Because I don't want to hear about personal stories? How is that related? I do very much want to know how code works. It's the very core of my argument.
It's full of "fix" or "fix typo" or "update blah.c"... tiny commits straight to the master branch without CI.
Anyway, I really don't care about the past in this way. A simple "accounting needs this for that" is enough for me. No need to explain that Adam was getting divorced at the time, so he was grumpy, and, and, and...
I often search for a clearcut answer to a technical question and I'm met with a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed replatforming projects.
Yeah, thanks for telling me why John from accounting was a dick 10 years ago and you had to code this module in a certain way. I really don't care. I'm new to the codebase and I just want to know how it (the codebase) works.
I'm currently in this situation and a colleage never gives straight answers to anything. It's always some little rant about something and when it's done, I still haven't got my answer.
> I found out that just being better than yourself takes you a long long way.
That resonates with me.
There is a saying where I'm from that says "most people are just kicking dirt" that basically means people are doing the bare minimum or don't care at all, and if you just do your thing and really care about your stuff, you're already ahead of the majority.
Being anxious all the time, I use that saying in the opposite way though: just relax and do your thing... you don't need to worry about not having a job, all those other people are barely doing anything and you can't be the best at everytime. Just do your thing are relax.
To me, the simple models might not cross the boundary where LLMs start to be useful versus, say, a fixed menu with choices in a helpdesk app.
It's a paradox because, to really feel human like and not make huge mistakes, we need these huge LLMs and they are expensive... and the alternative is not-so-smart traditional code.
So what I'm trying to say is that I think the small LLMs might not be that useful before they cross some arbitrary quality threshold (which they may never do.. considering more parameters => better model, in general).
Should I complain that to drill oil I need hundreds of millions of dollars to even start?
Your VPS example was doing barely any computation. You're conflating web 1.0 and web 2.0 with neural networks and they are nothing alike in terms of FLOPS.
I have intrisic motivation, I just like what I work with and like to do a good job. I often have high standards for my work.
What changed? It's very tiresome to swim against the current. You can only care about so many things that your team doesn't until you get tired of barking at the tree.
At my new job it's the same, as usual, but I'm not forcing things and just getting with the flow. If I can, I'll suggest some ocasional improvements but if it falls on deaf ears, I'll let it go.