Not at all, I just like to pay special attention to how the normies view AI. I have nothing to add to the debate over whether it's good, but I will adjust myself to its impact.
Perhaps journalists are just trying to make fetch^^^^^Claude happen, but I've noticed it popping up a bit more (The Atlantic): https://archive.is/6YvPh
There are reddits, discords, and even companies that assist vets in working the system. many of whom never got close to deployment and were never combat arms. If you're persistent you'll get paid. As a combat vet it makes me sick.
Outside of SV the thought of More Tech being the answer to ever greater things is met with great skepticism these days. It's not that people hate engineers, and most people are content to hold their nose while the mag7 make 401k go up, but people are sick of Big Tech. Like it or not, the Musks, Karps, Thiels, Bezos's have a lot to do with that.
For those building applications with Langfuse and Clickhouse - do you like these products? I get the odd request to do an AI thing, and my previous experience with LLM wrappers convinced me to stay away from them (Langchain, Llamaindex, Autogen, others). In some cases they were poorly written, and in other ways the march of progress rendered their tooling irrelevant fairly quickly. Are these better?
It's quite likely that the answer to the worlds problems isn't more apps/products. AI may have arrived at a moment to bring the cost down of creating software there isn't much demand for in the first place.
Literally all much of the business world needed was a slightly more capable VB but now we have a bunch of crappy, web browser based SaaS platforms instead.
Same. I randomly had time off and someone in IRC noticed. I traveled from the US to Germany to hang out with them. Their brother was involved in BMW racing, and we hung out at Stuttgart for a few weekends in a trailer. Some of the best weeks of my life.
Good point - I think there would need to be a UCMJ equivalent for armed, federal LEO, in which case the accused would be judged by peers across agencies.
It's all part of an unfortunate cultural shift. Perhaps it was a combination of video games, internet/influencer culture, and the fascination with SOF units popularized more heavily during GWOT. There has always been an element of boys wanting to be cool in the military, which is fine if kept in check, but people aren't selected for SOF units based on their ability to wear gear or work out really hard. They're looking for people with reduced stress response and can make clear headed decisions (cosplay doesn't give you these things).
If federal agents want exceptional power while running around in military gear, using military tactics, put them under the UCMJ and fry them for conduct unbecoming when they mess up.
There is something very irritating seeing someone dismiss someone else on the internet using condescending therapy speak 'Thats Ok', nevermind the fact that calling him out as some ignorant Chinese guy while China has hundreds of cultures and languages, as if a Chinese person couldn't comprehend... Europe.
I don't really view this as the show runners fault. GRRM was unable to complete his own work. The show worked best when it drew from the authors own material (GRRM was a screenwriter himself and knew how to write great dialog/scenes).
Well thank th FSM that the article opens right up with buy now! No thanks, I'm kind of burnt out on mindless consumerism, I'll go pot some plants or something.
Well, I'd be interested to hear what some of those nuances are, personally. I primarily work in highly regulated industries and air gapped environments. I probably bother to do things that are considered a bother by most, like stick with k8s for most deployment scenarios. I play with CF on my home network and I just don't get it outside of ddos protection and fast delivery. It seems like a nightmare to maintain in the long run. What am I missing?
There is vast difference between writing glue code and engineering systems. Who will come up with the next Spring Boot, Go, Rust, io_uring, or whatever, once the profession has completely reduced itself to pleasing short outcomes?
It's more work and more restrictive I suppose. Any business is free to set up jfrog Artifactory and only allow the installation of approved dependencies. And anyone can pull Ironbank images I believe.
Well, perhaps this is naive of me from the perspective of not fully understanding the training process. However, at some point, with all available training data having been exhausted, gains with synthetic data exhausted, and a large pool of publicly available AI generated code, at what point is it 'smart' to scrape codebases from what you identify as high quality code based, clean it up to remove identifiers, and use that for training a smaller model?