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Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I have no idea, but this type of scenario is just one of many, many reasons giving an LLM free access to a browser on the open internet sounds like a terrible idea.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Which "LangChain situation" are you talking about? Anything specific, or just everything that's happened in the past year or so?
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Can you add in the missing words that make this comment make sense, please?
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Excuse me? Amazon lost more money in one day than most companies have in revenue, from dropped orders. I would say that matters. Believe it or not, the systems we work on do things that matter in the real world.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I've tried that. They don't have anything for me.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Unfortunately, I have a visual-spatial processing disability. You don't want me near anything mechanical, and I can't do visualization-based tasks because I literally can't visualize. That eliminates most engineering jobs.

There's also the matter of going back to school, and the associated debt I'd have to take. I'd never be able to pay the loans off if I did that.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
What would that look like? In my experience, real production codebases tend to have lots of bugs. Most of them never get prioritized, because features matter more than fixing obscure bugs.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Are you willing to wake up at 3 AM when that "valuable" AI-written code pages on-call?

I agree there is some value in AI tools, but implementation details do matter. People shouldn't be pushing unread code to prod. That's how you end up with security holes and other bugs. That's how you end up dropping millions of orders on Amazon.com.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I actually considered that, myself. The thing is, California is where the jobs are for me. If I move out of California, I may never be able to come back. That could cost me a lot.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I don't think anyone mentioned comparing AI error rates to a base rate of zero. What has been mentioned is significant numbers of clinically significant omissions, and outright hallucinations. Blatant fabrications should never happen with a human scribe, and one would expect clinically significant omissions to be rarer, because a human has clinical judgement that an AI can't have.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I thought along those lines as well. The only thing I could come up with that would be semi-viable was medical school, and I"m not sure I'd survive residency. I definitely would never be able to pay back the debt, if I had to take any.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Huh, weird that you can't reply.

I'm tailoring my resume to individual postings a good portion of the time. My "default" resume is by ChatGPT; it's essentially my human-written resume, jazzed up a bit for ATS-friendliness. There are no hallucinations in it, and I feel it accurately represents my experience.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm fine with "not big tech," along with a "not big tech" salary. In fact, I prefer "not big tech." My cost of living is not absurd for the Bay Area. I'd even be willing to take a little less than what I made before. After all, less than before is still better than 0. I'm using AI to tailor my resume to every posting, and still not getting calls.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Bay Area, 9 YoE primarily backend, US citizen. I'm familiar with AI coding tools. I've done real work on real systems.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I mean, I am. How else would I know nobody wants to interview me? :)
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm asking myself the same question for a different reason: nobody will even interview me. I've been out of work for a while. Savings are running out. I apparently don't even know how to look for a job anymore.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I can certainly imagine such a world. I don't use Brave because I don't want to support Brendan Eich.
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
The ghost of Milton Friedman speaks!
Paul-Craft
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I don't know what world you live in where an arbitrary and illegal price increase on essentially everything is "just."
Paul-Craft
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
You don't need to go to an unthreaded format, with all the attendant clutter and such, to do that. All you have to do is bubble up threads that have had recent messages to the top. That's why HN doesn't (or at least shouldn't) try something like that: it wouldn't be "Hacker News" anymore, so much as "Hacker Gossip" or whatev.