I'm surprised YouTube allows it. I'd expect them to want "their" share of the ad money, since creators in a way are side stepping the "normal" ad flow.
Full agree. I until very recently thought AI tools of today were limited to prohibitively expensive high end hardware hosted in data centers. I was surprised and amazed to get "decent" (with the expectations set right /…
> all the way to local models for some tasks. I think this is the key takeaway for the future of AI. Give tech a few years to catch up and we will likely have the functionally equivalent to today's models running on…
I (software engineer) have lived with a software engineer for 14 years. We (half jokingly, somewhat seriously) refer to non-software engineers as "real persons", or human-humans.
I'm starting to notice how those who don't use AI end up having to hand tasks over to people who can get them done quicker. It is anecdotal for sure, but it's a pattern that seems to be emerging around me that…
A notification on my phone. I don't know what produced it exactly, but it was probably connected to my google account (sigh!) somehow. It's something that happens rarely enough for me to not having developed an…
This drives me nuts. It's been going on for years that a simple "if this, do that" deal is encoded in an overly elaborate 10 minute long YouTube video where at least 9 minutes of it is filler. You know, when you start…
Exactly we don't, and what's worse is that the "content" is getting to the point where we need _content_ blockers. I recently got hit by an "article" that promised to tell me which three AAA games would be released with…
I've recently worked extensively with "prompt coding", and the model we're using is very good at following such instructions early on. However after deep reasoning around problems, it tends to focus more on solving the…
This reminds me of the "if you were entirely blind, how would you tell someone that you want something to drink"-gag, where some people start gesturing rather than... just talking. I bet a not insignificant portion of…
Spread the risk and reduce the probability of extinction. We know for a fact that earth is doomed, on top of our own continuous efforts to kill ourselves off. No not recent climate change type of doomed, but the…
It's hard to motivate high quality at high cost on subscription based platforms. We all pay the same price regardless of whether the content is barely palatable or great, and we all want new content frequently. Better…
AI makes the parts of my work that I spend the least time on a whole lot quicker, but (so far / still) has negligible effects on the parts of my work that I spend the most time on. I'm still not sure if this is due to a…
For me the longer I work, the worse the bugs I work with become. Nowadays, after some 17 years in the business, it's pretty much always intermittently and rarely occurring race conditions of different flavors. They…
Nintendo almost managed to do the same to their own gaming machines with the absolutely insanely inadequate Nintendo Wii / Wii U decision making. As an engineer and a consumer / customer, I simply cannot understand why…
As with everything, I guess do it in moderation and don't be stupid...? Planning on being out a full day under the summer sun as a very pale north European? Slob on all the sunscreen that you can and hide in the shade…
Oof...! A lot of innovation originates in engineers' "boredom". I've been at a company that mandated innovation by having a mandatory annual innovation day, and full productivity for the rest of the year. "Be innovative…
> Another thought... if I'm tasked with maintaining or adding features to existing code, should I feel responsible for writing tests for the existing codebase? Do you trust yourself enough to not break existing code…
I'm not a manager and have no aspirations at all to be one, but I have worked with plenty of "complainers". Usually what complainers complain about has nothing to do with why they are unhappy. Way too often frustration…
Using your potato peeler example: If my potato peeler told me "Why bother? Order pizza instead." I'd be obese. An LLM can directly influence your willingness to pursue an idea by how it responds to it. Interest and…
Might tell it "I want to do this stupid thing" and it goes "ok cool". Previously it would have gone "Oh really? Fantastic! How do you intend to solve x?" and off you go.
I find the GPT-5 model having turned the friendliness way, way down. Topics that previously would have rendered long and (usefully) engaging conversations are now met with an "ok cool" kind of response. I get it - we…
Yep. Most games nowadays are released broken and incomplete. Being able to patch a game after release truly is both a blessing and a curse. Then they throw microtransactions on top of the already rather ugly mess.…
Yeah, this is a great approach if you're already at war with a country. If you're not and they're still allowing your planes to fly through their airspace then this is a great way to ensure that they lock your (and your…
Replace the "hire poor developers" with "use LLM driven development", and you have the rough outline for a perfect Software Engineering horror movie. It used to be that the poor performers (dangerous hip-shootin' code…
I'm surprised YouTube allows it. I'd expect them to want "their" share of the ad money, since creators in a way are side stepping the "normal" ad flow.
