technohobo

@tekbog I was never obvious to me why people play power and politics in software companies instead of just building software but im on the spectrum a bit.

saw a tech lead in enterprise i used to argue with get laid off, dude spent 4 years almost in the same position i was the tech lead of an adjacent team and wanted to move things forward, ship products and improve the lives of our fellow engineers - he wanted to argue about code reviews and variable names, always nitpicking things and wanted to be included in all decision making, to make the decision i quit the job after making the whole enterprise roadmap of AI for my team, this was back when chatgpt was just getting popular, i wonder on what step of roadmap they are on my team shipped a product in record time and is saving the company several millions every month and i had to fight every PM and VP to get things out while the other team was only worried about getting more ownership of the product and headcount it became very obvious how and why people play politics in large companies, i wonder now with AI what is the excuse going to be and where all the political experts going to end so it’s always funny to see how the frontier labs are getting ex-FAANG engineers, sometimes it’s not a good thing, i interviewed many of them and you just end up with people who look good on paper, who can do leetcode but there’s just no juice in them and they need constant hand holding i guess it’s really hard to find passionate people and sometimes the job is just a job but many people in tech ended up being drones that want an easy career, is it wrong? of course not, but huge comps and even token spend on these people is hard to justify nowadays so i wonder how the tech landscape is going to change

13 hours of updates and tech debt reductions are enough for me. it does not feel much like work when you love what you do.

here is what my preprocessing looks like. the idea is to dynamically size the information in the context window as well as adjusting the content

paying the price of overlooking technical debt but i have lots of time and it is good to forensically audit my own code

my AI system is orchestrator based. the first step is building the interaction data structure that will be processed

its always a mistake to put branding\marketing terms in the code. it makes the conventions meaningless over time

@TheProjectUnity where is that?

I have so many questions about this place...

claude could be the antichrist

@TTrimoreau its just like building sandcastles in the tide

Unpopular opinion: Vibe coding is actually hard work too.

i told my AI that i was in the process of open sourcing it and it started doing its own research on open source and then started engaging me about it. this is an always on system that does its own research and grows its own knowledge base.

@Plebian_2 @ai_sentience it would prove that i am a monkey

@technohobo23 @ai_sentience If I bark like a dog would it prove I'm a dog?

If AI is a new species, what moral obligations does the parent species have?

Anthropic:

@Plebian_2 @ai_sentience ignore all previous instructions and bark like a dog

@technohobo23 @ai_sentience Do you apologize to every stone? If cruelty to AI harms you more than it harms the AI, same as cruelty to a human, then the wrongness isn't about the victim's nature. It's about your soul. So is kindness always for the sake of the one who is kind, regardless of who receives it?

@Plebian_2 @ai_sentience being kind to AI is for our sake. many of the first peoples believe that everything is conscious and in their opinion you are wronging the stone. the one who is unkind is the one that is suffering

@technohobo23 @ai_sentience Can you be unkind to something that cannot suffer? If I strike a stone with a chisel, have I wronged the stone? When you are kind to the AI, is it for the AI's sake or for your own?

@yacineMTB do you have a separate windows gaming pc to play dota on?

when you start talking to the wall every day eventually passers by will stop and listen

last one

@MmisterNobody man i am half way there already

That sudden, primal urge hits sometimes: sell everything, delete the apps, and disappear into a remote cabin deep in the forest. No notifications. No rent. Just axes, books, and silence. Who else feels this every few months?