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streetcat1··on AI is not a normal technology
AI can do anything that it was trained on based on humans. As soon as humans are not involved, AI will have nothing to train on, and hence, the rate of improvement will approch zero, and the AI will collapse.
streetcat1··on Ask HN: Are SaaS businesses going to zero?
Wait until token based pricing. And then the open AI / antropic IPO (This will be the top).
streetcat1··on 5 months ago I'd never coded anything. I now have full-stack analytics platform
Do you mind open sourcing the code, I want to take a look.
streetcat1··on Software Devaluation Starts
AKA intellectual skills atrophy.
streetcat1··on Nvidia Invests $2B More in CoreWeave, Offers New Chip
The strong domino supports the weak domino.
streetcat1··on The next two years of software engineering
For some reason miss two important points:

1) The AI code maintainence question - who would maintain the AI generated code 2) The true cost of AI. Once the VC/PE money runs out and companies charge the full cost, what would happen to vibe coding at that point ?

streetcat1··on Agents Are Now Table Stakes
How do you know that he works at Meta?
streetcat1··on Why Companies Are No Longer Hanging on to Employees
Nowhere they are stuck in the prisoner's dilemma.
streetcat1··on Why Companies Are No Longer Hanging on to Employees
Its not the AI that causing it, but the AI race. Companies need to pay for the large capex.
streetcat1··on Meta spent $75B in 3 months on AI infrastructure (CoreWeave, Oracle, Blue Owl)
They all spend with one purpose - replacing expensive humans, saying other wise does not make sense.

Any other app does not have moat - anyone can do the same app if it basically wrap the LLM.

If anything, LLM just destroy thier current moat, I.e. if everything is getting behind a chat interface, no one would would see ads.

streetcat1··on H-1B Visa LIVE: Full implications of H-1B visa fee hike are being studied
Closed the labor arbitrage.
streetcat1··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
You are not taking into account section 174, It takes you 15 years to depreciate foreign salary vs first year (post the BBB).
streetcat1··on My thoughts on renting versus buying
You forgot the tax advantage and the protection against inflation (if you have to fix rate mortatge).
streetcat1··on So How Many Developers Can I Fire?
The main benefit of YC startups is not that they have 10x engineers but rather that they are starting from scratch; hence, the AI works well in a greenfield project. Enterprise customers are a totally different ball game. Ninety percent is legacy critical code, and some decisions are not made to optimize the dev time.

Also, for Y Combinator startup, let say that the AI introduces a bug. Since there are no customers, no one cares. Now imagine the same AI introduces a bug in the flight reservation system that was written 20 years ago.

streetcat1··on I'm a computer science professor at UC Berkeley. Tech jobs are drying up
Dont worry.
streetcat1··on Do AI companies work?
The competition for big LLM AI companies is not other big LLM AI companies, but rather small LLM AI companies with good enough models. This is a classic innovator dilemma. For example, I can imagine a team of cardiologists creating a fine tune LLM model.
streetcat1··on Ask HN: As a manager, how to increase the sense of urgency of the team?
Give them non boring work.
streetcat1··on Ask HN: Why is everyone leaving OpenAI?
Probably due to money ? I think they are changing their corporate structure and hence some people might not get the equity they were hoping for.
streetcat1··on I Buy NVDA Puts
The question is what priced in, not what is publicly known. Buy put if you think that the market does not know the above reasoning.
streetcat1··on I started my first algo trading course. And gave up after 15 mins
Ofcourse they don't work. If they did work why would anybody tell you about them?. The fact that they use thier time to tell you about them rather than trading and making money means that they do not work.
streetcat1··on How do AI software engineering agents work?
The article fails to describe the core agent algorithm. I.e. how does the agent decide what to code ? If the agent did coded something, how does the agent decide that the code is correct ? (Ecepsically if the core model is based on auto complete and lacks any logic).

Like if the agent decides to search for a file X on task Y why file X and not file Z ?

streetcat1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Sounds like you will be a good fit.
streetcat1··on Building AI assistants that can write code in production
So what will happen if the AI has a bug? Who is liable, you?
streetcat1··on Ask HN: Is the num of posts in the "Who's Hiring" post indicative of anything?
You are correct.
streetcat1··on Amazon is cutting jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS
So don't be fooled. The cloud computing business model is a lot like a gym. I.e. they already have the capacity in place, so they need warm bodies. A lot of those cloud ramp up, is in the form of rebates or giving money to customers to move between clouds.
streetcat1··on Looking for fast GPT-4 level LLM usable via API. (not via OpenAI)
Use streaming ?
streetcat1··on Ask HN: Selling proprietary trading project code base?
So can't you use Leverage? If the software is already working what kind of funds do you need to keep going?
streetcat1··on Ask HN: Selling proprietary trading project code base?
So why you don't change strategy after the first few days? I.e. why don't you stop the strategy as soon as it starts to lose?
streetcat1··on I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic
I am not sure, it depends on the cost. If they charge per token, a large context will mostly be irrelevant. For some reason, the article did not mention it.
streetcat1··on A Psychiatrist Tried to Quit Gambling. Betting Apps Kept Her Hooked
So a quick trick.

To get you hooked, they MUST let you win. This will usually happen in the first rounds of the gamble. At that point, you MUST leave the game.

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