discreteevent

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by discreteevent 5d ago
> I'm not sure how useful it is to say this I have to be honest and say it's not very useful for me to hear you say this because you make your living from AI consulting and in a previous thread [1] you said that you don't
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by discreteevent 6d ago
That's the point this time around. They went full authoritarian and purged all the competent people.
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by discreteevent 6d ago
> it will be sure way of selecting yourself out of the work pool If, as an engineer, you rely completely on AI then you will be selected out of the work pool. Some engineers will still be needed. If I was interviewing them (I used to do
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by discreteevent 6d ago
Because you will have an understanding of the complete system. Your domain and the code. This means that you can be more creative with it and also get yourself out of a mess if it occurs (which it will). From what I have seen AI doesn'
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by discreteevent 10d ago
> they can do something else with their lives. Let them eat cake.
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by discreteevent 16d ago
> there is no replacement for humans immersed in their world yet, so we need developers with with good understanding of the domain It's not enough. The software model that you produce ends up becoming part of the domain. You need to
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by discreteevent 16d ago
> I think a lot of shops are going to have to go through a couple years of Github-style "why the fuck is our service always down?" before they put 2 and 2 together. I think it will be like the outsourcing wave in the early 2000
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by discreteevent 18d ago
> I've never seen a company that was a., successful and b., prioritizing tech debt/upkeep at the same time. Maybe you have only worked in start ups? I have certainly seen products fail or partially fail because of tech debt. On
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by discreteevent 18d ago
Imagine my backend server thinking "I am not alone" the first time my front end sends it a request.
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by discreteevent 19d ago
You're lying.
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by discreteevent 19d ago
> I would rather have my fingernails ripped out than deal with years of government bureaucracy. These are just words. What matters are your actions. Your action is that you will cause other people to suffer pollution in order to enrich
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by discreteevent 20d ago
- "something broke" is way better than stack traces with line numbers That sums it up. Its the same since the days of XML. Someone decides to make something configurable externally and then everything gets put in there for conveni
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by discreteevent 25d ago
How do you even know that it's consistently 40 hours in 3? What kind of developer ever had that kind of estimation accuracy (unless it's really repetitive) or even focuses on productivity rather than the problem like that? This so
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by discreteevent 26d ago
Use Qt or Flutter
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by discreteevent 27d ago
What about a Jacquard loom? Is it conscious? There is a vast gap in complexity and abilities between that and a bicycle.
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by discreteevent 27d ago
Would you want evidence that your your bicycle is not conscious? It can sense your inputs. It responds to the environment. The gears do multiplication (reasoning!).
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by discreteevent 27d ago
> There is no non-AI coding anymore. The JVM and GCC have forbidden AI generated code. The world is bigger than you think.
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by discreteevent 27d ago
Yes, AI is a perfect accompaniment to a post-truth world. I'm hoping there will be a backlash soon and that those politicians, tech CEOs and AI will be rudely ousted from their perch and shunned thereafter.
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by discreteevent 28d ago
It's a bigger watch than the f-91w. But when the f-91w came out it was a standard size for a mans watch. Cars were a lot smaller then too.
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by discreteevent 28d ago
You could look at these two which are the original f-91 with minimal faceplate. I have the second one and I like it a lot. https://www.casio.com/europe/watches/casio/product.F-91WB-1A... https://ww
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by discreteevent 29d ago
> software engineering is more or less solved But the example you give is of a terminal for which there are copius examples in open source code. How hard is it really for a pattern matching machine to do that? If I was doing it I would s
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
In fact professional endurance athletes have to train at low intensity because they put out so many watts at higher intensities that they can't get enough fuel in to sustain it for the number of hours they train. If they do then they e
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
See also this article by a genomics PhD about how intelligence is not the bottleneck in medical research. https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/intelligence-is-not-the...
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
Then they would have to deal with copyright. AI is the washing machine that leaves everything spotless.
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
> This is a more reliable proxy than the $1b damage climate events, because the other is due to development on risky coast lines and overall increase in property values above inflation. I don't think coastal property prices are the
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
"Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out." William Burrough
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
It's very clear that we have plenty of intelligence but we are not acting in it. What intelligence are we missing that is needed to solve climate change? (our most pressing problem - which AI is exacerbating) > We don't have mo
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
Alan Kay said "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points,". A change in perspective is often brought about by communication or I/O. In my experience this often bears out. The people who communicate get more done than the
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
But you said that in this case you don't review the code because you trust the AI having seen it write that kind of code before.
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by discreteevent 1mo ago
> They learn the concept of things and how to do them because this is better compression than learning concepts one by one. When anthropic looked at how an LLM does addition it found it had some mental math heuristics that might or might

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