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by strken 4mo ago
It's a self-solving problem, though. At that point, every remaining senior+ engineer will be paid a bajillion dollars (like they are now) and companies will start to invest in actual training.
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by strken 4mo ago
What makes a vulnerability saleable? Is this one not valuable because the government clients of someone like Memento Labs don't care about a MITM attack on desktop computers?
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by strken 4mo ago
Accelerationism is an established political philosophy. Why is it obvious that they are insincere when they could equally think that the only way to control it is to be the ones building it?
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by strken 4mo ago
For me it feels less like filling out reports, and more like mentoring an intern who can search for stuff really quickly but forgets everything at the end of the day due to anterograde amnesia. Except the intern is trapped inside an iron lu
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by strken 4mo ago
The one time I worked at a large corporate, my time was split between failing to find useful projects that I was allowed to work on, and failing to deliver much on the useless projects I was given because I didn't understand that it wo
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by strken 4mo ago
Why would it be weird? My grandmother dreamed of being a school teacher, never did it, and talked about it until she died. The closest she ever got was teaching Sunday School for a few months. It's common to have a dream and do nothing
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by strken 4mo ago
I "hate" AI[0] because I believe that elegant code is a different bulding material to ugly code. Ugly code is harder to change. At some point, it becomes impossible to change. I notice that a lot of people say they'll be able
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by strken 4mo ago
What about when they produce correct reasoning and express it with language that has superficial similarities to LLM output?
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by strken 4mo ago
In this instance, language which would have passed a style guide and an editor in 2020 but reads as AI in 2026.
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by strken 4mo ago
If you want to talk about work in any depth then you have to formalise it, yeah. The sales team might tell you they're frustrated by their process at lunch, but they're not going to sit down and explain the whole thing. I've
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by strken 4mo ago
It's a useful construction. "It's not true love, you matched with her on Hinge last week and have never met her, please don't send her $1000 in Apple gift cards" is punchy.
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by strken 4mo ago
What do you think about TFA and its contention that perfectly normal language is being targeted by the AI witch-hunt? I personally avoid the em dash, but it has been used in writing for a long, long time.
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by strken 4mo ago
They happen all the time for me at small to medium companies. If the legal team is two people whose desks are by the door, then you are going to eat lunch together at some point. It would be weird not to! Just wait until someone says "
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by strken 4mo ago
I'll defer to the research[0], but I believe mathematical attainment is correlated primarily with IQ and mostly only correlated with maths anxiety, wealth, etc. to the extent that those things are proxies for IQ. It's cruel to tel
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by strken 4mo ago
Great, I'll get on the phone to the local special school and let them know their non-verbal autistic students with IQs in the 50 to 60 range are to be enrolled in manifold theory next semester, and if they can't do it then badosu
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by strken 4mo ago
I'm actually a bit offended, or at least wary, when a human writes an email with the length and structure of an LLM's output. Too many words per idea shows me that they're trying to hide something, manage or manipulate me, or
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by strken 4mo ago
I'm not particularly sorry, but when I ask questions out of the blue over email or chat, I always explain what I've already tried. The two exceptions are when it's urgent, in which case I briefly explain the urgency ("pr
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by strken 4mo ago
Can you not say "sorry but I think you should try Claude first" and send the slop next? If someone treated me like that I'd either look for a new job, walk to their desk and do conflict management, or try to work out how I&#x
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by strken 4mo ago
People use a train station for travel. We don't allow people to sleep blocking a road, because that would obstruct travel, even though a road is a public space. Likewise, we shouldn't allow people to sleep in a train station where
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by strken 5mo ago
Production code is an asset, its maintenance and obligations are an expense, its risks might become liabilities, and companies shouldn't run more code than they need for the same reason they shouldn't own a larger vehicle fleet or
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by strken 5mo ago
I too am capable of waffling to an interviewer. My favourite "took down production" story is a segue into why, when your interns ask you to look over the command they're about to run against the prod environment because they&
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by strken 5mo ago
Why is sleeping at a train station fine? (Unless you're talking about infrequent long distance trains). Trains are transportation infrastructure. Drivers don't have to put up with people setting up a queen bed in the middle of the
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by strken 5mo ago
There's an inherent tension between protecting public spaces and protecting vulnerable but disruptive people. Your link refers to an article which is very American and very 2018. Lots of large font size headings about race and sexualit
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by strken 5mo ago
Speaking as a random internet stranger, it depends entirely on context. Sending me a message saying "Hi, I'm getting a Frobnizzle not found error" is a waste of both our time. Explain what you're doing so that I can repr
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by strken 5mo ago
Vague innuendo doesn't stop the headline from being misleading, since it's based on that same source.
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by strken 5mo ago
I'm left wondering what people in Malawi think about this. I have no idea whether they'd be better than this outside perspective at analysing the factors behind slow growth, but the comparison might be interesting regardless.
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by strken 5mo ago
Check out Re-Bench and HCAST. The tasks are obviously all of the form "Go do this, and if you get the following output you passed". Setting up a web server apparently takes 15 minutes for a human, which is news to me since I'
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by strken 5mo ago
With SaaS apps, I've found you either have to hand write a framework for it to use, or put an even greater amount of effort into double-checking and correcting it. Then you can point it at bugs and features, get it to write tests for y
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by strken 5mo ago
I don't know if back of the napkin maths helps understand exactly what the US is doing right. You can point to a sector with high GDP, sure. But US tech ascendancy has its roots in DARPA spending around the bay area, which was enabled
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by strken 5mo ago
How do you disentangle the factors that go into productivity? The US is a net oil exporter, has the global reserve currency, and runs the most important stock exchange, among many other factors. How much heavy lifting is done by oil, by cur

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