robomartin

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by robomartin 2mo ago
Simple: None of us have a crystal ball. Trying to predict the future is foolish. I am not saying that what we are seeing might not be problematic. I am only saying that nobody really knows. We can't know.
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by robomartin 2mo ago
I remember when Amazon was going to go broke every year for over a decade. Until they didn't.
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by robomartin 2mo ago
Well, it's interesting. I've been using LLM's for coding for over two years. My findings are somewhat consistent: Feed it jobs in small chunks and it can be a great auto-complete, beyond that and it turns into a mess very qui
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by robomartin 2mo ago
I read somewhere that Claude is better at UI than Codex. I haven't tested it yet. I am currently using Codex for a couple of native application projects with Avalonia. The UI isn't really good at all and I can fix it by hand far b
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by robomartin 2mo ago
> I had something like 40 “proof of concept” projects going on Right. That's the problem. In the non-coding world it's the idea that your pile of crap expands into the available space. So, if you get a garage that is twice as l
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by robomartin 3mo ago
This is not political or even about Trump. I manufacture products. I have been in manufacturing for decades. These are products with electronics, mechanical assemblies, software, etc. I used to manufacture in the US. For a while, this wor
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by robomartin 3mo ago
> US unemployment has been about 5% Anyone who has studied and actually used statistics beyond toy exercises understands how these single variable statements are 100% misplaced. I won't go into the details because it might be point
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by robomartin 3mo ago
It isn't. The "didn't want to pay for American labour" idea is a false reality. Nobody makes decisions like that. This is preposterous. Business decisions are made against the competitive landscape. In that chess game,
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by robomartin 3mo ago
> The companies shifted production abroad because they didn't want to pay for US labor. That's not true. Reality is far more nuanced than that. Sadly, it is the equivalent of a bunch of Dodo birds falling off a cliff. And th
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by robomartin 3mo ago
A few months ago I had a conversation with a friend who runs a small company doing about $10M/year. He was thrilled about being able to drop his $40K/year Salesforce expense. One of his employees, let's call him Joe, a cus
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by robomartin 3mo ago
> On top of that, your laptop becomes a loud hot churning machine, it's uncomfortable to work with. Laptop? OK, I've made that mistake before. I understand modern laptops are powerful, but nobody wanting to do serious AI/
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by robomartin 4mo ago
I would love to be able to have a conversation with the people who decided Liquid Glass was a good idea. The first question would be: Given all other truly useful things you could implement as well as bug fixes, why did you think that inve
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by robomartin 4mo ago
> AI tools look like that, but don't have any of the useful conflict which came for free with employing humans. Sure, but your list should also include the most fundamental distinction: AI does not know what it is saying, understan
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by robomartin 4mo ago
It does, over time. It changes the way you think about computational problem solving. It's like the difference between designing objects in 2D on a drafting table and moving to 3D CAD. It changes your brain visualizes, explores and s
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The LLM Death Spiral
4 points by robomartin 4mo ago|1 comments
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by robomartin 4mo ago
I might be unpopular, but that does not make it not real. I have witnessed this kind of thing multiple times in different organizations and at different levels over my 40+ year career. I think of it as what happens in the show Survivor, wh
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by robomartin 4mo ago
> the lesson has become “sometimes assholes are geniuses" In my experience, the asshole label, when faced with competence comes from people who are incompetent, insecure or, very often, both. I've seen this in action more than
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by robomartin 4mo ago
> Think bigger. Think clearly, correctly and grounded in reality.
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by robomartin 4mo ago
> Potholes, park maintenance, housing shortages, pollution. As long as we're have unsatisfied needs, there's work to be done. I also see unemployment. Stop voting for the people who have consistently allowed this to happen. We
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by robomartin 5mo ago
Failure to understand the general idea I guess? Politicians enjoy a pile of benefits and privileges that the average citizen has no access to at all. Simple example: They can lie to you and suffer no consequences. If you lie to them, even
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by robomartin 5mo ago
Almost there... Both for Senators and Representatives: - Term limits (2 consecutive terms max) - No stock market participation in any form during office - No corporate or PAC contributions - Prison for lying to the public or during the cour
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by robomartin 6mo ago
I think it would be good for the world to see the reality of society around the world. So, yeah. Everything, everywhere at the same time. Let's see Europe protect itself. Let's see the Middle East decide if they are a region th
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by robomartin 6mo ago
Stop trolling. You are speaking like the theocratic Iranian regime were saints building gardens and farms. C'mon. Who do you think you are fooling. They funded nearly all of the terrorism that has been causing so much mayhem in the
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by robomartin 6mo ago
Sure. Read my prior comment. We (the US) should pull out of every nation, NATO and stop funding the UN. If the world needs help, each nation can face it on their own or team-up on a case-by-case basis to deal with their issues. I don&#x2
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by robomartin 6mo ago
> Yeah, if you only subscribe to the US view of the world, then of course the US are the good guys. Kindly show me where I said that "the US are the good guys". There are no good guys in this crap. The world is a mess. And yo
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by robomartin 6mo ago
Sadly, that Canada is not today's Canada.
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by robomartin 6mo ago
> No, they were not. How do you know that? You do realize that the Iranian government (whatever remains of it) is actually insisting, as a condition, that their nuclear materials not be removed from the country?
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by robomartin 6mo ago
These conversations are always interesting. Most treat the world as a single variable problem when, in reality, it is an exceedingly complex multivariate problem. And the Arab world sure is responsible for a large number of variables to d
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by robomartin 6mo ago
Took my first couple of Uber Waymo rides today in Austin. The experience was pleasant, felt perfectly safe and very well implemented. Yes, it did do a couple of interesting things here and there. In all cases it felt like it made decisio
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by robomartin 6mo ago
> Given that's their main business and they are likely to graveyard whatever domain penny business you've got burnt by anyway, you're still doing a lot of business with them That's a gross misinterpretation of what &q

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