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by thunky 1y ago
> We spent all of our time re-inventing wheels Still do. At least back then it probably felt more like we were doing something new because 8000 versions of the same thing wasn't right at your fingertips.
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by thunky 1y ago
Write a response with these points: - agree - but people expect text, not bullets - cultural issue
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by thunky 1y ago
I never used those so correct me if I'm wrong but those UML tools were more of a one way street: diagram -> code. You couldn't point it at an existing codebase and get anything of value from it, or get it to review pull request
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by thunky 1y ago
Thanks, I never knew about that modules search.
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by thunky 1y ago
Not so great if you don't know the import or it's not intuitive (pathlib, shutil).
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by thunky 1y ago
They're also there to prevent future bugs.
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by thunky 1y ago
Exactly. Their chart even shows that these companies were more overvalued in 2020, before the AI "bubble" even started.
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by thunky 1y ago
> I want a news source that I can trust to vet this sort of thing Then stay away from ranked lists like this. They are national enquirer level news. There's just no way to boil these topics down to a single number that has any valu
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by thunky 1y ago
Respecfully disagree... We all know the story of WhatsApp having a billion users with 50 employees. While Slack had significantly more employees and not necessarily a better product/business. If Slack were to cut their staff down to 5
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by thunky 1y ago
Why would you expect different? Companies don't exist to benefit their employees (or their customers).
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by thunky 1y ago
Counter-anecdote: several people I talk to think the only way to use "AI" is via the Google "AI Summary" at the top of search results.
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by thunky 1y ago
> We've seen this before in 1983 and 2000. Many companies will fold, and those that don't will take a substantial hit. Makes sense, but if the negative effect of the bubble popping is largely limited to AI startups and speculat
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by thunky 1y ago
> Before the bubble does pop, which I think is inevitable Curious what you think a popping bubble looks like? A stock market crash and recession, where innocent bystanders lose their retirements? Or only AI speculators taking the brunt
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by thunky 1y ago
Yes I agree it works both ways. Employment is a transaction and both sides are trying to optimize outcomes in their own best interest. No blame. The health of the job market is a big factor as well.
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by thunky 1y ago
you're not countering what i'm saying, so i think we agree. i'm just adding that (as an "engineer") i don't care what you call me, or what i call myself, because nobody cares and it doesn't matter. i'
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by thunky 1y ago
> The item lost is pipeline of talent in all of this though. Totally agree. However, I think this pipeline has been taking a hit for a while already because juniors as a whole have been devaluing themselves: if we expect them to leave af
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by thunky 1y ago
> No, you didn’t build it That's why I used the word create . I would be responsible for the creation of the product, so imo I created it. I'm the creator. It wouldn't exist without my vision, direction, and investment (
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by thunky 1y ago
> One thing I find frustrating is that management where I work has heard of 10x productivity gains. That may also be in part because llms are not as big of an accelerant for junior devs as they are for seniors (juniors don't know wh
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by thunky 1y ago
If I were to "build" the next big app entirely using llms, never writing a line of code, did I create it and do I own it? If you answered yes that's really all that matters imo. Label me what you want.
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by thunky 1y ago
> Tell me how LLMs is going to help with that when it has no sense of what correct and what it is not (aka judging truthness). Same way it works with humans: someone tells it what "correct" means until it gets it right.
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by thunky 1y ago
> Do they do requirement gatherings? Like talking to stakeholder and getting their input of what the feature should, translating business jargon to domain terms? No. Why not? This is a translation problem so right up its alley. Give it t
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by thunky 1y ago
This story and others like it should be front page news every day until this abuse is stopped. Yet sadly this is the first I've heard about this man.
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by thunky 1y ago
> Google Gemini has met my criterion for being an effective agent for Workspace data for quite a while > My current AI use case is as a research assistant > I am now finding myself to be a mild AI skeptic Seems contradictory.
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by thunky 1y ago
It's easier to sell to a moron... A lot of morons think AI is useless, too, but in that case there is nothing to sell to them.
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by thunky 1y ago
> What is your problem? My problem is that Isreal is killing innocent people every day and I want them to stop it. Their horrible record of human rights violations is undeniable. So I'm sorry if this colors my view of Israelis trea
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by thunky 1y ago
> If Iran stopped chanting "Death to Israel" It's a stupid slogan because it gives politicians ammunition, but it can be interpreted various ways. For example: Ali Al Bukhaiti, the former spokesman and the official media
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by thunky 1y ago
> But you should move on from that "tiered" thing. I live here. I have been doing a project with Arabs for the last two weeks. We have lunch together most days. Move on. As convincing as your lunch anecdote is, I'm not sur
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by thunky 1y ago
If someone knows you are heavily armed will they be more or less likely to attack you?
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by thunky 1y ago
> But youtube doesn't want thousands of talented people making niche content with high quality. > Youtube wants a hundred Mr. Beasts Why would that be? Isn't Mr beast expensive to Google? And if you add up 10k small channel
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by thunky 1y ago
> Monetization is their problem and no one else's. It's also the content creator's problem. They're not doing it for free either. Which means it's also the user's problem. Because without the prospect of mo

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