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Should also note the math done on the token costs. $25 of subsidized tokens because he's on a subscription plan.

The last place I worked for, if it happened with someone new in the company or the team, I would find a polite way to say "do your job and fix this shit" and it worked. Some people…

I like them. It tells very clearly how much effort went into someone's work. I like them even more on code comments. It tells _precisely_ how much effort went into the pull request…

LLMs can't fail, they can only be failed ... by you!

As fallible as they may be, I've never had a next-thought generator recommend me glue as a pizza ingredient.

> execs being misinformed about what their own companies are doing/achieving with AI And a bunch of yes-men down the lower layers of management funneling these ideas. In a meeting …

Funny thing. This never happened to me with tech/electronics, but happens from time to time with food items.

Fine doublespeak there. It can mean anything when talking to the public, and anything else when talking to Sam Altman.

And on that same sentence: > but in today’s world but in today’s world where the world changes every month, it’s best to be ahead. Could I be the one getting ahead of him if I skip…

Goes to show how infested with disconnected management this industry is. All the tools that improved productivity for software devs (Docker, K8S/ECS/autoscaling, Telemetry provider…

Yes—it is!

Sorry for not contributing to the discussion (as per the guidelines), but is it just me or this blog post reads a lot like LLM-filled mumble jumble? Seems like I could trim half of…

> without spending large swaths of time learning minutia He probably meant languages he's not proficient with.

Software dev has been promoted as a good career path for almost 2 decades now. Naturally you'll have a bunch of people going in only because of money. A few years ago, when Agile w…

also: "Researchers Extract Nearly Entire Harry Potter Book From Commercial LLMs" https://www.aitechsuite.com/ai-news/ai-shock-researchers-ext...

Back in the XP days if you let your computer for too much time on the hands of an illiterate relative, they would eventually install something and turn Internet Explorer into this …

It is my experience that most of these business domain experts snore the moment you talk about anything related to the difficulties of creating software.

When I see these types of posts I wonder what those people do all day long that is so important, to the point they can't dedicate 30 minutes to plan and execute some chores.

Me. I've never been a maintainer for any big opensource project, so it won't make a dent on anything, but now my contributions are exactly zero.

Only if you exclude those long pages of markdown spec you had to type!

And canvases and paint have existed for even longer, but it needs someone skilled to make use of it. Stable Diffusion enabled the average lazy depraved person to create these image…

> ... "Software Engineer," as a protected term. You can't just call yourself a software engineer. In my irrelevant opinion, this is good. To me at least, the word engineer represen…

I worked for a relatively large company (around 400 employees there are programmers). The people who embraced LLM-generated code clearly share one trait: they are feature pushers w…