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by vsareto 3y ago
Virtual personal assistant isn't exactly a narrow definition. I'd expect that's a big role to play and we'll make AGI systems do that too. The strong AI definitions are also pretty biased towards human experiences. I wou
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by vsareto 3y ago
Meanwhile, just play Starcraft 2 to get an internship: https://i.redd.it/amk31bewfxt31.jpg
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by vsareto 3y ago
>Can you guys genuinely work 2 weeks on a feature without doing anything else? Sometimes, but you need a progressive team that, e.g. that doesn't do stand ups every day when almost all the work is multi-day efforts. You also need pe
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by vsareto 3y ago
ChatGPT: “That’s not an abstraction, it’s an abomination”
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by vsareto 3y ago
They don't generally talk about the other side of that coin which is that we end up inventing a benevolent and powerful AI. Much of that is natural because we and the media tend to be pessimistic about human behavior when consuming med
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by vsareto 3y ago
It's really hard to be sympathetic considering how rent and housing prices have exploded over the last 20 years and how difficult that's made life and future prospects for the average person. I would say the rewards extremely outw
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by vsareto 3y ago
>knowing that your job will sooner or later be taken over by AI? There's a few layers that make me not worried: - automation will shift jobs - an engineer is a generally smart employee (yes, even the average engineers), so the compa
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by vsareto 3y ago
It wouldn't be unreasonable to say database products are an order of magnitude or two more reliable than code written by many teams. There's some advantage in having code separation first, but it is admittedly not a benefit of rel
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by vsareto 3y ago
>To me the answer is simple: you don't want a relationship (personal or with an employer/employee) based on a lie to begin with. Personally, if I found out and they could actually do the work, I would let it pass. I'd cons
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by vsareto 3y ago
I really doubt you’ll see it unless there’s a serious degradation in life quality It’s also hard to protest if you are scraping by, and a long commitment to protesting means you lose your job Capitalism sadly wins far too often for me to th
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by vsareto 3y ago
Boot camp seems like it would be one of the better places to actually lose the weight. I've never been, so might be eating a boot, but: - there's obviously a focus on PT. Maybe more so in the future if they expect more out of shap
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by vsareto 3y ago
I think you'll be paying a cloud provider instead of an API company, but it'll still be a monthly service charge for the service I don't see small/medium companies getting into acquiring hardware for AI
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by vsareto 3y ago
As dumb as it sounds, I'd buy a second phone for side loading things if I needed to use enough of those apps. Before side loading on my personal phone, I'd want enough real world time to pass to make sure it's not easy to fin
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by vsareto 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if most people don't learn it in-depth because: A) you can google or ChatGPT things more easily these days B) there's a truck load of services and ways to connect and do things. It's hard to learn
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by vsareto 4y ago
That's okay then, we can prompt them to just stop. Even if it tries to preserve that goal in particular, there are likely adversarial prompts to get it to stop
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by vsareto 4y ago
The actual report doesn't say lost or degraded, but rather 'exposed to automation', and right after that statement, they also mention the historical trend of automation has been moving people around: >The good news is that
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by vsareto 4y ago
Getting ChatGPT (or any good-enough LLM) to generate/manipulate/edit/find discrepancies with PDFs would be great too. Probably best done with a plugin so it can execute code though. Dumping the PDF to HTML, telling ChatGPT to
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by vsareto 4y ago
There are some concrete examples here, but it really feels like most of the opportunities are around software as that's still the lowest-barrier, training-time-efficient, highest paying job you can learn remotely. That's by far th
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by vsareto 4y ago
>I guess I'm just good at working with them and ignoring their jerkiness, so I keep ending up working with them? This is definitely a skill. You can have, what seems to be, a bunch of jerks working together but they all have thick-s
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by vsareto 4y ago
Like the sister WaPo article hyping up this job title, also involving Anthropic ( https://archive.is/pvwlx ), this is still a super small market and only red-hot only because of Anthropic's job posting. It's like wa
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by vsareto 4y ago
>In every single Board Meeting in 2023, every Fortune 500 CEO is being asked about what their AI strategy will be, and I’m not sure most of them will have good answers. That’s a big deal Years ago, I remember similar things regarding “Bi
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by vsareto 4y ago
>Some folks are scary precise in their estimates. I’d say this is like 10% of engineers. You ask them for an estimate, they tell you, and then it takes exactly that long every single time. It's possible they are hiding their true sk
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by vsareto 4y ago
https://archive.is/0Jojw
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by vsareto 4y ago
>They are the good all rounders, good at going from ambiguity to decent code. That's useful for day-to-day issues, but if you're getting a lot of ambiguity that these folks have to address, someone higher up needs to write more
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by vsareto 4y ago
Hot take, but if you're doing a lot of soft skills work with non-developers, you might be carrying the team too much. You're very much right that those jobs won't go away because that would mean people around the developer wo
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by vsareto 4y ago
It definitely doesn’t have a comprehensive real world model like a human, but there’s probably something extra besides just statistics: https://thegradient.pub/othello/ > They suggest language models can develop wor
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by vsareto 4y ago
It can do edits, yes. You can also generally specify what language to use so it shouldn't jump from C++ to assembly unless you tell it to. The bigger edits (refactoring things across an entire project) is out of reach because of the to
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by vsareto 4y ago
Good/bad code has changed radically over time, and there’s still a bunch of diverse opinions on it. It also means different things in different ecosystems. At the end of the day, the easiest way to deal with it is to find a social circ
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by vsareto 4y ago
>To me, it is baffling how all Americans have put up with this annoyance for decades! All is explained with a cursory glance at our political system
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by vsareto 4y ago
It can do some thinking. You can give it instructions to modify a piece of code that definitely isn't on the internet with several steps and it attempts to follow instructions, which, for a human, requires formulating what steps to tak

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