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10xDev··on Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI
"AI"

Usually when I chat with a support bot it doesn't feel like an LLM but something that performs keyword matching and a prewritten response pre-LLM era.

10xDev··on I do not know how to teach kids this low
>School is now just glorified babysitting and stopping kids from either overdosing, getting pregnant, or committing suicide.

Absolutely false. Anyone who believes this should step outside and get away from doomer BS like this. I volunteered at a school and children were literally having fun with Scratch.

10xDev··on Why are we even doing all this?
There also will never be a Mikhail Tal type of player again and most classical matches at the highest level are just draws now. I'm not sure if you could say AI is a benefit for the highest level but it is an equaliser in the sense that you don't need to pay for a tutor to analyse your mistakes (though they can still be helpful) which helps the average player. Chess is also predominantly for entertainment making it not the best example for AI not replacing people.
10xDev··on Social platforms have 'responsibility' to block US execution live stream
takes look at profile and comment history yup about what I expected.
10xDev··on Social platforms have 'responsibility' to block US execution live stream
No brutalisation is worse. There doesn’t need to be a point for sadistic people.
10xDev··on Social platforms have 'responsibility' to block US execution live stream
1. It is a crippled man

2. People who believe in martyrdom will never be deterred by this. Many grow through adversary, look at the Houthis.

3. There is no proof that it even works on ordinary people with the opposite effect sometimes taking place (brutalisation), it is a terrorist strategy. If it worked, you would see more countries doing it.

10xDev··on Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?
I think you are underestimating. Before this was true, but school curriculum for computing has changed a lot over the past decade and they now teach Scratch at primary schools and Python in middle school. This was pushed by Bill Gates and other people in tech who told everyone that there is a shortage and anyone can learn to code. I would find it strange if someone by age 16 has never programmed before. Obviously having done programming and being good are two different things but the field has become saturated at an entry level at least.

Many people in the field now aren't nerds anymore either but people who are just incentivised by financial prospects.

10xDev··on Social platforms have 'responsibility' to block US execution live stream
Random fresh / new accounts in support of streaming this is interesting.

If you ever wondered why 99% of the world doesn't do this beyond just moral reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalization

10xDev··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
I think people have some awareness, but like search history they believe deleting will resolve that (it won't).
10xDev··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
50% is looking and sounding the part, the other 50% is having a good university on your resume / good networking.
10xDev··on Muse Wonder
I doubt anyone thinks coding is going to be their moat in the long run, it is just the easiest to get (paying) users for at the moment. And software being able to write software will always be useful even in other domains. Longer term will be research in other areas where data might become the moat.
10xDev··on US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work
It has already discovered knowledge that you very likely can't comprehend and it will keep expanding its corpus of knowledge in the same way human civilisation has. In the near term future it won't need you at all. Agency is nothing but goal setting, which is easy to achieve.
10xDev··on US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work
We are actively watching SI diverge from strictly relying on human knowledge to now creating its own repository of knowledge (see current math research) while training on synthetic data using RLVR over human curated data and human supervision. I don't think you realise that this trend is only going to continue to the point human language is going to stop being a crutch it relies on, in fact Astra can reason without CoT now.
10xDev··on AI Companies Are Parasites
Cool, bet on it: https://polymarket.com/event/ai-bubble-burst-by

Meanwhile NVDA go brrrrr.

10xDev··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
An authoritarian regime is not your friend and will pullback the moment their own models become highly capable.
10xDev··on President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates the Era of Super Intelligence
Why wouldn't they want their product called super intelligence?
10xDev··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Use compression sleeves if you mean knees / elbows. If you mean rotator cuff, do face pulls. This isn't medical advice, just speaking from experience.
10xDev··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
And just like that Elon Musk shifted the overton window away from "unthinkable" on yet another topic.
10xDev··on Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising
Anything you do as a university / person reflects your values. This shows a lack of integrity.
10xDev··on Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising
Hey buddy, not everything is about cold calculation. Some of us value culture and integrity. These are going to matter even more in the age of AI not less.
10xDev··on Wall Street is growing skeptical of the data center boom
You are in the warmup phase for one of the greatest take offs in human history. Enjoy the ride.
10xDev··on The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
You realise tokens are just data and data can represent anything.
10xDev··on The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
I believe this is alignment working as intended.
10xDev··on The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
So once we have online learning in LLMs, what do you think you will have that makes you intelligent but not LLMs? Better learning efficiency? That will be improved as well.

I think we need to start moving on from the term LLMs because it clearly confuses people since they started modelling more than just language.

10xDev··on AI 2027 (2025)
AI is more like an ongoing research project than it is a product. GPUs are currently the product that is profitable and Nvidia will keep funding labs to keep buying GPUs.
10xDev··on Stockfish 19
Zugzwang is everywhere.
10xDev··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
Not exactly scientific but it is at least entertaining and some things do sound plausible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_hnD7m00M
10xDev··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
Risk/reward. Isn't the reward worth the risk?
10xDev··on I resigned from Anthropic today
The idea that they are entirely trained on human intelligence is already outdated. Yes, the earlier models relied heavily on RLHF and human curated data but we have since moved on to synthetic data produced by the models themselves and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR).
10xDev··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Eventually the bottleneck might be people themselves.
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