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I mean, I am. How else would I know nobody wants to interview me? :)
Fair enough :) wasn’t clear to me from your first comment. It’s definitely pretty tough out there right now.
This report lists failures of some AI systems. They look consequential - but the company does not seem to care. This is very strange - how can it be? I really like AI products they help me all the time - but I know I need to take into account their failure modes and be careful. But lots of organisations don't seem to do that calculation. Will competition root them out? I don't know - I am so enthusiastic about AI - b…
Which "LangChain situation" are you talking about? Anything specific, or just everything that's happened in the past year or so?
I’ve started kind of a funny rule, which is that when I make a change now, I can use Claude or not. But if I use Claude, some cards have to go into the deck. Both about how the implementation works, and also about anything within the implementation I didn’t know about. It does force you to double-check things before committing them to memory.
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Huh, weird that you can't reply. I'm tailoring my resume to individual postings a good portion of the time. My "default" resume is by ChatGPT; it's essentially my human-written resume, jazzed up a bit for ATS-friendliness. There are no hallucinations in it, and I feel it accurately represents my experience.
By hand written, I think he means something like a letter written by hand, or anyway sent via post. Not "chatgpt that is basically handwritten"
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Are there any companies that aren't AI-pilled at this point?
Odoo, Belgium, cloud ERP. Not very AI pilled, even if AI is considered and used somehow
Also the very ugly death they gave OpenERP/Odoo on-premise.
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Most of the job openings for humans are remote and not in big tech, but the pay in absolute terms is significantly lower (same wage percentile for the area you live though). It's important to understand the world beyond your bubble. If those jobs seem unrealistic as an option, you may need to consider if your cost of living is unrealistic.
where do you find these?
LLMs can really help you get what your bosses want a lot faster.
As an older dev, myself, I'd already been bitching about the state of software quality before all of this. Companies just didn't give a shit. Sure, people within them did, but as a whole companies will do the bare minimum to not lose your business (because that's what's best for the bottom line). Can't really fault them for their nature.[1]
And then I step back and look at something like Linux or GNU. Perfect and bug-free? Certainly not. But they're damn fine pieces of software. Many open-source projects have historically been damn fine pieces of software. Because they don't care if they lose your "business". They just want to build something cool that they can be proud of.[2]
It's why so many of us agonize over the details of the things we produce and give away for free. It might not even net us another user, but we have pride in our craft and want to do the best we possibly can.
But that way of thinking is a money loser, at least in the short-term. And companies live in the short-term.
So what's going to stop software from just collapsing into a massive pile of crap?
I don't know. Maybe it just has to get so bad that people start going to the marginally-better competition. Isn't exactly a great consolation to me, that.
[1] Small companies are often idealistic and try to do the Right Thing, admittedly. But big ones who tend to be market leaders tend to not.
[2] Insert the entire GNU philosophy here because I just glossed over it completely and I don't want to get called out on it. :)