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From my understanding (I may be wrong) what is happening now is that frontier labs are doubling down on doing RLHF on their models using the user interaction with their own tools e…

This. When programming meant you get just a decent enough salary and enjoyed your work, and could prioritize technical excellence it was fun. But once it became a ticket to million…

AI to some extent learns APIs. If they are doing new things they are probably introducing new kinds of interfaces.

Are AIs good enough at doing novel work that they have yet to encounter? My guess is that the GNU/HURD people are doing a lot of novel work that doesn't yet exist.

Android basically ran a long bait and switch game. It came out as open source, achieved wide adoption, important online services like banking and government-related moved to it. No…

I've never done it, but now that you say it, it makes a lot of sense. Using Django just to manage the database and do migrations, even behind other language stacks. You also get th…

The r/programming subreddit is what you may be looking for.

Would you explain farther how China winning the AI race would result in world war 3 deaths?

How is it unprofessional when it is simply someone giving their honest personal opinion on an issue that involves something that is valuable to them, on their personal blog nonethe…

I'm glad LLM coding exists for people who want to move at an insane superhuman speed (perhaps they're trying to achieve escape velocity and launch into the stars or something) so t…

On the bright side however, one can easily vibe code a browser extension that automatically hides comments that are not aligned to one's needs, whether its American politics or com…

Generally, it seems like if you are not getting returns that outweigh your token spend, you are merely paying to train AI.

One annoying thing is how long it takes for things to sway back into equilibrium. It's getting quite exhausting having to endure all these major events of the 21st century and thei…

You can find some video material from O'Reilly Media

Yeah, makes a lot of sense.

From what I've read from people with relevant experience, the only way to get a large organization change direction is to issue imperative decrees lacking nuance, because large org…

With such kind of ATS systems, is it still a thing to optimize for a one page resume that is easy for a human reviewer to scan, or just include enough buzzwords and external links …

Even if they only fire the juniors and retain the seniors, they have effectively broken the pipeline that creates more seniors for the next few decades. That is either betting on A…

I might be reading this differently, but isn't the acquisition a bet that Modular will become a manufacturer-agnostic software stack? > "We believe the future belongs to developer-…

Yeah, the whole AI industry is just people ripping off each other.. Started by AI companies gulping up all the information that technical or altruistic people shared on the Interne…

> without increasing educator workload substantially Isn't this a good thing, employing more educators, building more schools? Any sane society will always invest more into its fut…

It's likely the elected officials know nothing about AI the technology. Depends on who has their ears in terms creating policies around technology.

Is that before or after the OpenAI and Anthropic pay off all the people and companies who's copyrights were violated when they used their works for free to train their models? At l…

Weird, isn't it? Microsoft owns all of LinkedIn, Github and NPM. All three either have security or stability issues, which seems to get worse, not better, as microsoft goes more in…

I use vanilla emacs and compile from source straight from master at whatever commit it happens to be in when I decide to do it. Only once was there a noticeable breakage when a com…