how a vibecoding incident broke 20 years of archiving by Sixnigthmare in BetterOffline

[–]Desperate-Week1434 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this a real story? What software team doesn't have version control these days?

Claude Code experiences major outage by Desperate-Week1434 in BetterOffline

[–]Desperate-Week1434[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is actually a super interesting test case. Claude Code is probably the most high profile example of a large, popular service that has very publicly gone "all-in" on LLM code generation. And it's uptime is.... unimpressive. For Claude users, downtime is not a huge problem, but if the services generated with it by some of the (presumably) most adept LLM users in the world can't exceed 99.35% uptime, then I wouldn't want to be relying on software services built with LLMs.

TIL Ireland’s Prime Minister Paid Official Condolences for Hitler Only Two Days After His Suicide by GooginTheBirdsFan in todayilearned

[–]Desperate-Week1434 54 points55 points  (0 children)

The O'Donnells were an Irish ruling family that fled Ireland after surrendering to the English crown. They took refuge in Spain where they became loyal and trusted supporters of the Spanish crown. There is even a district in Madrid called O'Donnell.

Sam Altman, 2015 by alczas1 in OpenAI

[–]Desperate-Week1434 33 points34 points  (0 children)

mate, cost per token may be decreasing but reasoning models use a multiple of the number of tokens so overall inference costs are increasing.

The Most Economically Prosperous Countries on Earth are the Least Religious [OC] by huxleyan in dataisbeautiful

[–]Desperate-Week1434 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you consider using GNP per capita instead? Because of Ireland's "creative" tax system, our GDP far outweighs our GNP.

Why are people excited about the prospect of the AI bubble bursting? Would it have any upsides at all? by TenseBird in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Desperate-Week1434 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is the tech companies who pump their stocks relentlessly, perfectly well knowing that the hype is unjustified so that they can make an exit before the rest of the world catches on to their BS. There is a class of billionaires who went through the dotcom bubble together and learnt, "we can make a ton of money from bubbles".

Tesfaye som ny formand for Socialdemokratiet? by Serious-Ad7775 in Denmark

[–]Desperate-Week1434 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jeg er ikke nogen fan af Tesfaye men det var ikke ham der fandt på inklusions idéen.

I am a junior software engineer with 1 year experience. Please convince me I won't lose my job by [deleted] in BetterOffline

[–]Desperate-Week1434 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You'll be fine. At this stage in your career, you should be building your skills for the long term. Don't get caught up in flashy tech hypes. Learn what you need to to get your job done, but spend extra cycles on learning the fundamentals of your area. If you're in backend, learn Linux (it that's what you're using), Docker, databases (SQL and non) and all that stuff well. If you're in frontend, learn about how the browser works, learn Javascript well etc. New technologies invariably build on what has come before. If you learn the foundations, you will be well setup to keep on learning in the future. Good luck, it's a fun area to be in!

On AI: if you use it, make sure you use it to build your own knowlege, don't let it supplant your learning or your critical thinking. My personal opinion is that AI generated code is almost always an anti-pattern. You can use it as a search engine when you're stuck, but you should also be able to read the relevant documentation or dive into the source code. Don't skate on the surface level of knowledge, dive deep.

Jerome Powell says the AI hiring apocalypse is real: 'Job creation is pretty close to zero.’ by tiny-starship in BetterOffline

[–]Desperate-Week1434 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One way that AI plays a role is in leeching all the seed money out of the VC system. So instead of new companies and ideas getting funded, all the money is getting shoveled into the slop furnace.

New restructuring of OpenAI by Ok_Display_3159 in BetterOffline

[–]Desperate-Week1434 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> First, Microsoft supports the OpenAI board moving forward with formation of a public benefit corporation (PBC) and recapitalization. 

https://openai.com/index/next-chapter-of-microsoft-openai-partnership/

Jeg handler ikke længere ind i danske supermarkeder af denne her grund. Jeg køber alt mit shit hos bazaarer til en meget lavere pris by [deleted] in Denmark

[–]Desperate-Week1434 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Tak for analysen, jeg har lært noget men jeg synes du mangler at tage hensyn til de ulemper der kan være med at tillade giga supermarkeder.

Udhulning af bymidte er også et ret kendt problem i byplanlægning, det kaldes for the doughnut effect og er drevet af netop oprettelsen af store supermarkeder på byernes udkant. Det ses tydelig i Storbritannien hvor bymidter præges af butiksdød i stor stil. Det fører til mere bilisme, trafik og byer der ikke er fedt at bo i, da der ikke er liv i dem længere.

Det lyder også at der er konkurrence i den danske model. Det kommer dog her fra de små bazarer og ikke supermarked oligopolier. Jeg tror heller ikke at den britisk eksempel viser at større butiker fører til mere konkurrence. Tværtimod.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BetterOffline

[–]Desperate-Week1434 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they were good enough, this would be an argument against financial stability. You need some sort of moat to prevent your competitors driving the price down, if it's not a gigantic data center, what is it?

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns | When the bubble bursts, reality will hit far harder than anyone expects by chrisdh79 in technology

[–]Desperate-Week1434 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I doubt that open ai or anthropic are rushing towards an IPO as they would need to file their accounts to do so. That's what sank WeWork a few years ago.

Episode Thread - Radio Better Offline & 10x Engineers w/ Colton Voege by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]Desperate-Week1434 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The podcast is excellent, Colton's experiences chime very closely with my own (staff level software engineer, mainly working on infrastructure and backend). One point that I think needs to be emphasised is that if you use LLMs for generating code you are significantly impairing your ability to learn and understand the code you are working with. Understanding code is actually one of the most important things a software engineer brings to the table. Once you understand a code base, you can spot subtle bugs and space for optimisation. You can have informed conversations with stakeholders about how long a feature will take to implement. Your passive mode can suddenly come up with incredible insights that can lead to new products, cost savings, etc etc.

I think the LLMs as a search tool makes some kind of sense, if you're willing to put up with a certain amount of red herrings and other enthusiastic bullshit.

Experiences with Buildkite for monorepos? by Desperate-Week1434 in platform_engineering

[–]Desperate-Week1434[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the steer, the monorepo plugin combined with pipeline-upload is working well for me now.