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> But in my experience, it's pretty rare for a team to use many programming languages at once Teams sure, but your whole org? Nothing wrong with all teams using same tools and lang…

You can get incredible value out of 1-on-1s with capable managers. Insight about where the organization and product is going that you would otherwise miss, you’ll get to rubber duc…

Also if it turns out in the end the next big thing that everyone bet on just wasn’t it, you don’t stand out. But if it did work out and you missed the train you come out looking li…

If everyone becomes 10x more productive it won’t mean the companies cash flow 10x’s. Where value is loose there is competition, so in theory everyone should win. Unless nobody else…

I see it as LLMs, AI, whatever, can be intelligent enough to emulate consciousness, appear outside as if it were. But that is not proof it really has a qualia, an experience of exi…

Doesn’t the LLM experience discrete continuity every time it infers the next token? > I think consciousness is not an abstract property in the world, therefore it’s tied to certain…

So is a person suffering from amnesia conscious if they lack short-term and long-term memory? Ruling out consciousness or qualia emerging from the inference in an LLM is just as in…

> In my experience with “agentic engineering” the spec docs should be longer than the code itself. Natural language is imperfect, code is exact. The latter notion probably is true,…

Put an LLM inside the NPCs in an open world RPG full of dangerous enemies. The LLMs that are more prone to emulate self-preservation will be more likely to survive over ones that h…

For now maybe not. (Maybe). But just as evolution in nature, isn’t it likely that in the future the AIs that have a preservation drive are the ones that survive and proliferate? Se…

You have never split your working tree changes into separate commits?

I don’t want to discredit the authors but just want to offer couple of hypothetical points in these paranoid times. From a marketing angle, for a startup whose product is an AI sec…

Theres huge uncertainty and layered assumptions in all of microbiology and biochemistry about how exactly things work on small scale. Because it is really hard to study live reacti…

Epigenetics can arguably be an example of what the comment means by narrowing the search space. You can have heritable changes to gene expression that are not part of your genome, …

Not OP but one reason is having young kids that can’t help bringing home everything that is spreading in daycare/kindergarten

Ok, and that supports the idea of LLM-generated mass spamming in what way…?

Someone taking the time and effort to write and send a letter and pay for postage might actually be appreciated by the receiver. It’s a bit different from LLM agents being ordered …

Cancer sucks and I wish your father the best. Also not a doctor or microbiologist, but just wanted to share my layman’s guess on why fixing enzymes will not completely solve the is…

Specifically for a refugee, at least with crypto you have the possibility to declare your assets in your destination, since you actually still hold on to them. Which is unlikely if…

The cross border not about technical capacity but legal control. For example if you are a refugee you might not be able to pull your bank savings and liquid stock with you from you…

This, and another angle is that whatever market you are in, it is harder to run profitable margins if your competitors can eat the market while sustaining losses. And there was a l…

Just putting aside the bold assumption that LLMs do make coders obsolete or coding unnecessary, it is possible to find similar joy in the end result as one does (or did, given the …

The kind of conditions for peace Russia seems to be going for allows them an unfair position to restart the war in a few years, or pressure Ukraine to become a satellite state for …

The problem is when 2 people with same level of enthusiasm for linter rules but opposing views collide. If there’s nothing more impactful you could be solving and spending energy a…

Ibuprofen also increases risk of strokes and NSAIDs have been linked to increased risk of intracerebral hemorrhage. It’s a question of whether benefits outweigh cons on population …