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And led to gaming, where you try to get a better score while actually being worse. Goodhart is an optimist.

I don’t understand what any of this stuff going on in the culture means but I fully support it because it upsets maga nazis so much

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Vocab word to avoid—inguinal

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I contrast augmented coding with coding one finger at a time.

I disagree

3X: Explore/Expand/Extract is thrown into higher relief by the introduction of the genie. Exploration is cheaper. The need to shift gears into Expand is starker. And the use of the genie to efficiently Extract is still a mystery.

Good luck!

“Cash only” is an extremely green flag for a bar.

Given past performance, they wouldn’t have any reason to worry.

I am running for Congress because they should have a reason to worry.

I’d say “adopt new engineering principles adapted to an extreme cost of delay”. It’s not that there’s no engineering, it’s a different flavor.

I've known Beth for ages: wicked smart, understands tech really well, and cares about its impact on ordinary people. We need people in Congress like that.

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I'll admit to bias, but Beth will make a great addition to Congress.

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I am augmented by the LLM. My creative reach is expanded because I have this tool.

I realize your question was rhetorical but it also seemed to deserve an answer.

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Daher: Stoppt den agil-industriellen Komplex, der Euch bzw. Eurem Management z.B. im Rahmen von SAFe diesen Bullshit verkauft - oder fragt sie, ob sie denn auch zwischenzeitlich eine "Zeitmaschine" erfunden hätten! 🤡

I usually suggest tests. In this case stuff like “multiplication should be associative”.

Okay

Not a conscious choice on my part. I would probably use double dispatching if writing the code by hand.

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I enjoyed my convo with Dave. Folks who haven't lived with "assume no bugs" software, I urge you to try it at least once in your career.

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

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I've tried both. Sometimes it manages to dig itself out. I'd love to try TCR though if I could get the genie to follow it.

Which is ironic because there are ways working at BigCo teaches you the *wrong* lessons for working at an Expanding company. I too have noticed the proliferation of "xApple, xFacebook, xGusto, xMechanicalOrchard" declarations.