Dia Kharrat
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Dia Kharrat
@dkharrat
investor & entrepreneur. Currently engineer @google | #Bitcoin
Silicon Valley, CA Katılım Şubat 2009
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Nothing beats burning the midnight oil in a maximum state of flow...
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Great point. That's why learning computer science is still valuable, despite what some may argue. AI will reduce the relevance of coding languages, but the underlying computer science concepts remain crucial.
martin_casado@martin_casado
A truism of CS is that you need to understand at least one level of abstraction below where you operate. - OS devs -> hardware - systems devs-> OS - app devs-> systems Vibe coding is no exception.
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@GergelyOrosz Dynamic programming is one of the very few CS concepts that are badly named.
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Two types of coding challenges I deeply recommend understanding and being able to do (for anyone wanting to be a better programmer / software engineer)
Backtracking (e.g. combination sum) and dynamic programming (knapsack problem)
Both concepts take effort to "get" at first!
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@rakyll As LLMs get better at coding autonomously, do you think coding itself will become less relevant over time?
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@amasad I would make it more specific in saying, you no longer need to learn programming languages and syntax. But I would still recommend learning computer science concepts, as they will help you use LLMs and agents far more effectively.
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I no longer think you should learn to code.
vitrupo@vitrupo
Instead of learning how to code, Replit CEO Amjad Masad says "learn how to think, learn how to break down problems, learn how to communicate clearly."
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@Suhail Apple is a good example of a company that excels at leveraging the second mover’s advantage.
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AI will move into a window (later this year) that I would call "second mover's advantage." That is, the first obvious moves that could be big are played out given the technology/funding cycle. The rest of us get to watch how it worked out, take stock of the pace, understand how users use it, and better consider where it will be vs where it was--without baggage.
Much of mobile and web had second movers that became dominant.
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@levelsio Have you looked into Google Assistant? You can tell it to translate a conversation in real-time: support.google.com/assistant/answ…
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None of the solutions in the replies solve the problem:
- mobile app/site
- listen in on a conversation betweenn 2 or more people in a language like Portuguese
- live translate: that means I can't press stop and wait for a translation, people don't care they will KEEP talking, it should be perpetual non-stop translation
- detection of multiple speakers: right now Google Translate just puts it all together which is useless cause you can't follow the convo between 2 people
- again it should be live, not after
Kinda shocked this doesn't exist, it's the real Babel fish
Should be able to be build with Whisper but some live streamed version of it?
@levelsio@levelsio
I need an app that can live translate 2 different speakers Cause I have construction people come and their Portuguese bit too difficult for me Google Translate is pretty bad for voice understanding and doesn't support 2 diff speakers Big opportunity for an app or well Google to do this well (but they probably won't)
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@levelsio Googl has this with Assistant. It’s called Interpreter mode. You can tell it to translate a conversation in realtime.
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I need an app that can live translate 2 different speakers
Cause I have construction people come and their Portuguese bit too difficult for me
Google Translate is pretty bad for voice understanding and doesn't support 2 diff speakers
Big opportunity for an app or well Google to do this well (but they probably won't)
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@GergelyOrosz It’s interesting how Python used to be looked down on as a backend language, but today, it’s widely accepted.
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I remain surprised how few VC-funded startups use Java, C# or Ruby on their backend (all v mature languages)
Similarly odd how low Flutter is when startups choose cross-platform
Note most of these are startups with highly technical founders, oftentimes backed by top-tier VCs.
The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng
Most common tech stacks at early-stage, VC-funded startups in the US. This is how Coastal Recruitment sees tech stacks shared by startups. They are a recruitment firm working with 100+ startups per year to place engineers from the first to ~no. 20. From today's deepdive.
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Fun fact: On Nov 3, 2024, 1:30 AM happened twice.
There are only two hard things in computer science:
1️⃣ Naming things
2️⃣ C̴a̴c̴h̴e̴ ̴i̴n̴v̴a̴l̴i̴d̴a̴t̴i̴o̴n̴ Handling time & time zones
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@Industriarchy @dvassallo They use their own LLMs, but have policies against using external ones.
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@dkharrat @dvassallo What about Meta and Google? They are developing their own LLMs. Part of me thinks even they will be slow to adapt. They’ve created a culture which prizes LeetCode success as a benchmark and those will be pretty easily completed by LLMs
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I’m curious, are the big techs like Amazon and Apple using cursor or similar assistants? Are engineers sending big parts of their codebase to LLM APIs?
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@karpathy Your intro video was fantastic! Are there similar videos you recommend for other domains?
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Part of the reason for my 3hr general audience LLM intro video is I hope to inspire others to make equivalents in their own domains of expertise, as I’d love to watch them.
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@rakyll I’ve noticed an interesting shift recently: Python is more widely accepted in production than ever before.
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A lot of people are ignoring that Go is becoming a commonly used language for prompting pipelines. Python in prototypes and Go in production is another common combo.
Viktor Eriksson@cviktore
Me and the team at @lovable just spent two months rewriting 42,000 lines of code from Python to Go. Technical deep dive of why we did it +what this means: // 1
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