SloppyDrive

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by SloppyDrive 1mo ago
We have moved some "low cost" work from India to other reigons, now that translation is improved... At the same time, we are reducing the proportion of outsourced work, because a local team with LLMs are dramatically more capable.
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by SloppyDrive 1mo ago
Indian tech sector has seen rapid decline; the Indian outsourcing model is obsolete. I can now translate tasks that can be easily split to low cost regions, and not have to deal with the cultural issues of India. I can also rapidly generate
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by SloppyDrive 1mo ago
Ive never liked this framing; "the public good" is too nebulous an idea to justify how tax should be spent. I, and people like me create wealth. Some of that wealth is pooled at an administrative level that makes sense across a to
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by SloppyDrive 5mo ago
I think this fundamentally misunderstands what people want... Currently I live in a city with an OK pt network; in the a high density apartment. I chose this because I can catch a train to work, go drinking locally, and I dislike driving. I
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by SloppyDrive 5mo ago
We dont categorize humans that way; not because humans are different but because of cultural norms. The generous idea is that "subspecies" does not provide an anthropologist a useful lens to look at humanity, therefore we do not c
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by SloppyDrive 5mo ago
This is exactly what I mean though; the technical decisions for the SLS, and every bit of "institution" that follow are so flawed that I dont believe you can draw a path from this to future work. It doesnt matter if you are actual
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by SloppyDrive 5mo ago
Im not really convinced SLS and Artemis are best effort projects; we improve through refinement, and the only way to get there is cadence. More launches with the same general mission requirements. One launch a year is not even close to what
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by SloppyDrive 6mo ago
I am yet to see quality work come out of India. I do not believe I have even seen "good value" output. What is there to respect?
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by SloppyDrive 6mo ago
I can only speak to what I see in my social circle; but the general conclusion is the value is not there currently, and the AI tools theoretically make the payoff decline relative to on-shoring. Either these tools dont do much, and its busi
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by SloppyDrive 6mo ago
Ive been doing this for a while, and seen many people try; the success ratio is so low that I consider it a fools errand. There are many reasons why; but simply there is no surplus of super developers anywhere; you might find one anywhere,
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by SloppyDrive 6mo ago
Perhaps in the long run there will be very few developers globally; but in the short term, I see less and less use for the whole idea of low-cost outsourcing. The historical value of a low cost region is get crap work for few dollars. &quot
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by SloppyDrive 6mo ago
The biggest positive I have seen is not so much in the new tools, but in new ways to convince the higher ups to do sensible things. We always find that small teams of locals can do much much more than a team with an unlimited number of low
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by SloppyDrive 6mo ago
This is one of the areas that annoy me due to how limp microsoft is with the requirements... Either give a solid set of requirements that let a dev assume things about a windows 11 system (good hardware security, in particular), or fuck off
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by SloppyDrive 7mo ago
The point about militia is a short statement for why the right to bear arms is important, rather than trying to restrict or qualify the right. The ability to form militias is so important, that everyone should have the right to bear arms, i
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by SloppyDrive 7mo ago
They have a current production capacity in the high hundreds of thousands, a software solution that has a reasonable chance of competing in the self driving market, and a worldwide distribution platform. So the optimistic valuation is based
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by SloppyDrive 7mo ago
Optimus is not a leader in humanoids; but that china demo is not really all that impressive; They are lightweight, reduced scale, and not all that dynamic... No idea how adaptable the control would be either. See how poorly the sword one mo
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by SloppyDrive 8mo ago
Its not that strange; normally manufactures are focused on volume and brand. So you have the 3 and Y in numbers where they can compete in the mass market price range; and CT and FSD for brand notoriety. S and Y are not special enough to do
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by SloppyDrive 8mo ago
I fully believe highly skilled people can get a great benefit from LLM tools; probably not 10x; but enough that its noticeable. The key thing for me is that it only works when the LLM is used for tasks below the devs skill level; It can spe
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by SloppyDrive 8mo ago
Not remotely true; Look up "one chip" designs. Yes, there are some security threats, but solving them is more valuable than trying to design a car around true firewalls.
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by SloppyDrive 8mo ago
Post crash connectivity (as well as complex video classification) are part of the ncap standards now. And with the way we are moving to centralized one system architectures, the device that does video processing can be the same soc that doe
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by SloppyDrive 8mo ago
The eternal-september; or its international equivalent, kills things because the nature of the public you are interacting with has changed. These issues with reports and junk contributions come about because there is a huge payoff for prete