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by xienze 6mo ago
And what has that really bought them? The wages are laughable compared to the US where you'd THINK us non-unionized tech workers would be paid minimum wage. And the famous European healthcare and long vacations are more a function of t
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by xienze 6mo ago
That's all labor that can only be done "here and now." Can't just have Indians do it over the internet. And replacing the workers at a moment's notice is usually complicated by the striking workers harassing and att
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by xienze 6mo ago
Yes, they did. We had guest speakers from Microsoft talking about AI. AI has been a decades-long grift, it's not something that just appeared out of thin air a few years ago. What part do you find hard to believe? That tech companies w
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by xienze 6mo ago
Doesn't necessarily mean that's a good idea.
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by xienze 6mo ago
It's probably a combination of things: * New models running in llama.cpp (what's under the hood of ollama et al) frequently require bug fixes. * The GGUF models that run in llama.cpp frequently require bug fixes (Unsloth is notori
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by xienze 6mo ago
It's always been this way. I remember, speaking of Microsoft, when they came to my school around 2002 or so giving a talk on AI. They very confidently stated that AGI had already been "solved", we know exactly how to do it, o
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by xienze 6mo ago
I wasn't saying anything about that, I was just pointing out that yes, IBM produces a ton of patents, but they're mostly trivial junk that regular employees generate en masse in order to earn accomplishments and make up for the in
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by xienze 6mo ago
> the company had generated more patents than any other business in each of 25 consecutive years. A couple things about those patents, from a former IBMer who has quite a few in his time there. First, not all patents are created equal. M
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by xienze 6mo ago
I think that means success rate, not speed.
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by xienze 6mo ago
Yes, in theory. But these are inherently non-deterministic systems interpreting English prose. It's not the same thing as a real honest-to-God program that executes a deterministic algorithm to verify the output. I can't believe w
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by xienze 6mo ago
> "A military operation is being planned" is very different from "Maduro will be kidnapped in the next x hours". IIRC, the bet was on "Nicolas Maduro out?": > If Nicolás Maduro leaves office before Februa
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by xienze 6mo ago
> I like how when people talk about corruption they think about Nancy Pelosi or some other congressman/senator making couple million $ on the stock market over their entire careers due to insider trading So, two things. First, she&#
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by xienze 6mo ago
> And you're saying Americans aren't banned from criticising their elites? Half the country would be locked up right now if they weren’t allowed to criticize Trump. Have you even paid attention to how much he’s shitted on, on a
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by xienze 6mo ago
The more sensible take is “don’t use new technology where it doesn’t make sense.” The start menu should need a web browser engine and a heavy JS framework because…?
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by xienze 6mo ago
I use self-hosted Bitwarden (Vaultwarden) for this. It runs on my local network, and I have it installed on my phone etc. When I’m on my local network, everything works fine. When I’m not on my local network, the phone still has the credent
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by xienze 6mo ago
> I'm incredibly disappointed when I sat down to my hobbyist programming time and realized copilot was suddenly and dramatically changed in a way that is incredibly disheartening. Guess it’s time to rediscover the lost art of progra
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by xienze 6mo ago
I think there’s a lot of truth to “the AI did it” though. We’re encouraging the same people who get tricked by “attached is your invoice” emails to run agent harnesses that have control of your desktop. I think there’s gonna be a lot of AI-
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by xienze 6mo ago
> I prefer humans can make choices for themselves and have reasonable autonomy when it does not have a negative affect on others. How far do you want to take this? Your choice of diet may have a negative effect on others by way of having
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by xienze 6mo ago
“It’s been a whole year or two and nothing bad has happened, checkmate doomers!” It’s pretty shocking how much web content and forum posts are either partially or completely LLM-generated these days. I’m pretty sure feeding this stuff back
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by xienze 6mo ago
> Yes but that’s why you ask it to teach you what it just did. Are you really going to do that though? The whole point of using AI for coding is to crank shit out as fast as possible. If you’re gonna stop and try to “learn” everything, w
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by xienze 6mo ago
> Benchmarks suggests they are comparable The problem here is people think AI benchmarks are analogous to say, CPU performance benchmarks. They're not: * You can't control all the variables, only one (the prompt). * The outputs
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by xienze 6mo ago
Well, it's something. PhD students have always been pretty poorly paid because there's a massive oversupply of them. At least they have an additional source of income available to them.
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by xienze 6mo ago
> There's never been a better time to be in the trades. I imagine it was _slightly_ better when you didn't have to worry about unlimited numbers of illegal immigrants ready and willing to undercut you.
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by xienze 6mo ago
> This is about the $10/hour that they give to freelancers to solve math/physics/chemistry problems so that they can train the LLMs on them. If you're talking about DataAnnotation, specialized stuff like that is $30&#
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by xienze 6mo ago
What kind of meaningful connections can you make when you live in a city with a a large transient population and are surrounded by hundreds or thousands of people on a daily basis, come on now. People can only have so many friends and acqua
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by xienze 6mo ago
And in a public transport-dominant society every neighbor is also someone in your way, taking up a spot at the restaurant you walk to, filling up the subway train and therefore making you late in your commute… There’s no free lunch. Doesn’t
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by xienze 6mo ago
I think you have that backwards. Agentic coding is way more demanding than simple chat. The request/response loops (tool calling) are much tighter and more numerous, and the context is waaaaay bigger in general.
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by xienze 6mo ago
> I am watching it enable so many of my friends and family who have no idea how to code. Be careful what you wish for, this is going to be a double edged sword like YouTube is. YouTube allowed regular people without money and industry co
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by xienze 6mo ago
> coding voodoo Well, we've sacrificed the precision of actual programming languages for the ease of English prose interpreted by a non-deterministic black box that we can't reliably measure the outputs of. It's only natur
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by xienze 6mo ago
Not sure that's what I was getting at. People in camp 2 don't think an LLM can take over the job of a real software engineer. It's people in camp 1 that I wonder about. They're convinced that LLMs can accomplish anything

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