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> For frontend work especially, the productivity boost is insane. Claude built me a replacement for a complex UI that took a human developer 6 months to build poorly, and Claude did it in two hours. It sounds incredible…
Spent few minutes reading the infomercial -- regretted it. Engineering principles form the bedrock first, and AI-tools are made to fit in them, not the other way around as this infomercial propounds. Its linkedin vibe…
If your SWR is less than 4% and you've the discipline to keep it that way, and you generally feel good overall (outside of career and lack of routine), then take your time. LLM could create a study plan, grill your with…
> I was handed 150$/mo budget and no subs, and while it was frustrating at first, with better tooling, context management and especially OAI models it's a breeze now and not even using 70% mostly while achieving a lot…
> How about the last several times all of big tech was laying off tons of people at the same time? I meant the layoffs due to AI, not the typical tech tech layoffs that are as old as tech itself.
There is a difference this time though. There has never been a time in last 40 years where being laid off seemed terrifying for knowledge workers in tech. It's speculative what's ahead, but man, does it LOOK bleak. Many…
Redbull gives you wings.
AI hype is real, and there is a lot of perverse incentive to keep the hype cycle going. You are right about that. Rest of your analogy/arguments are just a lot of nonsense too. Electricity is valuable, and by that logic…
More hyperbole from a company angling for IPO gold. It would serve all existing customers well if they had a decent customer service, and a 'frontier model' that could respond to queries with evidence by default,…
> it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo. Most llm could do it. Claude went from…
> So it CAN help me writing the code that needs to be checked in the first place, but it can’t help me clean it up and make it safer. the thing with fable is so bad; for some project related questions, the model…
> I'd get lynched for sharing a thought like this from a non-throwaway account, but: I don't get the ultra-liberal folks obsession with the skid row. For whatever reason they seem to think that low rank criminals should…
I read the article and kept wondering what the author is trying to convey. It reads like a checklist compiled into an essay with no wisdom nor rationale baked into it. mostly vague and generic -- like a human transform…
> Most popular technical channels like HN / specific sub-reddits require active community participation and "karma-farming" just to be able to post something, which is hard for me to spend time on (I'd rather work on my…
most of the youtube videos for soldering are a waste of time as they focus on the rituals of soldering rather than the rationale. think of soldering as a thermodynamic and metallurgical system to create a solid…
you look at the man who benefits...
Rumsfeld heard it from some smart guy in NASA and repackaged it to sell Iraq war. This is similar to the influencers bandying around 'algorithms'; Rumsfeld is more like the Big Lebowski in parroting whatever to make him…
> now that we have the compute and proper AI, not just IKBS, we can focus on generating a specification and not the code. A specification that can persist across the entire SDLC. All a bit like all the other branches of…
just one line in the agent file does it. there is no need for another 'skill'. here is the line i use: use technical language to spell things out, and keep it free of jargon and project shorthand
> This is such a ridiculous, preposterously self-confident claim. Claims like this give HN (and engineers in general) a bad reputation. all you've done is use some fancy words to discredit OP's claim. what makes you…
> I don’t know Swedish. Is it because these diacritics make the names seem more exotic? of course. Haagen Dazs, Motorhead, etc have known it loooong ago
this has existed for centuries -- scientists who are religious, folks relying on quack doctors, astrology, tarot reading is nothing new. for every person willing to risk their lives by playing doctor, llm amplifies…
what does an internal process matter if the input to output transformations are acceptable. there are many many different ways of writing a software calculator, or a protocol stack, or codec modules; internally they may…
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> For frontend work especially, the productivity boost is insane. Claude built me a replacement for a complex UI that took a human developer 6 months to build poorly, and Claude did it in two hours. It sounds incredible…
Spent few minutes reading the infomercial -- regretted it. Engineering principles form the bedrock first, and AI-tools are made to fit in them, not the other way around as this infomercial propounds. Its linkedin vibe…
If your SWR is less than 4% and you've the discipline to keep it that way, and you generally feel good overall (outside of career and lack of routine), then take your time. LLM could create a study plan, grill your with…
> I was handed 150$/mo budget and no subs, and while it was frustrating at first, with better tooling, context management and especially OAI models it's a breeze now and not even using 70% mostly while achieving a lot…
> How about the last several times all of big tech was laying off tons of people at the same time? I meant the layoffs due to AI, not the typical tech tech layoffs that are as old as tech itself.
There is a difference this time though. There has never been a time in last 40 years where being laid off seemed terrifying for knowledge workers in tech. It's speculative what's ahead, but man, does it LOOK bleak. Many…
Redbull gives you wings.
AI hype is real, and there is a lot of perverse incentive to keep the hype cycle going. You are right about that. Rest of your analogy/arguments are just a lot of nonsense too. Electricity is valuable, and by that logic…
More hyperbole from a company angling for IPO gold. It would serve all existing customers well if they had a decent customer service, and a 'frontier model' that could respond to queries with evidence by default,…
> it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo. Most llm could do it. Claude went from…
> So it CAN help me writing the code that needs to be checked in the first place, but it can’t help me clean it up and make it safer. the thing with fable is so bad; for some project related questions, the model…
> I'd get lynched for sharing a thought like this from a non-throwaway account, but: I don't get the ultra-liberal folks obsession with the skid row. For whatever reason they seem to think that low rank criminals should…
I read the article and kept wondering what the author is trying to convey. It reads like a checklist compiled into an essay with no wisdom nor rationale baked into it. mostly vague and generic -- like a human transform…
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> Most popular technical channels like HN / specific sub-reddits require active community participation and "karma-farming" just to be able to post something, which is hard for me to spend time on (I'd rather work on my…
most of the youtube videos for soldering are a waste of time as they focus on the rituals of soldering rather than the rationale. think of soldering as a thermodynamic and metallurgical system to create a solid…
you look at the man who benefits...
Rumsfeld heard it from some smart guy in NASA and repackaged it to sell Iraq war. This is similar to the influencers bandying around 'algorithms'; Rumsfeld is more like the Big Lebowski in parroting whatever to make him…
> now that we have the compute and proper AI, not just IKBS, we can focus on generating a specification and not the code. A specification that can persist across the entire SDLC. All a bit like all the other branches of…
just one line in the agent file does it. there is no need for another 'skill'. here is the line i use: use technical language to spell things out, and keep it free of jargon and project shorthand
> This is such a ridiculous, preposterously self-confident claim. Claims like this give HN (and engineers in general) a bad reputation. all you've done is use some fancy words to discredit OP's claim. what makes you…
> I don’t know Swedish. Is it because these diacritics make the names seem more exotic? of course. Haagen Dazs, Motorhead, etc have known it loooong ago
this has existed for centuries -- scientists who are religious, folks relying on quack doctors, astrology, tarot reading is nothing new. for every person willing to risk their lives by playing doctor, llm amplifies…
what does an internal process matter if the input to output transformations are acceptable. there are many many different ways of writing a software calculator, or a protocol stack, or codec modules; internally they may…