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I suspect what will happen is that the relative value of fixing 100 year old construction will decrease. Sure you can hire someone for 20k to fix the broken plumbing in your house or you can get a new one for 30k that also has the windows, kitchen, electrical and insulation fixed.

Trust is a funny thing. 2 years ago yes the ai needed supervision 99.8% of the time. Conversely if you've ever tried to work with / lead humans they also need supervision. The ai is starting to flirt with the line where its supervision effort is lower than human supervision effort. Like sure, it might do dumb stuff, but so do people.

Also: rent cost money, keeping track of stuff cost time and money. By all means keep it if you need it, but on some scale you can afford to re buy the new cable that you threw out from the savings of not dealing with clutter.

Oh dear - this explains why people have bad experience with ai. The prompts in the game are terrible.

The user was providing no context, they had no ability to give the model background or context. A simple why would have prevented 95% of these side quests. “Im trying to increase the relative visibility of the add to cart action on the page. Can we please change it to blue without changing any other buttons. /effort low. Let me know if you have questions and before editing anything tell me what you are going to do”

Felt like a case of controlling what is visible to avoid some unconscious fear.

The relative tradeoffs (hacking together monitors, sketchy battery power, etc) don't seem to coherently add up to the stated goals.

Interesting read tho.

I work on a C++ codebase. I frequently prototype in c and then have the ai model slopify it back to c++. Nice b/c I am faster at reading c, but hard b/c you miss some of the features/nuances of c++.

Don't spend too much time online. The collective conscious of online can be disconnected from reality. People who aren't successful tend to spend their time complaining online whereas you rarely hear stories of normal people success online.

Focus on meeting real people and understanding their problems and how you can help. Your connections during college will probably matter more than a particular test score.

Get a job (any job) during college, it shows you're employable and can navigate with the unpleasantries of being employed.

Oh! And dont’ stress too much! Enjoy the ride. Think of it all like a fun new video game. Take in the new levels with curiosity. Have fun! Many people who have jobs now would love to be in your shoes again. Embrace it, enjoy that time of life!

Apparently paying for an upgrade to a nicer cabin isnt an option either.

Being able to submit an issue, description, test criteria along with a token budget would be pretty cool.

Whenever I read posts like this I get the missing missing reasons vibes.

https://issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing...

Your communication with stakeholders about your work ends up having more of an impact than your rate of work output.

The sneaky thing you don't realize when you’re 20 is that you come to be interested in what you work on. So if you just try and do what you do well, it will become interesting!

Was a specific piece of functionality intentional or an unintended byproduct of a previous change? Did someone else remove something but forget to take this out, or is it important? Etc

I think this is where one of the biggest gains in productivity from AI will come from. Even if it levels off at current levels of “intelligence” a 30% reduction in team size will save alot of communication overhead.

We think of productivity as linear to the number of employees, but it’s more of Log(N) for knowledge work because of the communication overhead. If your AI spend and employee productivity improvement ends up being proportional to headcount thats a linear gain that used to be Log(N).

Funny enough! There is a donation/disposal bin for bear-spray at BZN (the primary airport you fly to visit yellowstone).

The gap between the ai haves and have-nots is starting to appear. 6 months ago a developer with copilot was about on par with one without. The AI code required a lot of review, about the same amount of time as writing the code manually.

Now.. the AI first engineer might still have to deal with hallucinated things. But.. they can also use the newfound cheapness of code to improve their workflow. Instead of just testing on localhost and manually deploying to prod, you can have a full dev, staging, prod pipeline for free. Tech debt can be one command from being refactored. The open source package that doesn’t quite do what you need it to do? Fork it and write a patch. The ai will be able to maintain the patch. Oh.. you need that bespoke feature for management? Np, done in a 1hr ai session.

Each of these things might be arguably insignificant on their own but net over a projects lifetime they really build up.

Grocery stores are a level of abstraction. Exchange money, get food. If your whole life you had grown food, it might feel a bit strange.

Occasionally the low level details leak through ie: this egg came from this farm, theres a shipping issue so onions are more expensive or whatever.

I think llm assisted coding is going to work something like this.

One can imagine a future where high vis gear becomes a regulated item.

The nuance for four-way stops is pretty simple. First come, first serve queue. Except you are allowed to jump out of order if you jumping out of order doesn't slow the people ahead of you down.

I can assure you the same thing is coming to fw and ee as well. If your in hw because you like building stuff its going to be a fun time to be alive, but there will be large chunks of engineering work that go away.

Im convinced that real estate costs are whats confining restaurants to more confined service. In lower cost areas booths seem to be much more common.

If interference token costs are truly below api levels (excluding training costs), then a cheaper personal subscription & expensive api is an excellent price discrimination / marketing tool. Charging individual devs what they can pay and large corps what they can pay. Collect more revenue than a flat rate for both.

Exactly. If I am making a tool, I want the users mental energy to be spent on their domain, not bespoke weirdness of my ui choices.

Building on this and replying to OP’s more specific question.

It’s an interesting situation (not just for op but for all). Sometimes autism presents challenges in someones life that are directly related to the autism and sometimes they show up as more second order things.

Re: building flash games as a child and not getting understood by piers and teachers. As a child, we (all humans) make meaning out of the world through an ego centric lens. We also rely on our caregivers and peers to help us make meaning out of emotions / situations. If you don't have that around you, a child naturally takes on an internal view of “something is wrong with me because i like coding flash games and they make fun of me for it”. Given the question, Im guessing you didn't have someone in your life that you could show those games to and have mirrored back the natural excitement you felt internally. But if you took the same child in that same situation and surrounded them with other children who liked reading encyclopedias and caregivers who knew how to support that interest, the child wouldn’t turn into an adult with a bunch of traumatizing memories.

Lots of ways people deal with this childhood trama. Some don't. Some find friends who experienced something similar, some find therapy, some grow out of it. I saw a kid who used to bully me deliver me pizza, which felt good.

There seems to be something in the autism brain that really likes to understand why things happen. Which is useful! It’s cathartic to understand how brain works and why things worked that put you here. But remember that emotional problems need to be solved at the emotional level. If you feel like a rational person without emotions, thats ok too! But it’s also an emotion! Ask question if you want me to clarify here.

As far as a concrete day to day things, this really depends on how on the spectrum you are. If its 0 - mild: my best advise is just realize that your brain works differently and thats ok. As an adult your job isn't to be someone you're not, but it is to support the inner child within you. Hold space for the grief of the life you might have had and grace for the ways in which you don't live your perfect life.

A diagnosis can be helpful if you don't know whats going on and to connect with support. Otherwise try to avoid falling into the trap of wanting the world to cater to you because of a condition (it wont). But importantly by expecting the world to change or treat you different you become blind to the situations which naturally work better.

Theres lots of careers, jobs, etc that work well for being on the spectrum. Sometimes it can even be an advantage.

Ive seen people on all levels of the spectrum go on to have families, relationships, successful careers etc.

Realize the way you relate to the experiences as a kid will change over time.

Ive been trying to find a SABRE reference manual somewhere. Do you know if theres any that exist online?

Raspberry pi on a network controlled power supply to rebroadcast udp broadcast traffic across subnets

They allude to it, but I think one of the new skills that will be valuable is reasoning about systems where you don't know the code. This is what “owners” and managers who don’t touch code do today.

One of the main skills of using the llm well is knowing the difference between useful output and ai slop.

How do you choose which loss function over time to pursue?