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by sd9 7mo ago
I do the same. Code is cheap - try it, see if it works, if it doesn’t completely throw it away. LLMs and agents get into doom loops and keep making the situation worse if it’s not going well from the outset. Usually if you’re engaged you ca
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by sd9 7mo ago
Yeah I agree with you, and I think a lot of people feel the same. It's totally different now and it's not what I signed up for. Maybe I'll get used to it, idk. I hope everything works out well for you.
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by sd9 7mo ago
> Slashing labor costs while maintaining the status quo is still a big productivity gain. Maybe I didn't express myself properly, but I think we agree, at least on this point? Besides this effect, of enabling smaller teams to produc
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by sd9 7mo ago
Yeah, maybe empathise was the wrong word. I certainly empathise with the feelings, I just struggle to see how people cannot use it to get more done. I'm also daydreaming about other careers instead of doing something useful.
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by sd9 7mo ago
Oh, I agree entirely. The new paradigm is entirely unsatisfying to me too. It's not the same work that I trained my entire life to get good at, and the new work is not as fun. I trained to get good at this work because I just loved it
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by sd9 7mo ago
That was deliberate. Some people report that it slows them down - fine.
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by sd9 7mo ago
> If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours. In contrast to the current top comment [1], I don't think this is a wise assessment. I&#x2
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by sd9 7mo ago
I think… sort of. I feel like you’re trying to force some sort of binary here, but I’m trying to say that you may choose not to gamble in general, on day X, but find that you do gamble later. In fact I would say that many gambling addicts h
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by sd9 7mo ago
Huh? I don’t think you should do either.
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by sd9 7mo ago
If you were friends with an alcoholic it would be pretty shitty to give them a bottle of vodka for their birthday. People are not machines, it’s not as simple as deciding whether to do something or not. You have stronger and weaker days. Te
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by sd9 7mo ago
It just seems weird to me to throw all these stats together. Putting 75GB of logs in the same category as managing the compute for this many parallel workflows and so on seem like problems on totally different scales. Unfortunately I didn’t
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by sd9 7mo ago
Chill out, you don’t know anything about me
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by sd9 7mo ago
I'm familiar with the subject matter. I'm not familiar with the author. I love classical music. I've been singing in a choir since I was 7, playing the piano since the same age, and compose music myself ( https://yo
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by sd9 7mo ago
Not sure what you're trying to say. I'm not arguing from authority. I'm just a guy giving my opinion. That's what comment sections are for.
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by sd9 7mo ago
I am human, sorry Baffling is a common word in Britain and the first term that sprung to mind when reading the article
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by sd9 7mo ago
I’m British so I guess the equivalent would be Radio 4. But no, not really tbh. I just find what I want and listen to it. I know some people really like Radio 4 though.
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by sd9 7mo ago
I guess I’m just separating out the fact that I agree with the OP from my criticism of the way the argument was presented.
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by sd9 7mo ago
Apologies, I wasn’t familiar with his work.
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by sd9 7mo ago
Probably 50% of my listening is classical. If I want to listen to classical I just listen to albums. I’ve never had a problem with this. The concept of a DJ for classical music is just kind of weird.
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by sd9 7mo ago
The Spotify DJ feature is terrible, I agree. That doesn’t mean I find the linked article compelling.
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by sd9 7mo ago
What a strange article, from somebody who should understand the underlying technology (click on the “books” tab - the author is a technologist). This is not about AI, the author is mostly just pointing out that Spotify was not designed for
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by sd9 7mo ago
You really can't model these 5 data points with a linear regression or a step function. The models are of different sizes / use cases, and from two different labs. I feel like what we've observed generally is that different l
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by sd9 7mo ago
Cool but impossible to read with all the LLM-isms
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by sd9 7mo ago
The problem is: the structure of LLM outputs generally make everything sound profound. It’s very hard to understand quickly whether a comment has actual signal or it’s just well written bullshit. And because the cost of generating the comme
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by sd9 7mo ago
I had a hunch that this comment was LLM-generated, and the last paragraph confirmed it. Kudos for managing to get so many upvotes though. "Where most [X] [Y]" is an up and coming LLM trope, which seems to have surfaced fairly rece
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by sd9 7mo ago
So where are the cool agents going to move to now?
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by sd9 7mo ago
If this can be taken at face value... it's creepy. I get that they're doing it for the meme. But perhaps something getting close to human intelligence, made out of human cells, shouldn't be forced to play a violent video game
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by sd9 7mo ago
I agree. I've got more lazy over time too. But the cost of creating code is so cheap... it's now less important to be perfect the first time the code hits prod (application dependant). It can be rewritten from scratch in no time.
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by sd9 7mo ago
Calling somebody a wannabe systems engineer is unneccessarily antagonistic.
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by sd9 7mo ago
Please stop spamming HN with LLM generated comments.

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