somekyle2

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by somekyle2 8d ago
yeah, we always joked among my left-leaning friends who were cool with any sort of gender expression or style, pierced and tatted, didn't really judge drug use or aggressive music, didn't value respect for authority that our kids
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by somekyle2 2mo ago
I respect "we're going to try not to add features until we have to and have a plan that we like" as an approach to a practical language, vs "we're going to plan to support everything normal modern languages have&quo
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by somekyle2 2mo ago
We seemingly have very different experiences with rent. All rent I've paid was agreed upon prior to me being charged it, and guns were never involved. The people I rented from did the work of owning/managing the building and provi
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by somekyle2 6mo ago
It also seems like the value of quality tutoring that doesn't primarily function as social/class signaling goes down as tools capable of automating high quality intellectual work are more widely available.
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by somekyle2 8mo ago
100%. I think there are some clear distinctions between AI training and human learning in practice that compound this. Humans learning requires individual investment and doesn't scale that efficiently. If someone invests the time to co
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by somekyle2 8mo ago
If it doesn't work, it's an annoyance and you have to argue with it. If it does work, it's one more case where maybe with the right MCP plumbing and/or a slightly better model you might not be needed as part of this proc
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by somekyle2 8mo ago
Certainly not my intention. Some of my post is projection: I don't like the implications of the AI enthusiast stance, and I know I want "actually, AI can't fully take over the task of programming" to be true even though
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by somekyle2 8mo ago
I suspect that lots of developers who are sour on relying on AI significantly _would_ agree with most of this, but see the result of that logic leading to (as the article notes) "the skill of writing and reading code is obsolete, and i
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by somekyle2 9mo ago
"force" seems a bit strong, as I remember it.
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by somekyle2 10mo ago
I don't doubt that many love it. I'm just going based on SF non-tech people I know, who largely see it as the thing vaguely mentioned on every billboard and bus stop, the chatbot every tech company seems to be trying to wedge into
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by somekyle2 10mo ago
Anecdotally, lots of people in SF tech hate AI too. _Most_ people out of tech do. But, enough of the people in tech have their future tied to AI that there are lot of vocal boosters.
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by somekyle2 10mo ago
Yeah, it makes sense that going from a decade or so where SWE was one of the best possible career paths if you have any aptitude to a period where tech cos were staffing up aggressively (I recall reading ~60% growth), there's gonna be
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by somekyle2 10mo ago
Even 15 years ago or so when Guido was still there I recall being told "we aren't supposed to write any new services in Python. It starts easy, then things get messy and end up needing to be rewritten." I recall it mostly bei
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by somekyle2 1y ago
Oh, that explains a thing. A decade or so ago, I was a well regarded engineer at a FAANG who got an offer from a startup. I told my manager I was probably going to take it, as it sounded fun. He and his lead tried to talk me into staying, s
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by somekyle2 2y ago
Thanks for Picol! I saw it as a young engineer, and found the simplicity inspiring. It inspired me to write Tcl interpreters as starter projects in the next languages I was picking up, and I learned a lot by trying to push performance , fun
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by somekyle2 2y ago
Some of the problem in the conversation around this is that many people take "1x engineer" to mean "not particularly competent engineer" and some take it to mean "baseline, solid contributor who isn't exception
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by somekyle2 2y ago
I marvel at this every single time i see their billboards. It does mean I read all of their billboards, I guess.
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by somekyle2 2y ago
If you're very rich, not left leaning, and have a big platform, I imagine it's very easy for censorship/woke mobs to seem like the biggest problem. Most of your needs/wants (in terms of food, shelter, safety) are met, yo
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by somekyle2 2y ago
Quite true! Having been fairly instrumental in a few areas that I'd eventually moved on from, it was always interesting to see some of my trademark accomplishments become The Old Thing We're Trying To Replace (or even just The Big
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by somekyle2 2y ago
This seems generally true in my experience. Another aspect of this, from personal experience: while it may be easy to move around in a large organization, you risk losing reputational capital. I had a habit of building reputation in some te
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by somekyle2 2y ago
who is saying this on the behalf of western society?
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by somekyle2 3y ago
Grover Norquist, prominent conservative voice and head of Americans For Tax Reform has talked about the danger of government provided filing services, namely that he believes it leads ultimately to increased taxes. The idea is that if the g
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by somekyle2 3y ago
Daycare was an anti-perk for Google, practically speaking. It was a huge waiting list to have a chance, and a small fraction got to use it, so most parents just got to be somewhat frustrated by it. Lots of perks aren't widely used, but
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by somekyle2 3y ago
what does the expression "let them have cake" mean?
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by somekyle2 3y ago
If they brought in some trustworthy skeptical folks with some tools and enough background to know what compelling nothing looks like, and they came out saying, "Oh man. oh wow. I'm trying to come up with another explanation, but i
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by somekyle2 3y ago
I'm healthy and enjoy a good walk, but I wouldn't really want to bring luggage a mile from an airport, especially not if the weather isn't nice; it seems rare for foot traffic out of airports to be particularly easy.
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by somekyle2 3y ago
Yes, the output always feels to me like a reasonably clever and informed person just bullshitting; as someone prone, it's familiar. But, good-sounding shallow thinking is still pretty dang useful.
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by somekyle2 4y ago
I've been on teams responsible for components written in more niche, powerful languages by previous employees who were deep in that particular language community. The author was really smart, the code was good. It was a big headache. F
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by somekyle2 4y ago
If the 2021 encyclopedia is outdated, so is almost every fact in my head about the broader world.
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by somekyle2 4y ago
I think it may be an uncomfortable truth for many language enthusiasts that with a decent compiler/runtime and a reasonably skilled team, you can write very good software reasonably efficiently in even a mediocre language. Language des

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