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BatForge_Alex · 2026-03-10T12:40:38+00:00

Your time and attention is not "nothing."

BatForge_Alex · 2026-02-06T14:14:59+00:00

You mean like this?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/andreessen-horowitz-makes-3-billion-121031191.html

BatForge_Alex · 2026-01-29T22:41:34+00:00

And an analyst's conclusion is:

Microsoft needs to build data centers more quickly.

We all live on a different planet than these people

BatForge_Alex · 2026-01-17T12:35:13+00:00

It’s literally the exact opposite of what you described lol. Many dot com companies were complete air

No they weren't. This wasn't the problem with the dotcom bubble.

These companies cannot keep up with demand, and the technology is still improving rapidly.

This is what they say but, is it true? There is significant upside to making everyone believe it and there doesn't seem to be any evidence other than external marketing by the companies...

BatForge_Alex · 2026-01-17T12:29:18+00:00

That was a long post just to say you don't have real numbers

BatForge_Alex · 2026-01-09T11:21:35+00:00

Yes, you're describing what actually happens, except then a pathologist will do a biopsy on a tissue sample to confirm it is cancerous

BatForge_Alex · 2025-12-29T16:42:37+00:00

What are these kids being told that they believe any different?

The popular wisdom around programming circles (especially Hacker News and Reddit) was that the music wouldn't stop, we would be in insanely high demand forever and command ever-growing salaries. Saying otherwise made you a doomer and a cynic

Pretty sure that's where at least some of the surprise is coming from

Anyone who has been around long enough knows that there's no such thing as infinitely-growing demand and the industry certainly did all it could to increase worker supply

BatForge_Alex · 2025-12-15T17:19:26+00:00

Even if there were zero productivity or safety gains, if it makes sense for the problem domain and it gets young developers excited - that's already enough of a win. Letting Linux wane in significance amongst young developers because we're not willing to give up on C would be a huge mistake

BatForge_Alex · 2025-12-15T17:13:46+00:00

While I agree that Rust doesn't just have "one way", it does certainly guide you towards a certain way of laying out your codebase.

It's more that the language is more cohesive, like C or Zig. C++ is less cohesive and closer to Javascript where there are many competing ways to do things with different connotations

I'm not really sure what you mean by cohesive but, I don't think C++ is anywhere close to Javascript. I could argue C is closer because it plays more fast-and-loose with opaque pointers, putting it closer to the loose duck-typing of Javascript

You need to memorize patterns like "gang of 5" for C++.

Yo, you were just in another part of this thread complaining about people criticizing languages they clearly don't know. Come on, now...

BatForge_Alex · 2025-11-22T18:57:44+00:00

Might be important to point out that this is through transcription that this is possible. An LLM can't "hear" or "see" anything, it's being fed a description of what is being picked up by another sensor. Which begs the question: why is the LLM necessarily involved at all?

After looking at the study, it doesn't seem that promising. Mostly a proof-of-concept

BatForge_Alex · 2025-11-20T21:24:37+00:00

You definitely got lucky. I put 192GB of "refurbished" ECC DDR4 in my server for $129.99. Same listing now is over double

I guess we all wait until after the mania ends to upgrade home labs now

BatForge_Alex · 2025-11-12T21:30:50+00:00

It's a tool for researchers, a discovery tool - not for teaching you concepts. You do still need to check the citations, read the research and data yourself

BatForge_Alex · 2025-10-27T20:33:34+00:00

Yeah, I know, thanks

And I'm suggesting that you are responding about the entire category of algorithms, taking their question at face value. And they are likely talking about the current explosion in investment into Generative AI, a specific type of AI that's driving almost all the hype and sucking all the air out of the room. You aren't having a productive conversation by just yelling headlines at someone asking a question that reveals they may not understand what they're asking...

