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When you write without AI you cultivate your team’s understanding which cultivates communication and teamwork and immediate understanding during downtime and emergencies. Build your team, not the product
Turns out you internalize it when you write it and refactor it with iteration
I guess that’s why they call them Transformers
Gave it my own spin once: https://github.com/glouw/ensim4
Makes audio too
“My formative memory of Python was when the Quake Live team used it for the back end work, and we wound up having serious performance problems with a few million users. My bias is that a lot (not all!) of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server.”
Sometimes your entire business is just a laptop with a python dictionary and a backup power supply
They aren't because we're not committing prompts. The analogous would be compiling to and then committing unmaintainable assembly when the higher level language, which is a deterministic compiler, already exists
I mean, iteration and interaction builds your understanding which verifies and validates what you built. Relying on agents without formal validation is like saying a tree fell in the forest
Sometimes you just hit impossible life scenarios like a pretax clawback in a hostile workplace which drains your liquid savings and leaves you broke, or breakup with a partner which forces you out the home, or learning that the landlord you split your duplex with is a charged criminal of some pretty awful crimes.
You can’t fail sometimes, even if you thought it were failure
I guess at least HR doesn’t have to read 1,000 resumes. Heck, to be frank, could they make sense of the first 10 resumes?
Usefulness per gigabyte should be taken into account too. We could do way more with 32MB in the 90s than 4GB today
Yes, that's the point I'm making
Turns out you have to be Terence Tao to know when an LLM is right or wrong
It’s not a lie if everyone collectively believes it
This is what Anthropic did with agents and $20k to write a C compiler that survived gcc’s torture suite. But the LLM knew:
1. What a C compiler was
2. What a C compiler looked like
3. What the C compiler had to do at runtime to pass gcc’s torture suite through some sort of collaborative iteration (compile, run, did it get stuck at some torture suite test or fail?)
Remove 1 and 2, or replace it with imperfect business logic, and you’re left with a system that is built to _only_ pass the tests you supply it, or in the most extreme case, print(“unit and functional tests pass!”)
Before 2023 I remember everyone here on HN championed that removing lines of code was the strongest senior metric
I’ve always wanted a git with five commands, and maybe with AST based diffing
I can’t remember the last time anyone actually played the game they got for free on epic’s store
This is obviously you on another account. What are you trying to accomplish?
Are you okay? They were teenagers. We were all there and we all tried. The logistics of having 7 billion people quarantine while international flights and asymptomatic carriers carried on made it _impossible_ to not play out like it did
I expect similar headlines like “I saved on token cost by hiring juniors” to come in soon too
How close was it technically to Jak2? I consider that the defining technical mastery of that generation
Hard numbers, no. Even high level concepts and theory you need to triangulate and prompt in different angles, across different models, and figure out what overlaps to build a mental mode that’s - even then - roughly 80% correct. It’s better than google, but the information isn’t free
But what about Geico?
Yeah more or less
They’d have killed today if they were AI first
It’s time to bring back all the old software hacks that were so common in the 90s
I just saw this. Hilarious
I’m not sure. I’ve been reading death-of-the-software engineer for years, but recently the -vibe- feels different. I don’t have anything anecdotal to back it up so take it with a grain of salt. I might be reading what I want to see
I’ve noticed a massive reverse in AI sentiment in the last 3 weeks here on HN.
It’s not that I don’t disagree, but I wonder what’s going on. Maybe it’s the IPO