tom_m

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by tom_m 1y ago
It's a great tool for a programmer...but the external perception isn't great. It can put pressure on people and also lead to undervaluing programmers. Overall it's probably a bad thing. Though it is fun.
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by tom_m 1y ago
I don't know, start with a lower salary. I did. Ok, that was like nearly 20 years ago, but it was in Manhattan. It wasn't cheap. Stop trying to work at stupid FAANG companies. I can't understand why anyone would want to work
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by tom_m 1y ago
We're hitting the ceiling of this algorithms already I guess. Someone will make a new and better one. That's how tech works. No worries.
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by tom_m 1y ago
If they're non-refundable?
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by tom_m 1y ago
Perplexity isn't your personal anything. It's a service just like Postmates and Uber. You want a personal shopper equivalent? You're going to pay more money. It won't say perplexity all over it.
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by tom_m 1y ago
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by tom_m 1y ago
Definitely. I think it's worse than that too. I have a feeling it's going to expose some people higher up that ladder who really shouldn't be. So it won't just be junior people who struggle but also "senior" pe
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by tom_m 1y ago
Live coding has never been a good way to interview. I've been on both sides of it. I've even had to do it by writing on a whiteboard once upon a time. Super awkward to write code on a whiteboard and my writing skills on a whiteboa
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by tom_m 1y ago
Don't be so sure about that.
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by tom_m 1y ago
You probably won't get sick of Gemini. Your wallet may need to get used to an adjustment though.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Google tried to offer a free tier for students and people to TRY it. That's a LOT different because they were up front about limits. You pay for Gemini by the token and you get the full firehose. It costs money, but less than Opus and
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by tom_m 1y ago
All the layoffs and such have been going on for a bit and there's been more and more leading up to the end of the R&D tax credit. Their headcount has been planned for years. AI was a wonderful scapegoat. If it wasn't AI it&#x2
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by tom_m 1y ago
Is the text flattened? You don't need to run PDFs through OCR if not. The text can be extracted. Even with JavaScript in the web browser. You only need OCR for hand written text or flatted text. Google's document parse can help as
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by tom_m 1y ago
That's what their document parse product is for. I think people feed things to an LLM sometimes and sure it might work but it could also be the wrong tool for the job. Not everything needs to run through the LLM.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Why are we counting the number of documents? It doesn't matter. What matters is putting together a plan and being able to articulate what you want. Then review and adjust and prompt again. You have to know how software gets built and w
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by tom_m 1y ago
To be honest, I used Stackoverflow less and less over the years. Not sure that was because I learned more. I just think most times I went there I was looking for snippets to save time with boilerplate. As better frameworks, tools, packages,
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by tom_m 1y ago
It is over hyped for sure. This is among the biggest hype cycles we've seen yet. When it bursts, it'll be absolutely devastating. Make no mistake. Many companies will go out of business, many people affected. However. It doesn&#x2
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by tom_m 1y ago
No surprise. I always thought it was so pathetically low that it couldn't do much meaningful. I'm sure now if I tried it again, it'd be worse.
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by tom_m 1y ago
He misspelled psycho.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Die hard fans. I tried so many Claude models. Some are ok. Really. Surprisingly some versions of Sonnet are better than Opus. So the latest isn't always the greatest. Models are specialized sometimes (intentionally designed that way or
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by tom_m 1y ago
Yea, true of many things. Anyone who has the drive and motivation to teach themself anything, usually do a good job. Doesn't mean you'll always get everything right or that you'll be good at first or even as good as someone t
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by tom_m 1y ago
This is gonna be painful at first then might be cool...but you sure as hell know someone's gonna lose some money.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Just wait a bit
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by tom_m 1y ago
We are in a bubble. Not saying AI isn't useful or won't be around in the future. No different than the dot com bubble. Internet and SaaS still here. Just saying these things are red flags.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Don't worry, that was written with JavaScript.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Bubbles do what bubbles do.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Learn about LangChain and MCP. Honestly, 90%+ of apps and startups aren't doing anything unique or crazy. They're orchestrating and applying AI to various things. That means there's no moat, no secret sauce, and in many cases
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by tom_m 1y ago
Hmm I don't know. I think AI art (images and video) is fun to create and look at. I think they should simply have a separate section for it. I guess it depends on the definition of "mass produced" though. I like carefully cra
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by tom_m 1y ago
Yea, a little. I think it's fun to see what it can do, but that gets old quick. The real kick in the nuts is that people don't care about quality. Honestly they never have, but now it's just worse. People see productivity gai
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by tom_m 1y ago
Your business isn't the code. It's a combination of things, but you can't just expect to write some code and go win. You have to sell it. Market it. Maintain it. Listen to customers. Support customers. A very long time until

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