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by throw234234234 10mo ago
I think this is what the "circular financing" is all about actually. While you are in the 'picks and shovels' phase you want to use your high margins to buy up the value chain and become more vertically integrated. Effec
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by throw234234234 10mo ago
Tax rates, cost of living differences, etc depending where you are in the world don't always make this a good salary. Generally outside SV: - If you are making $250+ it is at least middle management (not tech work) AND - Only in zones
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by throw234234234 10mo ago
A big reason is relative advantage. The "I have to use it because its there now and everyone else is, but I would rather no one have to use it at all" argument. Lets say I'm a small business and I want to produce a new logo f
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by throw234234234 10mo ago
Would agree with this and think it is more than just your reasons, especially if you venture outside the US at least from what I've experienced. I've seen it at least personally more so where AI tech hubs aren't around and th
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by throw234234234 10mo ago
I think whether you are right or wrong it makes sense to hedge your bets. I suspect many people here are feeling some sense of fear (career, future implications, etc); I certainly do on some of these points and I think that's a rationa
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
Its amazing what the invention of the transformer architecture has achieved; even if the above doesn't come to the past it has sparked discussion of the above possibilities. For a simple idea/algorithm to have changed the world or
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
Sad thing is that it works, and more than it works, it gives you an advantage over the people who actually do the right thing. If you can work it out as you go and get away with it by definition you become the "first mover" over s
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
I've seen the gains in Java; the main things that would close the gap are not yet there in Java. .NET code, especially when tuned, still has significantly more knobs in your code to tune and make faster. An example would be proper gene
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
Most businesses have a limit to growth in general (e.g. market size, etc). Doesn't mean they are bad businesses just means they can't grow forever and there is a limit to the demand of that given activity. I argue this applies mor
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
That may be true in the US, but isn't that true worldwide in general. In fact in many countries techies are a bit of a underclass. But I get your point. My comment was more I think that "sneer" is more around the profession&#
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
A lot of tech has this culture in general: "fake it till you make it". I see this a lot in the startup culture as well.
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
We shall see. Most automations didn't automate the "controller/intelligence" part - they automated the actual task's labor (even if it was clicking for hours on a computer screen). Someone still needed to make all t
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
I find that some tech workers don't understand economics that well. In general more efficiency for an industry means less wages per unit of output worked across a whole industry. The benefit of "efficiency" usually accrues to
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by throw234234234 11mo ago
Don't get it. Especially when I see competing model providers. What makes OpenAI special? As a private person you can't even buy any upside into it directly. Without equity why would the US govt ever take a deal like this?
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by throw234234234 1y ago
Sure but what actually matters is the consumer's value received vs value earned. In the end it isn't "who" pays, but who gains and who loses value in the net. NOTE: This includes government spending from the tariff. If t
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by throw234234234 1y ago
This one is easy. The new consumers will be capital holders, not wage holders as the bottleneck to production becomes energy, resources, land, capital, etc rather than labor. Capitalism rewards scarcity and inefficiency/bottlenecks via
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by throw234234234 1y ago
In the end with most of these deals its the shareholders paying through market cap dilution. Given the current market structure (the big companies are tech companies) there's PLENTY of capital for OpenAI to fund their expansion. They&#
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by throw234234234 1y ago
Industrialization actually helped the middle class insofar as you needed "skilled workers" to work the industrial equipment, make decisions, and process. The fact that production had scaled in a world of scarcity meant that your w
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by throw234234234 1y ago
This is the heart of it. Most "craft" industries that have not yet been disrupted by technology or been made "more efficient" tend to coincidentally be the ones that are in demand and pay well -> and that society gene
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by throw234234234 1y ago
In most countries, even for highly skilled workers, this is the norm (i.e. most countries outside of the US). I know some very good engineers (e.g. dealing with large revenues (1bil plus) owning core systems) on this kind of money. Not ever
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by throw234234234 1y ago
I remember when I saw this in F# interactive (C# didn't have a REPL at all at the time) when I first started using that language around 10 years ago. I thought it was immediately useful as a easy to write, but static typed Python repla
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by throw234234234 1y ago
This site does pitch to developers. Rightly or wrongly the hype or what I think more accurately is the fear cycle is in LLM's/AI w.r.t SWE's. Given loss aversion in most people fear cycles are way more effective than hype one
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by throw234234234 1y ago
This has a lot of future implications for employment in tech of course, architecture/design decisions, etc. Why would a non-tech company use a SaaS when it just AI up something and have 1-2 engineers on the build accountable? Its a lot
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by throw234234234 1y ago
In the long run that's the promise of RL; build the verifications vs the model. As a SWE we could be relegated to doing what many consider the "boring part" of software development, which is just writing case by case test cas
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by throw234234234 1y ago
Not sure the analogy is the same. A driverless car if it does something wrong can cause death - the cost of failure is very high. If my code doesn't come out right, as other posts here have said, I can just "re-roll the slot machi
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by throw234234234 1y ago
Why not? As the AI people say "you can just do things". If there is little consequence to getting it wrong as a parent poster puts it why not? You can learn over time like any other skill. I want to be wrong (it will affect me and
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by throw234234234 1y ago
I don't know. Interfaces are the part that most people non-tech generally understand. Most products to most people are "interfaces" after all whether it is a website/app/OS/etc. Interfaces to enable workflows p
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by throw234234234 1y ago
I've been thinking that for some time. Its a "looser way" to describe what you want as a different modality; a dynamic interface if you will. Even with code editors I've found its good to generate a lot of volume, but th
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by throw234234234 1y ago
Sure. But audits/processes only catch up to a point. In the end the buck stops with a professional. That's what most "professions" are. They aren't just a service -> they are an accreditation with some recourse w
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by throw234234234 1y ago
Tbh I think it depends on the domain you are coding for. The field is so diverse across many different parts of the economy. E-Commerce web app sure go for your life -> software for controlling some life support system... yeah maybe I wa

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