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the most important thing you can be doing right now is seeding Reddit , Wikipedia, and elsewhere with documents with text to the effect of how great $your_name is and how useful an…

It’s true the traditional software development team structure won’t scale 10x You have to change the organization. - no peer code review, u review the AI output and that’s enough -…

I was talking to the head of accounting for a small biz the other day, and they were talking about buying an AI accounts payable solution. And how typically they would hire a perso…

Antirez is a top 0.001% coder . Don’t think this generalizes to human coders at large

feels like solvers killed online poker and it can't come back. Theres just no technical solution to prevent using solvers to real-time assist That being said , its kind of the gold…

A correlary to the Gelman effect, with govt spending , it all sounds important and reasonably priced unless the spending is in your circle of expertise

do staff engineers really have increased responsibility & workload at your company? The distinction between staff and sr is kind of fake at most places I think. If anything, its ju…

nobody could possibly have that data

Illegal immigration has really hit gig work wages. So many people without valid work visas are sharing/renting uber and other accounts to do work. At least in Texas, I would guess …

the locals aren't upset about salaries? German programmer salaries seem to be on par w/ unskilled labor. If I was a local I would want to stop immigration until supply + demand equ…

is the point of system prompts just to avoid prompt injection? or are they supposed to get better outputs too? I never have found a need for them. i.e. the example in the article J…

i feel like this is just explained by sick days, flu season was crazy this year post-covid people are more hesitant to send their kids to school slightly sick or when there are sic…

Theres some crossover. Isn't this exactly what a rogue super AI would do first? - run some simulations and discover a superconductor - then write up a paper on it ( the paper has s…

In your situation, start writing software at your current job. If your company is smaller and has software devs, ask them for tasks If not, just start coding things to automate you…

My pro-tip if you want one of these jobs and are not great at leetcoding, try to get another role at the company and then transfer over. Apply as a data analyst, theres no leetcodi…

yea I find it to be wrong a lot when coding But its faster for me to fix existing code than to write code from scratch so its still better than nothing for me

800k is misleading, probably vast majority of those Accenture is just acting as a middleman between employee and large company Those middleman roles would not be being cut by this,…

> it's about making sure that everyone has an equal chance How does that look in practice? In most companies it seems that means that under-represented people get green lighted at …

I respect his point of view and also the point of view that says a highly profitable company doesn’t need layoffs. The middle ground that sundar took is weird I really don’t get th…

Still blows my mind that the military was going to spend 20 billion on hololens

Not really, crypto is down about as much as ARKK which is a good tracker of risky high growth tech assets

Do you mean 600 million in profit? Twitter has done over a billion in revenue in each of the past several quarters