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I built a ML training framework from scratch in cuda in 2016, for earthquake forecasting - I know quite well how to solve low level kernel optimization problems :) I'm also regularly a rust developer and I do know REGEX thanks.

Building that project today, would not be impressive or particularly hard. There are great references available today to illustrate how to build that. Sure LLMs aren't 100% accurate, neither is an intern or junior dev you might offload a task to. Part of the job of a software engineer is collaboration. Understanding how to collaborate with teammates (local, AI, outsourced) and how to ship when your teammates make mistakes is quite important to know how to resolve.

That's why CI/CD and TTD exists! If you have a project where correctness is critical, why haven't you written a test to validate that correctness?

So, the existential dread bit - sure. That's a real concern and thing, but let's put that aside for a sec.

When you did math and long division by hand in highschool did you enjoy it? Did you feel like you lost something when you were allowed to use a graphing calculator on a test?

In university I dreaded exams that allowed calculators because I knew how much harder the exam was going to be - that's what genai is today in my experience.

Yes we don't need manual calculators as a profession anymore to land rockets, same as we don't need a programmer to necessarily fiddle around with divs or structs - but the exams are harder now. Now we need to spend our time actually considering trade offs and actually doing software engineering. This is harder and maybe not everyone who's had that job title is particularly good at that - but that's the new skill to get good at, and because the world is under constrained making design and implementation decisions will essentially always need to be done by the person building the thing.

If you liked the programming bit, I'm sorry - I'm personally happy I don't have to remember regex or how to figure out how to center a div or span again.

Have you had an argument or dispute with a contractor before? It's better to just do it yourself when you can, and fix it when it breaks

If you saw two paintings and one was painted with the blood and guts of the artist, and another was a nice oil painting - would you value the former more regardless of aesthetic merit?

I speak English, I don't even know how to create one on my keyboard - is it a mac thing? I literally never saw one until chatgpt started to generate them

Rewrite the readme in my voice, use all of my comments and responses in current context as source. Don't use em dashes or other LLM things.

Done, solved. Never had a problem with a readme or email since.

That's called a tree, they work quite well! A little time consuming to grow to sufficient height however

What's actually more dangerous isn't shadow banning it's angel banning. With the ability to manufacture agents that simulate positive user feedback while making your posts hidden - Twitter was experimenting with this years ago.

I studied material science in school specifically to try and address his concerns. Unfortunately they are all quite valid - the hard part isn't manufacturing, extruding, printing. Those are actually all quite reasonable (albeit not super space or weight efficient). The hard part is refining and ore enrichment, and most techniques that could possibly work in microgravity are almost impossible to test on earth. You would certainly need vitamins for electronics components for a time. Even much older computer chip architectures (1990s level) still require the clean room and 20-30 stages of prep. I believe an orbital chip fab is not only possible but, kind of ideal? Keeping it clean would be within reach - and it's mostly if not entirely an autonomous process from silicon monocrystal to assembled part today.

We're along way from self replicating probes. But I would argue were quite capable of autonomous mining, manufacturing and material transport - assuming we can figure out how to refine effectively. If someone wants a cool PhD project and ship an experiment to the ISS, I would argue an ionic or plasma based refining technique designed for micro gravity could be very interesting and very useful

Why not self host or go to openrouter if you don't need SOTA frontier?

That's what jfrog + artifactory is for, enterprise solved this problem long ago

I actually think we should only be using labor force metrics for everything, if someone stops looking because their depressed and can live at home - suddenly that's ok? I don't think we should stop counting people like that

Are you kidding? It will be Millions easily. It will just take 1 or two blackouts in wet bulb conditions to cause that

Also the US is essentially the only country with failed public transit, outside of Africa. If he thinks he can expand his robo taxi fleet to China or Europe or hell even Russia he's got screws loose

I think the sentiment changes when the pig owns the farm

I might typically have 4-5 tabs open for serious work, and then 0 when not.. am I the weird one? I've never once found value with tab groups or multiple sessions

Actual access to reliable healthcare is a massive assumption to make, not everyone has incredible health insurance or lives in a country with sufficient doctors/med staff. Most places are in crisis for lack of resources, I'd rather ask chatgpt or Gemini for something urgent rather than wait 5+ hours in ER for the doctor to say "just take some aspirin and go to a walk-in tomorrow"

The problem is, if everyone knows it going to curry favour and you're the odd man out - are you in Violation of your fiduciary duty to your shareholders?

I've only ever worked remote professionally and I've got a track record, when I apply to a new role there's no question that I can adapt to working remotely at X company.

If I just finished my PhD in comp sci and have never worked professionally in my life let alone remotely, going day 1 remote is a huge risk

If I'm in a quiet place I can walk through the project, and understand where different things fit into place - even for very very complex systems, I can almost simulate algorithms and see where things go wrong without looking at my code. I realized this ability is not normal, and many people even software engineers struggle immensely with fully understanding large complex systems

Yes same even multiple times, but if I met them online (slack, teams) I'll always remember them.

When I was younger I was much worse at recognizing people and names, as an adult it's gotten much better

That's me! I can visualize processes really well, and complex systems. But ask me to picture or hear something in my head and I'll just stare at you.

That can't be all the food their eating right? That's like 1/5th of the calories I eat as an athletic man

Is there even a point to money post AGI?

Your wife / family (if applicable) will very much appreciate more frequent breaks.

What do you expect the average Mexican to do about that? The Cartels have substantially more power than the state.

I think it's great that they're reclaiming some power by relearning their ancient languages that were nearly destroyed by their colonizers

It is though, in the English speaking world - to to Latin America or southern asia, anti-social behavior is treated like the disease it is

I learned thinking too much about it makes it worse. Just have to do lists that are ephemeral that you'll rewrite and start over 5-10 pages from now. Just pencil and nice small notebooks that are portable is more important than my laptop or phone most of the time for work

This is me all the time, but as I've gotten older I realized extensive note taking is extremely helpful for work. I can't recommend it enough for people like me

I don't like DeSantis, but this is a bit of policy I would like to see throughout the US and the world.