Bukhmanizer

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by Bukhmanizer 2mo ago
This is just how authoritarian governments operate. It’s not some Machiavellian set of dominos. It’s more of a test of loyalty to The Administration than anything else.
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by Bukhmanizer 2mo ago
Sure, but let’s not pretend that people treated the statements of these ceos as strategic messaging. People very clearly treated what Altman, Zuck, Amodei etc have been saying as predictions, and it hasn’t been until they’ve been proven wro
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by Bukhmanizer 3mo ago
I recently wrote a tool to help me read AI generated PRs and it’s pretty sad that it’s got to this point.
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by Bukhmanizer 3mo ago
I would assume at least hackerrank is? I don’t think the point of a lot of this is to optimize your resume. It’s to show how arbitrary these systems are.
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by Bukhmanizer 3mo ago
I’d argue most businesses have had their start through yak shaving. I’ve found that the overuse of AI papers over a lot of problems. Then if things start failing people have no idea where or what to start fixing. I’m very much a destination
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by Bukhmanizer 3mo ago
Part of this is definitely cultural and class snobbery. Europeans are seen as being high class. So if you put cream in your Alfredo you are seen as being as ignorant and not knowing any better. Yet any sort of fusion with cultural foods tha
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by Bukhmanizer 6mo ago
The rule of thumb I have in my head right now is that AI will benefit people with deep specialized knowledge a lot, but people with shallow knowledge or skills can’t build anything that your average SWE with a Claude code subscription can’t
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by Bukhmanizer 6mo ago
I think a lot of the discourse around LLMs fails because of organizational differences. I work in science, and I’ve recently worked with a couple projects where they generated >20,000 LOC before even understanding what the project was su
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by Bukhmanizer 6mo ago
You don’t use pots or pans? Ovens are a special occasion thing in my house because our oven is huge and I can usually do the same thing in the air fryer, which is just a small convection oven.
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by Bukhmanizer 6mo ago
For me it’s that usually I can figure out if I’m going to like something way more easily if I’m just clicking through and watching samples of a show. I don’t want to be constrained to a predetermined algorithmic category.
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
This essay somehow sounds worse than AI slop, like ChatGPT did a line of coke before writing this out. I use AI everyday for coding. But if someone so obviously puts this little effort into their work that they put out into the world, I don
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
I generally don’t have faith that many consumer boycotts will work, but boy is it ever easy to switch away from openAI.
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
I’m not sure this is a good thing..
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
Having lived in Vancouver and NYC and now LA I think I’ve seen both sides of things, and I don’t think these things are quite as insurmountable as you think. I don’t think public transit is ever that pleasant, but I rarely felt unsafe in Va
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
As with most continuous arguments in SWE, it really depends. I used to do a lot of debugging of random (i.e. not written by me) bioinformatics tools and being able to just fire up gdb and get an immediate landscape of what the issues were i
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
I agree that’s kind of what should happen. What seems to have happened is that people have figured out it’s easier to game the system than produce more complicated or technical projects.
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
You’re right best reserve such observations for small nations like China
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
Also when you factor in the age of the wedding participants it almost seems like a regression. A couple in their 30s should be able to afford more than a couple in their 20s a generation ago.
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
I don’t think my concern is that AI is going to make everything too awesome for people to cope. The fact that I can now DoorDash lunch doesn’t really matter when I can’t afford a place to live or healthcare.
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
You’re absolutely right. I hate AI writing — it’s not that I hate AI, it’s that it makes everything it says sound a specific combination of smug and authoritative — No matter the content. Once you realize it’s not saying anything, that’s th
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by Bukhmanizer 7mo ago
As a coincidence there are 3 ShowHNs on the front page right now all with “boat” in their name. Showboat, Rowboat and Paperboat.
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
This seems absurdly naive to me with the path big tech has taken in the last 5 years. There’s literally infinite upside and almost no downside to constraining the ecosystem for the big players. You don’t think that eventually Google/Op
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
Personally in LA I had a Waymo try to take a right as I was driving straight down the street. It almost T-boned me and then honked at me. I don’t know if there has been a change to the algorithm lately to make them more aggressive but it wa
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
Absolutely!
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
This place is great, but my work had a function here and I walked around with one of our juniors and never have I felt so old. The pure astonishment and confusion when looking at a “floppy disk” aged me instantly.
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
This is like the sloppiest of AI slop to reach the front page here. TLDR: Just concatenate over all images and wave away any potential complications from doing that.
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
It’s weird when the failure modes of AI are similar. I once solved a Leetcode problem kind of unorthodox and both ChatGPT and Gemini both said it was wrong in the same way. Then I asked both of them to give me a counter example and only Gem
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
When thinking about automation people overindex on their current class biases. For 20 years we heard that robots were going to take over the “burger flipper” jobs. Why was it so easy to think that robots could replace fast food workers? Bec
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
Lines of code is just phrenology for software development, but a lot of people are very incentivized to believe in phrenology.
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by Bukhmanizer 8mo ago
I’d rather just read the prompt that this article was generated from.

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