doug_durham
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- doug_durhamI presume many are. It's a different medium, but it's still creative. We got the "Mythbusters" show out of some of the model builders who didn't want to move to CGI.
- Is this any different than the adoption of any technology. I think of the transition from practical effects to CGI in Hollywood. Anxiety levels of the creative model builders was sky high at the time. It worked itself out and now there are different jobs.
- That's not what the data shows. Read the posting, and read Anthropic's original report. I found it a very sober, grounded report on the reality of using today's tools.
- Use the tools that work for you. If your customers are happy and you are hitting your deadlines then there is no problem. No one is insisting that you do otherwise.
- Hmm... I own my computer and the software it runs. I license access to features that I want.
- He is an exceptional engineer. In 1986 I developed an instant messaging system that worked across the internet on X Windows. It was very popular at HP where I worked. It ran on X Windows and had many of the features of modern messaging systems like WhatsApp. I didn’t think twice about it. A few years later I saw how these apps took the world by storm once the internet became popular. I think I had caught lightning in a bottle but didn’t appreciate it. It’s kind of the opposite of Sasson. However in both cases we were lousy evangelists. Also I’m not an exceptional engineer.
- Kind of like humans.
- Do you develop software? Software unlike any physical engineering field. The complexity of any project beyond the most trivial is beyond human ability to work with. You have to switch from analytic tools to more probabilistic tools. That where "feels", "smells", or "looks" come in. Software testing is not a solved problem, unlike bridge testing.
- Crafting code can be self-indulgent since most common patterns have been implemented multiple times in multiple languages. A lot of time the craft oriented developer will reject an existing implementation because it doesn't match their sensibilities. There is absolutely a role for craft, however the amount of craft truly needed in modern development is not as large as people would like. There are lots of well crafted libraries and frameworks that can be adopted if you are willing to accommodate their world view.
- I take a less libertarian view on this. It because trucks and truck-like vehicles are under-regulated. The result being excess pollution and pedestrian fatalities. We need to remove the loop hole.
- I don't think that you will ever be able to generate Disney characters with the Sora app. Sora is both a model and an app. Instead I think that there will be a heavily guardrailed specialized app where you can do some highly restricted things for the opportunity for the content to show up on Disney+. Think of it as "Disney art! Powered by Sora".
- Writing code is my passion, and like you I'm amazed I get paid to do it. That said in any new project there is a large swath of code that needs to be written that I've written many times before. I'm happy to let the LLM write the low value code so I can work on the interesting parts. Examples of this type of code are argument parsers and interfacing with REST interfaces. I add no value there.
- They are also heavily subsidized by the US government in the form of relaxed regulations. The profit margins are higher which is why car companies push them. In their current ICE form they also benefit from massive government subsidies of the Oil companies. If you took those away it is unlikely that the convenience would be worth the additional cost.
- My EV is the best most fun car I've ever owned. I had a V8 Mercedes E430 and my EV is faster and more fun to drive. You have it backwards. Having and ICE car is accepting a worse time in exchange for government subsidies on Oil.
- I actually think that they have a good handle on the motivation for programming languages design. Think about C. C has many features that serve programmer ergonomics. The use of "=" for assignment and the use of "++" for incrementing there to serve the developer by reducing keystrokes. Yes there are some languages that are developed to be more formal, but that isn't the mainstream.
- Proofs of what? "This new feature should make the 18 to 21 year old demographic happy by aligning with popular cultural norms". This would be difficult to formalize as a proof.
- I don't think the author would disagree with you. Ad you point out coding is just one part of software development. I understand his point to be that the coding portion of the job is going to be very different going forward. A skilled developer is still going to need to understand frameworks and tradeoffs so that they can turn requirements into a potential solution. It just they might not be coding up the implementation.
- Then the market has spoken. Fast food fills a niche. I don't think you can qualitatively say that humanity would be happier if everyone paid more for food that was painstakingly created by hand. I know I can't. If poor marketing research is sufficient then the market has spoken.
- That seems problematic. It sounds like this is a long time horizon issue. An experienced researcher should be able to surface to management their concerns about the quality of research. Why is the research wrong?
- Isn't it "The only winning move is to do good work"? If non-AI aided work is superior then it should win out in the long run because companies that do that type of research will be able to make superior decisions and thus be rewarded in the market. The argument isn't really AI versus non-AI, it's quality work versus shoddy work. It is right to lose patience with people who submit shoddy work whatever the source.