bendbro

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Benita Breulando. Dog mom. Developer advocate @sidesl.ung.io Dedicated community gardener. Opinions my own. Hiring BIPOC frontend DevEx hackers from the global south: [email protected]!

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Comment · 5 months ago

They still need 10% float and 1 year of bake time, so the rules are still doing some work for us

Comment · 6 months ago

Please study the venn diagram below:

((military) citizens)

Comment · 6 months ago

Veterans generally don’t need additional support or benefits. Disability is basically a second pension at this point. SCD for veterans under 45 has risen from 16% in 2008 to 39% in 2022 [0]. If you know any young veterans, then anecdotally you will see this is true. You can (and should) get partial disability for all kinds of aches and pains that in a normal career would go ignored.

[0] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/acs-5...

Comment · 8 months ago

I take it you've never met another human before

Comment · 8 months ago

tl;dr The best ~AI's~ LLM's slop asymptote is 10 hours.

Restated, if you let the best LLM chomp on a task for 10 hours, the output becomes slop.

* These tasks are of the type that you spend 1% of your SWE career working on.

* Each task is primed with an essay length prompt.

* You must play needle in the haystack for bugs in 10 hours worth of AI generated slop.

My experience trying AI coding at work and my observations of AI evangelists makes me believe AI coding is exclusively the purview of people who willing to handhold an AI at half pace to achieve the same result while working on software which amounts to greenfield/toy problems.

The danger of LLMs to thought work is enormously overstated and intentionally overhyped. AI : StackOverflow :: StackOverflow : graybeard in basement

It would be cool if AI kills all thought work, but what will actually happen is a undersupply of SWEs and a second golden age of SWE salaries in like 15y.

https://github.com/METR/public-tasks/tree/main

Comment · 8 months ago

If you're buying an appliance, why have it manufactured by Ferrari? Modern cars, especially electric ones, are not exciting in any way as cars. Only agenda motivated e car foamers pretend otherwise. Electric cars are exclusively exciting as commodity transportation.

Comment · 10 months ago

Even if their negative impact is a fantasy, they provide no benefit. There is no reason we shouldn't ban them.

Comment · 1 year ago

H1Bs risk deportation when they are fired. It is inconceivable for this to not impact their performance and behavior. Combine that with Amazon's Jack Welch style stack rank and firing of the bottom and it becomes even worse

Comment · 1 year ago

I don't want to compete with pollution, child labor, slaves, extreme hours, and poverty-tier living conditions

Comment · 1 year ago

> These are the sort of things the poor and middle class voted for. To make the rich, richer.

Experts show saving 7.1337% at Walmart is worth losing your job to offshoring!

I haven't seen meaningful change for poor or workers with a decade of Democrat policy, so pardon me while I ignore that and vote for some tariffs.

Comment · 1 year ago

Ah that makes quite a lot of sense and I'd definitely find myself with that bad habit if I tried flying. In a sim my purpose is to have fun flying the plane by the seat of my pants but flying in reality would have me anxious to avoid breaking any rules.

Comment · 1 year ago

Flight sim experience causes "over-fixation on instruments"? I'm surprised, I would have expected the opposite.