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black swan is not a reference to the badness of blackness but the unlikelihood of something contradicting volumes of previous data. Thus it can change industry in a good way or a bad way, because the black swan is unprecedented and unpredicted, its consequences and their nature is unsettled.
Yes. And ultimately the colour of swans in Western Australia impacts… almost nothing at all.
It makes me wonder if large engineering organizations are going to splinter. The coordination costs are getting, proportionally, much larger than they used to. When I left my corporate engineering job wayyyyy back in March, there were engineers and engineering leaders going off and getting a lot done, individually or in small teams. But project management and QA couldn't keep up with it. Managers resorted to turning…
I am not sure if that's a good thing for Claude, or an indictment of Jira.
When a long article is topped by an AI-generated image, it makes me wonder if I should bother reading. Did a human write this?
I read it but I don't really understand the writing.
Same here - there's no real insight, no key takeaways, nothing useful. It's just a bunch of anecdotes and drivel hidden in self-promotion.
When a long article is topped by an AI-generated image, it makes me wonder if I should bother reading. Did a human write this?
Just a funny observation, apologies in advance: I am rewatching Stargate SG-1 with my children right now and cannot read this comment except in the voice of Teal’c. In the previous episode the team was in 1969 on a hippy bus. My advice is to chill out a little…
I was listening to some obscure band you wouldn't know with a few chicks I met roller blading last week, and I can't help but read your comment while imagining the first few notes of the second song playing. After that we watched The Simpsons and my advice is to not eat a cow, man.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here - there's no real insight, no key takeaways, nothing useful. It's just a bunch of anecdotes and drivel hidden in self-promotion.
My favorite, guy comes back from 6 month parental leave to force upon people in the trenches his epiphany on "GenAI".
> The result, in my case, is that I code more than I have in years. Three years ago I coded maybe once a fortnight, mostly throwaway PoCs to demonstrate concepts. Now I code most days of the week, in between other work. This kind of senior engineering role really depends on the type/size of an org. I've had jobs like this on & off and generally don't stick around for long. There have always been high-impact hands-on-…
> Three years ago [...], the process was familiar: write a proposal, get feedback, iterate, build a small PoC to demonstrate value, get a team assigned to take it to MVP, ship something fully featured and integrated with the rest of the platform six to twelve months later.
This to me smells of large, slow, very political organisation where actual work gets done at glacial pace. The increase in speed is probably not due to LLMs, rather to the fact that this person now has an excuse to present working products while before, by their own admission, they were mostly dedicated to producing corporate slop.
No, it isn't sustainable. There is a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap"[1], it says that it is a prisoner's dilemma and this is why this dude feels like he's in an arms race. On the other front, people are saying that NVidia can't deliver stable drivers for like 15 months and they don't want to take software updates at all, they are more happy with last year's drivers. I think this is a black swan event in the industr…
black swan is not a reference to the badness of blackness but the unlikelihood of something contradicting volumes of previous data. Thus it can change industry in a good way or a bad way, because the black swan is unprecedented and unpredicted, its consequences and their nature is unsettled.
But maybe that’s not the intended meaning either? It’s an interesting expression.
When a long article is topped by an AI-generated image, it makes me wonder if I should bother reading. Did a human write this?
These are words that humans use, but that Claude loves to use in a particular way, the kind of way used in this article. It particularly likes the phrase "The honest version".
When a long article is topped by an AI-generated image, it makes me wonder if I should bother reading. Did a human write this?
Why? You are already on hn which filters content before you read it