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by fhd2 20d ago
If you blacklist them just for yourself, the sites don't care, no economic impact. If Google does the same, they'll work around. There's lots of spam-only sites, but they also often cleverly avoid detecting by mixing in conte
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by fhd2 20d ago
I interact with plenty of companies - not a statistically relevant amount, but dozens. I'd put this at about 50% right now. I certainly deal with a not insignificant number of meat proxy CEOs, which is highly annoying for the people wo
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by fhd2 20d ago
Hang in there. I've yet so see an even modestly successful business that didn't have this or some other bleak problem at one point in time. I'm sure they exist, I just haven't seen one yet :D My gut says this one can be
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by fhd2 20d ago
Just speculating (I use zero automation when recruiting), but automated candidate ranking systems could well still look for signals that were valuable years ago, but no longer are. It's not a given that people using this stuff even und
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by fhd2 1mo ago
Nice analysis! I would perhaps add that LLMs are pretty helpful at (2) in my experience, as long as you don't turn your brain off. (As a Google/SO replacement, mainly.) I have about three modes, working with LLMs: A) Just use them
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by fhd2 1mo ago
With GenAI, we can now produce something without caring about it - or while caring about it very little. And the parts we don't care about aren't necessarily worse, they are just... arbitrary. Could be good, could be bad, no one k
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by fhd2 2mo ago
Not entirely my experience. LLMs can be good at two things, but unable to be good at them _at the same time_. I've had some success with getting decent simplification suggestions out of them. Still ironic, of course.
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by fhd2 2mo ago
I never went into an Apple store, but the phone support issues I had (even a pretty complex bug on their end that locked me out of my account) where handled swiftly and well, and I spoke to humans that seemed to know what they're doing
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by fhd2 2mo ago
Apple has pretty stellar support in my experience, and while I don't buy Apple stuff for other reasons, this is a strong attractor. For B2B products/services, it can be a huge differeniator as well, in my experience. But it was re
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by fhd2 2mo ago
Right now, the majority of companies I interact with seems to look at their now (let's assume) increased capabilities, and turns up the speed. But there's other knobs to turn up instead. Robustness, quality, user experience. Optim
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by fhd2 2mo ago
Good example. Transitioning from an outdated framework to a modern (or sometimes "slightly less outdated") one is probably one of the few situations where you do not want to change semantics at all. And in my experience, these are
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by fhd2 2mo ago
Depends on how much you're asked to burn I guess. Until one point, it's actually helpful. Then there's a point where you can do stuff that's semi helpful but doesn't get in the way. But then I would imagine you reac
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by fhd2 3mo ago
AGENTS.md is fun too, solid AI bro stuff: > Code like Anthony Fu and Evan You > default to the highest quality modern code the legends would ship What a time to be alive.
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by fhd2 3mo ago
If it's profitable, they would. Companies aren't moral, with very rare exceptions. Legal risks and costs are just part of the overall equation. But that's not in defense of what Karp said, or that slop tweet summarising it. T
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by fhd2 3mo ago
I think it's primarily a filter. Candidate filters are pretty much always silly, even common ones based on degree/grades etc. But with a lot of candidates on the market, using some filters reduces the list to a manageable amount.
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by fhd2 4mo ago
I'd argue it's pretty much like monitoring, which certainly benefits from multiple people seeing the same stats and alerts. I agree it's at odds with CI/CD and should probably not block anything, like deterministic check
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by fhd2 4mo ago
One fascinating thing about LLMs is the degree of evangelism it inspires in some. You can explain some of that with paid micro influencers, people invested in the success of AI, consultants looking for workshop opportunities and all that, b
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by fhd2 4mo ago
SEO is definitely a relevant component still, AI mode does a traditional search under the hood. Gaming the system to rank high on the index is still going to matter. But it'll be less about tricking people into clicking and more about
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by fhd2 5mo ago
Yeah, plus it's a bit... single minded. A static single page site is _quite_ "agent ready". Scores 0 here. It's not like it'll need an MCP or whatever.
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by fhd2 5mo ago
So AI generated code doesn't benefit from stable foundations maintained by third parties? Fascinating take I don't currently agree with. Whether it's AI or hand written, using solid pre-existing components and having as littl
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by fhd2 5mo ago
Agreed, it is different in terms of there being no guarantee that a specific piece of software even has an exploit. If you don't want to break into a specific piece of software, or even a specific system, I would argue that the law of
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by fhd2 5mo ago
They are, wow. I had this age old Yen conversion wired into my brain: 100 Yen is one Euro. Boy did that change in the last decade or so, it's only half that now.
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by fhd2 5mo ago
I typically install both systems on the same disk, different partitions. Then work with additional SSDs strictly for game storage. Only annoying bit is that some games _need_ to be on C, but very few in my experience. If you have enough spa
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by fhd2 6mo ago
> Isolated QA should not exist because anything a QA engineer can do manually can be automated. Well, sort of maybe, but it's not always economical. For a normal web app - yeah I guess. Depends on the complexity of the software and
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by fhd2 6mo ago
> I think there's also a pretty good chance that if a robot that could mine the same cobalt with no human intervention appeared tomorrow, many folks would complain about "hard working cobalt miners in Africa losing their liveli
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by fhd2 6mo ago
Well, I'd say there's two dimensions: 1. Check frequency (between every single time and spot checks). 2. Check thoroughness (between antagonistic in-depth vs high level). I'd agree that, if you're towards the end of both
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by fhd2 6mo ago
> Especially if they are earning 5k per year as the title suggests. Not sure that's how the math goes. TFA mentions every employed worker has a team behind them, and is often successful in their job as a result. Kinda fascinating. H
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by fhd2 6mo ago
If the spec covers 100% of the code paths, then yes, you're right. But now spec and code are entirely redundant. Changing the spec or changing the code takes the same effort. If the spec doesn't specify all the details, then there
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by fhd2 6mo ago
Businesses naturally see their "suppliers" and "resources" as exchangeable. And to a degree, they really are, at the end of the day. But it's still a non-trivial activity with long feedback loops, that requires a le
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by fhd2 6mo ago
Who's "we"? I'd consider shipping LLM generated code without review risky. Far riskier than shipping human-generated code without review. But it's arguably faster in the short run. Also cheaper. So we have a risk vs

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