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I think most of HN can't logically arrive at this conclusion because they don't exactly buy into the premise that (1) (digital) AGI is a real concept, and will be achieved imminent…

> The jobs growing are the ones where the work product is judgment about what code should exist. And how many people do you need for this? There are many roles where people are lit…

I don't get why people care about "the death of junior SWEs" and "its a big issue if there are no junior programmers to be the senior SWEs of tomorrow" Just look at the writing on …

wow an actual ai-pilled comment on here for once, I agree with your sentiment. People opining about "rebuilding the ladder" have no idea whats coming for the software industry, and…

This _was_ done a couple of decades ago, it was available on the downloadable version of google earth (when it existed). I remember playing around with it in 2012.

This is just false. For starters, your users most _definitely_ don't care about how "elegant" your code is either. They want new features to keep them engaged, or to make the produ…

This is obviously the case to me, but I think HN is very anti-AI. I genuinely don't believe that they sat down in a board room and said "yeah lets specifically release this now bef…

Its AI. Both AI actually being good now, and CEOs believing AI is good. Even at most big tech companies, L3 engineers were basically the "claudes" of their team (or at least, 80% o…

Conspiratorially, it seems like a shotgun attempt at undermining the supposed OpenAI IPO later this year. Also filing an S-1 doesn't actually indicate that they intend to go public…

Its been 6 years, how are you still blaming covid overhiring?

SpaceX is _not_ profitable by most reasonable measurements of accounting. If you discount rocket depreciation costs and R&D, then yeah its profitable from starlink revenue.

Apart from your last paragraph which is a little contentious, I agree with what you say. I dont understand why people here require that every tech ceo to be some professional progr…

unironically true

The joke is that "taste" usually implies you have some strong personal sense of self and style, but if you walked into tech offices in the bay area everyone looks like that and act…

The thing is, do humans _need_ most software? The less surfaces that need to interact with humans, the less you need humans in the loop to design those surfaces. In a hypothetical …

I think "taste" is definitely an overused meme at this point, its like tech twitter discovered this word in 2024 and never stopped using it (same with "agency", "high leverage", et…

Well considering basically the entire market was down these past few days, Google included, its unlikely attributable to this paper alone. Its most likely correlated with general w…

Answer: Any job where the majority (or all) of your work can be done strictly by using a computer, and for tasks that have easily verifiable and objective outcomes. And from an eco…

yeah and 2s has not been doing too hot for a few years now. Jane street I buy - they tend to recruit a lot of CMU students. But definitely less than < 15 of the new grads they hire…

It will probably be a lot worse since white collar workers (especially the ones that AI is targeting, like banking, software, etc since they are super high margin jobs to automate)…

I agree. I think most companies would be better off being 100% AI driven since synchronization problems for agents (or whatever the fad will be) is likely much lower than human soc…

> ... Just that it doesn’t replace the social, human, and relationship based aspects of work, whether this is trust, or just being interested in what someone else says. Yeah I also…

two things: 1. ai being able to code well seems like it would also get pretty close/good at doing basically everything else you described. If coding is a game of reasoning, if you …

Yes, it will replace human thinking. Thats quite literally the explicit goal of every AI company. Historically every technological recolution serves to replace some facet of human …

Clickbait title and article. There was a large reorg of genai/msl and several other teams, so things have been shuffled around and they likely don't want to hire into the org while…