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agustinbena··on OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Impacted by GPT
i have been using GTP3, chatGPT, Bing i think i know how to use them very wel. And I still confused by all the people claiming that these tools will replace Jobos like programing, etc. Small demos producing small apps are not even near what a real app development cycle really are. It can generate some code that might work, but then good luck asking it to fix when it does not work on your bigger proyect.

It can certainly empower these jobs, but i still fin really hard to see a near future where these will be completely automated. Plus please try to talk logically with these tools, most of the times they will fail and alucinate with simple logical questions. You should never rely directly from these outputs, you still have the job to understand (have the knowledge) and verify them.

It clearly is a case of premature hype, these tools are not that capable as people want or fear to believe.

agustinbena··on Postgres WASM
I can not still agree to the usefulness to run this in a WebBrowser at 30MB. But for running in the backend over a wasm runtime, seems that the use case that make sense for the moment.
agustinbena··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
What is the relevancy of this in tech? Can we stop posting here worthless news?
agustinbena··on Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?
Did ever Visual Basic back in the 90's disrupt tech? Not that much. It certainly back then allowed a lot of people with low skill/experience in dev to jump in development. Was an inclusive tool but not revolutionary.

Tools like github copilot gives us a glimpse of how will be the tool that will revolutionize tech dev on day in the future IMHO.

agustinbena··on Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017)
I do not agree. Take the example in football, Maradona was one of the greatest players, but he was unable to teach and to be conscious about how he did what he did.

Having a talent to solve problems does not mean you can teach them. Many times the opposite is true, people that do not have great talent but a good self reflecting and observing and analysis capacity can extract the insights and general rules of a give discipline.

The former plus a good experience on the field is best source o advice, and to my knowledge Uncle bob have both.

agustinbena··on Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno
Client side rendering many cases, could be not only cheaper for the host, but for the client also, when the JS was loaded, the new content for the pages could be fetched faster than the new static html, not to mention the ugly experience of page loading.
agustinbena··on NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)
Is there a church to go and pray God Bellard
agustinbena··on SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts
Nasa did that simply because they could not get things done, is not the fault of nasa admins nor engeniers, but the corruption of their legacy contractors and congress pushing to do spreed across the country all the projects in order to give jobs in each state, leading to a massive ineficiency that simply was unsustainable. Privately companies already demostrated they can do much more for less.
agustinbena··on A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos
Fourier or newton did not persue improving society, and they did.