derealized

Anyway, I really don't care about the past in this way. A simple "accounting needs this for that" is enough for me. No need to explain that Adam was getting divorced at the time, so he was grumpy, and, and, and...

I often search for a clearcut answer to a technical question and I'm met with a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed replatforming projects.

Yeah, thanks for telling me why John from accounting was a dick 10 years ago and you had to code this module in a certain way. I really don't care. I'm new to the codebase and I just want to know how it (the codebase) works.

I'm currently in this situation and a colleage never gives straight answers to anything. It's always some little rant about something and when it's done, I still haven't got my answer.

If we call things by their names, it's not surprising at all and actually makes solving the situation much easier.

That resonates with me.

There is a saying where I'm from that says "most people are just kicking dirt" that basically means people are doing the bare minimum or don't care at all, and if you just do your thing and really care about your stuff, you're already ahead of the majority.

Being anxious all the time, I use that saying in the opposite way though: just relax and do your thing... you don't need to worry about not having a job, all those other people are barely doing anything and you can't be the best at everytime. Just do your thing are relax.

It's a paradox because, to really feel human like and not make huge mistakes, we need these huge LLMs and they are expensive... and the alternative is not-so-smart traditional code.

So what I'm trying to say is that I think the small LLMs might not be that useful before they cross some arbitrary quality threshold (which they may never do.. considering more parameters => better model, in general).

But then, does that happen anywhere else but airports and maybe some places downtown where the taxi mafia colluded with city officials as well?

Should I complain that to drill oil I need hundreds of millions of dollars to even start?

Your VPS example was doing barely any computation. You're conflating web 1.0 and web 2.0 with neural networks and they are nothing alike in terms of FLOPS.

When hell freezes maybe?

Why would I do business with the local taxi mafia when these are the same cars, same drivers, poor or nonexistent app and terrible customer service?

Sorry, they screwed this too much.

EDIT: And copied and pasted here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956799

https://automattic.com/how-we-hire/

What changed? It's very tiresome to swim against the current. You can only care about so many things that your team doesn't until you get tired of barking at the tree.

At my new job it's the same, as usual, but I'm not forcing things and just getting with the flow. If I can, I'll suggest some ocasional improvements but if it falls on deaf ears, I'll let it go.

At my new job, I'm taking it easy.

I think one big reason is the BSD license. With fewer contributors, the ability for companies to create closed source products really helps to justify using it.

We are seem a lot of these apps nowadays. People come up with a prompt, send to OpenAI with the user data, hide it behind a certain web interface and it's an app they can charge for.

I've thought about this a million times for scratching my own itches but I just talk to ChatGPT and it's fine.