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Like Before, You Can Go Breakneck Speeds and Make Mistakes(wordsrightman.beehiiv.com)
1 points by tags2k 1mo ago|0 comments
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by tags2k 3mo ago
If you want to be in awe of basic support tasks then sure! I frequently need to assist with support tickets, communicate between departments to solve customer queries and sometimes manually fix slop that AI has put in there. No LLM rig can
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by tags2k 3mo ago
Article literally says their first instinct was to laugh. I'm not a tech bro, just a guy with a job (for now) and I made it clear from my comment that I have never laughed at tech taking the jobs of others, or made it happen myself. Tr
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by tags2k 3mo ago
I tend to do the main structural parts myself and tell it to fill in the gaps and add tests, which sort of works 70% of the time. It may not be worth what my company is being charged.
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by tags2k 3mo ago
I was with the article - especially the bit about the 10% an LLM loses and how that loss can be de-amplified across eventual meaning, but then... "My first instinct is to laugh and shake my head. One need not look very far to find indi
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Sloppy and Paste(wordsrightman.beehiiv.com)
2 points by tags2k 4mo ago|0 comments
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by tags2k 4mo ago
You are definitely going to have to. I see these massive skills as soon-to-be artefacts of the past, they will be unwieldy in the non-subsidised world. I won't pretend to know what replaces them.
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by tags2k 4mo ago
I'm with you there. I can't stand the CLI that wants to take you away from the mostly bad code it writes. Give me the structure, let me finesse it - to do that I need to actually see it no matter how much Anthropic pretends that i
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by tags2k 4mo ago
I'm no physics professor but this aligns with the way I use the tools in my "senior engineer" space. I bring the fundamentals to sanity-check the trigger-happy agent and try to imbue other humans with those fundamentals so th
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by tags2k 4mo ago
It's a Brave new world.
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by tags2k 7mo ago
This straw-mans ORMs by listing out what crappy ones do. I mean, accidental writes? You've either got a terrible ORM, no tests, or both.
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by tags2k 8mo ago
It seems that poor tech leadership are fearing that they won't be able to move onto their next job if they don't put "implemented AI efficiencies" on their CV now. It's up to us grunts to work out how to actually ma
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by tags2k 8mo ago
That's a very thorough takedown of something the guy you're replying to never said. The end of their comment was "yet look at most of the replies here".
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by tags2k 10mo ago
One way I've found is to break the problem down, and think about each step in reverse. So for example, what does the final stage want to do in order to achieve the result in a simple way? It might be that to get the final result it nee
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by tags2k 11mo ago
Indeed - stick me in my pod and inject those experience chemicals into me, what's the difference? But also, what would be the point? What's the point anyway? In one scenario every atom's trajectory was destined from the creat
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by tags2k 11mo ago
Most of us actually want to get somewhere to do an activity to then have known we did it for the rest of our lives as if to extract some intangible pleasure from its memory. Why don't we just hallucinate that we did it?
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by tags2k 11mo ago
You have early voting, some choose not to trust the early voting system.
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by tags2k 11mo ago
Since everyone's giving !opinions, in my C# DDD world you'd ideally be able to: _unitOfWork.Begin(); var users = await _usersRepo.Load(u => u.LastLogin <= whateverDate); users.CheckForExpiry(); _unitOfWork.Commit
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by tags2k 11mo ago
If you're updating the UI every time you receive a single character from this library, you've got bigger problems than font size.
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RTO: WTAF(wordsrightman.beehiiv.com)
88 points by tags2k 1y ago|144 comments
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by tags2k 1y ago
Imagine imagining things.
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by tags2k 1y ago
I'm entirely unsure how database migrations aren't breaking changes - you migrate to a new version of your schema, queries that use an older schema aren't going to work. Database server functions can be changed through migrat
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by tags2k 2y ago
But programmers are LLMs augmented with the ability to run code. It seems odd to add a restriction when testing if an LLM is "as good as" a programmer, because if the LLM knows what it would need to do with the external code, that
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by tags2k 2y ago
"Unacceptable"? Pretty hyperbolic response. I mean, they could just call it BlendGPT instead and nobody would be able to say a thing.
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by tags2k 2y ago
I do agree, however from my experience some folk smart enough to build this kind of system will struggle in an interview situation. Maybe rather than outright cheating, this could be more of a leg-up for those who find interviews difficult.
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by tags2k 2y ago
o1 gets the original article question correct: https://chatgpt.com/share/675410c1-22c4-8001-b36a-24425127cc...
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by tags2k 2y ago
This definitely doesn't translate - if you say "half 11" to a British person you are getting them at 11:30, not 10:30.
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by tags2k 2y ago
As with real life, the speed generally doesn't matter as long as you get a working solution and you find it fun. If you find "copy and paste into an LLM and then copy and paste the answer back out" fun, then I suppose you do