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tossandthrow

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tossandthrow
·hace 15 horas·discuss
Proton is horrible. Notoriously bad email service.

I ended it after they only sent half my email to my accountant because they would apparently send the server saved draft version, which was not made current when I clicked send.
tossandthrow
·hace 5 días·discuss
Sometimes I write angrily to companies. Usually not on the first email (though it can be incredibly formal).

The cases I can remember is bike rental company that didn't want to provide a receipt, airline that didn't want to accept a complaint (by making impossible to understand complaint flows), company that didn't stop stop marketing email after several reports.

So many companies are treating their customers incredibly badly.

This becomes a tax on the companies that does not treat their customers badly.

Bad customer behavior is a cost of doing business - and I honestly understand why customers are coming out hard.
tossandthrow
·hace 8 días·discuss
I'd say that smart phones are a bigger problem than porn.

If you are in the category that would sit and watch porn in the public, then you already wouldn't need birth control.
tossandthrow
·hace 8 días·discuss
What benefits does a baby hold? Can a baby freely open a bank account, start a company, get married?

A baby has the benefit of being attended their basic needs. Just like Ai is also being fed power.
tossandthrow
·hace 15 días·discuss
Again, you are reading a conclusion into the blog post that was never stated.

The only stated thing was that the author changed their mind slightly about AI.

There are no general conclusion that you so eagerly are trying to dismiss.
tossandthrow
·hace 15 días·discuss
What is the general conclusion that you don't think follow?

That the author changed their personal opinion and became more optimistic?

I think you are reading things into the blog post that is not written.

It is not like they conclude that prompt injection can not happen. Actually the opposite is directly written.
tossandthrow
·hace 21 días·discuss
That does not seem to be related to llms? It is more about the harness that utilizes them, right?
tossandthrow
·hace 21 días·discuss
I use Ai to remove large amounts of code from our code base. Do refactorings that would not have made business sense before.

I also use Ai to be more ambitious. Online evaluation for our in app flows instead of offline.

So for us the entire quality of the product has been increased a lot.
tossandthrow
·hace 21 días·discuss
The question is what higher level skills there will be to focus on?

I am not convinced that there are tasks, like project management or architecture, that the Ai is inherently worse at.
tossandthrow
·hace 29 días·discuss
Project planning is not more abstraction - a lot of companies use junior staff as project managers. And sure, they will also find a hard time finding jobs, unless they can move up the hierachy.
tossandthrow
·hace 29 días·discuss
Yes, so when a tool is walking any monkey through a process, it does bit have a value anymore.

This is why people stopped adding word, excel and googling skills into their resumes - it is assumed that you know how to use the office suite and a browser.
tossandthrow
·hace 29 días·discuss
Replace Fable with Opus 4.8, 4.7, or 4.6 - and it is still true
tossandthrow
·hace 29 días·discuss
Sure they do - there are a lot of people who thrive working with concrete technologies and solve relatively straight forward issues (implement this component - style work).

These people will see a brutal job market that is forcing them to take more responsibility and work at a higher level of abstraction.

This is nothing new - A bunch of people simply don't thrive well as knowledge workers. The bar for being a knowledge worker is going to go up - by a lot.
tossandthrow
·hace 29 días·discuss
You are on point: The developers of the future need to hold much more of the domain that is being developed for. It is not a job to write JSX and tailwind classes anymore, so you need to move up in abstraction - and complexity.

Not all can do that.
tossandthrow
·hace 30 días·discuss
Quite a few developers will likely loose their jobs. In particular the ones who don't have mental capacity to work with models - the ones who are forever junior.

The engineers who can manage large scale projects using agents will, on the other hand, probably get a hefty salary bump.
tossandthrow
·el mes pasado·discuss
Given how I can manage and develop a huge production code base with an incredibly small team - and the rest of the industry apparently is not able to do it - I deem that we are still in the very early days.
tossandthrow
·el mes pasado·discuss
There is this over indexing in training data that I find quite problematic.

I have really good results getting LLMs to read documentation and work of these. This is in domains probably sparsely represented in the training data.
tossandthrow
·el mes pasado·discuss
I can recommend reading section 2 of the paper.

The goal was not to define unsolved problems.

But as such, the problems are also not previously published problems.

This seems quite reasonable IMHO.
tossandthrow
·el mes pasado·discuss
Yes, you are pointing out exactly how HA is difficult.

There is a whole slew of downstream things you need to take into consideration.
tossandthrow
·el mes pasado·discuss
Sure, why not?