steelkilt

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by steelkilt 2mo ago
Another fun fact: The USAF data center I worked at in 1987 was still using punched cards and paper tape.
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by steelkilt 2mo ago
It might be more accurate to say that many retail investors are ignoring big tech’s debt.
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by steelkilt 2mo ago
It’s not that coding is easy. That misses the point. The point is, coding is recurrent. Automation follows recurrence, not ease.
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by steelkilt 2mo ago
That’s exactly what was done.
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by steelkilt 4mo ago
FWIW nerds pre-date the internet. We used to get together in user groups, like at public libraries, and talk tech, logic and reasoning.
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by steelkilt 4mo ago
I refactor more than 27% of my handwritten code. Always have.
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by steelkilt 4mo ago
He was handed a gameboy before he could walk, but it didn’t lessen his humanity. He was handed a smartphone before middle school, but his humanity remained intact. He started calling the “people” he met on social media his friends, and hu
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by steelkilt 4mo ago
It may be surprising, but community participation isn’t a priority for all developers. Myself, I want to write reliable code and then live my life. If I can do that more efficiently with AI assistance, that’s a win for me.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
See also: California
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
Yesterday I needed to create an SDS (material safety data sheet) for one of my products. This would usually take me a few hours, maybe half a day. An agent did it for me in 5 minutes. This example isn’t unique; for a small business owner,
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
See below. Small business owners who learn how to use the tools right are one example.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
I’ve been a small business (manufacturing) owner for about 25 years. AI saves me time, extends my reach and reduces my time to market. AI isn’t a threat to me; it’s a daily tool I use. I’m also a former SWE - I took time most of Anthropi
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
Disruption, by definition, has winners and losers and the losers tend to be more visible, more vocal, and more immediate than the winners.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
If I were an adversary of the U.S. I would encourage anti-AI sentiment among young people, to my strategic advantage.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
I don’t blame them for how they feel. In fact, I feel sorry for them. Covid took a few years from them, then AI comes along and invalidates their career choices. That’s a hard case.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
Actually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
Most of them won’t be unemployed.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
Of course. Multiple things can be true.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
Most of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work ri
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The bounded process: agent-assisted coding
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
An implementation of 7GUIs would help demonstrate the completeness of the framework. https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/
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by steelkilt 5mo ago
These were nice little machines. Learned to code Pascal on one.