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by 2sk21 11d ago
Who is going to teach programmers to wield AI competently?
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by 2sk21 11d ago
Much the same here - I have gone back to basics and am studying a lot more than I ever did.
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by 2sk21 14d ago
You aren't worried that these binaries may have unfixed vulnerabilities?
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by 2sk21 14d ago
You aren't worried about the provenance of the installed apps?
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by 2sk21 21d ago
Sounds like cargo cult approach to engineering management (to use Feynman's metaphor). It's interesting to see that even Meta is subject to this. When I worked at IBM (round about 2014), management decided to adopt the Spotify org
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by 2sk21 1mo ago
Exactly! I posted much the same comment in another thread and there were lots of huffy complaints that amounted to "you're prompting it wrong"
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by 2sk21 2mo ago
Thats fine but then Fable 5 should have requested this information instead of blundering along. So why didn't it? An expert human asked to do the same task would have surely asked for the additional data.
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by 2sk21 2mo ago
Yeah - we also don't know if the models from OpenAI and anthropic are back-doored either.
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by 2sk21 3mo ago
This seems more like a marketing move though following the old dictum that all publicity is good publicity.
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by 2sk21 4mo ago
You can turn off the "smart" features in the settings page for gmail. I did this and find it to be much more usable!
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by 2sk21 6mo ago
This is just insane! Why hasn't this bubbled up to the top?
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by 2sk21 8mo ago
You can, most certainly, drive a car without understanding how it works. A pilot of an aircraft on the other hand needs a fairly detailed understanding of the subsystems in order to effectively fly it. I think being a programmer is closer
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by 2sk21 8mo ago
Indeed - there is a lot of fake "productivity" going on with these swarms of agents
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by 2sk21 8mo ago
I was reminded of this classic short story by Isaac Asimov, The feeling of Power: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/4/mode/2up
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by 2sk21 8mo ago
I feel grateful that I retired a few years ago and no longer have to make a living being a developer.
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by 2sk21 8mo ago
This reminds me of the early 1980s, when home PCs were still very new, the main use cases that vendors used to promote were managing household accounts and recipes. These use cases were extremely unimpressive for most ordinary people. It to
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by 2sk21 9mo ago
IDEs used to be extremely expensive back in the 1990s. IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio and IBM's Visual age for Java were quite expensive subscription as I recall. subsequently, open source IDEs like Eclipse and VisualStudio seem
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by 2sk21 9mo ago
The next generation of SEO - this article is both hilarious and disturbing
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by 2sk21 9mo ago
This is absolutely mind boggling. Why hasn't this bubbled up to the top of HN?
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by 2sk21 1y ago
Reviewing someone else's large pull request is like having a second task in parallel with what you are working on yourself!
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by 2sk21 1y ago
Telecom vendors were doing exactly this before the dotcom crash of 2000
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by 2sk21 1y ago
I'm curious: Do you scrutinize every line of code that's generated?
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by 2sk21 2y ago
I read this point in the article with bafflement: "Learn when a problem is best solved manually." Sure, but how? This is like the vacuous advice for investors: buy low and sell high
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by 2sk21 2y ago
Indeed, there have been so many new activation functions that I have stopped following the literature after I retired. I am glad to see that people are trying out new things.
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by 2sk21 2y ago
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention that one of the key factors that enabled deep learning was the use of RELU as the activation function in the early 2010s. RELU behaves a lot better than the logistic sigmoid that we u
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by 2sk21 2y ago
I would be happy if it could search through my enormous reading list on Safari
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by 2sk21 2y ago
I worked summers in a lab in the 1980s that had Silicon Graphics, Apollo and Sun workstations. The Sun was the easiest to program by far so it got the most use.
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by 2sk21 2y ago
Yeah - it was pretty chaotic when I was there too. We had to use the internal purchase order system to buy certificates from a CA. It was cumbersome as it required several levels of approval. I have long since quit IBM thankfully and had fo
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by 2sk21 2y ago
When it comes to certificates, mess-ups happen frequently in big companies. When I worked at IBM, I initially had the responsibility for obtaining and renewing the code signing certificate for a Java applet that we used in our product. I ha
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by 2sk21 2y ago
Article like this are why I keep coming back to HN: I was using an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) for a similar task but this LED idea is fascinating. It would have never occurred to me!

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