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Developers talk to LLMs. Managers tell the developers to talk to LLMs. CEOs tell the managers to tell the developers to talk to LLMs. The longer the chain, the higher you are in th…

> Many scammers have plausible deniability The scammers who call me are perfectly obvious. First, they tell me the company they are from (almost certainly a fake one -- could be ea…

If you assign speed-based KPIs to everything, you will get both the good speed and the bad speed.

"Publish or perish" in science is like the "lines of code produced" in software development. Even with the technical debt. We have zillions of papers published, we know that most o…

Until one day your Google account gets locked with an automatically generated message that you violated an unspecified rule. Good luck getting contact to a human support.

I find it funny how the best practices for programmers, ignored in most IT companies, get reinvented as the best practices for AIs. Boring: The documentation should be in code, not…

Why would companies accept AI generated code, it they can generate their own (and review the prompt)? It's like predicting that when compilers become more popular, accepting binary…

This makes sense. AI contribution is basically just "prompt + AI work". Even if you are okay with AI work per se, you should accept prompts (after reviewing them) and let your own …

Elon Musk is a textbook example that no matter how much money you have, some people are still hungry for more and wouldn't hesitate to take away even from those who are starving. T…

> The article creation [...] growing at a slightly declining pace, which is expected since the amount of knowledge is finite. Not just because of that, but they also made the proce…

> Is it just too much effort to complain + favoritism towards frequent editors? They know how to play the game 100x better than you do, and you don't want to waste your time learni…

I wonder what happens when you have kids and you can no longer spend your free time to keep learning new things that your company wants you to know. (Just kidding, I know what happ…

Many popular dependencies suffer from feature creep. Instead of doing one thing and doing it well, they do five different things, one of them is the one you need, another one intro…

it is silently assumed that only the experts who agree with me are the true experts

Hopefully you are renting your intelligence to the company, not selling it. (Unless the job gets you burned out, in which case it was selling indeed.)

I agree, especially the juxtaposition of "we have still have no idea how all of this is going to work when the dust settles" and "hype". If we don't know, then there is a chance it…

> The solution was going to be for everybody to write positive stories in which the LLM is good and relinquishes control, which then made it's way into the LLM's training data Soun…

> As a mostly non-programmer it got me a lot done. I guess this means that you have some good instincts or habits that would be good for a programmer, even if you didn't choose tha…

Some people took SO too competitively. They tried to be the first to answer your question (even if by a single sentence that would be edited to a longer answer later), but when the…

"free-range" means fully remote, right?

The Anti-Intellectualism of the Hacker News Elites. AIs are useful tools in programming, whether you like it or not. Yes, there is a lot of hype. There is also a lot of ignorance. …

> There is a prevalent view of economy that insists businesses sell their products at the minimum price they can still make a profit at [...] A Marxist view of economy, if I must. …

> Also, the idea that chess is a good proxy for genius is a bit out of date. He wrote that the reason he chose chess was because it was objectively measurable. You play the game, y…

Yeah, it's easier to do the difficult and boring stuff when it's actually easy and interesting for you.

Exactly. Up to some point, you actually do well because you are smart . Then, in the middle of the game, the rules change (from your perspective), and it may catch you by surprise.…