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Comment · 1 month ago
This is so, painfully, childish. Humans have known for thousands of years that there is no objective truth. Every falsity can be bent and twisted until it is more true than the sun itself.
Comment · 1 month ago
Strong disagree. Do not conflate hard, human created works with AI slop.
Comment · 2 months ago
I worked at Mozilla for quite a long time. I can tell you that MANY employees will be reading every comment in this thread. Hello mozillians! Don't forget to do something good for the web tomorrow!
Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah but, which other llm?
Comment · 2 months ago
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Comment · 2 months ago
I did that once. The company doubled rsus the next quarter (still didn't make up for it), then the stock price 5xed over the next 3 years. By the end of it, if I had stayed, I would have cleared 1.2M per year.

Although I heard they also fired some of those people with high rsus! So it goes both ways.

Comment · 2 months ago
How is this the most upvoted comment? I get great joy out of being a great engineer at work. I LOVE solving hard problems and helping people. People at work using my tools or reading my documents brings me joy.

You can do this and release things! Do both!

Comment · 2 months ago
I agree with this. I am also starting to get a "feeling" of when I can trust an agent and when I can't. Recently I had it throw together a dashboard that displayed some basic linear models based on knobs on the dash, and I didn't really worry about it getting those wrong (I did spot check and it seemed good). But I also had to update a pretty complex flink app with state management changes that it totally borked.

The first task was more self constrained and less production impacting. The latter was detail oriented and required understanding complex distributed systems and state.

I would like to be able to formalize these kinds of tasks. I believe there are lots of confounding variables:

- Access to MCPs

- quality of documentation

- strong existing practices

- examples of similar code nearby

And then we can more easily determine what can be totally handed off and what can't be. I think that last one is most important, but similarly:

- how much this type of algo appears in the training set

Which is maybe part of the "feeling" that we have about what it will do well.

Comment · 2 months ago
Agreed. Turned into some ai slop quickly.
Comment · 2 months ago
I wonder the same thing. I only imagine that what comes next is worse: AI companies using vast resources to develop new training data, in house, locked down. They are already doing this with developers and code at Meta. Information will become locked away behind AI paywalls and chatbots.
Comment · 2 months ago
(referring to melatonin) yeah this is valid. I used to take melatonin every night, found out about the problems with us supply, couldn't find anything nearing 1/2 mg, and gave up. I took kids gummies for a few weeks, but I still think they were 1mg.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think it should be scaled to the salary of 6 people. So about $3.15
Comment · 3 months ago
Keep the old number and get a new one. You'll have to gradually switch all 2fa if you want to lose the old number, otherwise keep it forever on a separate device.
Comment · 3 months ago
Interested to hear more. Auditing dependencies is hard. You fully trust the app restrictions on your phone?
Comment · 3 months ago
This sounds like such a security risk. It just takes one bad library. Your phone and desktop are not a sandbox.

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