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Post by agentultra »

LPisGood wrote: post #177
agentultra wrote: post #142

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I've never had to try lots of things in order to know that I won't like them.

Yeah but the cost of trying it is like 3 minutes of your time. Have you no curiosity?

Enough curiosity to have read and understood the papers, formalize some of the more grand theorems (they’re not that impressive once restated this way), and listen to the experiences of developers who’ve adopted it.

That’s more than 3 minutes. I’m not being glib when I say I’ve given it serious thought.

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Post by agentultra »

frizlab wrote: post #173
agentultra wrote: post #142

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I've never had to try lots of things in order to know that I won't like them.

That, and also I specifically loathe the way AI has been created. In my heart I’m a code “artist,” and like all artists that have been more directly attacked, I also feel personally attacked by all of my stolen “art” that is now monetized by big corporations that do not give a single f*ck about beauty in the code, or whatever. This may be a strange position, idk. Anyways, that’s the reason why.

You’re not wrong about it being stolen and monetized without consent. I’m picking up what you’re putting down.

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Post by munk-a »

joquarky wrote: post #194
munk-a wrote: post #109

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A well run company would provide an incentive to their employees for increasing their productivity. Why would employees enthusiastically respond to a mandate that will provide them with no benefit? Companies are just groups of employees - and if the companies are failing to provide a clear rationale to increase productivity those companies will fail.

> A well run company would provide an incentive to their employees for increasing their productivity. Sure, that's tautological. But in reality, these don't exist.

I don't disagree that they're quite rare now - but they used to exist and we could make them exist again.

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Post by munk-a »

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #172
munk-a wrote: post #99

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That sounds like a lot of work - maybe you could burn some tokens asking AI to write a cron to burn some tokens for you?

But then you'd have to code review that crap and write test harnesses and other shit. Sounds like a lot more work tbh.

Assign the PR to the offshore team and then just forget about it when they never end up reviewing it?

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Post by ej88 »

entropyneur wrote: post #161
ej88 wrote: post #7

seems to be a pattern: [Company that's getting disrupted by AI: Fiverr, Duolingo]: rush to adopt internal AI to cut costs before they get undercut by competition [Company that's orthogonal: Box, Ramp, HFT]: build internal tools to boost productivity, maintain 'ai-first' image to keep talent [Company whose business model is AI]: time to go all in

Reading this thread suggests being "AI-first" is hardly a talent magnet.

ai-first via mandate: throes of a company trying to appear cutting edge

ai-first via the actual technology being built: talent magnet despite the HN bubble appearing otherwise

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Post by monkaiju »

chung8123 wrote: post #94
monkaiju wrote: post #64

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That sounds awful... Thankfully our CTO is quite supportive of our teams anti-AI policy and is even supportive of posting our LLM-ban on job postings. I honestly dont think that I could operate in an environment with any sort of AI mandate...

That seems just as bad but the opposite direction.

I guess time will tell, but so far none of the AI-output we've seen is any good. We dont like to adopt technologies based on hype, so if it proves itself it will be adopted, but until then its a toy.

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Post by munksbeer »

shimman wrote: post #200
munksbeer wrote: post #197

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This is basically not true. It's hard to debate this when we don't start from a position of truth.

It pretty much is, unless you think it's totally cool to work in highly dangerous jobs that paid poorly while being treated like chattel slaves. There is a reason why the 1800s had the most violent labor actions in the US, it wasn't because they were treated "well." Completely disingenuous, learn your labor history.

People didn't feel the benefits for 150 years? Just absolute nonsense.

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Post by mjhay »

debo_ wrote: post #34
mjhay wrote: post #18

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The executives pushing AI use everywhere aren’t basing it on actual performance (which is an orthogonal concept). It’s just the latest shiny bauble.

Performance management isn't rating how people are doing. It's transforming the resources of the company into something that you want it to do. If they want to transform the current state of the company into something that has AI use as a core capability, that is performance management. There are good books on this: e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/Next-Generation-Performance-Management...

lol

Re: AI-First Company Memos

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Post by debo_ »

mjhay wrote: post #209
debo_ wrote: post #34

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Performance management isn't rating how people are doing. It's transforming the resources of the company into something that you want it to do. If they want to transform the current state of the company into something that has AI use as a core capability, that is performance management. There are good books on this: e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/Next-Generation-Performance-Management...

lol

Good answer bro
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