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by whynotminot 8mo ago
It’s also pretty wild to me how people still don’t really even know how to use it. On hacker news, a very tech literate place, I see people thinking modern AI models can’t generate working code. The other day in real life I was talking to a
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
> Be careful here. I have more coworkers contributing slop and causing production issues than 10x’ing themselves. Sure, many such cases. We'll all have work for a while, if only so that management has someone to yell at when things
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
> But I think we're in world where very soon, companies will be demanding their engineering departments converge to the lived experience of the people who are seeing something like the author. I think this part is very real. If you’
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
This is often a commonly blamed reason, but I think the data at this point pretty strongly suggests that the more affluent a country is the less kids they have. You look at some of the most third world places in the world without strong eco
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Don’t get me wrong Gemini 3 is very impressive! It just seems to always need to give you an answer, even if it has to make it up. This was also largely how ChatGPT behaved before 5, but OpenAI has gotten much much better at having the model
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Gemini models also consistently hallucinate way more than OpenAI or anthropic models in my experience. Just an insane amount of YOLOing. Gemini models have gotten much better but they’re still not frontier in reliability in my experience.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Was just thinking that. “Working as designed”
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
So you want a video of me coding at work using AI? There are entire YouTube channels dedicated to this already. There are already copious blogs about people's AI workflows -- this very post you're commenting in is one (do you fi
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Ah, it couldn't generate a 100% complete working browser from scratch in a week. I guess the technology is cooked.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
> AI misinformation? Please do provide some examples. Like saying they can't generate compiling code in this very thread?
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
I don't see how anything you're saying is a response to what I said.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
I agree that this will be the end result over time, maybe even faster than we expect. And as those speed pressures increase, AI will take over more and more of the development process.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
You’re asking to see my company’s code base? It’s not like with AI we’re making miraculous things you’ve never seen before. We’re shipping the same kinda stuff just much faster. I don’t know what you’re looking for. Code is code it’s just m
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Sounds like a skill issue. I’ve seen it rapidly increase the speed of delivery in my shop.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Anyone who’s been a developer for more than 10 minutes knows that best practices are hard to always follow through on when there’s pressure to ship. But there’s more time to do some of these other things if the actual coding time is trendin
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Of course software hasn’t been delivered fast enough. There is so so so much of the world that still needs high quality software.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
This is a fading but common sentiment on hacker news. There’s a lot of engineers who will refuse to wake up to the revolution happening in front of them. I get it. The denialism is a deeply human response.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
The real value that AI provides is the speed at which it works, and its almost human-like ability to “get it” and reasonably handle ambiguity. Almost like tasking a fellow engineer. That’s the value. By the time you do everything outlined h
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Did you do diffs to confirm the code as stolen or are you just speculating.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
> Solution, use both as needed! This is the way. People are unfortunately starting to divide themselves into camps on this — it’s human nature we’re tribal - but we should try to avoid turning this into a Yankees Redsox. Both companies a
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Frankly I really don’t care about both sides-ism anymore. I can agree with you that a lot of administrations have been irresponsible on this point while also believing that the current administration is particularly dangerous in this area.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
I didn’t say he was the first to abuse powers. Indeed it’s kind of silly to even have to clarify “but other administrations…” because that’s fairly obvious to anyone old enough to have seen more than one president. But the article is litera
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
This article is about the Trump admin seizing a reporter’s phone. The politics was here from the start.
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy “Arbitrary” meaning you better have good reasons! Which implies there are or can be good reasons for which your privacy can be violated. You’re misreading that to mea
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
Who decided absolute privacy in all circumstances is a fundamental human right? I don’t think any government endorses that position. I don’t know what international law you speak of. You’re basing your argument on an axiom that I don’t th
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by whynotminot 8mo ago
I get so annoyed by this Socratic line of questioning because it’s extremely obvious. Terrorist has plans and contacts on laptop/phone. Society has a very reasonable interest in that information. But of course there is the rational cou
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
Seems like a solvable problem: make it clear on the app/interior car screens that a school zone is being avoided — I think most riders will understand this. You also have to drive much more slowly in a school zone than you do on other
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
I would wager the main reason for this is the same reason it’s also hard to teach these skills to people: there’s not a lot of high quality training for distributed debugging of complex production issues. Competence comes from years of exp
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
It might not be possible for a lot of places — I don’t really know. But I know when I drive, if it’s a route I’m familiar with, I’ll personally avoid school zones for this very reason: higher risk of catastrophe. But also it’s annoying to h
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
I’m actually pretty surprised Waymo as a general rule doesn’t completely avoid driving in school zones unless absolutely unavoidable. Any accident is bad. But accidents involving children are especially bad.

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