does not imply being the most well informed or correct.
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by remich 1y ago
The question isn't whether it makes a difference, the question is whether the model you're working with / the platform you're working with it on already does that. All of the major commercial models have their own system
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by remich 1y ago
Even those of us who do program for a day job can end up in a situation where focus time is hard to come by. The more senior you are in an IC role, the more likely it is you have more demands on your time than there are hours in the day. I
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by remich 1y ago
I didn't assume, that's why I started my comment with "if by what you mean." Good to know that you were referencing a different place, but it's unrealistic to expect people to delve into your account bio to understa
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by remich 1y ago
If by "our constitution" you mean the U.S. Constitution then no, it says nothing of the sort. The first article of the U.S. Constitution concerns the organization of the legislative branch. You may be referencing the Equal Protect
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by remich 1y ago
If the original framing was too generous, the response is at least as ungenerous. Table saws aren't deterministic tools either, and anyone who has used one for more than a minute can tell you that getting it to consistently cut the str
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by remich 1y ago
As with all uses of current AI (meaning generative AI LLMs) context is everything. I say this as a person who is both a lawyer and a software engineer. It is not surprising that the general purpose models wouldn't be great at writing a
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by remich 1y ago
I recommend the context7 MCP tool for this exact purpose. I've been trying to really push agents lately at work to see where they fall down and whether better context can fix it. As a test recently I instructed an agent using Claude to
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by remich 1y ago
As someone who is a (current) software engineer and (former) lawyer I find this interesting. Not sure if I'm willing to bet on big uptake, though, unless it was through an acquisition by one of the big e-discovery companies.
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by remich 1y ago
That's assuming the business still employs those Sr Devs so they can do the wrist smacking. To be clear, I think any business that dumps experienced devs in favor of cheaper vibe-coding mids and juniors would be making a foolish mistak
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by remich 1y ago
The unfortunate implication to this is that many codebases Claude has been trained on just choose not to handle errors...
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by remich 1y ago
Tangental - what is the SQL tool you're referring to? Is that internal?
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by remich 1y ago
No, it's not.
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by remich 1y ago
There's a difference between having the humility to admit that you might not be able to hit another home run, and between claiming that "all the good ideas are taken." At best, the latter is an admission of a lack of a desire
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by remich 1y ago
That's one reading, and if that happens to be the correct reading then I agree it's unobjectionable. To me, though, making it part of a performance review process makes it closer to the "use AI at all costs" requirement
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by remich 1y ago
Pretty wild to claim that remote employees can't build relationships or help grow companies in creative or meaningful ways.
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by remich 1y ago
Yeah but there's a significant difference in the leader of a company shifting the goals, product, or market of a company in a top-down way and a leader attempting to shift the implementation details of goals in a top-down way. The form
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by remich 1y ago
Feels like the "loses mind during COVID" is a common thread in the VC class. Wonder why.
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by remich 1y ago
Well, we all ended up buying smartphones eventually. But the delta between when Blackberries first were adopted in corporate environments and when iPhones/Androids were can't-miss technologies wasn't small.
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by remich 1y ago
Re your third paragraph - can they though? I'm not trying to be combative, it's just that what you wrote has been the promise of all no-code/low-code technologies for literal decades. The exclamation "finally, all of the
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by remich 1y ago
And a subgroup (or cousin?) of the exuberant AI boosters are the people absolutely convinced that LLM research leads to the singularity in the next 18-24 months. I really do wish we could get to a place where the general consensus was somet
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by remich 1y ago
Yeah I don't get why so many people are willing to believe conspiracy theories when the actual theory that many people in this country just have shit for brains is much more persuasive.
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by remich 1y ago
Being all-in on bonds only works if we don't have significant capital flight from the U.S. It's possible everything is just going to be bad.
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by remich 2y ago
But sometimes when humans make things up they also don't have the knowledge they may be wrong. It's like the reference to "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns". Or Dunning-Kruger personified. Basically you ha
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by remich 2y ago
Uh huh. Sure. Did you see that Trump wants to expel all the Palestinians from Gaza? News just broke today. But I'm sure he's better than Harris.
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by remich 2y ago
Cool. Hope you enjoy everything you helped bring about.
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by remich 2y ago
I noticed this in the throwaway comment that the OP made at the end about their prior job disfavoring the use of TS. I'm not surprised to see that type of sentiment from someone who is (at least self-described) at a more junior level,
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by remich 2y ago
They can be useful if you're working in situations where preserving and using the correct form of _this_ is necessary. Could be a situation with funky legacy code or writing library/utility functions (like an implementation of deb
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by remich 2y ago
I'm skeptical that Ron Wyden anticipated algorithmic social media feeds in 1996. But I'm pretty sure he gets a decent amount of lobbying cash from interested parties.

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