paodealho

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by paodealho 15d ago
Have you ever considered: - that you don't know most people in the world - that some of the people you know are using these tools because they were forced ?
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by paodealho 2mo ago
Should also note the math done on the token costs. $25 of subsidized tokens because he's on a subscription plan.
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by paodealho 4mo ago
The last place I worked for, if it happened with someone new in the company or the team, I would find a polite way to say "do your job and fix this shit" and it worked. Some people have put me on their blacklists after these inter
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by paodealho 4mo ago
I like them. It tells very clearly how much effort went into someone's work. I like them even more on code comments. It tells _precisely_ how much effort went into the pull request, so I don't spend time reviewing lazy work.
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by paodealho 5mo ago
LLMs can't fail, they can only be failed ... by you!
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by paodealho 5mo ago
As fallible as they may be, I've never had a next-thought generator recommend me glue as a pizza ingredient.
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by paodealho 5mo ago
> execs being misinformed about what their own companies are doing/achieving with AI And a bunch of yes-men down the lower layers of management funneling these ideas. In a meeting at my last job, one of the execs was bragging about
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by paodealho 6mo ago
Funny thing. This never happened to me with tech/electronics, but happens from time to time with food items.
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by paodealho 7mo ago
Fine doublespeak there. It can mean anything when talking to the public, and anything else when talking to Sam Altman.
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by paodealho 7mo ago
And on that same sentence: > but in today’s world but in today’s world where the world changes every month, it’s best to be ahead. Could I be the one getting ahead of him if I skip next month and plan for <next month>+1 world cha
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by paodealho 7mo ago
Goes to show how infested with disconnected management this industry is. All the tools that improved productivity for software devs (Docker, K8S/ECS/autoscaling, Telemetry providers) took very long for management to realize they b
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by paodealho 7mo ago
Yes—it is!
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by paodealho 7mo ago
Sorry for not contributing to the discussion (as per the guidelines), but is it just me or this blog post reads a lot like LLM-filled mumble jumble? Seems like I could trim half of the words there and nothing would be lost.
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by paodealho 7mo ago
> without spending large swaths of time learning minutia He probably meant languages he's not proficient with.
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by paodealho 7mo ago
Software dev has been promoted as a good career path for almost 2 decades now. Naturally you'll have a bunch of people going in only because of money. A few years ago, when Agile was still the hot thing and companies had an Agile &quot
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by paodealho 7mo ago
also: "Researchers Extract Nearly Entire Harry Potter Book From Commercial LLMs" https://www.aitechsuite.com/ai-news/ai-shock-researchers-ext...
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by paodealho 7mo ago
Back in the XP days if you let your computer for too much time on the hands of an illiterate relative, they would eventually install something and turn Internet Explorer into this https://i.redd.it/z7qq51usb7n91.jpg . Now th
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by paodealho 7mo ago
It is my experience that most of these business domain experts snore the moment you talk about anything related to the difficulties of creating software.
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by paodealho 7mo ago
When I see these types of posts I wonder what those people do all day long that is so important, to the point they can't dedicate 30 minutes to plan and execute some chores.
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by paodealho 8mo ago
Me. I've never been a maintainer for any big opensource project, so it won't make a dent on anything, but now my contributions are exactly zero.
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by paodealho 8mo ago
Only if you exclude those long pages of markdown spec you had to type!
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by paodealho 8mo ago
And canvases and paint have existed for even longer, but it needs someone skilled to make use of it. Stable Diffusion enabled the average lazy depraved person to create these images with zero effort, and there's a lot of these people i
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by paodealho 8mo ago
> ... "Software Engineer," as a protected term. You can't just call yourself a software engineer. In my irrelevant opinion, this is good. To me at least, the word engineer represents someone with a big, heavy responsibilit
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by paodealho 8mo ago
I worked for a relatively large company (around 400 employees there are programmers). The people who embraced LLM-generated code clearly share one trait: they are feature pushers who love to say "yes!" to management. You see, man
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by paodealho 8mo ago
Well, can you point us to their research then? Please.
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by paodealho 8mo ago
I have been thinking about this in the last few weeks. First time I see someone commenting about it here. - If the number of programmers will be drastically reduced, how big of a price increase companies like Anthropic would need to be prof
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by paodealho 8mo ago
The git and systemd ones create several aliases for frequent commands: git commit -> gc git status --short -b -> gsb git checkout -> gco systemctl --user restart -> scu-restart Nothing that you couldn't come up with yoursel
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by paodealho 8mo ago
I've been using it for the last 6 or 7 years and I can only remember one specific feature I use a lot: "unset HISTFILE" to disable history when I need to run commands with passwords. Other than that, oh-my-zsh with git, syste
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by paodealho 8mo ago
This gets comical when there are people, on this site of all places, telling you that using curse words or "screaming" with ALL CAPS on your agents.md file makes the bot follow orders with greater precision. And these people have
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by paodealho 8mo ago
There isn't anything clear until someone manages to publish measurable and reproducible results for these tools while working on real world use cases. Until then it's just people pulling the lever on a black box.

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