jplusequalt

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by jplusequalt 6d ago
>Why? We are overly reliant on technology today. I don't see this trend slowing down in the future. I think that a world where everyone is reliant on technology, and nobody understands how it works is a nightmare.
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
>And outside of industries with government enforced perversions of simple "supply and demand" forces (we're not talking Nth level effects here) this means more access to the service or lower prices or both. Greater access
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
I found myself interested in the papers analysis of wages, so I did some digging. The researchers model says the following about hourly wage growth in the substantial and extreme scenarios: - the hourly wage* in the knowledge workers group
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
Graphics programmer who still codes by hand here. I use LLMs for search, and for rubber ducking. I would not disrespect the years I've put into this craft by outsourcing my thinking. Nor do I want to wake up in ten years and realize I
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
>I’m starting every morning with a LeetCode problem. Keeping with your example, this is the equivalent of going to the gym just to do a single set on the bench press. Your brain is still atrophying.
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
>It should be noted that these stories were 1000 word stories A huge limitation of the study IMO. Most people who read are not reading 1000 word short stories. If they could replicate this story using novella length stories (25-40k words
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by jplusequalt 12d ago
Sorry, I just don't think you'd be qualified for the job if this was 5 years ago.
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by jplusequalt 13d ago
>and the newer gen learns to work with that spaghetti. All this really means is using more AI to cover up their blind spots. Don't flatter them.
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by jplusequalt 13d ago
>I'm also dependent on a bunch of advanced libraries and compilers I didn't write. Two different kinds of dependence here: one is taking advantage of a pre-existing tool to perform some set of tasks. The other is there to outso
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by jplusequalt 13d ago
>Why don’t we pay people to dig ditches with spoons? It would produce jobs! Be glib all you want, but research has shown that displaced workers do not have great outcomes [1]. It's all fun and games to dunk on a person online, but w
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by jplusequalt 13d ago
>Unions wouldn't help with the layoffs if the engineers are no longer needed If tech was unionized like Hollywood is, tech unions could have stopped all of this from happening in the first place.
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by jplusequalt 13d ago
>beyond my level before I could iterate on it with AI So you agree that you're dependent on an LLM to do your work?
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by jplusequalt 13d ago
Maybe the silicon valley tech libertarians will realize the necessity of unions when they start cutting engineering teams in half.
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by jplusequalt 14d ago
>Typing the code was never the interesting part. But solving hard problems and developing systems intuition was. If you're trying to tell me that people working on code bases predominantly written by AI are still solving hard proble
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by jplusequalt 14d ago
I fear the majority of people in this thread who are joking about no longer being able to do their job while Codex/Claude are down aren't really joking.
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by jplusequalt 14d ago
>The question is whether this is a bad thing or a good thing. Framing this as a debate worth having gives people who would argue on the side of "it's a good thing" a platform. We should not be giving people who would argue
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by jplusequalt 14d ago
>But then, is that necessarily a bad thing? Side-stepping this question to talk about the underlying cause for this linguistic compression: Yes, it's a terrible thing! This is only happening because people are increasingly outsourci
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by jplusequalt 14d ago
>Democracy is explicitly a system that functions off of the sum of individual participation, and if the quality of that participation is poor it will produce bad outcomes even barring subversion by other powers We don't live in a de
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by jplusequalt 15d ago
>Start with 4 Sure, let me just buy $60,000 worth of GPUs to run a *quantized non-frontier model*. For that price you could: - put a down payment on a home in a large % of the US - buy a brand new car in cash (possibly two!) - take a lon
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by jplusequalt 15d ago
Thanks Claude.
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by jplusequalt 15d ago
“Climate change presents a unique challenge for economics: it is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen.” -- Nicholas Stern, Leading climate economist; former World Bank chief economist. “The ultimate commons problem of th
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by jplusequalt 15d ago
A grifter is just a crank who spews BS for money.
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by jplusequalt 16d ago
>I think separating AI as a tool and it's capabilities and AI as product that needs to make a profit is helpful, however most people are really hedging in one camp or the other in their takes. There are a myriad of people out there
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by jplusequalt 16d ago
>Why is increasing emissions bad while considering tradeoffs? Because climate change stands to be the biggest market failure in history. You need to show that the rapid scale out of data centers is going to reasonably offset the current
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by jplusequalt 17d ago
Sabine is a crank who likes to wax poetically about fields she has no creds in.
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by jplusequalt 20d ago
>and get paid well The average nurse in the southern US is paid roughly ~$30 an hour. Given their responsibilities, long shifts, and overall stress, do you think that's a fair wage? >Walking out and putting customers (or patients
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by jplusequalt 20d ago
>So she doesn't enjoy her job and only works there because you can't make up the $15 hour difference between her working in a book store for minimum wage vs her working for $30 an hour? She loves being a nurse and couldn't
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by jplusequalt 21d ago
>Personally, I just can’t find it in me to be that self-interested Caring about your ability to pay your bills, and support your family is "self-interested" in the same way that choosing to not drive into oncoming traffic is &q
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by jplusequalt 21d ago
>I think you will always need a button pusher. Okay. Is that job going to provide a competitive salary, with good benefits? More importantly, is it going to be personally fulfilling? Software developers who have adopted agentic coding ar
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by jplusequalt 21d ago
I'm sick and tired of hearing about how LLMs are somehow going to cultivate a society of "creative people full of ideas" when increasingly the people who are using it the most are accepting the LLMs ideas without question.

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