sanderjd

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by sanderjd 1y ago
lol, this is the opposite of the case. It has never ever been easier to consume content (text, audio, video, whatever) outside the mainstream.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
That was submitted almost two decades ago. It would be interesting to know what pg thinks about this stuff today, but based on his recent writing I'd bet that he is not buying it. (Also, submitting articles does not imply agreeing with
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I'm worried I'm sealioning, but could you possibly point me to one of these thoughtful pieces? It's a lot to wade through for me to try to figure out what you're talking about without any pointers... I did read a decent
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by sanderjd 1y ago
He seems to get more hate than more mainstream people on the more centrist side of that split... Granted, they do all get hate, and your description does resonate. But he still seems to be an outlier.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Sorry, but again, you're just rejecting the premise of the thought experiment, which is "what if it were possible to always have a benevolent dictator, would that be the best government?". This is a silly way to engage with a
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Presumably because it's mostly political in nature and people here are generally tired of the whole Curtis Yarvin thing. We've had like an extra ten to fifteen years of hearing about this guy than most people... I didn't flag
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by sanderjd 1y ago
... does it look impressive? I happened across it again recently, and it reinforced my previous view that it seems like a total mess and waste of a time. What I honestly remain unclear on: Are these serious efforts - both the political writ
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by sanderjd 1y ago
This one is interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533 . Submitted by pg!
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah but you've said that the conclusion is correct by rejecting the premise of the question. The conclusion could be correct given the premise, and also it could be moot because the premise is impossible, but those are two different
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I have noticed this too. I've only ever read him off and on, and I get the feeling that he must have written something during one of the periods I wasn't reading his still at all that got him "canceled", but I have no id
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I agree with the other replies that I've never been able to find any interesting ideas amidst his schlock, but I'm wondering what "many interesting ideas" you see, from your prospective? Just a couple examples would be u
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yep, I definitely relate to your final paragraph!
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Maybe! But I think this is very debatable, or at least, impermanent. To me, it is very reminiscent of when I was a wee lad and there was a prevalent view that no real developer would want to make web applications, that was for script kiddie
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by sanderjd 1y ago
They have definitely replaced jobs! There are tons and tons of sites and applications now that have been built with these tools and otherwise would have been built by software developers using wordpress or drupal or rails or whatever. But t
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah but in fairness, it's always true that it's hard to know what a good field will be in half a century.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah. I'm not sure how many of them think this. I think they mostly are paying attention, making sure their businesses aren't falling behind competitors, but also hedging their bets.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I'm aware of that analogy, and thought that might be what you were alluding to, but I don't think it's a good analogy. I agree with you that most professional software developers don't like being entrepreneurs, but I thi
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by sanderjd 1y ago
How does "person who makes software" imply "managing"? I understand that "coding" is the fun part for lots of people, especially younger people. This is me as well, so I'm definitely sympathetic to it, and
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Do you find that these kinds of anecdotes are hard to find?
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah, I should have posted the first version of my post, pointing out that the problem with this demand for proof (as is often the case) devolves into boring definitional questions. I don't understand why you think "the code needs
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by sanderjd 1y ago
No-code and low-code tools have been very successful...
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by sanderjd 1y ago
The key is to figure out how to move up the ladder of abstraction. You don't want to be a "coder" in a world where AI can code, but you do want to be a "person who makes software" in a world where making software ju
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yes, but honestly, I was this way at the beginning of my career, and I can't think of any examples of things I was right about. My most successful "this is doomed to fail" grouchiness was social media games (like Farmville).
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I think this is a reasonable response. But I also think it's worth taking the parent's compiler analogy seriously as a thought experiment. Back when I was in college in the 00s, if I had developed a preference for not using compil
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Both things can be true, and in my view, they are. I think there is a lot of "there" there with these tools, and increasingly so, and also that lots of people are out over their skis with the hype. The key is to learn the useful t
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yep, this is the thing I worry about as well. I find these tools incredibly useful. But I constantly edit their output and frequently ask for changes to other peoples' code during review, some of which is AI generated. But all of that
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by sanderjd 1y ago
What kind of proof are you looking for here, exactly? Lots of businesses are successfully using AI... There are many anecdotes of this, which you can read here, or even in the article you commented on. What else are you looking for?
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Does this apply to other services I use? Should I avoid using Google because when it's not there anymore I'll realize what I've sacrificed?
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by sanderjd 1y ago
The point is that I don't dread it anymore, because now there are tools that make it a lot easier the one or two times a year I have some reason to use it.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Funny, I find it to be good at things I'm not very strong at (CSS) but terrible at the things I know well (SQL). :) Actually I think it's perfectly adequate at SQL too.

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