Yeah, I have a workflow where I inject JavaScript into arbitrary webpages and store the results. There’s no substitute for vanilla js knowledge when you’re in the weeds.
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Forget knowing anything, just come up with a nice pitch deck and let the LLM write the stack.
Not wholly surprised these people are YC backed. I’ve got the impression YC don’t place much weight on technical competence, assuming you can just hire the talent if you know how to sell.
Well, now replace “hire some talent” with “get a GPT subscription and YOLO”, and you get the foundation these companies of tomorrow are going to be built on.
Which hey, maybe that’s right and they know something I don’t.
The time people spend learning the quirks of an ORM is much better put into learning SQL.
I'm writing to share a painful lesson learned firsthand about the risks of integrating LLM (Large Language Model) generated code into production systems. Recently, my team and I experienced a catastrophic failure due to an error in code generated by an LLM, which resulted in our site being offline for a staggering 12 hours.
The fallout from this incident was devastating. Not only did we lose valuable revenue and user trust, but the company's stock plummeted by 35% on the second day of trading following our IPO. It's a nightmare scenario no developer ever wants to face.
Here's what happened: in our rush to meet deadlines and optimize processes, we turned to LLM-generated code to expedite development. While it seemed like a shortcut at the time, we failed to thoroughly vet the code for potential flaws and dependencies. Consequently, when an overlooked error surfaced, it triggered a cascading failure that crippled our entire system.
The repercussions of this oversight extend far beyond our organization. It serves as a stark reminder to the entire development community about the inherent risks of relying on AI-generated code in critical production environments. While LLMs are undoubtedly powerful tools, they're not foolproof, and blindly trusting their output can have dire consequences.
In hindsight, I deeply regret the decision to incorporate LLM-generated code without adequate scrutiny. I hope by sharing our experience, others can learn from our mistake and approach the use of AI-generated code with caution.
Let this be a warning to all: while LLMs can be valuable assets in certain contexts, proceed with caution when considering their implementation in production systems. The allure of efficiency must never compromise the integrity and reliability of our codebase.
Companies learned the true baseline of what they can get away with and we’re in a new permanent reality of everything sucking right up to the exact line where it would collapse of it sucked more.
Remember: it’s not bribery if you get the money after you do the thing you’re bribed for and don’t have a formal agreement. Then it’s mere revolving door.
I’ll give you Firefox not working well due to Mozilla shitting the bed under Baker who I consider a vandal and a charlatan.
As somebody who lives through IE6 the trend of a dominant browser shitting on users is the same - but so many more options to switch now.
DDG has made very poor technical and business decisions and they are trying to hold on but can’t escape the fact they are just a Bing wrapper. And Bing, like Google, is increasingly an index of AI spam.
Web search - from any company - is rapidly approaching full-on utility collapse.
Pushing half-truths about second and third tier LLM models being “private” will not stop the bleeding.
This is basically just a VPN, and like a VPN, you hiding your IP isn’t a solution for “privacy”, it’s merely removing your IP as one identification vector.
The content of your interactions will still identify you, this has been established again and again.
Example:
In 2006, the Internet company AOL released a large excerpt from its web search query logs to the public. AOL did not identify users in the report, but personally identifiable information was present in many of the queries. This allowed some users to be identified by their search queries. Although AOL took down the file within a few days, it had already been widely copied and still remains available.
He’s been elected again and again, and has been steadfast in preventing self governance from ever taking hold. To the degree Israel is a “democracy” it is because there is voter consensus that there can be no Palestinian self rule.
That’s not a democracy.
Let’s please stop repeating this falsehood. It’s propaganda and the facts are clear.
Along with layoffs the company killed the cupcake budget. (Mind you the stock is sky high and they’re raking in cash.)
If a company doesn’t think your decade of commitment to making them money merits a fucking cupcake, it goes without saying you’ll get screwed on comp.
“The new model was trained on audio data from FreeSound and the Free Music Archive. This allowed us to create an open audio model while respecting creator rights.”
This should be standard: commons go in, commons go out.
Utterly wasted opportunity when there is huge public support for interventions to break up big tech power.