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Comment · 3 months ago
How does this even contribute to the content posted?

The only thing being "redefined" is corporate agendas to push the bar of "good enough" lower to the point where it lies below cheap, and equals wasteful.

Comment · 3 months ago
Vibe coded slop has the same patterns of black-on-black and grey-on-grey illegible text. Mix that with piss poor monospace, small-size fonts and you have to squint to read each letter
Comment · 3 months ago
A model does not speak, it only guesses the next possible token. Activations for 9 and 7 will most likely be observed after "The ", but increasingly become improbable after "old"
Comment · 3 months ago
Isn't this the same thing as your token probability distribution? A set of likely tokens related to the input?
Comment · 3 months ago
Well to be honest, there are a lot of NOOP pins on CPUs, but using them basically means fabbing a new die altogether, which is basically making a whole new CPU altogether.
Comment · 5 months ago
The whole website is genuinely unreadable / illegible with poor contrast.
Comment · 5 months ago
Not quite enshittification, that would be the eventual '''realignment and optimization of models to suit business demands and streamline $COMPANY's economic operations while focusing on serving the customers what they need best'''

This is just simply economics. Make an early loss to get a customer base, offer addictive features at irresistible prices, then yank them into your profit-making pricing.

Although yes, the ??? in the parent comment could be replaced with "A/B test some price gouging or ratty pricing methods to see how far we can go without being noticed"

Comment · 5 months ago
Even if writing new code is not the problem or the bottleneck anymore, a major blocker is one CoreService.java file someone wrote 10 years ago that is keeping the whole system glued together. Only they know how it works, and how to keep it working. Parroting my own words from a while back, inferred intent is not the same as initial intent. This is just reverse engineering except somewhat automated
Comment · 5 months ago
There is a reason that kLOC / FP were rightly shunned out of being measurable metrics years ago. The same clown show seems to be resurging with "tokens". There is, in my opinion, no real formula or metric that you can define for "good" code or "bad" code. Tickets and ceremonial activities, however abstract that into a N-nary status value that seems easier to judge upon.
Comment · 5 months ago
If your job was only coding then you are the most replaceable of the bunch. Traditional software engineering is a broader domain that, as rightly pointed out, will require you to actually *sit and talk* with the worst communicators you'll meet in your life.

Looking at a slice of most folks' workday and calling it their whole job is in my opinion, incorrect.

Comment · 6 months ago
> Could I have written it without Claude? Yes, definitely. But I was able to produce the code in a few days while having a fever of 100-102, which I definitely couldn't have done on my own.

While I admire your strength in attempting it, this just adds one more brick to the wall of precedents that "what's stopping you from just sending one prompt, it'll just take 30 seconds and you can do it in bed!"

You could sum it up into a simple equation as Features Shipped = Features/Hour * Developer Hours

Developer hours has remained a constant, and F/H has gone up. I am of the opinion that the ideal is the inverse.

Comment · 6 months ago
Watch token budget be included as part of employee TC figures - I feel this is an eventuality due to rising costs and "true pricing" slowly creeping in.

Current ventures feel moreso like a pilot program (you bought a private jet, now get a couple of your pilots to actually fly it) versus having an entire fleet of jets, and having to pay salaries to all those pilots, plus account for their fuel charges.

Right now all expenses are relatively "someone else's {problem,money,infra}".

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
They seem to be the result of an image-gen model to me

If this is the unvetted and unbased information they are putting out in public facing-blogs, only the stars would know what data is being "presented" in their boardrooms

Comment · 6 months ago
Ah yes so 8 billion (at least) companies are supposed to pull financing out of their rear-ends? You've re-discovered freelancing!

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