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BarryMilo
·23 dni temu·discuss
You've seen Sam Altman's interviews, yet you still think him a competent man? I think he's rather the embodiment of the death of meritocracy as an idea.
BarryMilo
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Your dad owning the company?
BarryMilo
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
This is an "uh oh" moment, isn't it?
BarryMilo
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Surely this is automated. They wouldn't waste precious dollars on employing humans just to keep other humans happy.
BarryMilo
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
They learn if they have to, like we always did. In-person exams (proctored) are good for testing that.
BarryMilo
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
How are people still deluded enough about this economic system to believe rank implies competence?
BarryMilo
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
It also used to be that reddit comments were the epitome of quality in their time, much closer to current HN if not better. I attributed that to the voting mechanism; clearly I was mistaken.
BarryMilo
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Other commenters laughing at you for the price... It's not about the price it's about the barrier. Even if I love a service, I won't get very many people to try it if they need to enter a credit card.
BarryMilo
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I seem to remember that's one of the first things they tried, but the general models tended to win out. Turns out there's more to learn from all code/discussions than from just JS.
BarryMilo
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Indeed, Python's version format is semver but it's just aesthetics, they remove stuff in most (every?) minor version. Just yesterday I wasted hours trying to figure out a bug before realizing my colleague hadn't read the patch notes.
BarryMilo
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
its*
BarryMilo
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Took them this long to realize MCPs are just worse APIs.
BarryMilo
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I'm not scared that my skills will be obsolete, I'm scared employers will think they are. The labor market was already irrational enough as it was.
BarryMilo
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Well, I've worked as a developer in many companies and have never met a DBA. I've met tons of devops, who are just rebranded sysadmins as far as anyone can tell.
BarryMilo
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Imagine this for a whole neighborhood! Maybe it'd be more efficient for the transport to come at regular intervals though. And while we're at it, let's pick up other people along the way, you'll need a bigger vehicle though, perhaps bus-sized...

Half-jokes aside, if you don't own it, you'll end up paying more to the robotaxi company than you would have paid to own the car. This is all but guaranteed based on all SaaS services so far.
BarryMilo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Marvel movies is the worst example, it's a roller coaster ride, not a movie. I agree any braindead idiot or machine could write one. But they couldn't know to write The Pianist or how the subject could be approached or why it's time to write it.

AI can make slop yes, but it can't make the kind of art people don't get tired of. It's the difference between wisdom and knowledge.
BarryMilo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
> Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that AI can eventually serve to level the playing field for everything. It outputs novels, paintings, screenplays - whatever you ask it for - of such high quality that they can't be discerned from the best human-created works.

This requires the machine to understand a whole bunch of things. You're talking about AGI, at that point there will be blood in the streets and screenplays will be the least of our problems.
BarryMilo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Truly a "why say many words" title!
BarryMilo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Of all the packaging systems to do this with, npm is certainly one of them.
BarryMilo
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I recently witnessed one such potential fuckup. The AI had written functioning code, except one of the business rules was misinterpreted. It would have broken in a few months time and caused a massive outage. I imagine many such time bombs are being deployed in many companies as we speak.