viach

When I checked the last time "consciousness" was not defined yet. So the title can be read as "Some things are likely not unique to earthlings"

X -> Optimism, Optimism -> Longevity

Can't wait for a research which reveals the X.

I think people often misread AGI as Artificial God Intelligence.

Yup. And the real danger of AI is not that it enslaves humans but in that it will bring great disillusionment and existential crisis.

Someone should write a blog post about this to warn humanity.

> 1 The tech industry has accidentally invented the initial stages a completely new kind of mind, based on completely unknown principles...

> 2) The intelligence illusion is in the mind of the user and not in the LLM itself.

3) The intelligence of the users is illusion either?

This put a smile on my face, which is quite an achievement already. Good stuff, thanks.

> Be an engineer that PMs don’t hate

Easy-peasy. Always agree with their estimates, never complain, never ask for a raise, work additional hours.

Can't wait for the battle of the OpenAI JavaScript frameworks

Being smart is not the end of the game, software is created by teams. You could ask them to make reverse code review so that they can enjoy each others smarteness.

Like you said "they can’t be bothered working out how to..." That's a fact which is not going to change.

> Use stored procedures

For God's sake, please don't

Strangely, it resonates to me in the context of finding "The Best Note Taking App" buzz. Whoa, X has backlinks! Yay, but Y is open source! At the end of the day we all open the default system notepad.

90% of times when strangers were telling me compliments it ended up with "street scam", iukwim

Sure, it's dead. But very wide spreaded and high paid.

99% of analogies are correct

The "real world" view pretty much depends on the glasses you wear and the observation point.

You are taking it too seriously. You are allowed to make mistakes like everyone else.

Says someone who uses white font on purple background

If you use JSON for configuration (as it should be), why not update the whole file and get change tracked in VCS? If you use it as a database, why not Mongo then?

> Consider mocking only as a last resort

Consider trying to write tests in a non-trivial Spring Boot app without mocks

I think if you speak slowly any of the Slavic languages it will be understandable enough "from Prague to Vladivostok"

If these other people have similar systems you could even authomate it via shared API so that they are just doing ping-pong of howareyou-imfine. Win-win!

> A sequence of checks to arrive at the root cause of the problem can be represented as a path in (preferably balanced) binary search tree.

Yes, probably everything in this world can be represented as a balanced binary search tree, who knows.

Interesting, is there a website which offers a set of real dev problems to solve? Like, here is the IP of a prod environment, we are getting 500 with some combination of POST request parameters to this endpoint, the logs say there is something wrong with deserialization, integration tests are green, customers are screaming. This kind of things, not "find a sum of polynomials"?

Similar to how one gets a backend developer working on "full-stack" - by slowly moving tasks context.

Short summary of the 80 min discussion:

- Is there life after death? - It depends.

They missed the obvious option, to firbid high schools (this will remove students)

Some people can be aware of what you think their emitions are driven by and use it for manipulative reasons when you react accordingly. Probably it is a good idea to treat people as grown adults who can be responsible for their reactions whatever reasons are behind them.

> We’ve encountered nothing we can’t potentially improve

This statement is a bit exaggerated, saying optimistically.