I never said it did. My comment shouldn't be read as an explanation for why Anthropic chose Rust in this case. I was simply disputing the claim that LLMs are good at all languages, and that their biases--both…
That's absolutely not true. Differently languages have greater or lesser representation in the training sets. You see a similar bias toward specific libraries within a given ecosystem, so much so that I worry about AI…
> It's misplaced to be angry about datacenters themselves. There IS value being created, or people wouldn't use the tools. Commensurate with their costs, including externalities? That very much remains to be seen.
So I'm clear: as long as our jobs don't devolve to 100 hours a week in a sweat shop or tilling the earth for the lord of our fiefdom, we should just sit back and be happy? Is that what I should take away from your…
Sure but context matters and given this is Hacker News, a lot of discussion centers around tech as a profession (and that's doubly true for AI adoption). You can forgive folks for jumping to natural conclusions. :D
It's coming from a place of objecting to burnout/overwork culture. Recently I witnessed a CTO mention in a public channel that with Claude remote control people can now work while getting a coffee or other breaks during…
> Like...you're a programmer? And you don't like to read? I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. The rise of vibecoding and the disdain many…
But that's not the real problem. The problem that quote (and this entire post and the folks that produced it) is putting a finger on is that vibecoding makes it very easy to build large piles of brittle, entangled code…
Eh it's nothing new. Outsourcing comes from the same spirit. Perversely I find myself increasingly blaming the growth of product management divorced from engineering as the source of some of this. Everyone wants to be…
No, they solve figuring out if a change breaks your existing code. But if your code is poorly structured, it absolutely does not make it easier to modify.
> Our conclusion was that we should not be concerned what search or queuing algorithm or data structure is being used. Not to be too snide, but if that's your reductionist view of the work of software development, I'm…
Alas no: https://smartbear.com/lean/code-review/best-practices-for-pe... > A SmartBear study of a Cisco Systems programming team revealed that developers should review no more than 200 to 400 lines of code (LOC) at a…
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Aw, you've got it all wrong bwat49. It's not like that!
I've used LLMs all day five days a week plus my own free time for the last year or so (new job). I've seen plenty of hallucinations and context collapse behaviours. I've never seen that.
> I am trying to give some rational perspective of the balance of power between them and us That should *not be a thing*. You bought the device. You own it. It should be yours to do with as you see fit. That applies to…
I actually ended an extended career break around this time last year and landed two different jobs since then (first didn't work out, second is going okay minus the AI psychosis) purely through networking. I'm not…
Honestly I'd say both are both. They just lie and are zealots about different things. Ultimately they both want money and power, they just grasp for it in different ways.
Sue them all. Google is every bit as much a monopolist, they just play the game a little differently.
> 1) side loading or however it's called is used less than 1-2% of global Android users (they can't be more than 50million). Google made us a favor leaving it open after an only 24h delay. It could be much worsa and is…
Right, so you were sane. :D Unfortunately I think we're entering a period of insanity. The trouble is AI is being sold as an individual engineering accelerant. I suspect at the most AI pilled orgs you'll then see a…
Okay. How? This is an org pushing thousands of PRs a day. How do you solve the attribution problem for any one engineer's work given some set of impact metrics? And keep in mind, most common impact metrics are trailing…
> If the competitive risk is real Yes. If. Man I hope this tech FOMO eventually stops. Companies generally fail because either their product doesn't meet a market need, or the market doesn't exist in the first place…
I'm quite certain I was criticising a set of ideas, not you personally. That I misunderstood your point in context is a different issue, in which case, yup, my mistake.
> If they exclusively work on open source stuff where are they getting money from to survive? These are orthogonal. One can have a paid job while contributing to open source for entirely altruistic reasons. > Follow the…
I never said it did. My comment shouldn't be read as an explanation for why Anthropic chose Rust in this case. I was simply disputing the claim that LLMs are good at all languages, and that their biases--both…
That's absolutely not true. Differently languages have greater or lesser representation in the training sets. You see a similar bias toward specific libraries within a given ecosystem, so much so that I worry about AI…
> It's misplaced to be angry about datacenters themselves. There IS value being created, or people wouldn't use the tools. Commensurate with their costs, including externalities? That very much remains to be seen.
So I'm clear: as long as our jobs don't devolve to 100 hours a week in a sweat shop or tilling the earth for the lord of our fiefdom, we should just sit back and be happy? Is that what I should take away from your…
Sure but context matters and given this is Hacker News, a lot of discussion centers around tech as a profession (and that's doubly true for AI adoption). You can forgive folks for jumping to natural conclusions. :D
It's coming from a place of objecting to burnout/overwork culture. Recently I witnessed a CTO mention in a public channel that with Claude remote control people can now work while getting a coffee or other breaks during…
> Like...you're a programmer? And you don't like to read? I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. The rise of vibecoding and the disdain many…
But that's not the real problem. The problem that quote (and this entire post and the folks that produced it) is putting a finger on is that vibecoding makes it very easy to build large piles of brittle, entangled code…
Eh it's nothing new. Outsourcing comes from the same spirit. Perversely I find myself increasingly blaming the growth of product management divorced from engineering as the source of some of this. Everyone wants to be…
No, they solve figuring out if a change breaks your existing code. But if your code is poorly structured, it absolutely does not make it easier to modify.
> Our conclusion was that we should not be concerned what search or queuing algorithm or data structure is being used. Not to be too snide, but if that's your reductionist view of the work of software development, I'm…
Alas no: https://smartbear.com/lean/code-review/best-practices-for-pe... > A SmartBear study of a Cisco Systems programming team revealed that developers should review no more than 200 to 400 lines of code (LOC) at a…
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Aw, you've got it all wrong bwat49. It's not like that!
I've used LLMs all day five days a week plus my own free time for the last year or so (new job). I've seen plenty of hallucinations and context collapse behaviours. I've never seen that.
> I am trying to give some rational perspective of the balance of power between them and us That should *not be a thing*. You bought the device. You own it. It should be yours to do with as you see fit. That applies to…
I actually ended an extended career break around this time last year and landed two different jobs since then (first didn't work out, second is going okay minus the AI psychosis) purely through networking. I'm not…
Honestly I'd say both are both. They just lie and are zealots about different things. Ultimately they both want money and power, they just grasp for it in different ways.
Sue them all. Google is every bit as much a monopolist, they just play the game a little differently.
> 1) side loading or however it's called is used less than 1-2% of global Android users (they can't be more than 50million). Google made us a favor leaving it open after an only 24h delay. It could be much worsa and is…
Right, so you were sane. :D Unfortunately I think we're entering a period of insanity. The trouble is AI is being sold as an individual engineering accelerant. I suspect at the most AI pilled orgs you'll then see a…
Okay. How? This is an org pushing thousands of PRs a day. How do you solve the attribution problem for any one engineer's work given some set of impact metrics? And keep in mind, most common impact metrics are trailing…
> If the competitive risk is real Yes. If. Man I hope this tech FOMO eventually stops. Companies generally fail because either their product doesn't meet a market need, or the market doesn't exist in the first place…
I'm quite certain I was criticising a set of ideas, not you personally. That I misunderstood your point in context is a different issue, in which case, yup, my mistake.
> If they exclusively work on open source stuff where are they getting money from to survive? These are orthogonal. One can have a paid job while contributing to open source for entirely altruistic reasons. > Follow the…