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by ryandvm 6mo ago
I don't know. I suppose it depends on what we're optimizing for, but from what I've observed, the most underrated skill is bullshitting . I have seen countless engineers just while away the years modestly building and docume
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
Indeed. So much so that the richest CEO of all is spread across so many companies that there's no way he's actually doing any real "work".
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
I don't know. For as long as I can remember, game dev has had the reputation of being the most sweat-shoppish of all the software engineering disciplines. I have a hard time believing that game devs aren't also going to find thems
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
I feel like legislation that resulted in every taxpayer getting an itemized receipt like this would be hugely popular and a massive PR win for the representatives that sponsored it. I can only conclude that the reason it hasn't been do
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
Yup. Agile definitely suffers from the "nobody ever tried Communism correctly " argument. As far as I'm concerned Agile is: A) nearly impossible to get right, and B) not particularly helpful at unfucking poorly run projects.
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
Or at least think you've uncovered deception. It's not clear to me yet that any of these "AI detectors" are reliable, and if they are, it's just an arms race.
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
Indeed. And with the frontier AI models it's worse than that. You can literally just have them write test cases for the product you want to clone, then set it loose reverse engineering the code base. That said, all these models are tra
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
Devastating news - expect the stock to jump 10%.
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
Free markets don't exist when the political system is engineered for regulatory capture. Look at corporate political spending over the last 30 years. We don't have free markets.
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by ryandvm 6mo ago
Yup. I'm all for letting people get wealthy. What I'm not for is letting them rig the rules of the game through unlimited political spending and not having functional social safety nets because we don't want to offend the all
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
48 years old and I am 100% feeling this. Yes, I am much more productive having Claude Code bang out boilerplate back-end code, but honestly I always kind of enjoyed doing it. Now I'm just a micro-manager for an AI. And honestly, how lo
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Yeah, the current Chromecast on an HDMI port is far superior than anything the TV vendors offer. I think you pretty much get access to every service you might want except Apple TV (no surprise, Apple gonna Apple).
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
There should be a law to require the ability to disable algorithmic customization of content. If these apps are so compelling it shouldn't take a Spark cluster riffing on my private viewing habits to come up with content for me. I don&
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Indeed. Every time someone complains that LLMs can't come up with anything new, I'm assaulted with the depressing remembrance that neither do I.
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Perhaps, but damn, fixing shitty code is not the "craft" that I signed up for twenty years ago.
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Advertising is always a race to the bottom and ads ruin everything. I feel like in a couple hundred years they're going to look back at our advertising encrusted existence like we look upon the pre-sewage-treatment era of humanity.
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Yeah, it is not clear to me that the average person is going to do any better with googling then they are with asking an LLM. At least the LLM is mostly the average of all published knowledge (and misinformation). I feel like people that as
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
That agreement is largely about "Personal Information", not the posts and comments. That said, there are "no scraping" and "commercial use restricted" carve-outs for the content on HN. Which honestly is bullshi
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Eh, fuck that agreement. I'm kind of old school in that I believe if you put it on the internet without an auth-wall, people should be allowed to do whatever they want with it. The AI companies seem to agree. Then again, I'm not t
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
I guess 25 years of "unions are for under-performers" is finally going to bite us in the ass.
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
If folks don't want LLMs scanning their codebases we should just make some new OSS licenses. Basically, "GPL/BSD/MIT + You pinky promise not to scan this for machine learning". Either it works and the AI makers stop
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Nah, as opposed to Linux (for me).
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
It feels like a lot of people are having an existential crisis...
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Cute, and while I will agree that Apple hardware is generally superior or at least an excellent value, and OS X is miles beyond Windows in usability, I can't in good conscience recommend a Mac on principle. They impose obsessive contro
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Ironic indeed. The Great Replacers of white collar jobs are finding themselves easily replaceable. Delicious.
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
I don't know. I think the simpler answer is that Elon knows damn well that we're not colonizing Mars any time soon, but he also knows he could probably bag a few trillion if he can trick humanity into kicking off the biggest space
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Find a smarter dog park
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by ryandvm 7mo ago
Well... there's only one way to find The Great Filter
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
What happens when the genies realize that the meatbags that require 3000 kilocalories a day are just a net drag on the whole system?
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Hmmm. I wonder if you get to choose between window maker or window breaker.

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