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I am raising my kids to show zero respect to elders given in to nihilism to preserve their own extravagance
Fwiw I find social media scores corny
Just stokes addiction to a false sense of empowerment and social contribution
Downvote away to hide from ideas and opinions you don't like.
Conservative people are the only people so dysregulated by ideas they don't understand or that do not validate prior experience and embedded biases they just try to hide them from view. Not the kind of people whose judgment I concern myself with in any meaningful way
They aren't destroying work.
Humans can still work on their yards and homes and yadda yadda
They’re destroying labor exploiting knowledge "jobs" which is of course something NY Times and similar must be against or they might have to do work for themselves
Programmers do not build a computer. EEs and computer engineers do that.
They are driving (lol) towards the sale of a computer with a model on chip without a programmer salary and benefits adding to cost and resource use (all the tools of the trade need to be stored and copied around).
This is capitalism, not honorific obligationism! Saving your job is no one else's burden! Disrupt! (YC crowd 15 years ago). Oh how the turn tables.
Move the context of the code to the presentation layer and eliminate state by keeping the hardware focused on computing geometric transforms. Biggidy bam label the data on the display and save both geometry and labels
There's no reason for biz logic context to exist in code.
What makes computers useful is solving problems
I don't care if they adhere to written and oral traditions of the past or some other means
I need to add and divide and test values in memory. I don't care what it looks like to do that.
I don't need a passenger telling me how to drive. Why would I want a patronizing coder telling me how to use a machine?
A decent model with a great harness beats a great model with a bad harness.
Agreed. I don't use off the shelf skills and such. I craft my own that best serve the abstract problem rather than act as generic code tools.
If I am working on a game I don't want a bunch of generic language tools and skills, I want game engine specific, Vulkan specific constraints, GPU pipeline specific context that are whittled down themselves to fit the entity data model of the specific game
Gemma 4 and Qwen3.6 then crank out banger results after Gemini plans and architecture are handed to them (I scrape the AI Studio log from Gdrive rather than use the Gemini APIs)
I quit using RAG and MCP build out the harness without them.
Imo RAG and MCP were same old software industry effort of conjuring endless general purpose software things to discuss at the expense of doing a good job within reasonable constraints
Never marrying may reduce risk of dementia:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/202504...
Nvidia makes real things, grinds to push computing forward and are coincidentally wrapped up in the latest hype cycle in a big way
Software-only startups make nothing but hype and (these days) merely copy-paste existing frameworks and libraries into an AWS account, fill in predefined config parameters, generate zero net new knowledge
Studied applied physics and EE in college, been in high tech eng for almost 3 decades and lived through the evolution of software truth still being discovery into streamlined template filling.
People need jobs in this political system so whatever but I know a lot about engineering across contexts and where the bleeding edge is and know SaaS startups are rarely engaged in pushing the edge out further. It's a jobs program to validate political memes
Yeah how many of us know how to build an ICE engine or shoes of any meaningful quality
We set upon end of human craftsmanship decades ago
Math is probably the easiest to reclaim given its right in front our faces going about daily life. The syntax of math is not that important; real world quantification the syntax is meant to represent will still exist. Our biochemistry implicitly operates on senses of enough food and water, etc.
Such measures are so embedded in the daily routines we live an intuition will always exist
No one is born knowing how to make a computer as we know them today. A cup half filled is obvious
Creative writing has gone from Shakespeare and Poe to corny simile; "life is like a belly button."
Worked for Forrest because the character was intended to be simple.
A cave isn't stable. It's an ever evolving biome of spores, molds, and fungus.
Seems like this can stated much more simply; as a company scales latency grows between nodes fostering information asymmetries. That growth in communication latency while paychecks still show up lead workers to believe stability exists, they down play lag effects, become less pro-active. Latency in productivity increases, company falls behind.
Signal attenuation is a physical constant as entropy erodes structure requiring more energy to maintain structure while employees put in less. Imo this is why our economy is fundamentally flawed. There's no rewriting physics no matter how much rhetoric relative to economics we conjure. Bizarre and outdated belief language is magic and we simply haven't found the right spell.
Yeah. Hiked on and around them in PNW mountains.
And?
Altman showing how desperate he is to get into hardware. He knows local models that supplement models in chip are the end of OIA
Yeah I am mostly retired in late 40s having saved as much as possible as fast as possible and have time on my hands. Am exploring social media I largely ignored while staying busy working.
Besides even if it was 3 years old account it still wouldn't tell the story correctly.
That's a measure as dumb as lines of code = productivity.
I understand; your parents made your account when you were born in 2017. Being 9 explains such shoddy reasoning. Oh wait is that when you got your first job; making an HN account some universal ritual for all new workers? Shoot too bad I missed out in 1999 when I landed my first real hardware engineer job.
You might need to logoff and go live in the real world a while. Coming off like one of those snowflakes I have heard about
Outsiders need to append a "for NYC".
They didn't here because for them as representatives of NYC that's all they are speaking to.
Technical pedantry like this just displays poor language and social skills.
That's a self selecting vain perspective to conclude with.
Code is just storage medium. The hardware ultimately decides a lot that's out of our hands anyway; hardware never runs code in any structured way so getting intimate with the source structure is wasted effort. You're a worse engineer being a bottleneck in deference to bike shedding.
End of the day code is just labels on a mathematical algorithm that fits a biz edge case. Like a k:v store; sumAllCustomerBalances() is a to the a value (the function logic) that serves a business need. If the business is reliant on that behavior it won't go anywhere. And algorithms need to change as data sets change or new better algorithms are discovered.
Code is disposable. We aren't building bridges.
Whole lot of romanticizing the machine seems to have occurred since I started in this industry back in the 00s. Imo a result of people being online debating the (from my perspective) same old since slashdot was the new hotness.
In conclusion I have a different view and have been successful in hardware and software engineering for almost 30 years now.
Ymmv
Education is too obsessed with reading.
It's passive cognitive copy paste.
Writing seems way more important. Requires reading and establishing one's own voice.
But writing in school (at least the district my ex worked for) is focused on boring research essays. There's little if any time spent fostering creative writing.
I vehemently disagree that people working at big companies are stupid, or making themselves stupid. There are VPs and SVPs at Adobe and Salesforce that are smarter, more knowledgable, and more productive than any startup employee.
That there are outliers in a big group of people is not a big idea.
The issue is that they're outliers while the rest are just there because that's how they earn food and shelter; get job is just how the world works types. Those outliers efforts and communication are then lost to ignorance of the majority who only think in terms of trying to repeat the past/maintain status quo they understand.
For example marketing cannot grok and figure out how to spin a new idea and instead convince management they're "the Photoshop company not whatever this is" to pick the on Adobe.
It's similar to political conservatism, a kind of social conservatism of its own.
If new thing fails they may be fired for bad messaging or glitchy features depending on their role. Feels safer to flog the same old horse too long and fall behind.
Here's me using a Gemini chat log scraper (from Gdrive) then dumping my prompt+Gemini response into local AI
Never go over the free limits in Gemini Pro.
Gemini is great at research and architecture, and my 30 years experience in programming everything; for fun or work; means together there is little to no code slop.
Add to project repo some git submodules of reference source code; boom, bobs your uncle
Zero reason to sign up for OAI or Claude. With employers realizing the costs are more than employees, local models getting more powerful, and models in chips just a few years out, neither of the one note LLM companies without diversified services and R&D portfolios gonna last
Where all the bits we slang in 2009 and MacBooks we breezed through in the 2010s?
Yeah, same place the tokens and MacBooks today end up
This shits a boulevard of broken dreams in a lot of ways