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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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apsurd wrote: post #49
embedding-shape wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (Claude Code got mandated at my work this week. Like literally engineers must use CC.) As I haven't been a typical full-time employee in software development for some time, could you possibly just like leak the entire email where this was announced or something? (open invitation to others who could too, if parent cannot) I'm very curious to see how it was announced and what possible reasoning they could have for th…

The official declaration came about in a team-meeting. We're a tiny startup, 3 full-time eng with the CTO co-founder driving the AI transformation. We have scheduled onboarding meetings to get the entire company finding automation opportunities with specifically Claude (CC, Cowork). For eng specifically, there is "acknowledgement" that we all may have different setups, but we should all be unifying our prompts, strat…

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Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

#52

Post by blipvert »

apsurd wrote: post #49
embedding-shape wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (Claude Code got mandated at my work this week. Like literally engineers must use CC.) As I haven't been a typical full-time employee in software development for some time, could you possibly just like leak the entire email where this was announced or something? (open invitation to others who could too, if parent cannot) I'm very curious to see how it was announced and what possible reasoning they could have for th…

The official declaration came about in a team-meeting. We're a tiny startup, 3 full-time eng with the CTO co-founder driving the AI transformation. We have scheduled onboarding meetings to get the entire company finding automation opportunities with specifically Claude (CC, Cowork). For eng specifically, there is "acknowledgement" that we all may have different setups, but we should all be unifying our prompts, strat…

I shall wait your collected thoughts. I’ll suggest The Mythical LLM Month as a title.

Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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Post by seer »

embedding-shape wrote: post #32
apsurd wrote: post #14

Best line: > I am concerned that ML systems could ruin our lives without realizing anything at all. It's hard to say it's not actively happening. And we don't even know it, don't realize it? don't care? (Claude Code got mandated at my work this week. Like literally engineers must use CC.)

> (Claude Code got mandated at my work this week. Like literally engineers must use CC.) As I haven't been a typical full-time employee in software development for some time, could you possibly just like leak the entire email where this was announced or something? (open invitation to others who could too, if parent cannot) I'm very curious to see how it was announced and what possible reasoning they could have for th…

We did a similar Claude code mandate a few weeks ago.

Motivation was people being so allergic to tests and automation, that making them use superpowers produced better code, but also started adding a test pyramid.

The mandate was actually phrased in a way that you must produce industry standard code, and if you struggle with it you can use cc to bridge the gap.

Honestly I worry that this way devs will produce higher quality code, but will not understand why, how to measure the “quality” and steer towards it themselves.

At this point though the founders were pretty adamant with the code quality and lack of tests so this seemed like a reasonable way for the company, and I am curious to see how such a mandate affects code, deliverables and individual’s knowledge.

So far it seems to be working as intended, but it is early days.

Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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Post by observationist »

satvikpendem wrote: post #47
throwanem wrote: post #35

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Eh. I enjoyed it enormously and I do likewise recommend it, but its story isn't related to AI (either the concept of its moment or the technology of ours) even slightly, nor trying to be, or at least not in any way I saw. It was pretty open with its themes, so I would expect that one to have been pretty noticeable if it was present alongside the questions of reality, artifice, grief, and simulationism with which the…

You're right, not necessarily AI, more so what an omniscient and omnipotent device could do especially in the wrong hands.

What's the difference between the idle imaginings of a god's mind and a universe scale simulation?

I always got advanced AI vibes from Devs, that it was a mind interfacing with reality in some sort of weird inception / simulation / manifestation way.

Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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Post by observationist »

blipvert wrote: post #52
apsurd wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The official declaration came about in a team-meeting. We're a tiny startup, 3 full-time eng with the CTO co-founder driving the AI transformation. We have scheduled onboarding meetings to get the entire company finding automation opportunities with specifically Claude (CC, Cowork). For eng specifically, there is "acknowledgement" that we all may have different setups, but we should all be unifying our prompts, strat…

I shall wait your collected thoughts. I’ll suggest The Mythical LLM Month as a title.

How about The Million Dollar Mythos Month Some of these AI trends are starting to look more like gacha game moneysinks than productivity tools.

Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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Post by satvikpendem »

observationist wrote: post #55
satvikpendem wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right, not necessarily AI, more so what an omniscient and omnipotent device could do especially in the wrong hands.

What's the difference between the idle imaginings of a god's mind and a universe scale simulation? I always got advanced AI vibes from Devs, that it was a mind interfacing with reality in some sort of weird inception / simulation / manifestation way.

In the show the device is not autonomous, humans use it.

Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

apsurd wrote: post #14

Best line: > I am concerned that ML systems could ruin our lives without realizing anything at all. It's hard to say it's not actively happening. And we don't even know it, don't realize it? don't care? (Claude Code got mandated at my work this week. Like literally engineers must use CC.)

> And we don't even know it, don't realize it? don't care?

People here are warning about this daily. And outside this tech bubble full of people trying to profit from it, higher percentages of people elsewhere do realize and do care.

Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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Post by sunrunner »

notpachet wrote: post #48
throwanem wrote: post #37

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Crowley is full of shit. By this definition a hammer is a magical or "magickal" implement - the K was Crowley's invention, so that he could trademark it - which of course can be true if someone decides as much, but the only reason to couch such trivia in the pettifogging obscurity Crowley favored is because doing so will help you nail bored young socialites, an activity which Crowley also famously favored. (Gotta wat…

> pettifogging Off-topic but just wanted to thank you for teaching me a new word. I try to always reply to HN comments that expand my vocabulary.

Is pettifogging some kind of etymological parent of bikeshedding then?

Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

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Post by david_shi »

talkingtab wrote: post #7

Our collective learned helplessness in the face of being bombarded with advertising, propaganda and outright lies is just astonishing to me. Not an article about fighting back, or doing anything, just the resignation of a follower.

What would you do? The system is very good at transmuting critiques of it into its own propagation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_for_Now

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