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Sure, but the specific critique that it is too verbose seems less valid if one of the primary purposes of the piece was to be prose.

Because we went through so many years of school for it

I actually disagreed with that particular point made in the article, because I don't really see myself as somebody who sees value in craft and artistry, I just want effective code …

I somewhat disagree that this is not prose? This didn't seem like a purely expository piece. Like if it were just a straightforward technical piece than yeah its way to long, it co…

...because reading and writing well-written prose is meaningful and enjoyable? It feels like half the people here do not read or write in their free time, which would be understand…

I mean just as a counterpoint: I am a Junior dev (graduated in 2022) and I am gainfully employed at the McGowan institute, earning an okay salary, with colleagues who actively use …

No it’s just sloooooowwwwww

“ My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use” There is literally no need to shit on ur mom like that. Sorry your mom sucks at tech but can we please stop using t…

I’m a contract hire that you paid upfront! You can’t fire me! Also let this be a lesson to internet folks to be careful what you post if your boss shitposts on the orange yelling s…

That’s funny bc I linked my post to a server I’m on and I also was told to use an agent. My worry about an agent is I’m trying to translate the math with full fidelity and an agent…

These posts make me feel like I’m the worst llm prompter in existence. I’m using a mix of Gemini, grok, and gpt to translate some matlab into c++. It is kinda okay at its job but n…

The type of content I come to HackerNews for

See I like this but also the majority of software jobs these days are a net negative to humanity

Maybe I’m just a silly lab engineer who doesn’t know how big companies work (i did work at a startup for a time but that’s even more anti meeting than a lab) but I feel like maybe …

I really love Zed bc it’s fast and doesn’t try to run the code for you. I really dislike the “play” feature of IDEs. I learned Java in eclipse and for the linear time don’t know ho…

I like metaphors. I respect a good “run with a metaphor” post. But I feel like if you have to explain the metaphor this much during the post it’s not worth it

I feel like my learning curve for AI is: 1) Learn backprop, etc, basic math 2) Learn more advanced things, CNNs, LMM, NMF, PCA, etc 3) Publish a paper or poster 4) Forget basics 5)…

Today I learned that there is such a thing as an array language! This is so neat! Need to learn all of them.

I work in a lab which researches regenerative medicine and people often talk about how we are saving lives. But at the end of the day, it’s not what we are doing that is pushing th…