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I wrote this blog post on a similar idea likening LLM's to glue guns. Versatile sure but better for keeping the rest of the pieces together then building the entire thing out of it. https://medium.com/p/d3ef3960dc83

Great tool but it really says something about the protocol that this exists at all.

Nice attitude. Thank you for proving my point. If someone works in a toxic environment it must be their fault for "choosing it".

Sure have. Finance, research labs, government contracting. Can't wait for people to chime in with their horror stories. I've seen some of the most dysfunctional crap you can imagine.

I don't know what world you're living in but software development has always been a cut throat business. I've never seen true mentoring. Maybe a code review where some a-hole of a "senior" developer would come in having just read "clean code" and use some stupid stylistic preferences as a cudgel and go to town on the juniors. I'm cynical enough to believe that this, "AI is going to take your programming job!" is just a ploy to thin out the applicant pool.

That will never happen. We've got employers making employees sign ridiculous Non-compete, non-disclosure, non-disparagement, agreements. Do you really think this will ever happen? We've collectively decided that corporations are people and people have freedom of speech. We've spent years doing the H1B dance. (I'm not anti-immigration. I'd love to simply give them citizenship. I've met some amazing people on H1Bs. The system is exploitive to US workers AND the H1B recipients). Face it, as someone who is actually doing the work of IT, you lost a long time ago.

Sounds like something an LLM would say. It just needs an emoji

Ha! When was the last time anyone took the blame for crappy code? This is an industry with zero accountability for quality. Fail fast right? At least when I tell an LLM it's wrong it says, "You're absolutely right" and gets to fixing it rather than an hour lecture about why they're totally correct and justified because of their version of "best practices".

NASCAR for nerds :)

I think it's more a very lame flex. Macbooks were expensive and if you were walking around the office with a Macbook it was because you were important enough to convince management to buy you one instead of some crappy Dell. Eventually enough people get Macbooks that you need another way to stand out so you slap a bunch of cheap stickers all over it to show everyone, "See, you coddle your trophies. I beat mine up because it's just a tool and I don't care. I'm too busy gettin' it done!"

I just recently found a number of bugs in both the RELIC and MCL libraries. It took a while to track them down but it was remarkable that it was able to find them at all.

The point was it's not obvious.

And how do you pronounce it? EX-ork, Zork, Ex or Que?

Some of the most valuable companies in the world right now are remnants of the dot com crash, Facebook (Meta), Google, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. By this logic the "AI companies" will go bust and coalesce into a few winners who will go on to become the worlds first multi trillion dollar companies and dominate the economic landscape for the next couple of decades.

I don't know why I don't see anyone ever mention JeKa. https://jeka.dev/

You don't have to learn a separate language or some weird config.

Why are we talking about “jobs” like it’s some singular thing? Is the best we can do to explain what we think might happen to line up every person who has something that can be described as a job, left to right by experience, and then decide which part is going to be mowed down by AI?

It’s just going to be way more complex than that. Some people are going to have more work than they know what to do with. Some jobs are going away, some people will see zero change. It’s going to depend on what you do, what industry you’re in, where you live, your experience. We can see some vague outlines of what is coming but the only thing we can be certain of, at this point, is there will be a lot of change.

Historically nothing has changed just who’s on top. Mosaic, Netscape, IE, Chrome…

This is a gross simplification of the law. There isn't some "gotcha" like some schoolyard disagreement. "I gotcha! You said it! Derik heard it you gotta do it now! Do it Do it! Do it!"

Yes, you can enforce a verbal contract. You'll need to show what exactly you agreed to which is going to be vague due to the nature of a verbal contract. You'll need to show an offer and acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, legal capacity, and certainty. So no, you can't offer to buy your buddy's car for $1 when you're at the bar grabbing a beer and have them say, "haha, deal" and expect to get their car.

Enforceable but not necessarily enforced.

There's no such thing as presumptive partial ownership. Lando had a presumptive partial ownership and if you do you should expect the Vader treatment, "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further".

I've learned not to expect anything from being an early employee. It's right in the name, you're an employee. Expecting some sort of consideration for being early is naive. Every time you receive a paycheck you and your employer are even and you shouldn't expect anything more.

America needs to rethink what it means to be ______. Fill in the blank. It's a long list. I'm actually surprised it's taken us so long to get here. We have experienced a societal transformation as large and arguably larger than the Industrial Revolution and by comparison it's been fairly peaceful so far but the strains are finally starting to show. There seems to be a fairly pervasive feeling that the way things are is not working anymore.

I was going to poke holes in how this person is simply substituting being career-obsessed with being engineering obsessed but this is like the engineer who looses touch with engineering theory being an approximation of the real world. Life just doesn't work this way. Where's the serendipity? Where's the real crap that happens in life? I don't see any mention of getting married, having children, the cancer diagnosis and years of chemo and fighting for life while still going to work so you can keep your healthcare, the divorce and custody battle with someone you spent half of your life with. Or the good stuff that just happens because you're in the right place at the right time that you never could have planned for. I think better advice would be finding a way to deal with how life throws you curve balls and you need to find a way to keep going. With advice like this you not only have to deal with a curve ball but also come to terms with how you've structured your life isn't going to work.

...and the crypto it's based on. ...and it's implementation.

I can't wait for the biggest bank heist in history due to an exploit in a crypto algorithm.

And a plagiarism machine. It's like a high school student that thinks they can change a couple of words, make sure it's grammatically correct and it's not plagiarism because it's not an exact quote....either that or it just completely makes it up. I think LLMs will be revolutionary but just not in the way people think. It may be similar to the Gutenberg press. Before the printing press words were precious and closely held resources. The Gutenberg press made words cheap and abundant. Not everyone thought it was a good thing at the time but it changed everything.

Something like https://killcord.io

How many browser tabs do you have open right now?

Money laundering is probably what makes a banana taped to a wall successful.

I think a big difference is that people do things in predictably stupid ways and an LLM? Who knows. That could be because I've worked with stupid people my entire life and I know the boundaries of their chaos.

> Understand everything in every article, do not accept not understanding everything.

I’d be careful with that. It’s a great way to get lost down the rabbit hole and works against being focused. Eventually you have to get to a point where you say to yourself that it’s someone else’s problem beyond here and double back.