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by hash0 1mo ago
There is. Companies are anxious to be left behind and want to hire people who are confident in working with AI. And trust me, especially in ageing societies, even your colleagues who are demonstrably tech savvy are not necessarily inclined
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by hash0 1mo ago
I generally outline the problem first that I would like to solve, then ask for best practice approaches and industry standards that apply to situations. Next, I ask to summarize the pros and cons of the various possible solutions and how th
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by hash0 1mo ago
Isn't there something similar available today, but with protein folding?
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by hash0 1mo ago
Honest question from an enthusiastic AI user: "using AI consists of sending a message a waiting a long time (often an hour or more) before the AI finishes a task." >>> What on earth are you prompting AI with that it takes
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by hash0 1mo ago
Time Zones factor into that. They want to be able to operate 24/7 "follow the sun"-style, so they want to get people half way around the globe - who obviously can't come to the office. Few companies these days actually o
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by hash0 1mo ago
Huh, now THAT adresses a real need: An off-work day between Saturday (aka "catch up with chores you had to neglect because you were working") and "have to dread/mentally prepare for the upcoming work week"-Sunday! I
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by hash0 2mo ago
In my line of work (IT Operations for a large international bank), we came up with a classification framework that tried to gauge information along two axes: Importance and Frequency of Use. Importance is the more obvious one - there is cri
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by hash0 2mo ago
It does, thank you for your view on this!
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by hash0 2mo ago
Part of the answer to this conundrum might be the "lightswitch effect": Lightswitches are ubiquitous and easy to use, so you stop thinking about them, take them completely for granted and miss the bigger picture that even 150 year
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by hash0 2mo ago
Agreed, but with one caveat: That is the book detailling the history of future science!
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by hash0 2mo ago
"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan - that book was a life changer for me and has been with me ever since.
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by hash0 2mo ago
If I may ask: In what areas have you found the most acceleration in productivity? For me as an enthusiastic amateur programmer (whose enthusiasm is, arguably, greater than my technical abilities) the only reliable and sustainable way to use
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by hash0 2mo ago
I wouldn't consider myself an SWE, just an amateur programmer, so this is an honest question: In your opinion, is there such a case where the usage of AI in software engineering has either sped up the dev time or improved product relia
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by hash0 2mo ago
I started using LLMs in 2022, quickly turned away because the things obivously made up stuff I am a certified expert it. Back to Stack Overflow. Came around to LLMs in late 2025 again as they rolled it out in my workplace and quickly succum
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by hash0 2mo ago
Seems like the need for a support group depends on whether the recent advent of LLMs in your specific workplace has led you to become a Centaur ("I'm now a 10x SWE") or a Reverse Centaur ("this is rapidly sucking the joy
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by hash0 2mo ago
Seems to me that both music and language fall into the same category of "patterns whose consumption will trigger a highly subjective experience (pleasurable or repulsive)". AIs as pattern matching machines can do this pretty well
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by hash0 2mo ago
"...when a claim passes through five AI agents, how should trust propagate from one step to the next? I spent months trying to solve it." Maybe I am naive here, but wouldn't a sane person try to turn a rational eye on the pro
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by hash0 2mo ago
The waterfall graph in the middle of this article is worth looking this up.
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by hash0 2mo ago
tl;dr Instead of solving textbook-style hard problems, "find the easiest problem whose solution would be useful".
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by hash0 2mo ago
"The company said the most likely explanation is that one of its transport partners sold the vehicle without removing K Group branding, despite contractual obligations requiring decals to be removed before resale." I say this was
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by hash0 2mo ago
"He's not wrong. He's rarely wrong, which is the annoying thing about Gareth."
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by hash0 2mo ago
Hopefully it will fare better in its ecological and economical impact than the Assuan dam - which, I will never tire to say, has to put almost its entire electricity output to the production of fertilizers that no longer deposit naturally a
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by hash0 2mo ago
This is a stunning idea and execution! I am glad I clicked on that link and spent a couple of minutes on it. Serious kudos, good Sir/Ma'am/[respectful appellation of your choosing].
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by hash0 2mo ago
Not sure if I fully qualify as a dev but I, for one, are rather confident in conversation. But with code, there is only two modes: Either I am the biggest idiot whoever disgraced Earth's surface or I am the absolute titanic Übergod for
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by hash0 3mo ago
Pretty sure their strategy is "hype it up, stuff it down EVERYONE's throat, once everyone is hooked and the tool is indispensable, make them pay for it. And rachet up the prices every quarter".
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by hash0 3mo ago
You're most welcome, Good Sir/Ma'am/[respectful appellation of your choosing]! ;)
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by hash0 3mo ago
I apologize, I did not mean to rain on your parade - maybe I am a kind of "half empty" person. Please, keep your enthusiasm up! In a world full of cynics (me included), it's refreshing to see people throwing themselves into t
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by hash0 3mo ago
You mention two very specific aspects of AI producing code: - "It hyper-focuses on the current task and couldn't care less if its changes break other parts of the system." - "Long context = instant brain damage" Thi
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by hash0 3mo ago
"Now I'm thinking - once it does happen - what will I spend my time dooing? Espeically, with AI?" Not "once" - the word you are looking for is "if". And a pretty big if at that...
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by hash0 3mo ago
I would really like to know how people work on anything more complicated than a single page website without using an IDE/Editor any more - in my experience, AI is just not up to the task of managing multi-file projects without me havin

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