tripledry

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by tripledry 5mo ago
This is the only way for me to use Agents without completely hating and failing at it. Think about the problem, design structures and APIs and only then let AI implement it.
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by tripledry 5mo ago
Has this changed, If I want to go hands on with development using pytorch or whatever is used now, would you recommend an AMD card? Genuine question, I have not followed this topic closely for years :)
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by tripledry 6mo ago
I'm wondering how much value there is in a rewrite once you factor in that no one understands the new implementation as well as the old one. Not only is it difficult to verify, but also the knowledge your team had of your messy codebas
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by tripledry 6mo ago
Also, why is Anthropic still hiring SWEs?
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by tripledry 6mo ago
I get this, but also genuinely interested to know how to measure outputs. For me it's almost impossible to get it objectively right. Maybe this doesn't apply to your case, but how would you measure outputs of say product developme
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by tripledry 6mo ago
For me both are true at the same time. I vividly remember understanding how calculus works after watching some 3blue1brown videos on youtube, but once I looked at some exercises I quickly realized I was not able to solve them. Similar thing
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by tripledry 7mo ago
> It’s hard for humans to perceive the exponential, it will be slow then sudden. True, but also there are perception biases that lead us to believe progress is exponential, even though it might as well be an S-curve. I'm having a ha
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by tripledry 7mo ago
When someone at work talks about all software devs being replaced I link them to the Anthropic career pages.
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by tripledry 7mo ago
Would love to be a fly on the wall for a couple of months to see what corporate CxO's actually do. Surely I could do a mediocre job as a CxO by parroting whatever is hot on Linkedin. Probably wouldn't be a massively successful one
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by tripledry 7mo ago
What's a good alternative if I want to self host and convenience? I have some hobby sites I host on a VM and currently I use docker-compose mainly because it's so "easy" to just ssh into the machine and run something lik
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by tripledry 7mo ago
Naa, I'm just a programmer. Experience may vary depending on company and country, for me this has been true from tiny startups to global corporations. Tangential, I don't even know what "responsible" in the corporate wor
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by tripledry 7mo ago
Something I've been thinking about lately is if there is value in understanding the systems we produce and if we expected to? If I can just vibe and shrug when someone asks why production is down globally then I'm sure the amount
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by tripledry 7mo ago
> All anyone cares about is feature release velocity. And at the same time it's impossible to convince tech illiterate people that reducing complexity likely increases velocity. Seemingly we only get budget to add, never to remove.
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by tripledry 7mo ago
Also, budgets. I have been vocal about being on-call, no problem for me as long as there is extra compensation (in our org there is). No takers yet.
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by tripledry 7mo ago
Similar, I also went back to mainly C++ and Raylib now that I can delegate the "boring" stuff to AI, never had any issues with programming in C++ it was mainly adding dependencies and builds I hated (configuration). I still don&#x
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by tripledry 7mo ago
Side note, this is why I'm not that worried even if AI becomes even better at writing code. The only times I've spent "too long" on features, are times where I basically had an empty ticket. I need to find the right peop
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by tripledry 8mo ago
My experience exactly, I have some toy projects I've basically "vibe coded" and actually use (ex. CV builder). Professionally I have an agent generating most code, but if I tell the AI what to do, I guide it when it makes mis
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by tripledry 8mo ago
In my average experience, without interviewing management teams - my observation is that the "smartest person in the room" is rarely the one deciding anything. This also depends on your definition on "smartest".
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by tripledry 8mo ago
Yea, in the company I work in (entire country it seems tbh) - it's exceedingly rare for contributers to get a raise over a certain point. If I want to increase my income I kinda have to go into management. I'm sure there are outli
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by tripledry 8mo ago
How long would you say it takes to feel the effects after switching? I did this a couple of years ago and as far as I remember the only real effect was my energy levels were more stable. I gave it maybe 2-3 months and decided it's not
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by tripledry 8mo ago
Was in a company that didn't promote engineers (never saw this happen), only hired managers externally. Resulted in a management layer clueless about the work and product. Good management is rare.
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by tripledry 8mo ago
> In other words, if you want 10% of your savings to be in X, and they do a dividend, then you have to take the cash and buy shares of X. Wouldn't the inverse of this be true in buybacks though? If it's economically equivalent
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by tripledry 8mo ago
Another fun one is when sales has already sold the thing to the customer without there being a product to sell. At that point it stops being about trust it's just "get it out there". I hate this, but seems to be fairly normal
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by tripledry 8mo ago
I'm reminded of an effect called Gell-Mann Amnesia. When reading news stories on topics you know well, you notice inaccuracies or poor reporting - but then immediately forget that lesson when reading the next article on a topic you are
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by tripledry 8mo ago
I absolutely love programming. I enjoy creating software, trying out new languages and systems, creating games during my free time. And I also might "vibe code" when I need to add another endpoint on a deadline to earn a living. T
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by tripledry 8mo ago
I don't think that's a good comparison though. We shouldn't compare AI/Software to handcrafting one item, you should compare to handcrafting the machine that crafts the items. If I knit a hat, I can sell it once, but if
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by tripledry 8mo ago
In a fresh project that is well documented and set up it might work better. Many issues that Agents have in my work is that the endpoints are not always documented correctly. Real example that happened to me, Agent forgets to rename an expe
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by tripledry 9mo ago
And there are different contexts. In reality there are tons of tasks at work that are boring and time constrained. There are days I don't enjoy it, and days I do. It's not binary - I still love programming by hand but at times I l
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by tripledry 9mo ago
Yes, not too optimistic on the art side when it comes to commercial stuff - if you can generate it cheaply it will be used. On the hobby side (music) I don't feel the pressure as bad but that's because I don't have any commer
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by tripledry 9mo ago
Sure, IF the performance + economics is there. But that doesn't sound like an enjoyable profession to me. I enjoy the plan, think, code cycle - it's just fun. My brain has problems with not understanding how the thing I'm del

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