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The post is overloaded with false generalizations like this.

The post is just full of half-baked conjectures masquerading as facts... combined with "things they read" by unspecified authors and sources... the author seems to prefer engaging …

this is a bizarre timeline of reality where an ME degree gets you waitlisted for an electrician apprenticeship

> Had this been a we'd be seeing people going to jail over this. "If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike."

> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publi…

> you are constantly not finishing today's tasks. it lives to see another day. if you can fix it, bound it to the workflow, you will be a billionaire dual dishwashers

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Allergy immunotherapy (shots) work by gradually desensitizing the immune system for your specific allergens over several years, so yes. Some people can get to the point where they …

the creative inputs to the whole process and judgment aspects of telling it how to refine and edit

Definitely. One of my fav techniques is to ask an LLM to simplify something by 90% or 99% if it looks overly complicated. Or asking the output to be critically reviewed by another …

pretty big leap of faith there

likewise

The adoption curve across companies and industries is highly variable right now. Tech moves fast but plenty of boring industries need software but don't move on the bleeding edge o…

What does a random bug in one LLM's frontend app have to do with learning how to do prompt engineering well?

> What are you writing that Claude is actually writing all of it? Every time I get past the green field stage, I just end up throwing out what it writes half the time since its tra…

> LLMs (at least today’s) don’t build simple solutions ... ... by default .

> One area where I feel safe saying they are “wrong”, rather than just going with a different assumption that was left unsaid, would be when it makes up API endpoints. It sees the …

They work in that they induce taking more breaks (20/20/20 rule) but they're also annoying in that they interrupt deep focus. If the latter can become a bit smoother about not inte…

Time Out is okay but extremely annoying in that it always seems to pop up and take over the screen at the worst possible times even with configuration to make it less interruptive.…

> I work with one guy who's just completely lost the ability consensus-build ideas with human beings. When he reaches consensus with his AI assistants on a design, analysis, plan o…

Well that's a Silicon Valley level pivot

you can do the period trick: > . http://example.com . https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/03/15/how-to-send-links-w...

I generalized the statement from one cloud to big public clouds categorically to show by hyperbole that ... what difference does it make?! [One can find analogous critiques of Azur…

"Anyone who uses is hypocritical" is a pretty insane take, even for HN. All technologies have benefits and costs — choosing and using a technology does not imply the nonexistence o…

Make Neo-Luddism Great Again! /s