I've had the opposite experience. Now I can give an LLM my requirements, ask it to create a plan, I'll review the plan, then I have it implement the plan. I have it add test cases before doing a refractor to make sure everything is still covered. I get to be an architect, a product owner. In this way I get to create and not have to worry about implementation too much. I'll just make tweaks with a review. It's been a joy to describe my end state and watch it get built.
Readit Newseplatzek commented on Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents? tobyord.com/writing/half-... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh
They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot will start to become apparent around 100k tokens (with Gemini 2.5).
They really need to figure out a way to delete or "forget" prior context, so the user or even the model can go back and prune poisonous tokens.
Right now I work around it by regularly making summaries of instances, and then spinning up a new instance with fresh context and feed in the summary of the previous instance.
Honestly that feels a like a human.
After hitting my head against a wall with a problem I need to stop.
I need to stop and clear my context. Go a walk. Talk with friends. Switch to another task.
eplatzek commented on Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work? · Posted by u/throw81398475
Projects managers are absolutely getting slaughtered right now
How so?
eplatzek commented on I quit Google to work for myself (2018) mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-goo... · Posted by u/alexzeitler
I did this. Google (at least, the chain of managers I had) didn't know how to manage people like me and I wish I'd realized it sooner.
I make more money now doing more effective work faster at a smaller company with a focused project, not a 100,000-person everything company.
would you be willing to share how much more you made and what you had been making?
eplatzek commented on Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech listenly.io/gutenberg... · Posted by u/evan_ry
I did some spot checks and the cadence and intonation of their speech feels so natural. The sentences flow. It's the best I've ever heard. Thanks for doing this.
Like with World Wars there's been a generational impact that changed how people relate to one another. The tribal momentum, of one monkey teaching the next, gets lost.