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Is that TC or salary?
TC. It’s like 70-80% stock. Depends on price of course. I sell immediately and put it in index funds.
And do you work a lot?
Command line functions around OpenAI
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#302At what point did we stop making fun of that 10x engineer thread and started taking it seriously? Who forgot that 10x was a silly little thing that made zero sense in the real world?
Can you link to that thread? I'm having difficulty understanding how programmer productivity is supposed to be measured and compared. Can't imagine what a "10X engineer" is supposed to be. The article says a "1000X engineer" is just a person with a GPT-4 command on their terminal.
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> As you say, I find the act of writing code is hardly the bottleneck to my productivity. When people claim ChatGPT can replace software engineers because it can sort of code is always puzzling to me. 20 years into this career, and writing code is only a minor part of my day-to-day activities. A part I do enjoy doing, but still minor part nonetheless. > What if you design an organization so that coding is the bottlen…
> boilerplate Design Patterns are said to compensate for features missing in a language (e.g. Visitor for multiple dispatch). ChatGPT is sounding similar - solving accidental complexity that "shouldn't" be there in the first place.
Yes. I find it valuable for writing boring translation code when.
Stuff like
match network_foo_int {
TYPE_A => Foo::A(read_a()),
TYPE_B => Foo::B(read_b()),
...
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I don't know what kinda code-bases you work on, but I think there are many more potential factors which determine how useful GPT might be besides "tiny and well-defined". I won't try to enumerate them here, but as an example if you are working in a much more / entirely functional way, you can think of your entire code-base as tiny and well-defined, even if it is composed of 1000s of functions. Can think similarly if…
In which case the main problem an engineer is solving is how all these interact together. And not the X minutes that it takes to write each individual well defined tiny function. So, I still don’t get it.
Yes, GPT can model/design how all these interact together as well.
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#305this + fish...if someone installs them via installer rather than building from source, is that a security risk? Meaning, is fish so powerful that a compromised version of fish could scrape / intercept GPT comms and either prime GPT networks or disturb them?
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Why are you trying to pay for it? Let procurement at your company figure it out. You wouldn’t pay for your IDE or any other tools, would you? The business should be paying for any tools they want me to use.
Oh, my sweet, innocent child. Have you ever tried getting a company to fund a developer tool? More often than not, it's like pulling teeth, even if the service in question is a paltry $20 a month. I've learned to pay for things like OpenAI myself because it's not worth the hassle to get a company to pay for it (for the purpose of R&D).
I’ve been I’m working professionally in the industry for 23 years. I’ve never had a company refuse to purchase any tool I say I want or need. I wouldn’t work for any company that would. My hourly rate is way higher than the cost of any tool. It is ridiculous to not buy tools that might make me more efficient.
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An L7 IC at Facebook or Google can do this. I know it's unbelievable for those not in one of these companies, but this data is accurate: https://www.levels.fyi
> L7 IC at Facebook or Google can do this. but they are extremely rare
Not that extreme, maybe 1% of engineers?
Re: Command line functions around OpenAI
#308At what point did we stop making fun of that 10x engineer thread and started taking it seriously? Who forgot that 10x was a silly little thing that made zero sense in the real world?
Can you link to that thread? I'm having difficulty understanding how programmer productivity is supposed to be measured and compared. Can't imagine what a "10X engineer" is supposed to be. The article says a "1000X engineer" is just a person with a GPT-4 command on their terminal.
The thread[1]
[1]https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328?s=46&...
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Put your resume up on job sites! Even not-so-great-sounding contracts pay 50-65/hr, might be a confidence boost. Level up your skills on udemy, if necessary (wait for courses to be 80% off or whatever, happens regularly). Could also go corporate at a non-tech for low stress and a decent salary.
I'm actually thinking of pivoting from web dev (10 years a laravel dev) to prompt engineering, and entry-level ai stuff, I'm not going to perfect the next big algorithm, but I can use langchain to create custom KB enhanced chatGPT instances, or automation agents for small-to-mid size companies. I'm super obsessed lately w/ AI, on youtube, github, HN, reddit, etc... and working on actually building a clone of myself t…
Hit me up, I’ll be your first client for prompt eng!