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Becoming a Better Writer
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Agentic Spaceflight
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Implications of Large-Scale Test-Time Compute
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Moss-Image: Text-to-Image Generation with Native Layout Control
1. If you keep shipping AI-written code you don’t understand, you become entirely dependent on the AI to maintain it, because you lack the mental model you’d need to jump into it quickly.
2. You can afford to do this as a senior, because you can tell when the AI does something suboptimal. But how is a junior supposed to develop that intuition when all they start out with is AI-generated code?
Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
I saw this LinkedIn post from a Meta engineer and it resonated with me:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-hamie_im-an-engineer-at-meta-and-i-never-felt-share-7517317918666211328-7C8N> I'm an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This new standard of shipping with AI is moving so fast that if we're...
Building AGI Using Language Models (2020)
Investigation: EU citizens' private messages are run through Palantir's software
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Moravec's Paradox
Agent Collaboration over Unreliable Channels
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Cognitive Complexity – a new way of measuring understandability (2023) [pdf]
Often we don't acknowledge the horror of Israel's multi-decade siege on Gaza¹ and occupation of Palestinians when talking about this conflict.
There, I fixed it for you.
[1] As early as 1967, U.S. Senator Albert Gore Sr. called Gaza “a vast concentration camp on the sand”.