Viliam1234

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by Viliam1234 29d ago
Yeah, but do they do this on purpose (e.g. to avoid promoting someone who might outshine them), or they just do the random thing because they are incompetent? I suspect there is a lot of bias in action, for example extraverts genuinely beli
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by Viliam1234 1mo ago
Developers talk to LLMs. Managers tell the developers to talk to LLMs. CEOs tell the managers to tell the developers to talk to LLMs. The longer the chain, the higher you are in the company hierarchy.
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
> Many scammers have plausible deniability The scammers who call me are perfectly obvious. First, they tell me the company they are from (almost certainly a fake one -- could be easy to verify). Then they try to convince me that two year
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
If you assign speed-based KPIs to everything, you will get both the good speed and the bad speed.
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
"Publish or perish" in science is like the "lines of code produced" in software development. Even with the technical debt. We have zillions of papers published, we know that most of them probably won't replicate, we
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
Until one day your Google account gets locked with an automatically generated message that you violated an unspecified rule. Good luck getting contact to a human support.
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
I find it funny how the best practices for programmers, ignored in most IT companies, get reinvented as the best practices for AIs. Boring: The documentation should be in code, not in external Word documents uploaded to the company SharePoi
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
Why would companies accept AI generated code, it they can generate their own (and review the prompt)? It's like predicting that when compilers become more popular, accepting binary contributions will become the default.
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
This makes sense. AI contribution is basically just "prompt + AI work". Even if you are okay with AI work per se, you should accept prompts (after reviewing them) and let your own AI generate the code (and then also review the c
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
Elon Musk is a textbook example that no matter how much money you have, some people are still hungry for more and wouldn't hesitate to take away even from those who are starving. This is not a statement about rich people in general.
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by Viliam1234 2mo ago
> The article creation [...] growing at a slightly declining pace, which is expected since the amount of knowledge is finite. Not just because of that, but they also made the process of creating new articles very hostile. Decades ago, wh
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by Viliam1234 3mo ago
> Is it just too much effort to complain + favoritism towards frequent editors? They know how to play the game 100x better than you do, and you don't want to waste your time learning to play the game at their level. There is a Wikip
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by Viliam1234 4mo ago
I wonder what happens when you have kids and you can no longer spend your free time to keep learning new things that your company wants you to know. (Just kidding, I know what happens... they will fire you and hire someone who doesn't
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by Viliam1234 4mo ago
Many popular dependencies suffer from feature creep. Instead of doing one thing and doing it well, they do five different things, one of them is the one you need, another one introduces horrible vulnerabilities. Next version fill fix an exi
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by Viliam1234 4mo ago
it is silently assumed that only the experts who agree with me are the true experts
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by Viliam1234 4mo ago
Hopefully you are renting your intelligence to the company, not selling it. (Unless the job gets you burned out, in which case it was selling indeed.)
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by Viliam1234 4mo ago
I agree, especially the juxtaposition of "we have still have no idea how all of this is going to work when the dust settles" and "hype". If we don't know, then there is a chance it isn't a hype. For example
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by Viliam1234 4mo ago
> The solution was going to be for everybody to write positive stories in which the LLM is good and relinquishes control, which then made it's way into the LLM's training data Sounds like: https://www.lesswrong.com&
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by Viliam1234 4mo ago
> As a mostly non-programmer it got me a lot done. I guess this means that you have some good instincts or habits that would be good for a programmer, even if you didn't choose that path. Programming is more than just knowing the sy
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by Viliam1234 5mo ago
Some people took SO too competitively. They tried to be the first to answer your question (even if by a single sentence that would be edited to a longer answer later), but when they could not, they at least tried to get your question closed
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by Viliam1234 6mo ago
"free-range" means fully remote, right?
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by Viliam1234 6mo ago
The Anti-Intellectualism of the Hacker News Elites. AIs are useful tools in programming, whether you like it or not. Yes, there is a lot of hype. There is also a lot of ignorance. AI is not going to write an entire complex application for y
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by Viliam1234 6mo ago
> There is a prevalent view of economy that insists businesses sell their products at the minimum price they can still make a profit at [...] A Marxist view of economy, if I must. That's actually how competition is supposed to wor
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by Viliam1234 7mo ago
> Also, the idea that chess is a good proxy for genius is a bit out of date. He wrote that the reason he chose chess was because it was objectively measurable. You play the game, you either win or you lose; there is no way to dispute the
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by Viliam1234 7mo ago
Yeah, it's easier to do the difficult and boring stuff when it's actually easy and interesting for you.
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by Viliam1234 7mo ago
Exactly. Up to some point, you actually do well because you are smart . Then, in the middle of the game, the rules change (from your perspective), and it may catch you by surprise. It would be much better for the gifted children to attend
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by Viliam1234 7mo ago
I think it does provide some education for the average child. It's just when you are not average that it fails you.
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by Viliam1234 9mo ago
There is Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org/
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by Viliam1234 9mo ago
> only to realize moments later that it was a thoughtless machine sending him the letter rather than a real human being Yeah, realizing that thoughtless machines are still more thankful that real human beings would make me depressed.
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by Viliam1234 9mo ago
That's why the social networks don't want to talk about the bots, but they are happy to have them.

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