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All of these conversational AIs should either confidently detect a users intent or apologize and offer to forward call to a real person. LLMs perform pretty poorly when you start t…

Is there a video of this working? Doing STT -> LLM -> TTS seems like a pretty straightforward problem until you start using it.

Sometimes it feels like the more someone has memorized all the little acronyms and jargon and principals around programming the worse they are as an engineer. I worked with a guy w…

My experience as well, it is too fond of abstractions and will constantly spin up functions like: isUserAdmin(){return user.isAdmin} which look nice on a surface level but obfuscat…

if anything they are even more tight fisted because every penny is theirs. publicly traded/vc funded companies have always paid me the most because the money isn’t really theirs.

I used to access locked floors in my old office building by using these algos. Just ride to the floor I have access too, stay in while the doors close, and it would take me to a ra…

ingredients aside, coffee tastes somewhat natural whereas most energy drinks taste like liquid sweet tarts. I have never had one and felt remotely like it might be healthy. You are…

Agree, the best part of writing by hand for me is that I can do it anywhere and anytime. Randomly during a hike or laying outside in my backyard, small notebook + pen is easy. Foun…

I feel this, it must be nice to get from your teenage years to your mid 30s without having a bunch of life events crash into you.

The prompts would more be like: "The dancing and lip movement is still wildly out of time with the music"... "Ok now the dancing is even more out of sync with the beat"

I don't post at all and delete it periodically. The concerning thing is you still feel the `itch` of like... I can't just sit here and stare out the window or listen to this boring…

I dunno even isolated to language specific aspects someone with no experience could hang themeselves. I use a ton of Go & Javascript, if you take a fundamental part of both languag…

I dunno I find it almost more important than ever to have deep domain experience. You need to be able to scan output and spot any problems/improvements instantly. If I am just audi…

and you never look at the code? I understand the feasibility of this and sometimes in my lazier moments I skim the code changes and trust automated/manual testing to validate chang…

I think this all stems from Baby boomers controlling the narrative. Baby boomers had an insane relationship with the sun. Getting crispy brown tan, using tanning oils, using that m…

Is referring to these new models as "LLM"s still correct anymore? The frontier models are a more complex orchestration of LLMs and many other programming techniques, they aren't ju…

Heavily agree. The computer should be a force for order, because being a living creature is chaos. That said LLMs can be used in ways that promote order. People just got excited an…

Yeah being good is great but... some of the best engineers I have ever met are working at small companies making 150k, while mediocre ones fell into Meta/Google/Tesla jobs during t…

Similar story where as soon as someone made a 100k+ offer to me I dropped out of school and never looked back (was making $12/hr at the time). In retrospect it was not the best cho…

Only 39 but definitely relate. From 18-28 life was sharing apartments with various friends just wiling our time away working easy jobs, rock climbing, video games, girls, etc. Then…

Yeah they seem clickable because anything Anti-AI is a bit soothing right now, but he is constantly wrong and usually is pushing the angle of "these businesses aren't even profitab…

Same story, ended up just need to replace a fuse and clean out some filters. I hate to be a "tech elitist" or whatever, but goddamn it seems like software is one of the most learni…

The dynamic of agent codes human reviews does seem like the only sane one for the foreseeable future. Even Anthropic themselves still fall back to this. The problem is that sucks, …

People outside of the tech industry are totally ignorant of how capable models are becoming. Lawyers, Finance bros, Accountants, Doctors are all still barely being scratched at com…

If you believe extraordinary individuals are a product of nature and we don't know how to nurture them into existence then it makes sense. Whatever confluence of events triggers an…