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Ask HN: Do you already see the impact of LLMs on the job prospects for dev's?
38 points by thesumofall 2y ago|73 comments
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by thesumofall 2y ago
I don’t think there is much evidence that they are far behind their competition in anything but sales. Efficiency of their latest models is good, software has improved a lot, and they are starting to return to their previous (good enough) q
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by thesumofall 2y ago
Working for a non-tech company, I can tell you that most love Teams. It was a godsend during Covid, people haven’t really seen anything else, and in all honesty it does what it’s supposed to do
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by thesumofall 3y ago
I would still argue that a stacked horizontal bar with tick marks or a waterfall chart are often the better solutions. They also make it easier to provide a reference point for the absolute sum of all data points I think pie charts only wor
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by thesumofall 3y ago
But doesn’t change that it isn’t a bell distribution
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by thesumofall 3y ago
I think this is because sales tends to be a one-person job in most settings (except the very highest value deals). One sales person manages a number of accounts. Measuring the results of that person is then quite straightforward. Tech tends
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by thesumofall 3y ago
Why would we see a 80/20 distribution when most human abilities are distributed on a bell curve? I don’t think we really have the tools to reliably measure performance, because performance can mean so many things in so many different c
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by thesumofall 3y ago
Why We Fight by Mike Martin is a great recent book about this. It argues that our tendency to war is indeed an effect of evolution but that the historic trend to us forming larger and larger groups has significantly reduced violence
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by thesumofall 3y ago
But again: is the CTO really not able to spot the expertise or is the expert so detached that he can’t translate between the worlds anymore? I find it much easier to believe that the CTO fully understands that he has an expert in front of h
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by thesumofall 3y ago
But is this really the point of the article? The article argues that it is difficult to identify expertise. However, the situation you describe is one where (if I read you correctly) not your expertise was questioned but your recommendation
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by thesumofall 3y ago
How would they do this? And what’s the incentive on seller side? By abolishing free returns without a better alternative in place, sellers clearly say that they rather accept lower sales than trying to ensure people receive fitting clothes
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by thesumofall 3y ago
That explains a lot! Always wondered why even when given precise measurements garments would still be way off
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by thesumofall 3y ago
Most discussions about this topic somehow seem to assume that people enjoy returning stuff. They don’t. It’s effort One of the key unresolved problems in fashion retail remains the crazy, unreliable sizing systems. Just because you are size
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by thesumofall 4y ago
I might misread you. I would believe the best approach is a top-down / bottom-up approach that combines strategic directives with tactical and local goals. Otherwise, you would essentially say that the owners of a company would not be
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by thesumofall 4y ago
To add some context: this is capped at EUR 2400 per month (or lower depending on state and if one has kids)
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by thesumofall 4y ago
To which realistic disadvantage of the originator? Even in a scenario in which this becomes common practice and in which other organizations are indeed reusing the shared code (and that is a big if!), you could still argue that the originat
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by thesumofall 4y ago
Do you have a source for that? At least the major ETFs seem physically backed? And just because trading volumes exceed available gold, this doesn’t necessarily imply that this is just “paper gold”
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by thesumofall 4y ago
I guess the parent means the tendency of people to report things more positively to the management than they really are and the behavior of some to try to make a good impression to management by telling them exactly what they want to hear.
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by thesumofall 4y ago
Their UX seems really bad. E.g., they changed the default behavior of the title bar, auto-hide critical buttons such as mute/unmute, etc.
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Paris Faces an Even Colder, Darker Winter Than Berlin(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by thesumofall 4y ago|0 comments
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by thesumofall 4y ago
Even their sales leadership is eroding (at least looking at global figures). The next biggest three combined (VW, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis) have sold as many BEV cars as Tesla in 2021. And there are many big players on the following ranks th
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by thesumofall 4y ago
Several of the mentioned brands already have class leading or at least competitive electric cars on the market. The Mercedes EQS might be the best electric car on the market. VW’s MEB platform (ID3, …) clearly has mass market appeal even th
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by thesumofall 4y ago
4. people who realized that _some_ work can be done more effectively face-to-face. (and please note: this is true the other way around as well) There are obvious examples (care work) and a whole lot of grey in between the extremes. One of t
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by thesumofall 4y ago
Quite like this argument - ie it brings up some new points for me that I haven’t considered yet. To just provide a counterpoint to your anecdote (obviously, also nothing but another anecdote): of our team of 30 almost all came back to the o
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by thesumofall 4y ago
So, just because it’s not perfect we don’t do it at all? Agree to the paradigm shift, but so far it hasn’t emerged [1] and telling people that it will never be a replacement for physical presence, would actually quite support the crowd aski
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by thesumofall 4y ago
The studies I have seen say the exact opposite. Non-verbal cues make up most of the info flow: https://online.utpb.edu/about-us/articles/communication/how-... If you feel your meetings don’t benefit from non-
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by thesumofall 4y ago
I must admit I’m one of those always-on people and everyone in our team does so. For those speaking I feel it is quite rude to not give them any visual cue on how they are doing: I’m I understood? Are my points appreciated? Do I bore people
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by thesumofall 5y ago
The article doesn’t even mention “middle manager”? It also does not make any sense. Increased WFH requires more effort to connect people, communicate context, mentor people, bridge silos, … all part of the job description of a middle manage
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by thesumofall 5y ago
Second hand, but friends moved over to the US to find that kids would watch TV in kindergarten. This would just be absolutely unacceptable in most parts of Europe
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by thesumofall 5y ago
This seems a meaningless comparison unless we know what is actually done in these factories vs what is sourced. Diess is known for pushing his staff by doing all sorts of benchmarks

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