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Garry Newman seems like a really real guy.


Isn't that the point of agents?

Assume we have excellent test coverage -- the AI can write the code and ensure get the feedback for it being secure / fast / etc.

And the AI can help us write the damn tests!


No, it can’t. Partially stems from the garbage the models were trained on.

Example anecdata but since we started having our devs heavily use agents we’ve had a resurgence of mostly dead vulnerabilities such as RCEs (CVE in 2019 for example) as well as a plethora of injection issues.

When asked how these made it in devs are responding with “I asked the LLM and it said it was secure. I even typed MAKE IT SECURE!”

If you don’t sufficiently understand something enough then you don’t know enough to call bs. In cases like this it doesn’t matter how many times the agent iterates.


To add to this: I’ve never been gaslighted more convincingly than by an LLM, ever. The arguments they make look so convincing. They can even naturally address specific questions and counter-arguments, while being completely wrong. This is particularly bad with security and crypto, which generally isn’t verified through testing (which only proves the presence of function, not the absence).


Saw Rich Hickey say this, that it is a known fact that tested code never has bugs.

On a more serious note: how could anyone possibly ever write meaningful tests without a deep understanding of the code that is being written?


If you're hiring, I know an enthusiastic boot camp grad that loves ruby and can't stand react.

My company has a react team somewhere, but not ruby...


As long as we all agree that Facebook is one of the most meaningful and useful contributions to society, then yes, capitalism determines ideal value.


You missed it. He was saying that amortized costs are cheaper, but poor people can't pay the upfront costs.


This is a pretty apples and oranges comparison. Suppose it takes 30 people to maintain the ship. 70 people are working on it, mostly doing administrative work that makes them feel important. 10 people decided to fuck off and form a band, but honestly we kinda like them. 10 people developed space sickness and are useless. 5 people snuck on board accidently and got shot into space and nobody really liked them anyway. And the final 5 keep talking about their start-up, whatever the hell that means.

We'd jettison them, but we kinda want at least 70 people to run the ship and we have supplies for 100 people that honestly just burn sometimes.


Your additions still fit my premise; that we should all be contributing to the “spaceship”.

As it relates to one of the other comments - the homeless people outside his apartment do not, in any way, contribute to the spaceship. They must be provided for constantly. That’s why people take issue with vagrancy, there’s no contribution back after they have taken.


So in the past some people took solutions to this problem to the extreme because they'd decided a certain set were "surplus to requirements". Obviously you're not advocating for that. Given that we are historically piss poor at correctly deciding who "is not contributing" and, actually, the "ship" still appears to be running (and if it isn't I strongly doubt it's because of the vagrancy of a few) is it really an issue whether a few don't actually do work/contribute?


My dad shut off the internet when he went to bed every night. At 7:00-8:00 PM. I presume so I would sleep? 'Videogames ruined your life' was what I heard constantly.

For a while, I had a timer click it back on and off. At some point I learned kali linux just enough to crack the neighbor's WiFi. There was also the time my BIOS was locked, but I found out there was a jumper circuit on the MB that reset it.

I'm now a very successful software engineer with a long history of devop experience. Shrug


Same, but outdoorsy stuff and I had to quarantine with a family member in Houston. I basically went from top 10% athlete level to feeling like a total couch potato. I just went back out this week and it's gonna take about a year to get back.


Relationships are really important outside the business setting too. Often much more important.

Something that a lot of people in the business setting don't seem to understand.

My work friends are just that... work friends. I have to hide large swaths of my personal life from them and they don't usually stick around outside work. Work relationships suck.


Sure. OTOH, you don’t have to be either an Aspie or a Business A-Player Career Superhero to give a pragmatic nod to the fact that work is where many people, perhaps most, spend their waking hours. It’s only natural and eminently human that for a lot of them, that’s where their friendships and relationships will form and play out.

In my opinion, it’s all the more so if they live in one of the many nondescript suburban places of which Middle America comprises. Having little to come home to or go out to, with our bankrupt concept of civic space and the public realm, it’s all the more likely many of us will unconsciously look to work as the locus of social possibility. It’s not because we want to, it’s just the shape of the situation.


Fuck you, I hate cities. Now I can live near the people that are actually my friends and don't have to drive 5 hours every weekend for my hobbies.


I'm sure a small minority of people are in the same boat as you.


Office jobs do weed out these types.


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