nyxtom

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by nyxtom 6d ago
Prisoner's dilemma at its finest
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by nyxtom 11d ago
Maybe it's just me but you stand to gain a lot more from reading comprehension than outsourcing the same set of files repeatedly to a machine.
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by nyxtom 20d ago
This is a wild acquisition in the making, congrats to the HF team
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by nyxtom 22d ago
I'd rather not entire generations get the brunt of a entire class of problems (generations prior had significant health consequences). The best thing a society can do it seems is educate ourselves on what is damaging. When social media
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by nyxtom 22d ago
As a moderate, I tend to think things even out eventually - though it is usually what appears to be generational shifts in behavior that causes markets to adapt. It's costly (whole generations get f'd physically/mentally&#x2F
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by nyxtom 22d ago
Precisely, this is the point. There is systemic misalignment that encourages companies to behave this way.
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by nyxtom 22d ago
He's not going to willingly shutdown his company, the same reason a casino will not just suddenly close up shop. The owner would have to have a dramatic shift in worldview to delete the whole thing.
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I can't prove it, but I think AI is causing me brain damage
4 points by nyxtom 24d ago|3 comments
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by nyxtom 1mo ago
As though we haven't done enough already to manipulate the mind, now we can have a neural model dictate our thoughts for us.
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by nyxtom 3mo ago
That's it? That's only like 3 months of OpenAI/Anthropic
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by nyxtom 3mo ago
I came here hoping Epic Games somehow had launched a reliable alternative to GitHub, but saw their code is hosted on GitHub
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by nyxtom 3mo ago
Have you found that being much more spec driven helps guide it better?
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by nyxtom 3mo ago
Now this ^^ is an awesome use case!
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Closed AI Risks being hostile to startups
3 points by nyxtom 3mo ago|2 comments
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by nyxtom 3mo ago
https://impeccable.style/slop/ is a great approach to identifying slop
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by nyxtom 4mo ago
Exactly, when you hire a junior engineer the distribution of code quality is fairly well known. By the time an engineer becomes senior, you can generally expect similar level of quality across any given task. Whereas with AI, sometimes the
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by nyxtom 4mo ago
For every interesting problem AI solves there are a long tail of really dumb things that AI performs that humans would never do. Some days I am in awe of one-shot magic eight-ball output and other days I'm so frustrated by the sheer
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I'm Done Using AI
32 points by nyxtom 4mo ago|25 comments
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by nyxtom 4mo ago
This right here ^ x 1000s. I can’t get into flow state with AI.
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by nyxtom 4mo ago
I've seen the $1000/mo engineer salary thrown around a bit and I'm not even sure where it comes from.
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by nyxtom 4mo ago
I'm getting really tired of every single attempt to be taxed into oblivion. Just leave me the hell alone
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by nyxtom 5mo ago
I agree with most of this, I just have sort of turned a blind eye to what the code actually probably looks like. Reviews are rapid, and I’ll admit I do feel like I’m betraying my inner programmer by just optimizing directly against the clai
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by nyxtom 6mo ago
She’s not even wearing the same clothes. This is dumb
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by nyxtom 6mo ago
Single greatest thing I did to fix my circadian rhythm was get a sunset/sunrise lighting alarm. I have some hue lights and a "Hatch" alarm clock that both do sunrise lighting and some light morning noise that gradually increa
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by nyxtom 6mo ago
I struggled with isolation for a long time but I found that there are some hobbies that have helped me. - join jiu jitsu (people here are so supportive, it such a solid community and it gets you crazy active) - join a church you like (belie
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Habits to make sure you don't go insane
4 points by nyxtom 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nyxtom 7mo ago
Welcome to late stage capitalism. Where non of the incentives have anything to do with helping people and reducing costs for things people care about - energy, food, healthcare, basic needs.
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by nyxtom 2y ago
* Go to concerts, fantastic way to break out of your shell * Get out on the water or underwater (if you dive) * Find events to go to in your area (pick anything, doesn't matter, if it's going on try and go do it and try and do it
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Ask HN: How is everyone doing in this market?
6 points by nyxtom 2y ago|2 comments
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by nyxtom 2y ago
Every now and then I enjoy the opportunity to build things without planning around them. No ceremony, no tickets - just pure code and building things people are interested in or are looking to solve problems.

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