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thenanyu
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Siri was under jobs. He saw AI before everyone else
thenanyu
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
CC got my dev env set up and running in 20 min. It had to fix my local node setup and a ton of other dependencies. A junior dev cannot do that in 20 days (unless they just asked CC to do it)
thenanyu
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
That's not even remotely close to true anymore. Agents are far better than any intern or junior developer.
thenanyu
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Agents can write good code. If you don't like the way that they write code, tell them to write it differently. Do that until you think the code is good.
thenanyu
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
I don’t know, man. Rands was kind of the original slop
thenanyu
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
This is goddamn terrible advice. You’re rolling a dice to see if the great work ends up making it.

Have we not learned the lesson of bell labs? 90% of the time the great work doesn’t make it by itself. It takes leadership to carve a path for it to emerge and actually flourish.

I swear, there are like two influential things on the internet that have completely wrecked the practice of engineering management:

The Spotify org chart blog post and Rands.
thenanyu
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
You can prompt the model to dump all of the memory into a text file and import that.

In the onboarding flow, I can ask you, "Do you use another LLM?" If so, give it this prompt and then give me the memory file that outputs.
thenanyu
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Presumably, the percentage of taxation is a function of the price of the item? You can have a different curve or base rate for different harmonization codes.
thenanyu
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
When I was in my early 20s I used to think I was very clever for pointing out apparent hypocrisies. Now I realize how easily that devolves into “you are imperfect therefore you may never criticize anything”

Americans can never call out human rights abuses because of slavery. The British can never because of colonialism. Period. Forever.

If you find this line of argumentation compelling there’s no discussing anything with you.
thenanyu
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
You seem to discount that the yappers are good and convincing writers as well
thenanyu
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
That’s beside the point. It wouldn’t help shaq or any of those big men hit free throws. They have no problems with mechanics.
thenanyu
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
I hate this analogy. NBA players can all hit 90% of their free throws shooting overhand too. Just some of them are much worse at handling the pressure and pace change of the situation in a game context.
thenanyu
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Block is a no
thenanyu
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
there's this things that happens where blog boys love to say Big Important Stuff (that isn't true) and in the 1% chance that it becomes true they point back on it and say "I am a goddamned genius" and if it hits the 99% no one remembers their bullshit.
thenanyu
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
This doesn’t sound very much like like OST beyond the general concept of caring about problems to me
thenanyu
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
I don’t understand how you can make this statement in the midst of chatGPT being the fastest growing consumer app in history.
thenanyu
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
What did you buy
thenanyu
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
dude I think you’re one-shotted
thenanyu
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Yeah it’s a lot of projection.
thenanyu
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Make lots of predictions and write down your thought process (seriously write them down!) once the result is in, analyze whether you were right. Were you right for the right reasons? Were you wrong but had the right thought process mostly?

Do it every day for years.