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judahmeek

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About judahmeek

Google me. You'll find both the good and the bad.

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    Comment #49189074

    This thread is for job posts. You should post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156682

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    Comment #48770405

    Loc merged per token seems like an even worse metric because it punishes tokens used for refactoring, brainstorming, & code review

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    Comment #48457009

    Are you referring to the antitrust breakup of AT&T in 1982?

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    Comment #48409091

    Check out https://ai-2027.com/

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    Comment #48409028

    The latter

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    Comment #48253397

    The foundation of human rights, universal equality, & democracy is empathy, which is basically a peer-reviewed scientific theory at a personal level that those with similar capabil…

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    Comment #48240224

    > AI itself could subsume what we collectively consider as Engineering Taste. Only if AI feeds on more taste than garbage.

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    Comment #48240177

    How did that business evaluate that the juniors were actually mastering concepts they had not known before?

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    Comment #48125377

    I think it's odd that your company has a fairly decent promotion metric (those who seek to spread knowledge through docs & meetings get promoted) and you seem to want nothing to do…

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    Comment #48115077

    I'd bet my life savings that the person who is forced to use a tool by top-down edict is less likely to find a valuable use case than the person who is sincerely curious about said…

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    Comment #48115031

    Your argument that bad processes can't possibly be improved is contradicted by all of recorded history.

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    Comment #48115002

    Yes, leaders can & should be expected to devise experiments to determine what processes might possibly be optimized though AI-assistance. But doing so properly requires expending a…

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    Comment #48100782

    > When is the last time Trump invited someone for diplomacy ... then had that person executed? When Trump approved Israel's strike on the Hamas negotiators...

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    Comment #48049284

    Do you think that can actually be automated? Seems like a judgement-heavy process to me.

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    Comment #47971356

    Market forces won't apply to American models either if the American government bans Chinese-created models due to "national security".

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    Comment #47929126

    > I remember reading that Boeing's commercial division This sentence appears to be unfinished.

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    Comment #47801021

    https://ai-2027.com does a solid job of demonstrating the existential risk of the singularity. If it is actually approaching, we need leaders who will give potential black swan eve…

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    Comment #47751560

    Time to ship, change failure, rework rates, mean time to resolve, code complexity, code churn, average age of dependencies - there's a ton of reliable metrics for technical debt, b…

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    Comment #47751431

    Something is missing in the common test suite if this can occur, right?

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    Comment #47484764

    The term you're looking for is "homesteader"

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    Comment #47447673

    > If Average Joe were to delegate most of their life decisions to the chatbot, it'd probably turn out better, or in the worst case, more informed. Even if true, no one is ever goin…

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    Comment #47434828

    Everything returns to dust eventually. Your contributions are part of what helped humanity to get to where it is now.

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    Comment #47433390

    I wrote a blog post of my experience playing double agent: https://judahmeek.com/p/my-first-day-as-a-technical-intervie...