tom_m

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by tom_m 1y ago
Oddly I see a lot of marketing for Rust. Not gonna make it a success, sorry. No one cares about Rust lol. It's specialized. It has a value and a place, but it isn't a mainstream thing unfortunately.
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by tom_m 1y ago
They are horrendous about their product strategy and positioning.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Oh interesting. I have yet to try it. I love Gemini 2.5 Pro, so I expect the same here...but if not, wow. That would be a big whoops on their part.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Nope! I use llms like I used to use Google and StackOverflow. Really great to bounce ideas off of, brainstorm, yes save time too ... But the at the end of the day, what will separate programmers in the future is those that bother to put an
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by tom_m 1y ago
I agree. AI is an amazing tool to learn. The problem is, few want to. They think they can just hit the "easy button" and become the first "solo-unicorn." The hype train, doomers, and fantasy stories on all this is mind b
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by tom_m 1y ago
No way. AI pricing is going up because people are willing to pay for it.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Well, there will always be a job for programmers folks.
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by tom_m 1y ago
They made a documentary about this actually. You can probably find it on Netflix or something. It's called Idiocracy.
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by tom_m 1y ago
It is a huge issue for FAANG. I'd think moreso than startups. They employ so many more people. The numbers add up quick. Big companies are not laying people off because of the AI boogie man. AI is still rapidly changing and hasn't
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by tom_m 1y ago
I agree, it's a whole soup of things. Even still, I don't know why people continue to ignore or dismiss S174 and instead seem to blame AI on all of it. Maybe it's just hype being pushed by AI companies to make themselves seem
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by tom_m 1y ago
Yes absolutely it is. Especially with the whole "vibe coding" - only a youngster would come up with that.
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by tom_m 1y ago
I don't know, I still think it's a good idea to change passwords every so often. At the rate databases get leaked, you can't always rely on the strength of the hash and the time it used to take to crack given hardware getting
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by tom_m 1y ago
Someone told me AI was like having a bunch of junior coders. You have to be very explicit in telling it what to do and have to go through several iterations to get it right. Though it was cheaper.
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by tom_m 1y ago
I think people fail to realize that to value software to $0 is to destroy the point of most of it. If it becomes so easy to write apps, then everyone can build their own. They won't need your app. The entire point of most SaaS business
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by tom_m 1y ago
Well it doesn't really do math.
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by tom_m 1y ago
True, but people are so enamored by what they can do that they rarely seem to think about that. We will over spend on AI purely because we think it's cool.
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by tom_m 1y ago
I believe it absolutely will. I think eventually we'll get to a point where people will be measured on now well they can get the AI to behave and how good they are at keeping cost down. My boss built an AI workflow that cost over $600
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by tom_m 1y ago
Unreliability doesn't matter for some people because their bar was already that low. Unfortunately this is the way of the world and quality has and will continue to suffer. LLMs mostly accelerate this problem... hopefully they get good
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by tom_m 1y ago
Yea, I believed that for a while and still do...but we're going to go through a rough patch first. There's a bunch of people who don't understand how this works and are looking for a get rich quick scheme. Very lazy people. T
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by tom_m 1y ago
Cough cough, bubble, cough... Not saying AI is bad and going to fail or anything. In fact there's many companies out there being rather successful without being as inflated as OpenAI, without shedding the talent, without spending stupi
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by tom_m 1y ago
Of course no one cares. How do you think we ended up with all the things we have today?
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by tom_m 1y ago
Yea, the problem is that most people expect things to be absolute and correct outside of engineering. I love the gray areas and probabilities and creativity of software...but not everyone does. So the real danger is in everyone assuming the
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by tom_m 1y ago
It's a good sounding board and productivity tool...but it's over hyped. I think it'll calm down a bit. People are just making huge claims right now which is music to the ears of many. I like the tools don't get me wrong,
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by tom_m 1y ago
Hasn't that always been the case at Amazon?
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by tom_m 1y ago
Tools. And read their output. You will save time, be more productive, and actually learn something. Don't read and you'll not learn and get things wrong.
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by tom_m 1y ago
There's going to be a limit though. Plus you have to instruct them correctly. B. Yea, that's true. I used to have over 4,000 GitHub contributions a year and it dropped to 1,000 as I got older and managed people. I used to be able
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by tom_m 1y ago
You also have to provide accurate instructions. I find most often times, "bugs" aren't with writing code that doesn't compile or doesn't have passing tests. The "bugs" come from not understanding the requi
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by tom_m 1y ago
How much of it did you read? Haha. That's not anything against you, I'm just pointing out to people that there will be a bunch of folks out there who will never care to read and learn. They just want to mash all the buttons until
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by tom_m 1y ago
This is the thing people need to be most aware of with all of these tools. I like how Roo Code shows you the costs. It's going to take a while before companies catch up here and realize the "hidden costs" of AI. In a few year
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by tom_m 1y ago
People might also lace open source with Trojans and back doors. It's going to get interesting.

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