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Re:AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu by themanmaran on Thursday April 17, 2025 @05:58PM (#43722674)
How are those mutually exclusive statements? You can't imagine someone working on backend (focused on distributed systems) for 10-15 years at a FANG company. And also being in a position to interview new candidates?
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Re:AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu by HAL3000 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:04PM (#43722726)
Who knows but have you read what OP wrote?

"I just used o3 to design a distributed scheduler that scales to 1M+ sxchedules a day. It was perfect, and did better than two weeks of thought around the best way to build this."

Anyone with 10 years in distributed systems at FAANG doesn’t need two weeks to design a distributed scheduler handling 1M+ schedules per day, that’s a solved problem in 2025 and basically a joke at that scale. That alone makes this person’s story questionable, and his comment history only adds to the doubt.

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Re:AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu by thelambentonion on Friday April 18, 2025 @01:59AM (#43725426)
> and his comment history only adds to the doubt

for others following along: the comment history is mostly talking about how software engineering is dead because AI is real this time with a few diversions to fixate on how overpriced university pedigrees are.

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Re:AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu by codingwagie on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:39AM (#43729098)
its not dead, its democratized
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