stuven

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by stuven 2y ago
What would you say to the standard counterargument that most existing processes that AI might aim to augment or replace _already_ have a non-zero error rate? For example if I had a secretary, his summaries _could_ be wrong. Doesn't mea
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by stuven 3y ago
I love that you added a conclusion at the end of your list. Adding conclusions to the end of lists is one of ChatGPT's favorite things to do.
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by stuven 3y ago
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/existing-home-sal...
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by stuven 3y ago
Where are they needed now do you think? This isn't a rhetorical question.
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by stuven 4y ago
Chat GPT 11: * Resounding silence. The universe is entirely made of paperclips *
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by stuven 4y ago
That's a good point, and I guess the meta point is that there are a thousand and one things I haven't mentioned here that it would have to do as well. To some extent perhaps we could solve this from the LLM the same way a human wo
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by stuven 4y ago
There has been a shift in how we discuss this question. For a long time, the answer was, "No jobs are at risk, AI can't compete in any scenarios. At best, it's a tool." Now the answer is, "Only a few jobs are at ris
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by stuven 4y ago
... how much are you willing to stake on that assumption?
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by stuven 4y ago
Well put. I'm glad we're making them.
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by stuven 4y ago
Depends on the team. It can be.
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by stuven 4y ago
As a dev in an XL org, I agree with the parent comment: if decision-making power isn't clear from the outset, people hold important-feeling weekly sync meetings for months and then wonder why they can't hit the deadline. Also ever
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by stuven 4y ago
Right? I have been a huge detractor of the "AI Hype" which came and went in the last decade and _finally_ there's a tangible, readily accessible grab-you-by-the-shirt reason to get excited about AI and people are just ... ove
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by stuven 4y ago
""" I'm writing a post "But honestly (replying to myself) as much as I am excited about this new tech, I do wonder what it will be like to live in a world of mostly machine-manufactured art. It echoes the move we ma
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by stuven 4y ago
"First, it's important to recognize that advanced language understanding in AI is a complex and nuanced topic, and it's not as simple as saying that a certain level of understanding is "dangerous." Whether or not AI
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by stuven 4y ago
I also did chem labs in college and software now - this is accurate!
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by stuven 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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by stuven 4y ago
I've only read Seveneves to the end and was blown away (and simultaneously a bit disappointed if that makes sense?). I've started Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash but they didn't interest me as much.
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by stuven 4y ago
We eventually straightened things out enough that the product ran on its own, but when I left there were plans on the backburner to replace it. Not sure how the financials worked out there in the end!
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by stuven 4y ago
It always feels like a huge win to successfully make the case _not_ to build something we don't need. Unfortunately it's hard to make the case for such work in performance reviews.
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by stuven 4y ago
A startup (series A-B) I worked for was basically a thin wrapper providing physical goods around the core features of a delivery SaaS (series A) - our core features were so entwined with theirs that when they went belly-up, we panicked and
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by stuven 4y ago
I'm happy to read something from someone who has achieved my goal. I just joined a FAANG for the first time after 5-8 years as an engineer ... and I'm counting the years until this is me.
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by stuven 5y ago
> that's quite impressive! I think so too!
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by stuven 5y ago
They don't teach time/space complexity in Bootcamps, true. I remember the first time I ran into O(1) vs O(n), I was building a toy Game of Life simulation and trying to lookup cells by finding them in an array. Took me a minute to
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by stuven 5y ago
Anecdata, but I have known quite a few excellent developers from bootcamp/self-taught backgrounds. I'm a bootcamp grad myself, and have done very well. I'm curious what skills engineers use on the job that are taught well in