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by ryan_n 1mo ago
Quite possibly the worst take I’ve ever read on hacker news. “Things are generally bad now so the entire country should roll over and get fucked.” What are you even thinking dude? Maybe take a walk outside or something..
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by ryan_n 1mo ago
Would love to see a source for this, but I'm assuming you don't have one and are just spreading FUD due to your political beliefs... Closest thing I could find was a little over 15,000 people in Europe who got myocarditis (also in
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by ryan_n 1mo ago
> The older I get the more I realize ambition and "being ambitious" is a completely misplaced way to orient your life. > Make decisions based on what you're passionate about, based on what will bring and keep meaningful
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by ryan_n 1mo ago
That was not my experience pre LLM's working with other software devs. I acknowledge that not everyone that writes software cares, but the majority of people I worked with pre-LLM did actually care that the software they wrote was bug
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by ryan_n 1mo ago
> So you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago Absolutely yes... The difference between those "22 year old coffee junkies" and some dude prompting an LLM is that the 22 year old
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Man everyone says every article/blog post that is on HN is written by an LLM. Almost every single post.. I actually didn't get strong AI vibes from this one but maybe I just am bad at recognizing. Sure it's a bit cringy but I
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
The dude had claude copy a repo bug for bug. Where is the "taste" and "creativity" in that? > I fully support open-source, but I support way more the creativity and idea from individuals that can generate something ne
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
That makes sense, great answer thank you.
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
> But also, there still is a ton of programming that is fundamentally difficult. That's not going anywhere either. And LLMs are useful there too, but they're currently nowhere near replacing the expertise needed to do novel and
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
You just discovered their business model congrats.
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
I think the issue is the people using it without doing the "think critically" part.
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Why would it not matter? Maybe it doesn't matter to you that you have to spend your life doing brainless miserable work, but a lot of people don't like or want that. Just because "a lot of people experience x awful thing&quot
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Yup this was super weird to me. There are other equally likely "world ending" things that they chose to ignore of nuclear, such as bio-weapons. Very strange list..
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
This is so interesting to me... Maybe it's because I grew up after (most of) the heavy anti-communist propaganda in the US, but the last thing I think of when I hear "communism" is "prosperity in large amount of people&q
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
I grew up playing diablo II and super smash bros (super nintendo before that!). While I don't have as much time for it these days, gaming couldn't be farther from dead, IMO. There are incredible games and worlds being created both
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Google is doing great... Record profits this year, not sure I'd call that a "revolution".
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
> git is reaching the end of its useful life Based on what exactly? I think that git is more useful than ever in this new "age of ai [slop]". Thankfully, something being old doesn't automatically make it not useful anymore
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
So you think it’s a potentially existential threat but are bothered by people who maybe want to suppress it… Hopefully you acknowledge there is a bit of lack of self awareness here eh?
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
What fields do you see devs think they know about? I’ve never personally seen this with other devs I work with but obviously small sample size…
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Yea petting the bowl of noodles with your chopsticks is not normal behavior lol.
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Unfortunately trillions of dollars have been invested to ensure that's not the case..
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Hmm I might be completely missing something here (I’m not a machine learning person), but how is that “pro-active”? The mode is still taking in an input (or several inputs maybe in this case) and responding to that input, isn’t it? It doesn
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
The llm runs in a loop until it meets a condition (the goal).
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Fair enough, that makes sense
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
I agree with most of the 'llm's are bad' section. However, I find it extremely hard to believe that llm's will make peoples thoughts sharper and faster. There have already been several studies published demonstrating the
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
I might be missing something but what exactly is being projected here? The US did what the author said. It's not farfetched to imagine geopolitical conflicts could, at some point, drive china to do something similar. > all the front
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
I mean there are ads in certain chatGPT plans. There have already been multiple studies showing that regular use of genAI makes you less intelligent... Additionally, it's pretty clear that the owners of this tech (dario, altman, etc..)
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by ryan_n 2mo ago
Someone could make the best agentic coding harness in the world and still have a hard time with the drastic changes that are happening in their profession. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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by ryan_n 3mo ago
The entire country is watching companies like Anthropic, openAi, etc.. right now... A pull request and blog post is a big deal.
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by ryan_n 3mo ago
I don't think that's the point. The point is that if you outsource thinking to a machine, you will lose your ability to think and reason on your own, and overtime become a worse engineer. Maybe the software ai writes will be fine,

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