madrox

> If I'm asking humans, I want to see human responses I find this fascinating, honestly. It shouldn't matter as long as it addresses your ask, yet it does. I also wish I could filter soci…

I find that I don't have a lot of sympathy for people angry at this type of behavior, even though I share the disdain for someone else's AI output. The people doing this kind of thing are no…

Not the author, but did a LOT of research on this during my time at Disney while working on Disney+ prior to its launch. This is, effectively, no different than a carousel of algorithm-recommended con…

This assumes everything about current capabilities stay static, and it wasn't long ago before LLMs couldn't do math. Many were predicting the genAI hype had peaked this time last year. If yo…

If you give an agent a task, the typical agentic pattern is that it calls tools in some non-deterministic loop, feeding the tool output back into the LLM, until it deems the task complete. The LLM int…

I encourage everyone to RTFA and not just respond to the headline. This really is a glimpse into where the future is going. I've been saying "the last job to be automated will be QA" an…

Every job in engineering is changing right now. Managers aren't immune. I've been an EM for almost 20 years in some flavor or another, and I've been thinking a lot about how I want to a…

I've been thinking about this as well, and I'm glad the author is talking about it. However, I don't think he took it far enough. It is correct to say there's near-infinite demand …

If you read the statement, they explicitly state these guardrails don't exist today, and they want to develop them. Though I have a feeling we're talking about different things. In Claude Co…

I have found that to be utterly untrue

I got my first tech job in 2001. I've been doing this a while and ridden all the waves. There are two kinds of waves. The ones that don't require collective belief in them to succeed, and th…

I think it is a reasonable moral stance to acknowledge such things are possible, yet not wanting to be a part of it. Regarding making it technically impossible to do...I think that is what Anthropic m…

I have noticed, if I hit my session quota before it resets, that Claude gets "sleepy" for a day or so afterward. It's demonstrably worse at tasks...especially complex ones. My cofounder…

If only we could look into the future to see who is right and which future is better so we could stop wasting our time on pointless doomerism debate. Though I guess that would come with its own proble…

As a guy in his mid-forties, I sympathize with that sentiment. I do think you're missing how this will likely go down in practice, though. Those giant codebases with years of domain rules are all…

It's doesn't work...yet. I agree my stomach churns a little at this sentence. However, paying customers care about reliability and performance. Code review helps that today, but it's on…

You're describing genetic algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm …

You're describing the GM (general manager) model, sometimes called the single threaded leader. This does work well in large scale organizations...especially ones where teams are built around proj…

That's usually a consequence of bad incentives. Either leadership is selecting for that kind of behavior in managers or they don't know how to properly unselect for it. If a bunch of crap co…

I worry a lot about fads in engineering management. Any time you proscribe process over outcomes you create performative behavior and bad incentives in any discipline. In my observation, this tends to…

what did they want to do with pull down instead?

Design moves at the speed of culture; not technology. It took 3 years of people messing with mobile phones before it occurred to someone to implement "pull down to refresh" and much longer f…

The whole thrust of anti-vibe UI sentiments remind me of when Twitter Bootstrap came out. The unlocks were huge because suddenly people who didn't know how to make nice looking UI didn't hav…

Is it really those things, or is it that as we get older we have something to lose? I could go live like I'm 20 again...reduce my spending to nothing, work all day on whatever I believe in...but …

I don't see how what you're saying is at odds with the author. At no point did they say Vonnegut was a failure before Slaughthouse Five. Only that he, like many others, didn't produce t…

I think the people who need to hear this message are not in their late 40s, but are in their 20s thinking that they have to do it now or they never will. I see a lot of ageism on X from people who are…

I don't assume that at all. Investors absolutely know, but investment is predicated on returns. You can't do that if you can't give a timeline for when value will be generated unless yo…

In any field where there is a creative element, progress comes in fits and starts that are difficult to predict in advance. No one can accurately predict when we'll get the cure for cancer, for e…