ryandvm

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by ryandvm 4mo ago
You're right, but it's not just Microsoft. I've been doing software engineering for 20+ years. I've been at a lot of different companies and at almost every single one I'm always kind of flabbergasted at how shabby
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
It is now significantly harder to figure out who understands the systems and is using AI effectively and who doesn't know shit and is just slinging LLM copypasta around. Before 2025, the underperformers/coasters were at least rela
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
None of this would have happened if Anthropic had just bought a few million dollars worth of Trumpcoin :melting_face:
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
“It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?” -Norm MacDonald
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
Yeah, pretty much all systems of governance ultimately evolve until their primary purpose is actually ensuring the survival of the system of governance and anything else it accomplishes is kind of a side effect. It's probably some sort
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
I like how 15 years on, we're not even pretending that blockchain has practical uses besides buying drugs and gambling. There's a certain refreshing clarity in this current kleptocratic moment - everyone is just openly engaged in
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
Same recipe as the Mars colonization. There is absolutely zero chance of a self-sustaining colony on Mars in the next 50 years, but boy will he get rich if we try...
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
I dunno, data centers in space seems even more outlandish than P2P space travel. The math on the orbital data center idea indicates that these things would need hundreds of thousands of square meters of radiative cooling. Absolutely bonkers
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
I don't doubt the Neo is a quality product, but I'm curious whether cheap MacBooks are going to sabotage Apple's cachet as a luxury brand. It's my personal experience that iOS users tend to look down on "green bubbl
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
I'd say they are especially not safe. Nobody believes they can replace everyone with AI like the AI Kool-Aid drinking leadership.
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Wild that the guy whose decisions are directly responsible for driving profitability into the ground is somehow the reason these companies have 300+ PE valuations.
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I've definitely noticed a distinct lack of pride now that Claude Code is writing 90% of the code I'm delivering these days. For simple problems (which most are) it works well enough and you are definitely shipping code faster - an
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
100% LLMs didn't make me rewrite my understanding of intelligence. It made me wonder just how intelligent anybody is. "It's not smart, it's just predicting the next most likely token." It is not at all clear to me
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
"Mind rape" is obviously an attention grabbing way of putting it, but I tend to agree that advertising is essentially theft. It goes something like this: * You only have a finite amount of attention. You cannot obviously &quo
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
And like Google and Meta, these companies are going to morph into advertising giants. Advertising is an economic black hole and it eats everything that comes close.
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I disagree. We are currently in a weird period where these frontier AI companies are losing tons of money even on the subscription-based AI models. It's just too compute intensive and there's no way most people are going to be buy
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chef's kiss
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by ryandvm 5mo ago
Especially when it comes to CEOs. I have worked at companies where the CEOs literally offered nothing but the skill of being friends with other CEOs.
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by ryandvm 5mo ago
There's something to be said for the fact that the current crop of plutocrats just show their whole asses.
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wat
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Tech company leadership gleefully replacing engineers with AI is going to be an incredibly short-lived era. I'll admit I was a little shocked at just how susceptible software engineering was to the brute force of LLMs, but man, wait un
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by ryandvm 5mo ago
Yup. To succeed materially in this world, you need two of the following three: skill, luck, ruthlessness.
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by ryandvm 5mo ago
I dunno, man. I've been doing this for 20+ years and I think we're at a really important fork in the road where there are two possibilities. The first is that AI is achieving human-level expertise and capability, but since they&#x
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by ryandvm 5mo ago
With all due respect, nobody deserves this more than the individuals involved.
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by ryandvm 5mo ago
Unproductive tangent: Why do we call it "hallucinationing" instead of "bullshitting" when that is so clearly what it is? If I'm talking to a guy that says, "I have a really fast metabolism, that's why I ca
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by ryandvm 5mo ago
Pffft - they didn't need to store the whole UUID, just a hash. Dummies.
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I'll just point out that this is exactly the point in the corporate character arc where every company before turns evil. I never liked the idea of every web site in the world using CloudFlare, but I like it even less now that they&
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by ryandvm 5mo ago
Y'all remember COVID? Everything shut down for 6 months and somehow miraculously the economy just sort of chugged along without much shock until about 2 years later when all the consequences of the COVID aid/stimulus came home to
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>> They, for so long, refused to support RCS and downgraded the messaging experience with android. >As a consumer I just can't possibly be made to care about this. Not caring that you are not able to effectively use your *tele

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