I’m sorry to say this is not dead internet.
Wonder if something similar will happen in Albania. See Edi Rama go.
Great advice! Thanks!
Turning buggy software A into buggy software B, with all bells and whistles (and bugs included). This is useful for doing large-scale restructuring of codebases. You can verify you aren’t adding (or removing) bugs.
The latter is something I’m dealing with and it’s given me some existential angst. My company’s monolith is millions LoC and hacked together. With proper engineering strategies, it could be closer to 100k. Without…
This article mainly argues around harnesses but a breakthrough for me was understanding why harnesses. Without a harness and only a raw LLM, exploring and modifying codebases is not feasible. It’s just text in, text…
Normal person as in position in economic distribution, not normal as in not quirky or strange. Lots of quirky people all across the spectrum. But to be clear, in my example products aren’t the only thing to which the…
You answered your own question in your very second sentence. “For a normal person”. The modern economy increasingly does not cater to the “normal person” and they prove this constantly. Granted “normal people” stopped…
I’d argue that a complex economy in a failing society is actually a sign of weakness. Lots of nobles and the likes wanting their cut of a pie that doesn’t really exist anymore. So all of that complexity is not really…
I’m sure an EM can extrapolate the role of lead clerk at the grocery store. The EM probably goes to the grocery store and has interacted with the grocery store workers.
Silly question but is it right? I am in grad school and this semester we run multimodal data through ML and LLM-as-judge classifiers. Even plugging in ChatGPT with a relevant judge prompt produces relatively believable…
Yes and there is a reason, we are in theory, held to such higher standards. I used to think it was harder to draw the line with AI. The simple reason being when I as an engineer say something is not feasible (not not…
I thought it was more because of fundamental limitations in the architecture. As in, no matter the training data, it could not be consistently and generally represented
I think only some software work is engineering and if I call myself a software engineer (in regard to my employment), it’s because it’s actually “a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development,…
“[but] if I scroll down a few hundred pixels below the AI slop, Google did have exactly what I was looking for” Does it though? X (slop signup wall for most functionality), Reddit (slop anti-user blocks you on mobile),…
“We debated between gradually migrating to native (brownfield) versus rebuilding them from scratch (greenfield)… However, this time greenfield emerged as a clear winner for the following reasons” “To solve this problem,…
Now you know two! (granted I was 15)
I was born and grew up in the states and am living outside the country (near Europe) and the smallest things made me realize how truly rich Americans are compared to the rest of the world, in real terms. Even things…
Classic capitalism move. It’s not directly making much profit therefore it’s not important! When something that gives you outsized influence or control.. sometimes you would lose money just to control. Something can be…
This is way too much
I don’t really like working with cokeheads. Megalomaniac goals but not the discipline or grasp on reality to achieve them. Always feel like it could be cool to be on a team of cokeheads (and be one) if everyone was…
Well sometimes you can
Well be weird and be careful. Easier said than done. Because yes most people would rather want to bring you down to their level than try to rise up to yours e.g. Jesus Christ. Because of fear, doubt, and insecurity that…
I agree with most of what you write but “Either side can end the transaction when it stops making economic sense.” Is true but only when rationality is assumed and that the interests of those doing the firing actually…
All-around awful?
I’m sorry to say this is not dead internet.
Wonder if something similar will happen in Albania. See Edi Rama go.
Great advice! Thanks!
Turning buggy software A into buggy software B, with all bells and whistles (and bugs included). This is useful for doing large-scale restructuring of codebases. You can verify you aren’t adding (or removing) bugs.
The latter is something I’m dealing with and it’s given me some existential angst. My company’s monolith is millions LoC and hacked together. With proper engineering strategies, it could be closer to 100k. Without…
This article mainly argues around harnesses but a breakthrough for me was understanding why harnesses. Without a harness and only a raw LLM, exploring and modifying codebases is not feasible. It’s just text in, text…
Normal person as in position in economic distribution, not normal as in not quirky or strange. Lots of quirky people all across the spectrum. But to be clear, in my example products aren’t the only thing to which the…
You answered your own question in your very second sentence. “For a normal person”. The modern economy increasingly does not cater to the “normal person” and they prove this constantly. Granted “normal people” stopped…
I’d argue that a complex economy in a failing society is actually a sign of weakness. Lots of nobles and the likes wanting their cut of a pie that doesn’t really exist anymore. So all of that complexity is not really…
I’m sure an EM can extrapolate the role of lead clerk at the grocery store. The EM probably goes to the grocery store and has interacted with the grocery store workers.
Silly question but is it right? I am in grad school and this semester we run multimodal data through ML and LLM-as-judge classifiers. Even plugging in ChatGPT with a relevant judge prompt produces relatively believable…
Yes and there is a reason, we are in theory, held to such higher standards. I used to think it was harder to draw the line with AI. The simple reason being when I as an engineer say something is not feasible (not not…
I thought it was more because of fundamental limitations in the architecture. As in, no matter the training data, it could not be consistently and generally represented
I think only some software work is engineering and if I call myself a software engineer (in regard to my employment), it’s because it’s actually “a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development,…
“[but] if I scroll down a few hundred pixels below the AI slop, Google did have exactly what I was looking for” Does it though? X (slop signup wall for most functionality), Reddit (slop anti-user blocks you on mobile),…
“We debated between gradually migrating to native (brownfield) versus rebuilding them from scratch (greenfield)… However, this time greenfield emerged as a clear winner for the following reasons” “To solve this problem,…
Now you know two! (granted I was 15)
I was born and grew up in the states and am living outside the country (near Europe) and the smallest things made me realize how truly rich Americans are compared to the rest of the world, in real terms. Even things…
Classic capitalism move. It’s not directly making much profit therefore it’s not important! When something that gives you outsized influence or control.. sometimes you would lose money just to control. Something can be…
This is way too much
I don’t really like working with cokeheads. Megalomaniac goals but not the discipline or grasp on reality to achieve them. Always feel like it could be cool to be on a team of cokeheads (and be one) if everyone was…
Well sometimes you can
Well be weird and be careful. Easier said than done. Because yes most people would rather want to bring you down to their level than try to rise up to yours e.g. Jesus Christ. Because of fear, doubt, and insecurity that…
I agree with most of what you write but “Either side can end the transaction when it stops making economic sense.” Is true but only when rationality is assumed and that the interests of those doing the firing actually…
All-around awful?