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shiveenp

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shiveenp··on What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)
Anytime I see “this is not just x, it’s y” i can almost guarantee with high degree of confidence that slop was used.
shiveenp··on Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone
Unsure of this really tracks tho. How are you evaluating for the bias that they’re not merging it because you’re “their leader of 1000 people org” and not because you’re actually an engineer deep in the trenches that knows the second or third order effects of slop?

This is a genuine question btw, I see plenty of instances of this in my own org.

shiveenp··on I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
I don’t understand the kind of mentality that takes to put out genuine slop like this. Use the LLM or the agents or the fancy way to call a markdown file a skill to do your job; but stop pretending that it makes you in any way exceptional.

The whole post says nothing, seems AI generated itself and on top of that, adds nothing of value - simply exists to increase the entropy in the world.

shiveenp··on Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
This comment tells me everything I need to know about the kind of people that work at Microsoft.
shiveenp··on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
LLMs will have the same effect that outsourcing had on tech jobs i.e. some effect but not meaningful for people that truly know what they’re doing and can demand the money for quality to distinguish themselves from random text generator (AI) slop.
shiveenp··on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
Explain to me how you think a sophisticated random text generator will take all jobs. Especially since it’s trained on existing corpus of data on the internet created by? Guess who, existing engineers. I’m genuinely curious on the backing of these “trust me bro” style statements.
shiveenp··on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
In my opinion people that harp on about how LLMs have been game changer for them are the people that put themselves as never actually having built anything sophisticated enough that a team of engineers can work and extend on for years.