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by vanuatu 4mo ago
Yes, there will always be some human bottleneck when it comes to abstract software i also run loops that comb through slack / github to auto-propose a fix & have another agent auto-review, but you need the human to stamp, and they
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
even boris says they need people with judgment to manage the agents i dont write code by hand anymore but shipping something people want is as hard (or maybe harder?) as its ever been
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
the subjective framework is exactly why its good prior bms relied mostly on unit tests or synthetic judges which are easily benchmaxxed, which leads to nobody trusting benchmarks we need people manually checking the data for good code quali
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
i worked on one of the benchmarks typically found in new model releases this benchmark looks very good from the methodology. a cog researcher checking the data themselves is very high signal (not scaleable so don't take the benchmark a
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
i doubt it, cog wants coding agents to be better because it directly improves their product they aren't married to a particular lab, most of their usage is their in house model i believe
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
there are plenty of american cos that bring in tons of money that are outside the mag7. vc funded companies pay high so they can grow and eventually bring in lots of money, and america has the deepest vc pockets so it reaps the rewards of t
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
I suspect demand for software is nearly infinitely elastic, so far we’ve seen demand and comp for engineers increase as coding agents got better Academia for comparison doesn’t make money…maybe a better comparison is HFT? Plenty of very ver
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
feel like that narrative has died given the return of RTO. In person work is really valuable and the talent is just better in the US on average (mostly because of immigration!), software is so levered one good Eng can 1000x the value of a b
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
American eng comp is commensurate with the money American tech brings in, you could even argue underpaid
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
For that level of experience you can prob get 200k in a MCOL area in the US, or up to 500k+ in HCOL The rest of the world has already been in a rude awakening, talented engineers should be compensated well no matter where they happen to liv
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
i suspect this is highly dependent on what you're working on from my experience if you give the models a way to self-verify correctness they succeed basically 100% of the time
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
nearly any human desire can be set up as a complex software system to satiate it
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
that is abysmal!
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
True on the demand/supply curve I think due to how leveraged software is, the top % of software developers are more desired (and compensated) than ever, and the bottom % will have difficulty finding a role, and there are structural bar
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
it is subject to market forces, but there's no clear ceiling you can draw like copywriting, or textiles, or horses and cars with abstractions and complexity there's essentially infinite demand for software
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
i don't think this comment contributes much to the discussion. can you elaborate more than saying "no"?
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
its not obvious to me that salaries go down, my hunch was that salaries go up but the bar is higher. Software becoming easier to produce (still hard to verify and make useful fwiw) raises the ambitions of software projects, and we don'
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
Employees who get paid a flat rate per hour don't have the incentive to do more than their job Equity / profit sharing should be commonplace in the age of AI.
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
i dont think targeted ads are necessarily bad, and definitely not has bad as the data freely shared vs. behind meta's walls and what is this 3rd use case?
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
i think some targeted ads are bad and social media is probably bad
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
i care that my data isnt being sold i dont really care that i get targeted ads, in fact i prefer targeted ads vs. ones that are of no use to me
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
not to defend zuck but its a common misconception that meta sells data advertisers dont see the personal data they buy for ad placement
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
all the labs "clean" their pretraining data, and you can have your pretraining data to be minimally ai generated but also spam synthetic post-training data
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
I think there's been a recent wave of 'fde-washing' with companies adopting the role (or renaming existing roles) without understanding what made it effective in the first place Imo, the main responsibilities of the fde role
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
anti-ai article with ai-isms all over :(
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
the results are in the revenues of appied ai companies!
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
i work at a company that automates front and back office workflows (being vague on purpose) all industries, all are willing to pay 10s of millions even with the tech being somewhat immature
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
I've seen many cases where AI led to ROI with high margins (maybe not enough to justify the entire industry capex though), but they usually share similar features - AI is a component of a larger product sold - The product improves the
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
Hmm compared to film/entertainment yes, but from the perspective of an individual developer worker, your alternatives are not just in film/entertainment
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
now compare that margin / growth to big tech or hft...

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