So their angle is an exit?
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To consider it neutrally, there are people who are just really, really good at it. Think a pro athlete playing on a JV sports team, a man among boys if you will. Those people are sincerely just fucking around with online books anyways and make most of their actual plays in-person, large stakes, and it is their primary source of income.
I get why they get banned. These piddly online books aren’t “meant” for them. I don’t blame them for trying, it’s as close to free money as they can get. I also get why they get banned.
Again, the industry is scummy and predatory. Not defending it. I can see both sides of it though.
Generally this happens based on how the sharks bet, not dissimilar to how market-makers affect stock prices, as a bad/loose analogy.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, they need to ban advertising, as they did with tobacco. The amount of commercials and adverts is nauseating, the industry is predatory, and I’m having serious thoughts about stopping because of that.
https://www.cerebras.ai/pricing
$50/month for one person for code (daily token limit), or pay per token, or $1500/month for small teams, or an enterprise agreement (contact for pricing).
Seems high.
They probably have more "AI" (read: LLM) experience than working professionals. Not like chatGPT came out last week, they've had it their entire undergrad.
Also, that's like saying "they don't have enough experience using google" which is just absurd. You type shit into a text box and see what gets shat back out. If it doesn't work, you adapt it.
Prompt engineering is not hard. At best, it takes days-to-weeks learning how to prompt. I think people who are proud of themselves for spending hours carefully crafting prompts are trying to justify the time spent. It isn't hard.
Given your presentation here, I'd like to know where you work so I don't accidently end up working for you, or with you. The elitism is at an 11. We're not special, we just have a skillset that isn't exclusively webdev. BFD.
It was almost a rite of passage to “let the smoke out” in that org. That job was actually great because as a software engineer I happily spent a lot of time with a fluke, a wrench, arm buried in the bowels of a vehicle fishing out sockets, etc. Writing the software was not the hardest part of those programs, but being one of the handful of folks that knew the entire electrical, cooling, mechanical, and software systems made us the most valuable folks on the program. We had to know all those things in order to write the software correctly.
I don’t think over the last 5-8 years there has been a shortage of code-slingers, as evidenced by all the tech layoffs. Using LLMs to generate more code does not equal productivity. There’s that famous story about the -2000 LOC commit, etc.
"Hacker culture never took root in the AI gold rush because the LLM 'coders' saw themselves not as hackers and explorers, but as temporarily understaffed middle-managers"
I encourage you to find a vehicle made in said city with zero parts sourced from China.
That is the point.
Isn't that the whole point, to ask it specific tidbits of information? Are we to ask it large, generic pontifications and claim success when we get large, generic pontifications back?
The narrative around these things changes weekly.
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Could have stopped there.
Nothing, absolutely nothing I learned at university was because of the university. What I did learn was that the whole thing was a crock of shit when I had to buy the same book 3 times for calc 1/2/3 because each semester the author, who also taught the class and used the same book for all 3 topics, put out a new version with different problem sets each semester. Gulick or gulic was her name. Her husband also taught there. I think they were in cahoots.
I guess I did learn something: it was a crock of shit.
What does making a living have to do with capitalism? What a strange thing to say.
Isn’t that the whole goddamn rub? You don’t _know_ if they’re accurate.