tired_and_awake

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by tired_and_awake 1mo ago
Would you advocate for the removal of calculators to fix this problem?
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by tired_and_awake 1mo ago
This is exactly the right analogy. Granted LLMs are a more sophisticated calculator and engineering is still adapting to this wonky/evolving technology. But to pretend it's a coming catastrophe is to ignore every past parallel dev
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by tired_and_awake 1mo ago
I spent a decade in robotics and have built firmware for dozens of devices. And yet I was never able to successfully fix my webcam device driver on linux with Claude. I'm jealous of this person's prompting skills! Or perhaps pwnin
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by tired_and_awake 4mo ago
I feel as if a lot of this what Google home (or other "home like" products) could have been and they have failed miserably. As a Google home user I find it can't answer the simplest questions that would require even the hint
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by tired_and_awake 7mo ago
I am right there with you. We might lack the language to describe this emotional state; its like the opposite of FAFO? There's also this nuance that they were acquired by meta so yeah they're rich but now they're working for
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by tired_and_awake 8mo ago
Hey OP I also got interested in seeing LLMs draw and came up with this vibe coded interface. I have a million ideas for taking it forward just need the time... Lmk if you're interested in connecting? https://github.com/
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by tired_and_awake 9mo ago
I feel for you. Hopefully your colleagues come around and realize that if they submit the code they are responsible for the slop.
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by tired_and_awake 9mo ago
Hey just wanted to thank you for the healthy back and forth! I respect your opinion and don't hold mine strongly. That said I'm eager for this space to mature and for us all to figure out the best way to interact with fault prone
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by tired_and_awake 9mo ago
I think this misses the point, see the other comments. Fully scaled agentic coding replaces managers too :) cause for celebration all around
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by tired_and_awake 9mo ago
Completely agree and great points. The conclusion of "agents are writing the tests" etc is where I'm at as well. More over the code quality itself is also an agentic problem, as is compile time, reliability, portability... Tu
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by tired_and_awake 9mo ago
The moment all code is interacted with through agents I cease to care about code quality. The only thing that matters is the quality of the product, cost of maintenance etc. exactly the thing we measure software development orgs against. It
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by tired_and_awake 9mo ago
Early adopters will early adopt. They will toil,feedback, improve, repeat. Tools will over optimize then dramatically shift based on learnings. This chaps will continue until something moderately productive and easily adoptable comes out. F
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by tired_and_awake 1y ago
About a decade ago I was interviewed for Apple's self driving car project and an exec on the project asked me to define these exact 4 things in great detail and provide examples. Shrugs.
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by tired_and_awake 1y ago
Seriously are you trolling? Or do you just enjoy making things up?
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
If you install signal or WhatsApp would it work?
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
Search is effectively an openly solved problem, not something privately held onto by a few with secret technology. I haven't missed a single aspect of Google search having switched to Duckduckgo 2 years ago. As others have commented he
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
The hand waviest simplest answer i can think of is... basically quantum effects dominate and require that the background thermal noise be eliminated to be pervasive. Its like trying to juggle on a top of a moving plane - the balls won'
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
Yeah this is almost common at this point, specifically with carbon nano structures. The reason why is it is very expensive to manufacture specific structures but cheap and easy to make a ton of random structures. So yeah you "just&quot
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
If this is a legitimate concern perhaps they can launch a second set of satellites to block peak sunlight.
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
It's a good point. There is a target on the back of scientists who do research that is perceived as social science but is infact biology. Seems like they then construct myths of waste/corruption (just read this thread) and punish
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
174 scientists either at the NIH or funded by the NIH have won the Nobel prize. https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-almanac/nobel-l... Odds are if you or someone you know has been treated with ... An
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
Assuming this was orchestrated by a nation state I wonder what the goal is? Just causing mayhem and incurring cost? Is there some specific function of these cables? Is this a negotiating tactic?
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
At my current place of work our entire Product org is tech illiterate and it's such a loss. In engineering we built a data science team to do their job for them and serve up pretty plots and constantly evolving dashboards instead of th
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
If you join a company and are confronted with dozens of PR comments - assuming this process isn't sufficiently well documented - see if a tech lead or manager will host an open forum review. Review the code and the comments and discuss
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
I love the way our SWE jobs are evolving. AI eating the simple stuff, generating more code but with harder to detect bugs... I'm serious, it feels that we can move faster with these tools but perhaps have to operate differently. We are
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
It's like fark but more tech posts
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
"ship it now, it's easy to ship, I don't care about the team" Heh and people wonder why we have such toxic managers in the valley.
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
I'm having a hard time putting this into words. Apologies if this isn't terribly clear. As easy as it is to dismiss tech hype - nothing wrong with doing that honestly - autonomous city driving is inching closer to the ubiquity it
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
I'm a tech exec who misses their physics roots. In my spare time I'm interviewing "materials manufacturers" to come up with a viable startup idea. I'm hoping to build a company that leverages simulation and ML to ac
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by tired_and_awake 2y ago
Seriously impressive engineering OP, thanks for the awesome writeup too. Looks like you've got a ton of fans now, well earned!

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