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    9 months ago

    LLM costs $20 a month and needed only 60 hours of training, junior dev has been at it for years, costs as much for a half hour, and still needed me to repeatedly explain what a rectangle is

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      If you’re paying someone $40 an hour who doesn’t know what a rectangle is then I think you’re the problem.

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        The problem is that he’s paying $40 an hour and for that you only get someone who knows what a ਆਇਤਕਾਰ is.

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        I’ve just worked for agencies that hire juniors and outsource. If you’ve seen what I’ve seen you’d change your tune

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    With all the recent hype around AI, I feel that a lot of people don’t understand how it works and how it is useful. AI is useful at solving certain types of problems that are really difficult using traditional programming, like finding patterns that aren’t obvious to us.

    For example, object recognition is about finding patterns in images. Our brains are great at this, but writing a computer program capable of taking pixels and figuring out if the pattern is there is very hard.

    Even if AI is sometimes going to misclassify objects, it can still be useful. For example, in a factory you can use AI to find defects in the production line. Even if you don’t get it perfect, going from 100 defects per 1M products to 10 per million is a huge difference and saves the factory a lot of money.

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      Agree, but the joke to me is business folks thinking AI is a miracle and they can just shove it everywhere to print money. Where us devs know what you mean, and would like to add it in where it makes sense. Business thinks it’s ready to replace us.

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      Most useful application so far seems to have been to predict protein folding. Have to check up on that, it should allow to cure all sorts of bad things.

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    One key point here is: While you actually can replace a bunch of junior developers with AI in some places, any replaced junior developer will never become a senior developer that cannot be replaced by the AI because he/she is basically experince on two legs.

    So, corporations, don’t complain about the lack of experienced, senior personnal because YOU have been the main reason they don’t exist.

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    9 months ago

    To all the decaf haters: If you drink decaf, you actually like the taste of coffee without needing the caffeine. That’s someone with taste, in my book.

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        Yeah, well for many of us it’s decaf or no coffee due to health issues. You acting like it’s a foolish, childish thing is just tribalism/elitism.

        And for what it’s worth, I’d put my decaf vs your coffee in a heartbeat. A good roaster with quality beans is great coffee, decaf or no. Just like Hoffman said.

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            People needing to limit their caffeine intake because o health issues is a “stretch”? O.o

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                You sincerely think you have a better grasp on coffee than James Hoffmann?

                Much more likely you haven’t tried good decaf from a good roaster, tried a blind tasting, or your preparation is seriously flawed.

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                  I’m a huge fan of James Hoffman… I don’t think anyone alive understands coffee better than he does.

                  I live in a US Coffee Capital…

                  I make brilliant decaf for my pregnant wife.

                  My preparation is flawless in drip and espresso

                  You guys really don’t understand subjectivity or sarcasm and are filling in a ton of the blanks.

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                Like I said, you didn’t watch the video. Hoffmann clearly stated that decaf coffee can be made well. It is a documented fact that he said that, no subjectivity required.

                So how is the other person “stretching” when they claimed he said it?

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            “Blasphemy” is not really something I would consider a term that’s commonly used to express subjective opinions.

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              That’s because words on their own all have definitions. The subjectivity is created contextually. I swear it feels like I’m talking to a bot.

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                No need to get insulting, ma nude. Still not sure in what world your statement could be regarded as subjective in intend. Please, enlighten me.

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                  Opinions, such as “all methods of decaffeinating coffee are blasphemy” are subjective in their very nature. What makes this more obvious is that the definition of blasphemy is entirely subjective and can’t even begin to be assessed objectively until at very minimum a religious dogma is declared for the basis of evaluation.

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        Dude, you clearly didn’t even watch the first 30 seconds of the video because it contradicts what you say from the start

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          How do you gather? You think there isn’t many ways to decaffeinate beans or that some of them aren’t gross? Or that most ways used to decaffeinate beans doesn’t make the coffee taste bad?

          These are the very points James makes in the first 2/3rds of the video.

          The only point that he and I might delaminate on was that all decaf is blasphemous, and that’s a stretch because he never talks about the religious criminality of drinking coffee?

          Why do you think I would offer a video to people about decaf that I didn’t watch? Hint: I don’t hate decaf coffee.