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@eonem
Builds and operates billion-QPS distributed systems at Amazon. Databases and Engineering Management. Opinions mine.



I used AI to double check my annual closing statements of my company - fed it bank statements, accounting statements etc, parallel to my accountant going thru it as well. It found some good stuff, but also hallucinated a bunch of other, nonexistent problems. I feel more and more LLMs are excellent tools... in the hands of professionals who can easily confirm hallucination vs real stuff.





yemin ediyorum her adımı eziyet bir süreç. 90 dakika çok uzun bir süre, zaman mefhumumu kaybettim konuşurken.





JUST IN: Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow fired the company’s entire HR team because they were “creating problems that didn’t exist.”




Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

Situation 1: dev A thinks approach X is correct, dev B thinks Y is the right way. They argue and try to convince each other. Situation 2: dev A thinks approach X is correct, tells the LLM to implement it. There is SO MUCH learning in Situation 1, lost when using LLMs....







asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive. this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important. so: not paying that cost is telling



I’m so glad AI killed LeetCode interviews. For 10 years, tech companies made every engineer grind the same puzzles and prove they could invert a binary tree from memory. Today, the dumbest AI model can walk in and one-shot the entire interview. Thank you, AI.


Jack Dorsey on how every company can now be a mini-AGI:










