mierz00

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by mierz00 6mo ago
If I am being honest, the value came from doing evals and testing against different models. Essentially all I needed was a way to upload a data set, run tests against that data set and spit out a percentage of pass fail. Braintrust makes th
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by mierz00 6mo ago
I highly rate Braintrust. It wouldn’t be too difficult to build something like that for your own usage, but I found it pretty easy to get datasets set up. Essentially a game changer in understanding if your prompts are working. Especially i
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by mierz00 6mo ago
“I admit that I still disagreed with him after the exchange, but I had a new respect for him as a designer because he was able to articulate a rationale for his decision.” Any competent designer gets really good at justifying their decision
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by mierz00 6mo ago
Aren’t people researching the companies they are applying for? Also, I don’t think I have ever applied to a fake job.
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by mierz00 7mo ago
I’m sure the welfare of the Iranian people is a top priority for Trump.
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by mierz00 7mo ago
Marginally related, I feel the same way about honesty, especially in a work context. I’ve always prided myself in being an honest but considerate person. A recent experience with a colleague who weaponised my honesty in an attempt to manipu
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by mierz00 8mo ago
Talk to people. There are an infinite amount of problems to solve. Deciding whether they’re worth solving is the hard part.
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by mierz00 8mo ago
We analyse thousands of lines from a csv using an LLM. The only thing that worked for us was to send each individual line and analyse it one by one. I’m not sure if that would work in your use case, but you could classify each line into a
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by mierz00 8mo ago
I’m really not sure I follow this argument. A lot of software has friction to get to the value. This is often because of constraints not choice. To give a concrete example of this, in my company we had users upload files for analysis. To ge
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by mierz00 8mo ago
This also goes the other way too, you don’t assume the original is incorrect. I see this a lot with developers who come in and start to criticise before understanding. There is always a reason for why something is as it is, and it’s unlikel
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by mierz00 8mo ago
How do you introduce any tool/change to a team of people? You get buy in, start having conversations see what AI people have explored. Have they tried claude? Do they prefer other tools? If so why? What are the objections. Actually lis
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by mierz00 8mo ago
My time in the military has made me hate acronyms with a fury. https://acronyms-suck.com
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by mierz00 9mo ago
If you focus on the differences that’s all you’ll see. The opposite applies too, if you try hard enough you’ll find plenty of similarities with an Eskimo. We’re all just people in the end.
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by mierz00 9mo ago
I didn’t even realise that was a possibility with iOS. Thanks!
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by mierz00 9mo ago
I’m curious have you ever been burnt or seen anyone burnt by copyright infringements in code? Sometimes it’s super obvious because a game company steals code from a previous employer, but I have never seen this play out in entreprise softwa
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by mierz00 9mo ago
What do the markdown files look like?
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by mierz00 9mo ago
Curious to hear more about this, do you have any examples?
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by mierz00 9mo ago
I think we misunderstand each other. Accounting is quite broad and there are many examples of where LLMs can help. For example, what is tax deductible is subjective to local laws. This is essentially a classification problem that LLMs are p
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by mierz00 9mo ago
I understand your pain, but this is very country dependent. For example, most of what you describe can be solved using Xero in Australia.
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by mierz00 9mo ago
Why is AI unethical in its current form and what would make it ethical for you?
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by mierz00 9mo ago
I find this take so strange, do you find no value in AI? I don’t even want AI to replace us, but it’s a great tool with many use cases.
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by mierz00 9mo ago
To be clear, I agree with you. Our target market is accountants. I want to help them not replace them. In the same way security audit tools aren’t replacing professionals, but that can help on initial scan.
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by mierz00 9mo ago
I disagree on this, there are plenty of problems in accounting that an LLM can help with. I’ve built some software[0] that analyses general ledgers and uses LLMs to call out any compliance issues by looking at transaction and account descri
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by mierz00 9mo ago
This is key, I’ve had great work environments where we’ve had lots of fun solving problems together.
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by mierz00 9mo ago
At my last work place everyone talked about how great therapy was. Curious I decided to try it myself. Turns out therapy was great, it made me realise that my work place was toxic and since leaving I haven’t needed a therapist again!
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by mierz00 9mo ago
I really like co-working spaces, but not enough to pay for them when I have an office I can go to.
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by mierz00 9mo ago
Funnily, I do a lot of those things. I have a bunch of hobbies that are very social. But for me it’s not really that. It’s about walking in a place and knowing everyone, having small talk and feeling comfortable chatting. Work takes up a lo
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by mierz00 10mo ago
I don’t do well with 100% working from home. My preference is 3 days in the office, I find anything less than that and I struggle mentally. My home starts to feel like a prison and I lose connection with people. I really value human connect
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by mierz00 10mo ago
I feel this pain. We have an intern that is finishing a four year computer science degree that has no clue what git is, never used a log and all he presents is AI garbage. I find it profoundly depressing to try and teach someone who has no
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by mierz00 10mo ago
I’ve seen push back on this idea multiple times on HN. Humans review their own work, just like LLMs can.

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