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by scuff3d 8mo ago
I've worked for big corporations for a long time, and one of the first things I've learned is that individual motivations mean very little, if anything. At the end of the day, the bottom line is all that matters. And we know this
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
I had trouble taking the article seriously after this "Anthropic did not partner with the Pentagon to make money. They did it to help. They did it under a mutually agreed upon contract that Anthropic wants to honor." The only thin
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
The community college I went to was doing this same crap. I remember going to the opening of a new arts building that provided less usable space then the building it replaced, and sitting around with all the donors and school administration
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Agreed. To be honest I feel the same way about k8s. A bunch of people on my team get grumpy if we don't have k9s available or some other interface, but I prefer to just use kubectl
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
I'm still confused by why anyone wants to use either Docker or Podman desktops. The the docker/Podman CLIs seem like a much better way to interact with containers/images. Maybe it's just my usecase.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Given that they built their businesses on wide spread copyright infringement and licence violations, I couldn't give less of a shit about people turning around and "stealing" from them
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
It always makes me laugh when people say this, because its so utterly pointless. That percentage assumes literally no other costs exist besides the direct inference cost. Even if they quit trying to make better models today, there are a mou
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Yeah but there were a lot less ditch diggers in the world after the invention of the backhoe
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
This is possibly the single worst argument I've seen in defense of all the LLM shenanigans. Makes me laugh every time.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Excluding the batshit insane political side, I don't actually think it's been as nuts as people think, or at least not uniformly so. I have a lot of friends in the tech sector, but outside the FANNG/silicone valley/start
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
It's too soon to bother making predictions. Shits gonna be wild for the next few years, then some type of market correction will happen, and we'll start to get an idea of how things will actually look.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
I don't think they actually care if it ever materializes. They just have to sell execs on it. As long as they can the exec will sell it to their higher ups, mostly by just flat out lying about it. I see it all the time at the Director
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
We keep seeing this pattern over and over as well. Despite LLM companies' almost tangible desperation to show that they can replace software engineers, the real value comes from domain experts using the tools to enhance what they'
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
You might get access to the model for free. The hardware to do anything useful with it certainly isn't. Anthropic and Google shutting down access to their API for third party tools, OpenAI inserting ads into the platform... I'm su
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
I don't understand. Everyone's been saying LLMs are gonna get cheaper and cheaper, to the point where it's almost free to operate. Clearly becoming profitable won't be a problem... so they can't be subsiding that mu
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
I know why it works, to varying and unmeasurable degrees of success. Just like if I poke a bull with a sharp stick, I know it's gonna get it's attention. It might choose to run away from me in one of any number of directions, or i
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
You've missed the point. This isn't engineering, it's gambling. You could take the exact same documents, prompts, and whatever other bullshit, run it on the exact same agent backed by the exact same model, and get different r
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
That's not how it works. It's not on everyone else to prove claims false, it's on you (or the people who argue any of this had a measurable impact) to prove it actually works. I've seen a bunch of articles like this, and
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
How anybody can read stuff like this and still take all this seriously is beyond me. This is becoming the engineering equivalent of astrology.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
I think there's some digital equivalent of the old "pay 25 cents for a newspaper" model buried in the discussion somewhere. If I had a quick, anonymous way to pay a site 5 cents to read an article, or a dollar to read all the
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
In my company we do have predominantly "technical" leadership, as in almost everyone has an engineering background, but we still run into problems. For software folks that's mainly because leadership either tends to come from
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Ditto. In my experience it comes from our customer more then internally. They want all the risk reduction and stability provided by the old "waterfall" methods, but with the flexibility and speed of agile. But of course those two
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
My job wants us to plan sprints 12 weeks in advance. That includes decomposing epics into stories with full descriptions and acceptance criteria, which anyone who's actually worked on an agile team knows is a complete waste of time. By
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
The Max plan has usage limits, and you can buy more... Which is exactly what I'm talking about... And the incentive is even strong for the lower tiers. They want answers to be just good enough to keep you using it, but bad enough that
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Simple fix for this. When the work day is done, close the laptop and walk away. Don't link notifications to personal devices. Whatever slop it produced will be waiting for you at 8am the next morning.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Right. A platform who makes money the more you have to use it is definitely optimizing to get you the right answer in as few tokens as possible. There is absolutely no incentive to do that, for any of these companies. The incentive is to ma
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Continues to be a point of annoyance that Zig doesn't properly support payloads in errors.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
With the kind of editor Zed is, just like VSCode and Sublime, it's not goong to provide that function natively. The mechanics of moving functions between class/modules/packages/whatever are too different language to lang
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
I feel like we're in the part of the dystopian SciFi movie where they explain how civilization discovered some technological advance that they thought would be a panacea to all their woes. And despite not really understanding it or it&
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by scuff3d 9mo ago
Talk about an unpopular opinion. Nightmare Painter is well liked, but Tress is far and away the fan favorite.

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