I'm glad I am no longer in tech because I just don't want to do this.
This is not a dig at AI. If I take this article at face value, AI makes people more productive, assuming they have the taste and knowledge to steer their agents properly. And that's possibly a good thing even though it might have temporary negative side effects for the economy.
>But the AI is writing the traversal logic, the hashing layers, the watcher loops,
But unfortunately that's the stuff I like doing. And also I like communing with the computer: I don't want to delegate that to an agent (of course, like many engineers I put more and more layers between me and the computer, going from assembly to C to Java to Scala, but this seems like a bigger leap).
Can't wait until the arctic unwinds and releases massive amounts of methane into the air, then in the hot hell that earth becomes, all the fucking idiots saying "See I told those stupid liberals that the warming process was natural and not from my truck!!!1!1"
> It’s in popular culture and HN comments most often as spyware and mass surveillance of people, and that’s a bit of a shame.
I don't know whether you mean it's a shame that people consider it spyware, or if you meant that it's a shame that it manifests as spyware typically. I agree with the latter, not the former. It usually is spyware. If companies went for simple opt-in popups with a brief description of the reasoning, I'd be all for that. I sometimes opt-in to these requests myself, despite being a fairly privacy-conscious person, because I understand the benefit they have to the people collecting the data for good purposes. But when surveillance is opt-out (or no choice given), it's just spyware.
I am a parent. The devices my child uses have root certs that allow me to decrypt traffic that must pass through my proxy to be relayed to the internet. Voila. Problem solved with current tech.
One of Terraform's most powerful features that it will tell exactly which resources change before it makes the changes. The hard part is writing Terraform, not reviewing and running one command. In my workflows I am the one who runs "terraform apply", NOT the agent.
ive had it write some good cdk, but only as a one off project. havent tried any maintenance, but the deployment of infrastructure should also go through CI/CD, so the only thing i could destroy is a local playground
i did have to fight it to build the right thing - it wanted to spend something like $100/month but what i had in mind should have been <1, and i eventually got it there.
something i found handy prompt wise was to keep asking claude to predict the monthly cost after builds
I don’t believe this is true. There are plenty of roles that are happy to hire remotely. Sure, there is an in person requirement for many job listings but Ive found EMs/companies to be very flexible if they need to hire talent.
For people that can’t/dont want to move to the “hubs”, just know that there is absolutely still a career path. I will say though that you need to have above average communication skills and proactively build relationships during in person off-sites.
Relating it to performance is just silly. Most companies barely understand the performance of their employees much less candidates. The market has shrunk but not catastrophically so. Most people haven't been majorly affected but that doesn't mean they're automatically the most deserving or best performing.
People with experience and/or credentials desired by companies in areas of growth (i.e. AI) are always in high demand
I don't visit Canada for the same reason I don't do a whole lot of touristy stuff here in the US: The travel costs aren't really _that_ much cheaper vs going somewhere more exotic like South America, Europe, Asia, etc, and it feels a bit too much like "home".
Living on the west coast, Vancouver's the easiest to get to -- I love Vancouver (and Victoria), and I've been both places several times, and I've gone to Whistler a handful of times as well, but, again, it's a lot like where I grew up in Seattle.
I really do want to visit Montreal sometime, but I also want to visit Chicago and Memphis and a lot of other "domestic" locations that I somehow never find the time for.
Also, when you grow up in a country you have a lot of local knowledge from culture, friends, television, education, so we just know a lot more about domestic places we haven't (yet) visited. Plus, a substantial number of people don't have passports. We used to be able to visit Canada easily without one, now we cannot.
Exactly, Waymo were talking about this a few year back, they found that building it up gradually will not work, because people would stop paying attention when it's "almost" there, until it isn't and it crashes. So they set out on having their automation good enough to operate on its own without a human driver before starting to deploy it.
I don't know. I'm really asking. I have you bucketed in my head in the cohort of "HN commenters who write lots of assembly", so the mismatch between your prediction and the outcome is just really interesting to me.
I don’t use Terraform much anymore because don’t need it but that’s not how you use it.
Always forward evolve infra. Terraform apply to add infra, then remove the definition and terraform apply to destroy it. There’s no use in running terraform destroy directly on a routine basis.
Also, I assume you defined RDS snapshots also in the same state? This is clearly erroneous. It means a malformed apply human or agent results in snapshot deletion.
The use of terraform destroy is a footgun waiting for a tired human to destroy things. The lesson has nothing to do with agent.
If the value proposition is better interest rates, it sounds like Palus would get that by giving up their cut, what would be your monetization strategy then?
How does this work with self-hosting? Is the assumption that self-hosters won’t run into this problem?
For most use-cases I’d probably prefer to just delete the payloads some time after the job completes (persisting that data is business logic problem). And keep the benefits of “just use Postgres”, which you guys seem to have outgrown.
But what happens when a nefarious actor fills the void and publishes a root-kited VM and marks it as safe for children? These restrictions breed black markets that usually cause even more harm.
nformation architecture for AI reasoning. PromptOS structures rigorous thinking (7 or 8-step pipelines). HITL Context Engine manages cross-domain problems with human guidance. Both work with any model—Claude, GPT-4, Gemini. Copy, paste, use immediately. MIT licensed, freeware logic.
GitHub: m727ichael/context-engineering
In terms of sub structure - in the old days of Core Wars randomly scattering bits of code that did things could pay off. I’m imagining similar things for LLMs - just set 10% of weights as specific known structures and watch to see which are retained / utilized by models and which get treated like random init
> If they had direct evidence that some author's instructions failed to ask for the case study to be fictionalized, I think they would have specifically said that.
Which they do. They specifically say that. “Neither the instructions for authors from 2010 — when Koren and his coauthor Michael Rieder would have written their article — nor the linked list of article types — state the cases are fictionalized, or fictional.”
“An archived version from September stated, ‘Each highlight is a teaching tool that presents a short clinical example, from one of the studies or one-time surveys,’ with no mention of fiction.”
These are direct quotes from the article. The exact kind you are asking for. With inline links to the archived documents. And yes it is very definitive.
> I'm pretty sure what happened here is that:
No need to speculate. Just read the article.
> 1) The journal always asked for […] fictionalized case studies.
This is not a dig at AI. If I take this article at face value, AI makes people more productive, assuming they have the taste and knowledge to steer their agents properly. And that's possibly a good thing even though it might have temporary negative side effects for the economy.
>But the AI is writing the traversal logic, the hashing layers, the watcher loops,
But unfortunately that's the stuff I like doing. And also I like communing with the computer: I don't want to delegate that to an agent (of course, like many engineers I put more and more layers between me and the computer, going from assembly to C to Java to Scala, but this seems like a bigger leap).