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by tibbar 2y ago
At a risk of venturing into dangerous territory here, the central premise of the article confused me. Far from being ideologically free 400 years ago, the world was rocked by violent religious, imperial, and colonial warfare, within and bet
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by tibbar 2y ago
There's a tension here which I can't quite put my finger on, but perhaps it is: If everything is a people problem, why do we need engineers at all? And if the business can't be run solely by MBAs and project managers, and we
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by tibbar 2y ago
I'll say this much: People problems are behind the majority of failures I've seen in my career. A project isn't delivered on time, and no one knew it was going poorly? People problem. A team spends three months building the w
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by tibbar 2y ago
This is a false equivalence, as one user’s particular usage of SQLite is not comparable to all financial instructions’ databases. Better to compare to the prospect of all smartphones being irreversibly corrupted at once.
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by tibbar 2y ago
https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-employees-threaten-to-quit-u...
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by tibbar 2y ago
It’s so much weirder than that. Reportedly, Greg Brockman’s wife begged him in tears to change his mind. Ilya presided over their wedding.
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by tibbar 2y ago
Indeed, it was stunning. The Board outranked the CEO and had the right to replace him. What they didn't reckon on was that technically, if the entire company is willing to quit on behalf of the CEO, then they as a body outrank the boar
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by tibbar 2y ago
Wait, are you simply unaware of the widely reported circumstances in the company at that time? 95% of employees signed a letter to the board stating that they would leave the company if Sam was not brought back [1]. Ilya Sutskever, who wa
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by tibbar 2y ago
I agree. The state of the art of gen AI systems is well below a typical human expert in every domain. Here human expert is well below the bar of 'world class', more like 'some one with 2-5 years of professional experience in
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by tibbar 2y ago
Well, that was the valuation of their last fund raising round, which included a tender offer to employees. So it was worth that much to investors and to its current employees.
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by tibbar 2y ago
You had the answer there before you dismissed it -- the board agreed to bring Sam Altman back before resigning because of massive pressure campaign that involved 90%+ of employees threatening to resign, and Microsoft (which has OpenAI'
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by tibbar 2y ago
I’m really surprised by how negative many of the reactions here are. I found the overall concept and approach very interesting and entirely plausible, though obviously it didn’t work out at all in the end. If there was a better technique to
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by tibbar 2y ago
It feels like you mostly view generative AI as a system that produces finished products, which you don’t like. And for some reason that is how they are marketed, but it’s a terrible use for them. To me the point of generative AI is as a too
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by tibbar 2y ago
I see people frame generative AI this way a lot, as if they're strictly worse than alternatives in all dimensions ( in accurate, low quality). But I think there's several important dimension where they're strictly better, i
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by tibbar 2y ago
I recently ran a hiring pipeline for a senior/staff SWE. There were around a thousand applicants. What you have to understand is that there is a strong timing component to these pipelines: Hiring managers and recruiters screen hundreds
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Where the Cameos Are(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
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by tibbar 2y ago
The most interesting thing here is probably that they sometimes change their mind as to how to aggregate billing events, and used to have to manually fix the database if they changed their mind. The system they've arrived at seems to m
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by tibbar 2y ago
Just wanted to say that this is a really beautiful landing page - way nicer than I expected for a product focused on Leetcode ;)
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by tibbar 2y ago
The secret to designing entire applications in your head is to be intimately familiar with the underlying platform and gotcha's of the technology you're using. And the only way to learn those is to spend a lot of time in hands-o
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by tibbar 3y ago
It can certainly be worth more; I know engineers personally who became wildly wealthy, tens of millions of dollars from their equity—— but you’re right that most of the good outcomes are comparable to working in big tech over the last few y
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by tibbar 3y ago
If you actually get 1% at seed stage and the company goes through a "few rounds" of funding (and subsequently exits), you're doing great . You've basically won a small lottery and have an excellent chance of being a mil
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by tibbar 3y ago
"Indulgent" might better capture what I think OP is describing than "privileged." There is a certain navel-gazing quality to endlessly pushing for higher personal records past the point where they particularly even benef
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by tibbar 3y ago
I thought that surely the ELO ratings were on a different scale than the usual chess ones, but nope, it uses the same factor of 400: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1RAWb22-PFNI-X1gPVzc... . That means we truly
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by tibbar 3y ago
I think you nailed it here. It's important to internalize that being a good employee (and/or leader) is not a virtue, it is a skill. You can be a good person and a bad employee/teammate/leader. A bad employee in the sens
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by tibbar 3y ago
I think the difference here is that a 'bad' project will often be very specific. You will have a very particular outcome that you must achieve to finish, and you know what it is. ("Migrate our database from NoSQL to a relatio
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by tibbar 3y ago
Early on in my engineering career, there are a handful of times I was assigned to a project where I was set up to fail. I didn't understand the situation until far too late. There are a few tell-tale symptoms: I didn't quite under
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by tibbar 3y ago
The true purpose of an engineering manager is to be a Directly Responsible Individual for the output of the team. Someone who makes sure day-to-day operations go smoothly, sure, but is also looking ahead for future business needs and making
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by tibbar 3y ago
There is more overlap between the two than you'd think, specifically in producing and evaluating datasets for training and fine-tuning models. Most software engineers and ML engineers who worked on self-driving cars would do fine at wo
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by tibbar 3y ago
When major corporations say they are cutting jobs due to AI, it’s not because of internal productivity gains (and this is not what they are claiming), outside of niche cases like content moderation, etc. Rather, the layoffs occur because th
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by tibbar 3y ago
In practice, I think GitHub/GitLab/etc solve this UX problem pretty well. Inline git tools let you jump immediately to the PR that generated the code change, and the PR description + code reviews + snapshot of the commit help to u

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