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.
From the article: > And they don’t travel very far, so only nearby microphones would “hear” the tag. That makes the devices inherently private, Deng said, because other people wouldn’t detect any activity unless they…
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…
Yeah. In these cases it's not like anyone is going to spin up their own instance and start competing with you. Government / handles society-critical things code should really be public unless there are _really_ good…
Some months back I would have agreed with you without any "but", but it really does help even if it only takes over "typing code". Once you do understand the problem deep enough to know exactly what to ask for without…
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…
Full agree on this. I (deep, deep in embedded systems) have seen this too often, that code is incredibly complex and impossible to reason around because it needs to reach into some data structure multiple times from…
This will be a fun little evolution of botnets - AI agents running (un?)supervised on machines maintained by people who have no idea that they're even there.
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…
Funny that you used that symbol, as it would have been a fantastically bad choice for clarity in product naming. I'm going to assume that you're German speaking and think of it as meaning "average". In my head it would…
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…
This won't harm Apple or its AirPod product much, if at all. The Apple brand and its eco system is strong enough for the vast majority of average EU customers to ignore the missing features and buy the products…
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 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.
From the article: > And they don’t travel very far, so only nearby microphones would “hear” the tag. That makes the devices inherently private, Deng said, because other people wouldn’t detect any activity unless they…
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…
Yeah. In these cases it's not like anyone is going to spin up their own instance and start competing with you. Government / handles society-critical things code should really be public unless there are _really_ good…
Some months back I would have agreed with you without any "but", but it really does help even if it only takes over "typing code". Once you do understand the problem deep enough to know exactly what to ask for without…
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…
Full agree on this. I (deep, deep in embedded systems) have seen this too often, that code is incredibly complex and impossible to reason around because it needs to reach into some data structure multiple times from…
This will be a fun little evolution of botnets - AI agents running (un?)supervised on machines maintained by people who have no idea that they're even there.
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…
Funny that you used that symbol, as it would have been a fantastically bad choice for clarity in product naming. I'm going to assume that you're German speaking and think of it as meaning "average". In my head it would…
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…
This won't harm Apple or its AirPod product much, if at all. The Apple brand and its eco system is strong enough for the vast majority of average EU customers to ignore the missing features and buy the products…
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…