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Agentic coding is absolutely not a failure. It's just not the 10x that CEOs really wanted it to be.

We learned that some tasks don't really benefit from AI while others do. My team went from 7 people to 2 (went to new teams, no layoffs), and we're doing the same amount if not more work than we used to.

Is it more draining and lacking of focused work? Yes. Is it more money for the business? Yes.

By what he's saying he clearly isn't.

I've interviewed a ton of junior engineers. Our company was senior-heavy and we're just now diversifying.

80% of them should reconsider their career paths. They glaringly cheat during interviews, they can't answer basic software questions, and they're clearly in it just for the money.

They were never interested in software. They just saw the success of software engineers that put in a lot of work, and were fooled by the 2021-2024 hiring spree to think it would be easy.

Youtube should consider their engineers responsible for the software they write. Big companies these days are just bureaucracy tricks and politics. There's a small handful of real talent, but they're quickly moving to new startups.

Also, I'm Canadian as well, and almost everyone calls themselves "software engineer" these days. You just can't say P.eng. in your title. You could be forced to remove it from linkedin/etc if you're called out, but it rarely happens.

If you're calculating stock gains, taxes, etc. You'll want to do it on BigDecimal on line items, then sum it up. Cents could lose precision leading to a large difference on millions of line items.

If you're doing static payments or displaying a number, it doesn't matter if it's float amounts or integer cents since you're not doing any calculations anyway.

Stripe uses cents mostly because it's the most foolproof way that won't cause massive issues as a public API.

Hyphens here are meant to be formatting. You would be correct if this was a literary piece, but handbooks and sheets don't need to use these rules.

It's a good indicator but absolutely no guarantee. I've had to tell project managers this because they didn't understand this concept.

BigDecimal should be used by almost everyone except for HFT since they're really slow.

You can't do everything you need with an integer. There are values you might want to display or calculate with that are smaller than cents. In some places you'll need things like BigDecimal, which are immune to floating point errors in most cases.

It's also safe to return decimal values for displaying values.

It could be a much bigger MoE model

On modern hardware a cow page copy should only take 1-5ms. Redis forks to save the db to disk and it's been a solid design choice.

I guess it depends on how sensitive your application is to main thread pauses.

These LLM replies are really getting annoying.

Maybe it has to be fine-tuned per tool just like functiongemma

what are you talking about

Good artists get paid plenty. The hard part of art was always about either representing emotion, or a story. AI can't do that as it has no emotion, nor story.

how you do one thing is how you do everything.

That simply isn't true though. It's not even possible to be true. Will a neurosurgeon put as much time in their cooking/cleaning/etc as they do their surgeries? There's not enough time/energy.

They are profitable to opex costs, but not capex costs with the current depreciation schedules, though those are now edging higher than expected.

That's GPT4 thinking. New models use tools to look at current events or latest versions, and rely very little on weight knowledge.

Mythos is basically this

It doesn't reveal that they have no clue of what they're talking about. They know that a good number of idiot CEOs will hear this and dictate their engineers spend more claude/codex money, which benefits them.

Jensen isn't an idiot, he's capitalizing on the market.

Minimax 2.7 is fine for most web stuff. It's slightly worse than Claude at backend, but works great for frontend.

They're all slop when the complexity is higher than a mid-tech intermediate engineer though.

Must be nice working on simple stuff.

Several fintechs like Block and Stripe are boasting thousands of AI-generated PRs with little to no human reviews.

Of course it's in the areas where it doesn't matter as much, like experiments, internal tooling, etc, but the CTOs will get greedy.

Law enforcement ICs do not have public records.

AI coding is gambling on slot machines, managing developers is betting on race horses.

It's not only hard and painful, but potentially damaging to the woman's body and could leave them with permanent hormonal issues.

So, no. It's not a good policy.

Gemini is a generalist model and works better than all existing models at generalist problems.

Coding has been vastly improved in 3.0 and 3.1, but Google won't give us the full juice as Google usually does.

I never said this. I think you're the one tripping mate.

It really depends on the human and the code it outputs.

I can get my 2y old child to output 100k LoC, but it won't be very good.

The thing is that there is only a tiny portion of houses ever selling at any time. The only ones that would benefit from selling are people who are downsizing or moving away.

If you buy 60% of the properties on market, the rest will see this and adjust their own prices. Usually this only works when the macro is favourable (low interest rates, easy mortgage applications, etc.), but it is definitely a large factor. It sometimes creates a even hotter market, with people thinking that real estate goes up forever, then they sell.

You're right that it's not always large investment groups. Vancouver in Canada had the same thing happen, but mostly from foreign investors and criminals washing money. The latter was facilitated by politicians who cashed in big on this.