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This aligns with my experience in the semi industry. SWEs tend to see trimming scope as moving the goalpost and do not consider as an option. Providing advance notice is mostly abo…

"nvidia-smi -l " works even better.

Replace AI in your comment with "intern" or "junior employee" and you will quickly realize that it needs a different set of skills. Do you think two different managers can achieve …

If only 10% of Tax software users are affected, IRS may not give an extension and the customers would be cursing you. Probably worth it to keep those extra engineers on call during…

Doctors refer patients to specialists all the time.

It's a policy based on unsound reasoning. Why is India treated as a monolith when it is more diverse than the EU in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity? If tomorrow India ma…

This actually tells you why AI doesn't have to be better than all human experts, just the ones you can afford to get together.

Chegg wasn't a victim — it was a middleman profiting from locked-up educational content and exploiting students’ needs. ChatGPT didn't "lure" users; it provided a superior, accessi…

200 mm/year gets you roughly 1000 engineers at 200k salary. Is that not enough to make rocm experience equal to cuda?

Your conclusion does not follow from your premise. AI moderation should easily catch the worst offenders and the most obvious ones. The examples you gave easily stand out from non-…

So what? Maybe there would have been multiple island nations, maybe they all would have seen other countries and joined hands together. Why should the Dutch get any say in what mod…

As someone who loves Typescript, the first chapter of your book deeply resonated with me. Good data representations and data types that encode meaning can eliminate entire classes …

I agree with what you are saying, but I find it interesting that physics can also predict properties of planets, stars, and galaxies interacting over cosmic distances. At that scal…

It's not doable because your current location needs to be in the center of the screen in north up mode but can be placed lower in regular mode. Also the non square aspect ratio of …

Buying handcrafted artisan stuff is a luxury few can afford. I come from a poor family and I was always grateful for mass produced mediocre stuff that we could actually afford.

There are size limits when deploying on serverless or edge infrastructure so developers have to care about that. The providers also typically charge by compute seconds * memory con…

I'm nitpicking, but the expected value for a project with a 50/50 chance of either (a) making $3m or (b) losing $1m is $1m. Not $2m.

For now. Soon they will pay an LLM to translate their imprecise requests to precise commands.

You don't have to look far, Canada has already implemented a point based system for granting permanent residence to skilled workers. It assigns scores to applicants based on educat…

The government is already interfering with the labor market by denying work visas to many US-educated students, limiting number of employment based green cards, handing out diversi…

Minutes spent is a horrible metric. It creates a perverse incentive to intentionally slow down the software.

What are good counters to these arguments?

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/

This feels like the trolley problem applied at scale. Will you deploy a self driving system that is perfect and stops all fatal accidents but kills one randomly selected person eve…

Assuming this is a serious suggestion and not a joke that I have missed, there are so many cloud LLMs that this kind of search is not feasible. And local LLMs that you can run on y…