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Comment #47408436
One thing that irks me about this place is the great-confidence people make claims, when they have zero idea about stuff outside of their domain. I know ten people who work across …
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Comment #47408372
We have moved far-away from the notion of a factory work who's labour can easily be traced to the output. I think in general we have to question what work one does - not in a negat…
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Comment #47403225
Price and quantity go in pairs. As long as a pair exists on the demand curve, Apple can charge that price.
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Comment #47402599
Lol thanks for your comment.
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Comment #47402170
But a microwave does exactly what it says on the tin, every time, without fail. LLMs require a lot more effort.
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Comment #47401822
"cooking with an oven is more of a special occasion thing" this is nuts! I use an oven every day dude - so its a special occasion is it? The default method for cooking is using an …
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Comment #47401741
I immediately turn off when I read extreme points of view. It tells me they are people that lack traits such as nuance - essentially time wasters.
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Comment #47401704
"AI has already won. It's taking over. " Man.. I suggest you touch some grass. You are living in a bubble.
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Comment #47394790
"Now anyone can make something nobody gives a shit about." lol nice one
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Comment #47394505
Ultimately humans are the judge of reality, not LLMs. How can you be a good judge? You must have very strong foundations and fundamental understanding.
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Comment #47394443
Great post. So the people who are claiming huge jumps in productivity in the workplace, how are they dealing with this 'review fatigue'?
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Comment #47394196
Link? Genuinely curious to check it out.
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Comment #47393947
At the same time you have astro-turfing from LLM producers though, so...
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Comment #47393915
Id argue the read-write procedures are happening simultaneously as one goes along, writing code by hand.
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Comment #47393904
There's nothing more annoying than the feeling of "oh FFS why you doing that?!". Its amazing how right and wrong LLMs can be in the output produced. Personally the variance for me …
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Comment #47393742
TBH it kinda makes sense why personal projects are where productivity jumps are much larger. Working on projects within a firm is... messy.
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Comment #47390897
Meta is doing something healthy - signalling that it is behind with its LLM efforts. Nothing wrong with that.
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Comment #47390788
Exactly. I find it hilarious that the people down-voted my comment. Like yeah sorry... not everyone has to be a risk-taker. Many people like to observe and await to see what new te…
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Comment #47390422
Lol you may be on to something there.. 'a code janitor'.
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Comment #47390019
" this team is incredibly cooked in the long term" they're not actually. People like you are making sunk expenditures whilst the models are evolving... they can just wait until the…
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Comment #47389923
A new way of operating is forced down your throat due to expectations of how the technology will evolve. What actually happens is highly variable - on the spectrum between a huge p…
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Comment #47383691
To me its just a natural evolution of the search engine. And now looking back its an obvious outcome. The search engine of the time was the best way to find websites. But those web…
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Comment #47383664
Except a power tool works as it should each and every time. 100% reproducible. That's what's so great about it. Can we stop with the lazy analogies? Everyone's read some variant of…
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Comment #47383635
Nailed it. The design part is hard because you have to envision the object. Once you have a good idea and conceptialisation of the object, form is easy.
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Comment #47383599
Why do you make such statements with confidence and bluster?