Full agree. I until very recently thought AI tools of today were limited to prohibitively expensive high end hardware hosted in data centers. I was surprised and amazed to get "decent" (with the expectations set right /…
> all the way to local models for some tasks. I think this is the key takeaway for the future of AI. Give tech a few years to catch up and we will likely have the functionally equivalent to today's models running on…
I (software engineer) have lived with a software engineer for 14 years. We (half jokingly, somewhat seriously) refer to non-software engineers as "real persons", or human-humans.
I'm starting to notice how those who don't use AI end up having to hand tasks over to people who can get them done quicker. It is anecdotal for sure, but it's a pattern that seems to be emerging around me that…
A notification on my phone. I don't know what produced it exactly, but it was probably connected to my google account (sigh!) somehow. It's something that happens rarely enough for me to not having developed an…
This drives me nuts. It's been going on for years that a simple "if this, do that" deal is encoded in an overly elaborate 10 minute long YouTube video where at least 9 minutes of it is filler. You know, when you start…
Exactly we don't, and what's worse is that the "content" is getting to the point where we need _content_ blockers. I recently got hit by an "article" that promised to tell me which three AAA games would be released with…
I've recently worked extensively with "prompt coding", and the model we're using is very good at following such instructions early on. However after deep reasoning around problems, it tends to focus more on solving the…
This reminds me of the "if you were entirely blind, how would you tell someone that you want something to drink"-gag, where some people start gesturing rather than... just talking. I bet a not insignificant portion of…
Spread the risk and reduce the probability of extinction. We know for a fact that earth is doomed, on top of our own continuous efforts to kill ourselves off. No not recent climate change type of doomed, but the…
It's hard to motivate high quality at high cost on subscription based platforms. We all pay the same price regardless of whether the content is barely palatable or great, and we all want new content frequently. Better…
AI makes the parts of my work that I spend the least time on a whole lot quicker, but (so far / still) has negligible effects on the parts of my work that I spend the most time on. I'm still not sure if this is due to a…
For me the longer I work, the worse the bugs I work with become. Nowadays, after some 17 years in the business, it's pretty much always intermittently and rarely occurring race conditions of different flavors. They…
Nintendo almost managed to do the same to their own gaming machines with the absolutely insanely inadequate Nintendo Wii / Wii U decision making. As an engineer and a consumer / customer, I simply cannot understand why…
As with everything, I guess do it in moderation and don't be stupid...? Planning on being out a full day under the summer sun as a very pale north European? Slob on all the sunscreen that you can and hide in the shade…
Oof...! A lot of innovation originates in engineers' "boredom". I've been at a company that mandated innovation by having a mandatory annual innovation day, and full productivity for the rest of the year. "Be innovative…
> Another thought... if I'm tasked with maintaining or adding features to existing code, should I feel responsible for writing tests for the existing codebase? Do you trust yourself enough to not break existing code…
I'm not a manager and have no aspirations at all to be one, but I have worked with plenty of "complainers". Usually what complainers complain about has nothing to do with why they are unhappy. Way too often frustration…
Using your potato peeler example: If my potato peeler told me "Why bother? Order pizza instead." I'd be obese. An LLM can directly influence your willingness to pursue an idea by how it responds to it. Interest and…
Might tell it "I want to do this stupid thing" and it goes "ok cool". Previously it would have gone "Oh really? Fantastic! How do you intend to solve x?" and off you go.
I find the GPT-5 model having turned the friendliness way, way down. Topics that previously would have rendered long and (usefully) engaging conversations are now met with an "ok cool" kind of response. I get it - we…
Yep. Most games nowadays are released broken and incomplete. Being able to patch a game after release truly is both a blessing and a curse. Then they throw microtransactions on top of the already rather ugly mess.…
Yeah, this is a great approach if you're already at war with a country. If you're not and they're still allowing your planes to fly through their airspace then this is a great way to ensure that they lock your (and your…
Replace the "hire poor developers" with "use LLM driven development", and you have the rough outline for a perfect Software Engineering horror movie. It used to be that the poor performers (dangerous hip-shootin' code…