irvingprime

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by irvingprime 3mo ago
I've had a theory for years that the free market is mostly a myth, that really most business execs are herd animals who form their strategies by copying others. Usually they copy the ones in the same industry, making them all look pret
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by irvingprime 5mo ago
Well, I'm writing a science fiction novel. There are references in it to AI but just as a tool people use. It's not about that.
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by irvingprime 7mo ago
All kinds of things! I work with AI every day to do various kinds of work. Coding. Research. Brainstorming. I write up notes nearly every day and then I post a summary of each week on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/cw&#x2F
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by irvingprime 8mo ago
Developing a graph-based programming language called Graphoid. The original concept was to target AI-related programming. Probably not ready for that yet! Repo: https://github.com/xvandervort/graphoid Claude Code is do
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by irvingprime 9mo ago
I'm using Claude AI to build an experimental programming language I call Graphoid. (Built for dealing with graphs). It's early days and I don't know how worthwhile it is but I'm having fun. repo: https://githu
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by irvingprime 9mo ago
Bingo! You found the prize! Putting tech that is prone to hallucination in charge of anything that has serious consequences when it's wrong is a terrible idea. You do not want hallucinated payments or receipts, or legal citations. You
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by irvingprime 10mo ago
For many years I've developed on a Linux VM running on a Windows host. At a couple of jobs I ran a Linux VM on a MacOS host. This way, my development environment remains stable and portable and the thing I use to read email and surf th
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by irvingprime 11mo ago
Reject. Period. No compromise. No friendly comments about how it can be improved. Just reject it as unreviewable. Then ban the idiot who submitted it.
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by irvingprime 11mo ago
Customer service? In the age of AI? What have you been smoking?
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by irvingprime 1y ago
You are in a completely normal dev shop. What's happened is that the start up mentality of "ship something - anything, and ship it NOW" has infected everything. Maybe over time you can make it better. But educating management
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by irvingprime 1y ago
Vibecoding is bad coding. Always. Even if I take the headline as correct, so what? It's still crap code that will collapse into an unmaintainable mess sooner rather than later.
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by irvingprime 1y ago
I'm no longer at the company but yesterday was my last day so my information is still current. The division I worked in was demanding that developers use AI at least once a week and they were tracking people's usage. The boss nagg
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by irvingprime 1y ago
I once cut off an interview as soon as the interviewer told me the job was building and maintaining a porn site. Never made it to an actual job offer.
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by irvingprime 2y ago
It's an interesting model but in practice I don't think anyone is really all one way or all the other. A better way to approach it might be to find out which narratives are most important to someone and how far they'll go to
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by irvingprime 2y ago
The longest period of unemployment I've ever experienced ended about 6 months ago. I was unemployed for 11 months. The company that finally hired me was intentionally targeting people with lots of experience. I have that. They also pay
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by irvingprime 2y ago
Decent guesses. I won't be surprised if someday (maybe in court testimony) we find out that you are very close to correct.
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by irvingprime 2y ago
That is truly awful customer service.
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by irvingprime 2y ago
You can't back up lies on the fly. You're contradicting yourself now.
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by irvingprime 2y ago
Your complaint that jobs are for the specific tech stack is spot on. Employers are currently treating every job as a specialization. It's a combination of a filtering technique (because there are too many candidates for every job right
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by irvingprime 2y ago
Location: New York State (up by Lake Ontario) Remote: Only Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Python, Redis, Mysql, Postgres, Mongo, and many more. Resume: See linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvandervo
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by irvingprime 3y ago
Horrid? It looks fine to me. More importantly, it does what I want (more or less). What do you think is so bad and how would you fix it?
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by irvingprime 3y ago
I apologize for this blatant self promotion but if you want to hear about science and tech news with a strong dose of humor, check out. https://technoscreed.substack.com You might learn something. If you don't laugh, you mi
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by irvingprime 3y ago
Well, I got laid off. I have a decent resume. In past job hunts, I got call backs on 50% of applications. Now responses are closer to 1%. Sure seems recessionish to me.
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by irvingprime 3y ago
How do you feel about tech information with an emphasis on humor? https://technoscreed.substack.com
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by irvingprime 3y ago
I've mentored a couple developers who have made heavy use of ChatGPT or CoPilot in their work. I tell them the limits of it as well as the strengths. The upshot is that, if you use the code one of these tools produces without understan
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by irvingprime 3y ago
You're confused. The public doesn't demand "thought policing" from AI at all. This is purely an elite, mostly academia, thing.
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by irvingprime 3y ago
Yes to not answering stupid questions. One of my pet peeves about job applications is the "Voluntary self-identification" form that has all required answers. So I select "I do not want to answer" and assume they're
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by irvingprime 3y ago
It's going very badly. I'm not even getting nibbles lately.
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by irvingprime 3y ago
You're right but too late. The die is cast. The world is not going to change to suit you.
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by irvingprime 3y ago
It's rare for anyone to read cover letters. I put one in once in a while. Mostly I have ChatGPT write a draft and then I cut half of it and make some adjustments. Even with the AI helping, it's more work than I usually want to do

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