TimByte

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by TimByte 3mo ago
It depends on the type of task and the developer's level. For typical CRUD tasks, I'd say AI is often already faster and better than an average developer. But as soon as ambiguous requirements or architectural trade-offs appear, t
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by TimByte 3mo ago
If programming were just about typing text, the profession would have disappeared already. In practice most of the work involves understanding requirements, analyzing constraints, finding trade-offs, and fixing problems before they hit prod
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by TimByte 3mo ago
Agreed. Shorting requires timing the market perfectly, but buying assets after a crash just requires having liquidity and patience. Historically, that's often been the safer play After the dot-com bust, infrastructure assets turned out
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by TimByte 3mo ago
I think a lot of people are mixing two different ideas: AI is overhyped and AI company stocks are about to crash. The first might well be true, but the second might not be. The dot-com bubble burst too, but the internet didn't go away.
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by TimByte 3mo ago
There's no practical point to this. System calls and hardware interactions are deterministic. We don't need a probabilistic model to efficiently handle interrupts or write blocks to disk. Ai is great for the user interface layer,
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by TimByte 3mo ago
That's the whole point of an operating system - to manage local hardware. That's its reason for existing. The moment task switching starts depending on rtt to a cloud provider's servers, it's just a thin client with delu
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by TimByte 4mo ago
If you're on macOS, take a look at Orion from the team behind Kagi Search. It runs on WebKit, is really light on battery usage, doesn't come bundled with crypto stuff or AI agents, and still supports Chrome and Firefox extensions
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by TimByte 4mo ago
I think a lot of people aren't actually against AI itself. Personally I just want to choose when I need a chatbot and when I want a normal list of links. Over the last few years, that line has started getting pretty blurry
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by TimByte 4mo ago
Your second idea is pretty much the direction the classic solution takes: walk along the curve incrementally, avoid square roots, and use symmetry to fill in the other parts
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by TimByte 4mo ago
Names disappear instantly, but some oddly specific technical acronym from one interview decades ago gets burned into ROM
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by TimByte 4mo ago
A small floppy full of actual programs probably said much more about your ability than a whiteboard quiz ever could
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by TimByte 4mo ago
Funny how often "there are optimized functions for that" really means "I haven't thought through what the optimized function actually has to do"
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by TimByte 4mo ago
What I like about these questions is that they're small enough to fit in your head, but still reveal a lot about how someone thinks about memory, representation, and hardware
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by TimByte 4mo ago
I think this is basically right, but I'd phrase it as "capital allocation theater" rather than just stupidity
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by TimByte 4mo ago
LLMs will probably expose how much software work was coordination, bureaucracy, and marginal product churn. That could still be a big labor-market shock without requiring the technology to be magic
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by TimByte 4mo ago
The worry with AI is not "productivity is bad." It's whether the displaced labor has anywhere comparable to go
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by TimByte 4mo ago
What is the next large labour-absorbing sector supposed to be?
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by TimByte 4mo ago
One difference though is that the agriculture transitions had somewhere for labor to go: factories, construction, urban services, export manufacturing, etc
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Came across the async framework userver 3.0 recently – they've moved to C++20(github.com)
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by TimByte 4mo ago
I think it's less "nature knows better" and more "we usually don't know enough"
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by TimByte 4mo ago
Yeah, nature has a way of very quickly correcting the version of itself we picked up from cartoons
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by TimByte 4mo ago
What's striking here is how long a "known" explanation can persist simply because it sounds plausible
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by TimByte 4mo ago
I agree with the broader point, but I'm not sure the migration to paid email is automatic
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by TimByte 4mo ago
For something as central as a Google account, it feels pretty unreasonable that a long-held personal number can be silently rejected with no appeal path or explanation
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by TimByte 4mo ago
That clarification matters, but I don't think it makes the privacy concern disappear
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by TimByte 4mo ago
This feels like one of those "security" changes that also happens to conveniently eliminate a lot of privacy-preserving workflows
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by TimByte 4mo ago
AI is clearly useful, but usefulness doesn't automatically justify unlimited deployment, opaque training practices or turning every public service and workplace into an experiment
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by TimByte 5mo ago
Daily is a very different psychological load. Even when it's "only 15 minutes" it can dominate the start of the day and make every morning feel like a small performance review...
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by TimByte 5mo ago
The worst pattern is having a calendar full of rituals and still never having the right conversation at the right time
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by TimByte 5mo ago
The small standup you describe works because it is basically an interrupt router: say what you're doing, surface blockers, then move the real discussion to the relevant people

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