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okdood64··on Perplexity launches AI agents for work
The CEO just needs to do more CNBC appearances and they're good.
okdood64··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
Why does years of work matter? Serious question.
okdood64··on Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
Aren't they all like that?
okdood64··on AI is destroying my CS degree
> A CS degree was never going to provide you with all of the tools that you need for a successful career. It provided you with the basics to get your foot in the door.

+1

Aside from teaching me the _basics_ of programming and discrete mathematics, it did not help my career. I, in-fact (due to poor GPA), did not even have a SWE role out of school and had to find my own way here into a successful career. (I struggled even with LeetCode easys coming out of college) I attribute it to creating opportunities for luck (networking) and an appetite for life-long learning (which came well after college).

okdood64··on OccupySaaS
Exactly. Also it's incredible how many working professionals (as evidenced by this "movement") don't understand why companies pay for software to these SaaS companies.

Ironically attaching your company to a movement like this will deter people from using it.

okdood64··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Let's be realistic. Most of the videos on hackertube.org wouldn't exist if it weren't for the enormous sums of money YouTube pays their creators because of...ads.

I would also be more impressed with it if they created their own video processing and serving stack.

okdood64··on Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
> when I say things like OpenAI and Anthropic are gonna crater

But how do you know that? (And no I'm not shocked by this statement, it's just odd to say it with conviction.)

okdood64··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
Fair.
okdood64··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
Exactly, thank you. I'm much more interested in how systems interact gracefully, addressing failure modes and building for resiliency/scale.

Do you need good quality code to do that? Sure, but that's just another line-item on the laundry list of things to make it happen.

okdood64··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
I know Google SREs who do feature development on the infrastructure support they support alongside their devs.
okdood64··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
There's nothing unique about junior SREs. They're replaceable with almost any "vanilla Dev". You don't really build a unique experience or expertise until Senior+.
okdood64··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
> make concerted efforts to do programming (like a coding hour every week), do a Leet code question

I'll probably get downvoted for this but: At 15 YoE, hell no.

Day-to-day coding lost it's allure to me about 3-4 years ago; it's just a means to an end. I think AI came at the right time for me.

okdood64··on AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them
> Some immediate targets include multi-signal correlation across metrics, logs, and traces, autonomous root-cause analysis for partially understood failures

AI is already pretty good at this in "SRE" workflows.

> AI-driven change risk assessment

And half decent at this.

okdood64··on Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
If you're talking about track record, Argon had the same sort of announcement and was released.
okdood64··on Gemini 4 Carbon
What's vaporware? They announced Argon and it was publicly launched a month later. Same with the previous models.
okdood64··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
I'm confused. So you just completely pirate all your games?
okdood64··on Tesla Roadster
The audience wasn't that close.
okdood64··on Tesla Roadster
Nah, this ain't it chief. I own exactly 0 directly. Too volatile and don't really care for Teslas at all. I love my gas cars.
okdood64··on Tesla Roadster
I like the fun retro look, similar to the N Vision 74 [1]. This actually has some taste unlike the Cybertruck.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_N_Vision_74

okdood64··on Tesla Roadster
Okay that's one of the coolest things I've seen in a while since the rockets landing.

Car looks half decent too.

okdood64··on What Meta got right with Muse
Ask your mom/dad or non-technical GenZ college going son/daughter to use your `local LLM with voice interaction and fine-tuning` setup long-term.

People don't care about privacy. They want something that just works.

okdood64··on We're working on a new RuneScape MMO
> but there is a very rich and expansive endgame to reward the players that have made the grind to those high levels

Can you elaborate on this?

okdood64··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
> his takes on the Ukraine war

What's specifically?

okdood64··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
> Granted, PCI is so weak it is almost useless, and yet still better than anything congress could have come up with.

Elaborate, please?

okdood64··on NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade
I'm all for regulation of AI, but it's not practical.

I fear we're going to regulate ourselves to death (hyperbole) with regards to AI in the Western world, while China is just going to go brrr.

okdood64··on ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
I've been using Gemini for the last 15 minutes. It's been fine for me.
okdood64··on ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
Please, this is not Reddit. Don't bring this here. And to top it off, this isn't even funny or original.
okdood64··on METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident
You actualy think METR is complicit in this marketing stunt? If OpenAI was withholding data, do you think they would not call it out?
okdood64··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
You mean by Judge Leonie M. Brinkema who was appointed by Clinton and has ruled against Trump policies/agenda regularly?
okdood64··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Respectfully: If it's able to deploy without you asking it to, that's a you problem. There are no safeguards?
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