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You've worked as a hiring manager at several organizations in the past year?

Don’t worry, some medical professionals are also delegating their thinking to LLMs. No need for the software middleman to cause harm.

This seems like an especially bad faith interpretation of the comment you were responding to.

I'm not even going to respond to this ridiculousness.

Why is it ridiculous? If you have electronic access to something of value and broadcast that fact on the internet, you’re at risk of a physical attack. That’s not controversial? Companies make employees do training about this for a reason.

Options range from carefully targeted phishing or social engineering attacks to poor opsec and a five dollar wrench.

Do they also stop providing value to Google as a result?

I don’t get paid to write code, and you probably don’t either.

Each time you "compile" your prompt into a program, LLMs spit up something a little bit different. How is it a good thing?

Because that’s not how it works. How can we have a discussion about this topic if we don’t have a mutual understanding of how the tools even work?

The code is not replaced by English prompts. The code still exists.

It remains unclear to me why my ability to read and review code (the majority of my job for years now) will atrophy if I continue doing it while writing even less code than I was before.

If my ability to write code somehow atrophies because I stop doing it, does that matter if I continue with the architecture and strategy around coding?

The act of writing code by hand seems to be on a trajectory of irrelevance, so as long as I maintain my ability to reason about code (both by continuing to read it and instruct tools to write it), what’s the issue?

Edit to add: the vast majority of the code I’ve worked on in my career was not written by me. A significant portion of it was not written by someone still employed by my employer. I think that’s true for a lot of us, and we all made it work. And we made it work without modern coding assistants helping out. I think we’ll be fine.

Surprisingly they un-deprecated CodeCommit recently.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/aws-codecommit-returns-t...

Everywhere I’ve ever worked, there was always some way to access a production system even if it required multiple approvals and short-lived credentials for something like AWS SSM. If the user has access, the agent has access, no matter how briefly.

Exactly, if you’re already doing it for Postgres and Postgres can do the job well enough to meet your requirements, you’re only adding more cost and complexity by deploying Redis too.

I have a family member with an uncommon (1/1000) genetic condition. The only doctor they have ever been to that didn’t google it in the exam room with us was the PI of a study on the condition.

The best part is they always immediately start badly explaining it to us like we’ve never heard of it either.

Between that and having concerns repeatedly dismissed before we secured a diagnosis has sincerely changed my view of Dr. Google.

The code signing certificate for macOS apps.

Lowering prices would also disincentivize anyone to sell their house, sort of like the recent, relatively high interest rates. Those undesirable rates have not applied significant downward pressure on prices because they’re simultaneously exerting downward pressure on the volume of houses available for sale. No one wants to sell their low rate house for a higher one.

Or a Rails app.

My default settings are stored in a 11922 line json file. Am I expected to read that entire file to find the setting I'm after?

That’s what AI is for. Have it turn itself off.

Sincere thanks for reminding me of my Wired subscription. I’d been needing to cancel that.

The hyperscalers definitely vote with their wallets.

Condolences to the Russian chick and their kid.

The statement from CCC doesn’t mention him having a kid. Pretty sure he did not have one.

Welcome to Houston, TX, a monument to urban sprawl.

This is not legal advice, but if you get fired and then break into the office later, the police won’t care that you used your spare key.

Seems someone took it a step further and changed the locks too.

Anyone who remembers how Ruby Together was managed knows who is worse.

Legal recourse is an interesting omission from their update, especially considering this was surely approved by their attorney(s).

You can turn on video in assistive access, but it’s off by default.

Texas also has a grocery store chain that is particularly well-prepared for disasters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/us/texas-heb-winter-storm...

The mainstream media reported on Iryna’s murder as soon as there was video, but it has been a constant subject of reporting in Charlotte since it happened with immediate political ramifications.

I don’t read Twitter, but I do read my local news. I’m not quite sure that anyone is better off now that her murder is being nationally reported, to be honest.

Then beat them on the clothes line with a stick. Denim always gets stiff when it’s dried like that.

My 70 year old relatives seem to have no problem finding the setting that makes everything on the phone 2x bigger. Probably because Apple is good at this and offers it up as an option in the OS onboarding and after every major update.

It’ll be fine.

billing more hours is better, actually

The guiding principle of biglaw.

Attorneys have the bar to protect them from technology they don’t want. They’ve done it many times before, and they’ll do it again. They are starting to entertain LLMs, but not in a way that would affect their billable hours.

Just FYI you’re agreeing with OP despite accusing them of lying and writing like a Reddit comment.