ryandvm

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by ryandvm 2mo ago
My backlog is less empty than ever - it just happens to be overflowing with whispy Claude-written tickets for functionality that somebody else's Claude suggested after summarizing some other Claude-infused Slack chat.
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Lord, this hits close to home. It doesn't seem to be happening everywhere, but if you are unfortunate enough to work someplace with a "LinkedIn thought leader" high up on the engineering food chain, there's a really high
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Not sure about the others, but a Google Home device with Gemini enabled gives you basically short conversational LLM interactions. It can set timers and play music and all that, but you can also pretty much ask it any random question and it
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Lol. Is this The Onion? These frontier AI companies are labor market nuclear weapons. What kind of fucking mission statement is going to inspire people when they're responsible for 50% unemployment?
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
There's no downside for you . You said it yourself - you have the knowledge and ability to know what to ignore and keep what makes sense, but that's because you spent years actually writing and understanding code. The magic wand
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
> When in the heck is Congress gonna get some backbone and hold this clown accountable. Strategy. The GOP isn't even trying to hold him back any more because they know they're probably going to lose control of Congress at the m
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Yeah, in my experience, the people that got into software engineering because of the money are absolutely thrilled with how LLMs are changing the industry. They mostly just liked getting results and LLMs are great for that. The people like
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Not long until we have the first abortion capital punishment case when one of these death cult states tracks a lady across state lines...
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Curious about the official YCombinator stance on this extremely unpopular YCombinator-backed startup (unpopular here at HN anyway).
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Yeah, as Norm Macdonald put it: > “It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?”
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Ugh. It hurts my brain to think about the Venn diagram of privacy advocates and YC sycophants that hang out on Hacker News.
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
This is the new normal now that computer science based SWEs are being replaced with "LLM whisperers". Being 10 times more productive with AI necessarily means you're going to have 1/10th of the understanding of the code
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Yeah, if I were him, I too would be thrilled with not having to review another AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean.
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by ryandvm 2mo ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we've already passed some sort of fiscal singularity where economic and political interests are so intertwined that there can only be growth. If there ever isn't growth, then the legislators (who are e
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Agreed. That said, when it does get grim, a few billion of net worth probably isn't as consoling as it used to be for the billionaires when the head of your security team has instated himself as chief warlord of your bunker and you&#x2
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I still don't understand the economics of the full AI rollout. Who the hell is buying anything if more than 50% of the workforce is unemployed? And among the post-AI employable, every job that isn't highly skilled is going to have
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I feel the same way about "prompt engineering" as I feel regarding the term "parkour" - you know, running and jumping on stuff. Are people really putting on their resumes that they are capable of reading and writing and
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I don't know man. This reads like "yeah we stole your grain, but making bread is hard ."
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Boy I tell you, I am having an awful hard time summoning pity for the organizations that have themselves distilled all of humanity's knowledge into mysterious labor-market-masticating black boxes.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
It's all bullshit. They have to ask because somebody is asking them how they're going to eke more productivity out of their underlings. It goes all the way to the top (the shareholders). Just play along and talk about how you want
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Sure, by "superficially superior code" I mean that LLMs, by design, produce code that has syntax and idioms that are perfectly in line with industry norms due to the vast training corpus that it comes from. It looks great at first
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
There some real game theory mechanics at play when it comes to LLM usage in corporations. Devs are cranking out superficially superior code and documentation by just aiming the Claude Code fire hose at everything they can. Leadership encour
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
> but also can't easily be disengaged from I guess it depends on what you mean by "easily", but Putin could very much just say "fuck this" and turn off the war machine in one day and it's not at all clear to
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Yes! This is awful. CC should not have copy/paste behavior that is different from literally every other CLI app.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
It is... as long as somebody else thinks so.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I apologize for mistaking your 17+ comments in here for passion.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Are you telling me that you believe the nobody at SpaceX has run the numbers and shown the richest person in the world that according to the known laws of physics each data center will have to have MANY ACRES of radiator? Fuck, even Gro
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Because each business losing money has to be placed inside a larger Matryoshka doll.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Lol. Not when you just told everyone that you're going to increase your revenue by 100 times over the next 4 years "bY uSiNG AI!!!"
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
It was weird because it seemed authentic, but was not. There was nothing technically uncanny about it - the illusion was complete. Ten years ago I would have absolutely thought that it must have been Feynman's own voice. I find it we

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