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At least oats don't have to be perpetually kept pregnant while taking their offspring away from their mothers. See, snide comments cut both ways.

Indeed. I’m only making the suggestion that the metric might not be good as a proxy.

It’s a brutal business.


I see someone has no idea how farming actually works.

Why don't you enlighten us?

So, how does aj engineer new to a code base add new features? They read the code base, understand the architecture and structure and make changes. An agent can do the same.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Yeah, LLMs are a solution to the cold start problem plus they are easy to integrate and if you know what you're doing in terms of evals, post processing and so on you can get excellent performance out of them, plus they can do semantic classification and reasoning that you won't get out of some bespoke traditional DS/ML model.

Im a software engineer and know how to be a software engineer, yet I find LLMs quite helpful. Why should a plumber be any different.

Because if a plumber moves fast and breaks things, I've got shit all over the place.

That, and also the plumber loses their license. So perhaps the solution is professional licensing for software engineers.

I feel like a licencing process for software engineers would

A) test lots of skills that are common but not universal. I'm thinking javascript trivia here, where I don't write any javascript in my professional capacity as a software engineer; but there are many people who think Software Engineer == Javascript Programmer

B) shine too much of a light on the fact that this industry is full of people who demand high salaries but can't program their way out of a paper bag


I think that's coming regardless. AI just might be the perfect storm to bring the timeline in considerably.

Engineer is a protected title in Canada after all

Production ready!

That’s just the LLM rambling. Not battle tested yet. I will get to that after I ship the Semiotic-Reflexive Transformer.

You have these grifter videos for everything, from OpenAI features to hot takes on the strait of Hormuz. These are best ignored entirely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725764

Also discussed on HN. Yeah I can ignore them, but a lot of people watch those videos and fall for the grift (going by their views) and that's sad. It personally annoys me also when yt recommends them to me because it thinks I'm interested in software


I make sure to hit not interested the second I see anything I very much don't want pop up in me feed. I don't want mine to drift towards the average feed of the lowest effort, sensationalist garbage.

Does this work? I've been doing that for some weeks now, nothing has changed about my home page.

It seems to help. But it's just one factor. I also have a lot of subscriptions to help guide the algorithm. And it seems most heavily weighted on things you've recently watched, so if you ever leave youtube playing while you're not actually watching it, you might need to manually remove videos from your watch history that don't align with what you want to see suggested.

It is more important to scrub your history and upvote.

You can use ublock to remove the sidebar completely


Unhook also does this (among other YouTube clean-ups)

In case you start watching such a video (and maybe in general), it’s probably more effective to downvote it and remove it from your watch history. And when you use “not interested”, there are two “tell us why” follow-up options “already watched” and “don’t like”. Selecting the latter may be necessary for “not interested” to have a stronger effect.

I don’t know if YouTube Premium makes a difference, but I don’t see highly clickbaity thumbnails very often.


It's also more often than not good enough, which for a specialist is bad, and for most everyone else is absolutely sufficient.

Also in Europe and can only agree. Granted I'm on the 20x plan, but I have yet to hit a limit once and I'm using Claude 12h+ per day on multiple projects.

git log --all --reflog -- path/to/secret-file

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