captainkrtek

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by captainkrtek 24d ago
It's frustrating to find AI so prevalent in writing. It takes some nugget of a human written idea, dilutes it and increases word count, only to make the actual core idea less obvious (or ultimately summarized by someone using AI).
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by captainkrtek 5mo ago
Amen to this. I've bounced back and forth on my feelings for AI and have landed in the realm of: - there are certain things it is exceptional at that humans cannot replicate. - there are certain things I do not want to use it for. And
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Taming the Unpredictable: Reliability in Chaos (Srecon 26)(usenix.org)
1 points by captainkrtek 5mo ago|0 comments
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by captainkrtek 5mo ago
Do any of the major streaming platforms have a stance against AI generated music?
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by captainkrtek 5mo ago
I use Claude Opus 4.6 as an enterprise user, and have also noticed a lobotomization. In recent weeks it's been much more self-correcting even within singular responses ("This is the problem - no wait, we already proved it can&#x27
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by captainkrtek 6mo ago
Was talking about this with some colleagues who are from Ukraine, Russia, and other countries. In the US, it seems corruption is only allowed at the top. If you tried to bribe your way out of a traffic ticket as a regular person, you'd
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by captainkrtek 6mo ago
On my team I've been adding additional linters and analyzers (some I've written with Claude) to run at CI or locally to prevent codified "bad patterns" from entering our systems. This has been nice as a backstop, as I ca
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by captainkrtek 6mo ago
I've been toying with this too. I added a Claude skill (/gather-history) that consolidates the history of our session(s) specific to the change into a series of: decision log, involvement (how much did I write vs. AI, how many ref
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Ask HN: How do you review gen-AI created code?
8 points by captainkrtek 6mo ago|9 comments
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by captainkrtek 6mo ago
There seems to be so much value in planning, but in my organization, there is no artifact of the plan aside from the code produced and whatever PR description of the change summary exists. It makes it incredibly difficult to assess the chan
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by captainkrtek 6mo ago
One challenge with code review as an antidote to poor quality gen-AI code, is that we largely see only the code itself, not the process or inputs. In the pre-gen-AI days, if an engineer put up a PR, it implied (somewhat) they wrote their co
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by captainkrtek 9mo ago
Will there be an interest in vision based wearables? Google Glasses - dead Apple Vision Pro - dead FB/Meta x RayBan - dead soon(?) It seems they can’t get over the social hurdle of having a camera strapped to your face, and the effects
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by captainkrtek 9mo ago
50+ weeks? so a year? I've been in big tech for 12+ years now. The first handful of years are definitely a grind to earn your spot, get a couple promos. After that though, it can become quite a bit easier to coast if that's what y
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by captainkrtek 9mo ago
My biggest problem with usage of an LLM in coding is that it removes engineers from understanding the true implementation of a system. Over the years, I learned that a lot of one's value as an engineer can come from knowing how things
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by captainkrtek 9mo ago
Agreed, seen a number of short form news pieces / docs on the effects of datacenter development across different parts of America. Pollution, noise, lights, water impacts, energy costs, etc. not a lot to like from them, and they create
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
I'm no economist, but if (when?) the AI bubble bursts and demand collapses at the price point memory and other related components are at, wouldn't price recover? not trying to argue, just curious.
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
As a customer of GitHub actions, anecdotally feels like Github experiences issues frequently enough to make this not a problem.
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
I've lived in Seattle my whole life, and have worked in tech for 12+ years now as a SWE. I think the SEA and SF tech scenes are hard to differentiate perfectly in a HN comment. However, I think any "Seattle hates AI" has to d
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
I think the obvious things are: - Deviation in consistency/texture/color/etc. - Obvious signs related to the above (eg: diarrhea, dehydration, blood in stool). Ultimately though, you can get the same results by just looking d
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
Do you think they're using the guise of "its solar radiation" as cover to do a software update to fix a more problematic "bug", and perhaps tangentially there are some changes in said-update to improve some error co
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
This has not been my experience at least at the more remote-friendly places I worked. However, I can see this at companies with different culture / pace / attitude. My most recent role the entire company of ~200 was remote, and so
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
This is excellent and aligns with my own experience. During my day I try to minimize interruptions by batching them. I will largely ignore Slack, and as notifications come in I glance and determine quickly if it really is urgent or if it ca
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
No no, we just need to put even more money in.
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
It's so sad how much money leaders will effortlessly pump into something like this, when we still have existential threats of climate change, incurable diseases, poverty, housing, and so on. Meanwhile ungodly amounts of money are being
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
A company I worked at also did this, though there was no limits. Some folks would choose to spend the whole week working on a larger refactor, for example, I unified all of our redis usage to use a single modern library compared to the mess
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
I've struggled throughout my life with anxiety, ADHD, and bouts of depression. I've done years of therapy, and use some medication to help with my ADHD. I will say though, singlehandedly, the best (and hardest) thing I've had
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
> It would be a good thing, if it would cause anything to change. It obviously won't. I agree wholeheartedly. The only change is internal to these organizations (eg: CloudFlare, AWS) Improvements will be made to the relevant systems
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
I'm Canadian and American, and have lived in both places and seen the stark differences myself. In the US, the police culture is certainly militarized and proud of it. Even in small towns you have days where the police roll out the big
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
There is a new doc on Netflix called "Country Doctor" which follows a doctor who works in a very rural area, it shows what happens when the hospital goes through another round of being sold off to a new firm and the difficult acce
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by captainkrtek 10mo ago
> The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me. It's gimmicky and it seems the only people "impressed" or &qu

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