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qualifck
6mo ago
I mean yes? That's like, the whole idea behind having a team. The art guy doesn't want to think about code, the coder doesn't want to think about finances, the accountant doesn't want to worry about customer support. It
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qualifck
7mo ago
This is what keeps getting me. People here keep posting benchmarks, bragging about 5x, 10x, 20x. None of the companies we work with are putting anything faster. The evangelist response is to call it a skill issue, but looking around it seem
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qualifck
7mo ago
Appreciate this deep insider insight that... someone somewhere might someday use AI to make some good software that might be bad for SaaS platforms that also fail to improve, maybe. Holy hell this is so uselessly vague. Honest take from som
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qualifck
8mo ago
But most of the things you're describing as bad can also be described as a lack of soft skills. The person who can't take care of themselves and rolls over under pressure definitely has poor soft skills.
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qualifck
8mo ago
That's half the problem though. I can see benchmarks. I can see number go up on some chart or that the AI scores higher on some niche math or programming test, but those results don't seem to actually connect much to meaningful im
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qualifck
8mo ago
Not necessarily. The end result of googling a problem might be copying a working piece of code off of stack exchange etc. without putting any work into understanding it. Some people will try to vibe out everything with LLMs, but other peopl
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qualifck
9mo ago
Eh, quite the contrary. A lot of anti AI people genuinely wanted to use AI but run into the factual reality of the limitations of the software. It's not that it's going to take my job, it's that I was told it would redefine h
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9mo ago
People keep saying stuff like this. That the improvements are so obvious and breathtaking and astronomical and then I go check out the frontier LLMs again and they're maybe a tiny bit better than they were last year but I can't ac