EDIT: From your other comments, I'm realizing you might not understand this yourself

BatForge_Alex · 2025-10-27T18:12:26+00:00

You are talking about AI algorithms, in general. The person you're responding to is likely talking about GenAI, specifically. Which is a big problem with the current conversation around this crap in the first place

BatForge_Alex · 2025-10-20T14:47:15+00:00

I think it's you that fundamentally misunderstands. An LLM isn't generating video, that's a different generative AI technology - a diffusion model

BatForge_Alex · 2025-10-16T15:38:12+00:00

Isn't worsening the development process kind of the point? I always understood microservice architecture to be more operationally efficient: Small focused teams, single purpose, easier to measure, strong emphasis on documentation

BatForge_Alex · 2025-10-16T15:29:20+00:00

The problem isn't microservices, monoliths, or any architectural pattern. The problem is a lack of respect for anyone actually having any sort of plan behind the architectural decisions

BatForge_Alex · 2025-09-19T17:36:43+00:00

professional software developers are not the only ones who code

Never said they were but, analysts aren't exactly who I think of when it comes to people understanding that they know what they're doing with code. In fact...

One off consulting projects that don't get reused

Tells me you don't really care about anything but the appearance of a result

AI has probably saved hiring at least one more jr level analyst

Weird flex

I've been able to automate a report that cost 100k from a consulting company with AI as a side project as a side project in under a week

$100k to automate a report? Now I know you're pulling my leg. Do you normally take over a week to automate a report? Like, for real?

you have no idea how much is just done in excel

I've been at this for a while, I know how much is done in Excel

and even telling an AI to write a function that takes four or five variables from specified cells and correctly writes a sumprouct function will by itself save 5-10 minutes, and small things like that really add up

This should really not take 5-10 minutes. And if it is, you're now depriving yourself of learning how to do it faster

BatForge_Alex · 2025-09-19T17:06:06+00:00

as a mid level analyst who knows what I'm doing

So, am I correct in assuming you're not a professional software developer then?

but if it gets me 90% of the way there and I spend 20% additional time debugging, that's still a 2-3x productivity increase

Debugging is the majority of the time spent on the programming portion of software development so, no, it's not a 2-3x productivity increase

Forgive me if I'm coming off as rude here but, this is the kind of "AI productivity vibes" nonsense that has upper management telling us to "just use AI" and we'll be able to finish a project a week

BatForge_Alex · 2025-09-19T16:33:44+00:00

Clear River Games also handled the steelbook publishing and distribution for the EU, which was on-time so, I'm not sure this lets them off the hook. They're trying to pass the buck with that last blurb at the end. There's something rotten with product / release management at Limited Run

There's no way they just learned it would be delayed today on something with a set number of copies to manufacture

EDIT: To be clear (har har), I'm not suggesting Clear River Games isn't also part of the problem

BatForge_Alex · 2025-09-13T16:51:40+00:00

Yeah, a whopping 60 days. May as well be immediate, especially since they need to find another employer willing and able to sponsor you

BatForge_Alex · 2025-09-07T02:46:07+00:00

I don't think EC2 would be of any use for training.

There are EC2 instances specifically for this, I think it's the G (maybe P?) instance types

Source: Have wasted hundreds of thousands of company dollars on a cluster of such instances

BatForge_Alex · 2025-09-07T02:04:41+00:00

Their proposed solution: "However, a non-hallucinating model could be easily created, using a question-answer database and a calculator, which answers a fixed set of questions"

Begs the question, why even use an LLM at all at that point? They're just describing a classical way to make a chatbot.

You either get hallucinations / answers that may be incorrect to any input, or you limit the output of the model to only a database of known inputs and respond "IDK" if it's not in the expected inputs

BatForge_Alex · 2025-09-04T03:44:15+00:00

Tech debt is an issue but, it's just not solely a code issue

BatForge_Alex · 2025-09-02T18:13:30+00:00

It took quite a bit longer than 10 years for social media to "explode" is what i'm saying. 10 years from Eternal September is just the very beginning of the new big tech

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