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Jesus Christ. Let's replace humans with AI at this point.

Thanks for a drop of humanity in this place. I feel saner

Care to elaborate?

They're not hiring in EU remote? Barely managed to somehow open the links on my phone since I don't have my laptop around.

Sorry, but at that size (1.25 liters) for my European brain, it's not a mug anymore, it's a barrel.

The modern response to baroque text is "mucho texto" jpeg with a gangster Yoda

I really hate bash because of its unreadable syntax, and this does not help it in any way.

We have some large bash scripts in my company, ~10,000 LOC spread across multiple files, all sourcing each other and what not. It is truly hard to read bash, which means it is truly hard to maintain bash, which means that when the one person knowing the bash scripts in your company goes away, you're in for some "fun".

My point is, these quirks are not useful, except for some bash enthusiasts.

I don't think that not travelling is the solution. A lot of people cannot avoid flying.

This comment really has no purpose other than being petulent.

What does this have to do with the original comment?

My anegdotal experience in EU is that ghosting AFTER the company responds to your application is very, very rare.

I would always get the usual "Unfortunately, we have decided..." charades. At least no ghosting.

I can think of only one situation, and it was kinda peculiar in its own right (they called me 8 months after my application because they were in a jam and I said I won't be able to start in such a short notice they wanted, and they warned me in advance they would ghost me because the HR was I presume in a crunch).

As for the ghostings BEFORE they even respond to the job application, I'd say that it is around 40% of job applications that I never get a response after "We have received your job application yada yada yada".

Again, this is just my anegdotal experience. Maybe my experience in EU job market is a rarity.

"I made this company goddamnit, I made all of the iPhones because I had my VPs build factories in China that make iPhones." - imaginary Steve Jobs

Lol

This has got to be the craziest AI-shill sentence I have heard in a long time.

How can a generic LLM generate better assembly than a dedicated compiler, whose sole purpose is to generate assembly code. With people pedantically adding every optimization imaginable and unimaginable to produce the most efficient code possible. And you have the audacity to say LLMs, which write garbage non-trivial amount of time, are capable of producing better assembly.

This has got to be either a masterful ragebait, or a person with very low knowledge of modern compilers, because even an LLM would not write something so stupid as this.

At first I was so interested into this guy, writing his own everything, thinking this has got to be something to aspire to, to be as good a programmer as this guy. Then I realised LLMs wrote this, and I was so very disappointed. It was naive and stupid of me to think otherwise, but here I am.

I wrote my own comment on hackernews. This is the prompt I used...

This comment is so weird. It is so vague to me and feels so off, like an alien from Men in Black trying to pass as a human.

How do they not truly care about helping? Also what sunk cost? What does that mean?

What does punished timeline mean?

Shouldn't free market reward companies that go the other way and where people don't "fail upwards"? It is kind of demoralising to think otherwise, but it seems it is true.

We see it everywhere. Bad companies making bad decisions keep surviving, and actually the vast majority of companies are like this.

One implication is that MBAs in suits that make bad decisions are actually right and their decisions are not bad. The other implication is that there is no free market, no meritocracy and the truth is, game was rigged from the start.

Edit: I should add that most of this is anegdotal evidence and a general feeling I have. It is not a very powerful argument I'm making.

I don't understand the analogy with the Mexican cavefish. They don't have eyes because they don't need them, and companies don't hire competent people because they don't need them? Is that the take?

How do you know that they are progressing? Where do you get this information?

Because North Korea is such a parody of a country that adding a golf course to it sounds completely surreal to me.

Playing golf in North Korea sounds crazy.

"...you’ll soon be able to have just those bespoke features/fixes/integrations built yourself?"

How soon is it? Tomorrow? Next week? 10 years?

People are so sure that LLMs will change everything >>soon<<.

What?

Does it have good content? I explored it a bit in the past, but was a bit underwhelmed with content I could find there.

Edit: in the past

As I read the blog post, I thought that it was released today. Maybe point out that it is almost a year old. It feels like it is manipulating HN users.

And this is coming from an AI sceptic.

That is oversimplifying it to the extreme.

Like the example with the doctors and how to find actually good ones, you can add this essay to the list of enterpreneurship tips you can compare and decide for yourself what is useful and what isn't.

This is overly optimistic to say the least.

Suspicious lack of pro-AI comments here