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I could see SO being helpful for more niche questions where one guy somewhere knows the answer from experience or he wrote the framework.
But then over time, those will be absorbed into LLMs anyway, so…
This seems like the most likely answer to me - though we all have our grievances with SO, the culture likely didn’t contribute to its decline as much as simply AI being a better tool.
Similar with lifted trucks.
Lifts are bad for driveshafts, suspension, tires, etc
When the Biden administration introduced a junk fee rule in 2024, the US Chamber of Commerce argued it was “an attempt to micromanage businesses’ pricing structures”, and apartment fees were cut from that federal rule after lobbying by the real-estate industry.
This drives me nuts to read, because it’s usually the same pattern.
Rule -> lobbyists descend -> politicians cave -> carve out that takes away the whole point of the rule -> everyone declares victory
How can we push terminals harder?
I don’t support pushing terminals to the extreme…
Reminds me of what Warp has become these days
[if the article’s analysis is true] cost controls would reduce the supply of ambulances, since the article claims Medicare actually is a loss.
You have claimed it isn’t, but you haven’t really provided much evidence other than “there’s no way that’s true, trust me, I used to work somewhere in healthcare finance”
Ambulance.ai
(Shudders)
Some of them are volunteers who do it because it’s about the calling to help their communities, not pay.
Some do it because they actually want to be firefighters but it’s helpful to be an EMT as well.
Others do it because it’s an easy entry point (in the US you only need a 3 month night course to be an EMT) in their medical career on their way to better paying jobs like MD and RN.
And yes, others are grizzled and burnt out making little money.
But mostly people do it because they want to help.
He covered that in the article fairly thoroughly. Did you read it?
The anecdote illustrates the issue then he dives into the analysis.
Thank you for the original.
Given that, the pattern I saw in my head was that Zuck sees a new toy, get excited and thinks it will change everything, invests in it, then admit he’s wrong, but at least we have an ads business to keep this whole thing rolling along. Rinse and repeat.
Reminds me a lot of crypto payments, metaverse / VR / AR.
A man trying to predict the future and being mostly incorrect while not really facing any consequences of being wrong. Always searching for the next big thing. Classic Silicon Valley tale.
A percentage of our 10x engineers just left.
Morale problems can be just enough to make your best people pick up the phone when recruiters call.
Not another one of these.
The connected, small community internet still exists.
The article comes off as kind of a curmudgeonly old man yelling at clouds.
More nostalgia bait… I hope one day I get downvote privileges for posts.
En, I think you’re just trying to justify your pre-existing position that this can’t work.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-026-02619-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-025-00007-8?fromPaywa...
Different prompt approaches and training doctors to use LLMs can improve accuracy of LLM-assisted diagnosis. It’s pretty reasonable to hypothesize that LLM “peer review” could improve that as well.
I dunno, I could see it working.
I do something similar with reviewing code: I have one agent write the code and another reviews it, then they go back and forth for a bit improving the code. Seems to yield better results than one agent alone.
Seems like a similar principle.
Have you ever let the LLMs “discuss” with each other to see if that would give better answers?
You might end up with the answer from the most persuasive LLM, but you might also end up with better results.
Wonder if there is a paper out there on this.
That’s a long way to go for 3d printing…
It probably would’ve been cheaper to just buy the gun at a store if you wanted one that bad.
The good news is those skills of getting people to believe in you and your thing are critical to leadership as an EM too.
I’m sure we all can think of managers who don’t have those skills but rely on the stick, and those managers are lousy at their job.
Good leadership skills have a lot of overlap between IC and EM.
I know three really good engineers who have said the same for exactly those reasons. (eg “I don’t want to choose who gets laid off” etc)
I totally respect that, and the people I know who said that to me are typically very strong and experienced engineers.
Absolutely.
This is the hardest part of the transition to manager: your engineering skills alone won’t make you a manager. It’s a different role.
Put your phone away, don't wear your airpods and live in real life- or continue with your airpods and your neck cranked down into your phone- you don't need friends anymore, AI will be your friend.
I have had decent conversations with strangers on planes and trains while my headphones were in. I paused the music to talk for a bit.
It doesn’t have to be either-or. Headphones don’t make you antisocial - being antisocial makes you antisocial.
“Life finds a way”
The same thing happened in other businesses where it became easier than ever to put out content or product, but harder to break through because of all the saturation.
Come on, get out of here with this “only true programmers can found a real company”
Such gatekeeping.
Oh that makes sense.
I just don’t like the discomfort of wearing one in bed.
Any reason for not wearing yours in the shower? I wear mine pretty much all the time except sleep.
I think I still disagree.
If K8s is new to you, sure. Definitely not the time to learn it.
But I can see a world where it’s fine to use early on.
Especially if your team is cloud native. K8s isn’t really a new controversial toy in my eyes, it’s pretty well supported and good enough for most things out of the box.
I just don’t think it’s as big a deal as the “CTO IS WASTING EVERYONES TIME” argument.
Even with LLMs, they are going to rack up tech debt
And if they don’t?
I thought that was the point of the article, right?
That the tech benefits may not be there, but they’re using it for the non-tech benefits
Who is “we?”
This is taking a weird tone where it sounds like you’re asking me to change society for you, and blaming me for not doing it fast enough when I haven’t heard you mention a thing you’ve done either.
Like I said man, I voted for people who support sensible welfare programs. That’s my contribution.
Stop taking this out on me - if you’re so fired up about it, go get involved and start knocking on doors.
I mentioned in my other comments that I did support welfare programs as safety nets.
Progress will result in better standards of living for many, and then we take care of the people left behind.
I’m in software - in all likelihood, I will be displaced at some point. But I’ll figure it out (I hope). When I started out, I was writing Perl. Then I had to learn Python.