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Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
> …LLM agents posing as
> people on HN…
I suppose I could have made it clearer that the reply would explicitly make readers aware that the analysis was done by a Robo — i.e., an LLM.
Comment · 8 months ago
The answer, my friendow, is blowing in the context window [1]…
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…LLMs already "know" these books deeply, but without a structured prompt scaffold they apply that knowledge inconsistently and at low confidence. Giving the model a explicit lens — "review this as if you're checking against Clean Code heuristics C1–C36" — concentrates attention and dramatically reduces hallucinated or off-topic feedback…
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Where I'd push back or warn you:
Context collapse is your #1 enemy. Clean Code was written for Java in 2008. DDIA is about distributed systems at scale. If you apply the Clean Code reviewer to a 50-line Python script, you'll get pedantic nonsense about function length when the actual problem might be that the data model is wrong. Your skill selection logic needs to be domain-aware, not just "throw all skills at every file"…
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Comment · 8 months ago
@speckx, did you know that FT articles are behind a paywall?
Found somebody's save of this one, though: https://archive.fo/NlQER
Comment · 8 months ago
The company that fired that blogger is Google. Right?
Comment · 8 months ago
> …perspectives from people
> who are better at reading
> if studies are quality or not…
But, without even reading the whole PDF [1] of this particular paper, it's super easy to tell that the authors are all from pro-vibe coding consultancies [2][3][4]
[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/ConsAndPros
[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/MarkOfTheBorg
Comment · 8 months ago
> …the very dream of "getting
> rich quick through building
> a software product being a
> complete outsider" has waned…
Comment · 8 months ago
I hope you're not expending that same energy for _every_ dupe on this site.
God forbid you should overexert yourself and burn out ;)
Comment · 8 months ago
Absolutely!
I did think about putting "and Upwork" in the title.
Comment · 8 months ago
Thanks for replying.
I asked the question because I wondered if or how AI-assistance might be used more these days. By either the freelancers in their delivering their services, or by buyers who might be figuring they don't need to hire a freelancer for whatever reason these days.
Comment · 8 months ago
Uncle Sam — by proxy — Wants You…
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The Non-Negotiables: How We Work
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• …We leave video links open while we eat lunch. Our pets and kids know our coworkers…
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If the graphics on their landing page is anything to go by, that company [1] is essentially some kind of defense contractor.
The CTO running that Onebrief shop is the guy [2] that prompted the prediction I made in another post [3].
Coincidentally, I came across a blog post recently [4] where the blogger describes the above job description's way of working playing out IRL.
[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/BigtechBro
[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/OM16G
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099583