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I am very impressed with LLMs, but..... I don't think we are seeing productivity gains due to LLMs in the general economy yet. Even in software development, are we seeing an increa…

Good links. To make it easier, here are the first paragraphs; "SQLite is not directly comparable to client/server SQL database engines such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Ser…

The USA could block Chinese ships. Or maybe disable the loading jetties.

Pencil with soft lead works perfectly for me.

Maybe GAAP should be changed? Professional investors have the time to comb through the small print. These off balance sheet activities seem designed to bamboozle the small investor…

Drones are already vibe targeting in Ukraine/Russia.

From the article His job was to be the AI's "accountability sink" (in the memorable phrasing of Dan Davies): he was being paid to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.

He spends most of his time trolling us. What do you expect?

Works for me.

Exactly, the LLM itself can do the migration, surely?

If AI is so great, these price rises will pay for themselves many times over..... Have any HNer's experienced or observed any productivity increases, or even any utility increases …

"Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job?" Depends on whether you want to contribute to the creation of a dystopia. You could maybe make the effort to hire …

D. Richard Hipp is up there for me. I love the minimalism of his programs, SQLLite and Fossil. Also involved in Tcl, my favourite language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Richard…

I quite frequently just rinse my plate or cup under the tap and put it on the drying rack. Instant!

Yes, there is a sort of blindness in science. The idea that if something hasn't been proven it's not true.

This just demonstrates that there is something wrong with the statistics.

The smart move would have been to get lower level managers to assign specific employees to experiment with applying LLMs to their processes and report back. Then incorpoate the fin…

Rodent populations are notoriously hard to control. But it seems that a deer cull would be easy. I am surprisec that they are not done.

If there was more diversity in predators and prey, the population cycles would have smaller amplitudes. The large swings are often symptoms of a collapsing ecosystem.

Interesting. A web form completed by the sales people would not have sufficed? I guess it's the backend interfaces to multiple systems that's the difficult part?

> I tend to get very good results How do you define the good result? Does the definition of success include clean, maintainable code? I am finding I need to be in the loop. My code…

"It’s hard to find a good balance and it depends on the kind of business and scale of project". Exactly. The abstraction purists are not working in the messy, dead line driven real…

> I disagree. So... the wrong abstraction, no matter how bad, is better than code duplication?

Time travel!

In Ukraine they are using tracked autonomuous vehicles for the same tasks. Much cheaper.