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holtkam2

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    Comment #49176972

    I have bought every generation of Xbox since the original (I had it in 2005). This is a dealbreaker for me. Won’t be buying their next gen system.

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    Comment #49154586

    My rule is: I only let AI code for me, I don’t let it think for me. Since writing is thinking, coding is thinking since coding is writing. That means any time I am not certain how …

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    Comment #49134424

    Yall are missing my point - you don’t gotta replace the upper management - they will continue to hold the responsibility for outcomes and problems like they do today. There will ju…

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    Comment #49130505

    Can someone make an AI agent to target automating tasks of upper management already so they feel the pain as well? You don’t need to even replace them outright, just make your agen…

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    Comment #49130490

    Awesome animations!

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    Comment #49126320

    That question is probably what inspired someone to create the first ever derivatives market

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    Comment #49113472

    Great piece, but it misses the elephant in the room: the lion's share of economic benefit from refactoring will come from the fact that it makes it easier for humans to understand.…

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    Comment #49087089

    Claude code? Who’s talking about Claude code? I am talking about generative AI. It has been better than humans at coding for years . It is also currently much better at things like…

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    Comment #49038911

    The final user-facing responses are usually a tiny fraction of the total tokens used over the course of a given conversation turn. When you're doing any real work, reasoning and to…

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    Comment #48914217

    This guy's head will explode when he realizes that AI has been better at coding than humans for years and yet software engineering employment % has barely twitched...

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    Comment #48810744

    If you want to fully understand / contribute to / fully leverage the most powerful technology humanity has ever devised (AI), you must learn to read and write code. That’s the only…

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    Comment #48688833

    If you used a time machine to go back to 2021 and showed someone the best open source LLMs from 2026 they would surely say “yeah that’s AGI”

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    Comment #48448533

    This is the way. But also - keep your head up - your mindset matters more than you think. If you consider yourself a victim of your circumstances with no agency, this will be harde…

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    Comment #48234683

    The way I think of it has evolved a lot over the last 5 years. At this point I think human brains probably do something analogous to next token prediction when we think. For all th…

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    Comment #48198602

    at a certain point you're gonna need to change your benchmark because this will end up in the model's training set

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    Comment #48087666

    I wish I could upvote this twice. We (devs) really REALLY need to consider on-device compute before going to the cloud for LLM inference.

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    Comment #48067556

    IDK if the author's 'metacognition' needs to be a feature of the LLM itself. I could imagine a harness that 1) reads LLM output 2) uses a research sub-agent to attempt to verify an…

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    Comment #48039139

    No, I'm not considering a career change. But my career will change. I started off as a javacript developer. Then I was a full stack SWE. Then I was an Applied AI Engineer. I think …

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    Comment #47866595

    Just use the codex plugin for vscode ?

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    Comment #47782116

    Someone tell me if my idea is dumb: You know how adding ".ai" to your company name / domain name increases your valuation an order of magnitude or whatever? Well has anyone tried c…

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    Comment #47739911

    This article forgot the strongest argument for hand writing your code. When the process is done, you understand it at a depth far beyond any vibe coder who created the same thing

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    Comment #47537631

    Moving from SF to Chicago this week. This made me feel a little more excited. TY for the share!

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    Comment #47512392

    To answer your question directly: yes I am bored of talking about AI. I think it’s funny how the folks who are screaming most loudly about their AI expertise typically have not bui…

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    Comment #47328341

    Level 9: agent managers running agent teams Level 10: agent CEOs overseeing agent managers Level 11: agent board of directors overseeing the agent CEO Level 12: agent superintellig…

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    Comment #47314182

    Are you telling me juniors aren’t facing hard problems anymore? I doubt that’s the case. They’re probably banging their heads against the wall trying to understand why this or that…