cowanon77

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by cowanon77 4d ago
AI does this really well, even better than new development. I regularly use Github copilot to automatically read production logs from the app and backend services, find errors logs, deeply scan the codebases, create theories about the issu
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by cowanon77 4d ago
> we are passing in training data that says to do those felonies. Partially, but also I don't think current AIs really have any judgement of right and wrong, they just see chains of reasoning between ideas. This is the deeper issue
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by cowanon77 8d ago
We still have some product development software teams at my company that have not changed at all in the last year. We develop medical products in the U.S., so it is heavily regulated and processes change very slowly. We also require review
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by cowanon77 10d ago
Personally I have found "meta-prompting" to be much more useful than any pre-canned set of skills. Simply ask the AI (inside of a workspace already set up): Create a standalone prompt to <xyz> The latest AIs will print out
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by cowanon77 10d ago
I used to really enjoy writing code, to the point where I would have thought of it as art and fine contemplation. 25 years of corporate development beat that enjoyment out of me. AI is just the final nail in the coffin. I have no enjoyment
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by cowanon77 2mo ago
On the surface it seems bad, although many of these books were probably rotting in place rather than being read. If the companies are willing to make the digital version available this may actually prreserve the books. More troubling to me
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by cowanon77 2mo ago
It seems to be true this time though; I have observed it myself and heard it from several experienced developers I personally know and respect. It feels like some threshold was crossed with Opus 4.5 and Gpt 5.3, where the models are now ab
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by cowanon77 2mo ago
I’m not sure why that’s controversial - I have met many Ivy League students and grads; they are all intelligent, at least in an academic way. The only other common characteristic is that they almost always had some form of privilege. Eith
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by cowanon77 3mo ago
A lot of upper middle class people recognize that AI is a direct assault on their livelihood. The very jobs that AI threatens to disrupt are the bread and butter of the upper middle class.
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by cowanon77 4mo ago
Companies are fundamentally untrustworthy in the long term. You are always one management change away from the product being unusable or hostile to your use case. With old fashioned technology there is almost always a path to fixing it lon
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by cowanon77 4mo ago
The problem is computer technology in its current state is fundamentally hard to trust. Without reading the source code and knowing the full source of all external services, and hoping the terms of service or external source code don’t cha
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by cowanon77 5mo ago
Jira is only a set of changes though. What happens on a long (10+ year) and complex (10+) developer project with many changes and revisions? Eventually you need an explicit specification that itself has a "current state", and a
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by cowanon77 5mo ago
There is an imbalance in leverage and timing though. Dynamic pricing requires a lot of real time and historical data; companies can access and share that information easily, and you as a consumer cannot. Even in areas with multiple competi
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by cowanon77 5mo ago
The core theories of economics seem correct, and in fact predict the current situation if used correctly. The problem is that the game has been systemicaly rigged. Employers have maximimized their legal leverage, while crushing all employ
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by cowanon77 11mo ago
It's similar to the problems with GDP, CPI, U-3 (Unemployment rate), etc. You really need at least 30-100 metrics or more to get a grasp of what's really happening in a complex eonomy. Debt can be good if it causes more growth i
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by cowanon77 11mo ago
This is the big misnomer - it's debt on the U.S. balance sheet, but is a credit on someone else's balance sheet. By itself, it's not necessarily bad; it really depends on who the debt is issued to, why, and on what terms. Ti