redleggedfrog

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by redleggedfrog 6d ago
Is that really what you think, Coxon, Hubinger, Turner, Wang, etc? Then why the fuck are you still doing it? What that says to me is you value getting fat paycheck at the risk of destroying humanity. What kind of low-life disgusting exc
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by redleggedfrog 3mo ago
That was a really good summary, thank you.
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by redleggedfrog 5mo ago
I agree, for many it's wonderful. If you've got family at home I can see that being a real attraction. When my kids were little I'd have liked that as well. I also had wonderful office-mates that are now life-long friends,
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by redleggedfrog 5mo ago
I'd also add that healthcare is serious shit-show as it currently stands and the best strategy is to just stay as healthy as you possibly can to avoid having to go to the doctor, if you can even find one who will see you. Remote work i
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by redleggedfrog 7mo ago
LOL! The first thing that came to my head was, "I've never had a CEO that shouldn't be in jail. Well, except for the current one. He seems okay. The others committed fraud and deceit at a level that would surely have th
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by redleggedfrog 7mo ago
This is not just software development wisdom, it's life wisdom.
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by redleggedfrog 7mo ago
The future is already here. Been working a few years at a subsidiary of a large corporation where the entire hierarchy of companies is pushing AI hard, at different levels of complexity, from office work up through software development. R
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by redleggedfrog 9mo ago
Dead rich people don't own own anything, their heirs do. Keep that in mind.
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by redleggedfrog 11mo ago
Then you're going to need to invent an android with a awesome set of secondary sexual characteristics then, cause otherwise your idea is going nowhere. Mojo Nixon has your number: https://youtu.be/jz8ea8S5UH8?si=TIKuZm
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by redleggedfrog 11mo ago
Just making sure there is less noise when they start (already started) using U.S.-armed U.S. forces here in the U.S. to oppress people they don't like - non-Magazis, people without white skin, non-Christians, non-straight, and the po
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by redleggedfrog 11mo ago
You're assuming that gold is going towards infrastructure. I don't think a lot of it is. I think it's a money grab while the getting's good.
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by redleggedfrog 1y ago
It will never ever ever happen, because the nearly the entire software industry actively works against anything that inhibits pace of development. Software is mostly created by businesses. Business want to make money above all else. Creat
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by redleggedfrog 1y ago
Let me share an anecdotal but very telling story about this attitude of more work is better work. I have been a software developer for 30+ years now, and I have avoided working outside the 8-5 hours at every opportunity. I had bosses who v
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by redleggedfrog 1y ago
That's not at all who the article is talking about. You're piers are not representative, and what you describe is not the issue.
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by redleggedfrog 1y ago
As my buddy from Oracle likes to say, "No one cares what we do as long as the flow of streak, coke, and strippers doesn't stop." He's a big Zed Shaw fan.
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by redleggedfrog 1y ago
Totally lines up with my experience as well. We also have the opposite problem of reams of code generated years ago from a period of unsupervised offshore work where we're slowly paying down the debt but the LLMs will attempt to use t
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by redleggedfrog 1y ago
I haven't really noticed that myself. I go "LLM shopping" fairly frequently trying to find which one of the few I'm paying for gives the best result for the current problem. They all seem to have their shortfalls, alth
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by redleggedfrog 1y ago
I'll share a new wrinkle that casts more shade on the coding LLMs. We have a fair number of offshore resources that are used for dev. They developers are fully integrated into the team, are in all the stand-ups, and substitute for the
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
That mentor was very, very wise. I've had the same thing happen to me twice now. It happens outside the realm of career as well. For me it was a baby in the NICU and the rest of my life still needing serious attention as well. Some
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
Not me, but my buddy got out of software development and learned to be, as he describes it, "a bog standard electrician." He had money for trade school, and then apprenticed under an experienced electrician. Dude is in his 40&#x
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
Stupid things for stupid people, no mystery.
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
Just ask yourself if this AI generated software is what you want managing your bank account or the monitor next to your bed in the hospital. The lack of determinism makes LLMs unsuited for many tasks where precise outcomes are necessary.
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
1 in 5 Americans don't like the police.
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
I would never heard of these cards except for they got the creator banned and ended up on Hacker news because of that. Seems pretty Streisandy to me.
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
Cue Streisand effect in 3...2...
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
Makes me want to use an LLM to apply for a gajillion jobs. See how they like their own medicine.
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
That's funny those are considered Senior Dev attributes. I would think you'd better be doing that basic kind of stuff from the minute your writing code for production and future maintenance. Otherwise your making a mess someone
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
That's an interesting scenario you're proposing. To answer it personally, which of the two, 7 figure bonus or being fired, it'd be I'd quit. If someone is structuring the development of software based on this premise, t
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
You can't make accurate estimates that can be used for deadlines for non-trivial work. You can make educated guesses on how long specific things will take, and it might be a pretty good guess if you've been keeping metrics on you
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by redleggedfrog 2y ago
I've gone through times when management would treat estimates as deadlines, and were deaf to any sort of reason about why it could be otherwise, like the usual thing of them changing the specification repeatedly. So when those times ha

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