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I understand the negative sentiment toward Altman, but just to be fair, how do we define 'lying'? How does his behavior compare to that of the average executive, or even the average human?

I don't particularly like the guy; I'm just curious to see if he is objectively a liar in a way that most engineers, executives, or humans are not, or if this perception is simply a bias stemming from the general negative sentiment toward him.

you wait for it to finish then review or give feedback in the meanwhile? if it's the former, i'm curious about what you still do in the meanwhile

sounds like a plan haha. How is OpenCode vs Claude Code orchestration? have you ever needed to modify the orchestration since it's open source? do you mind sharing more about your experience?

I wrote my experience here: https://pooyam.dev/i-miss-coding

I was saying it was not commoditized a decade ago, but i feel it's getting commoditized *now*. So you seem to be basically saying SWE is over and it's time to move on to something that is primarily based on human-human interaction?

I honestly think a better title would be "how to stay relevant in LLM era"

simple example: Claude Cowork was written entirely with claude code

1. No, implementing well defined requirements were not commoditized a decade ago. You still have to come up with the design and proper (efficient,correct,...) solution that respects the requirements. it was and still is the skill set of a L4/L5 SWE.

2. If you think LLMs cannot help with navigating ambiguity and requirements, you are wrong. it might not be able to 100% crack it (due to not having all the necessary context), but still help a lot.

i'm trying to see what i can do to stay relevant

llm training/inference stack

LLM is not hype. it has made and my colleagues who are NOT working on CRUD, way more productive

Let's say you want to make an architectural change. There are two options:

1. Ask AI to come up with the different options and let you review it

2. You think about the options and ask AI for feedback

#1 is much faster but results in atrophy (you are not critically coming up with the architecture changes)

#2 uses your and AI skills but it's gonna be slower.

which one will you choose? currently i'm doing #1

if it's able to do the interesting/engaging part faster than me, i don't see why i should not outsource to it (The same argument as why use LLM-assisted programming at all, you don't want to miss the productivity boost)

Had missed it. Tnx

It's not clear from the article whether it's a dense model or MoE. This matters when it comes to comparing with GPT-4 - in terms of # params - which is reported to be MoE

This. We have not exhausted all the techniques at our disposal yet. We do need to look for a new architecture though, but these are orthogonal

aside from sources mentioned by others (arxiv-sanity-lite, newsletter): 1. deep learning monitor: https://deeplearn.org 2. Following folks on Twitter and then Twitter recommendation algo will take care of the rest

Pretty cool!

To make it more fun again possibly: http://astronaut.io

Used to be common for hacking-related docs. Miss those

http://phrack.org/issues/49/15.html#article

how do you come up with this pal...

I feel I am open to surprises and appreciate it (Hence asking this question in the first place). The question is how to find more exposure to surprises.

Interesting take, sad though. I miss that "raw enthusiasm and energy".

Yeah totally. That's why I wanted to first see how common this is among people here.

makes sense. I too have also started to explore more diverse topics including psychology. But I miss my old days. I guess I was 7 or 8 years old when I got my first computer. During these 28 years of life, nothing has ever given me more joy and excitement than learning doing cool edits in windows registry, commands in windows cmd, and discovering features of Microsoft access, when I was at that age.

Very interesting view.

The million-dollar question is how to prevent the extinguishment.

Not that much. Programming was much more fun when I was a kid. everything was new. Every single computer science concept used to amuse me. I used to think about how X works. how Y works. I feel like after finishing undergrad, I pretty much knew how everything in CS "basically" works. compilers, databases, machine learning, etc etc. I still like programming, but I'm not as passionate as I used to be about it.

I feel I have lost my "hunger" and was wondering what went wrong (if any) along the way.

How is a life coach different from a clinical counselor/psychologist? If they are mostly the same thing, I can confidently tell that they can be helpful and are not full of shit.