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jpamata commented on Ask HN: Why don't LLMs replace bosses instead of engineers?    · Posted by u/fzeindl
jpamata · 7 months ago
Strategy is far from the bulk of their work

Most of their job is about people, leverage, and execution. It's not a sit and think job, it's mostly 1:1s and coalition-building

Theyre also utilizing LLMs to augment themselves. And are getting more data, from off-record convos to reports from trusted smart colleagues who used an LLM to refine their intel

jpamata commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
ddorian43 · a year ago
Wasn't the inflation done by Trump though? Not allowing Powell to raise rates and threatening to remove him?
jpamata · a year ago
Could be, or the Ukraine war, the pandemic, or some other policy

It's nonfalsifiable. People will settle on the simplest observation:

it happened under Biden

jpamata commented on How I write code using Cursor   arguingwithalgorithms.com... · Posted by u/tomyedwab
miningape · a year ago
No, what they said was

> I estimate that 90% of the time was spent thinking about the product, directing the AI, and testing

In other words 90% of the time was spent in the proompt-test-proompt loop. Not ideation and exploration.

> they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they wouldve gotten one within a few minutes of using codegen tools.

If you really believe that I'm not sure what to say other than: have you tried to use an AI to make a full wordle clone? (not just the checking logic, or rendering - the entire thing)

jpamata · a year ago
yes, the quote is what I'm referring to, directing the AI is part of it, people use these to quickly brainstorm and refine ideas. I'd be more charitable and wouldn't hastily assume it was some skill issue, especially them being a principal engineer
jpamata commented on How I write code using Cursor   arguingwithalgorithms.com... · Posted by u/tomyedwab
miningape · a year ago
I would love to see the world where you didn't use AI and instead invested the time to make yourself a stronger programmer. A react wordle clone isn't something most developers would need 2 hours to make (sure maybe the styling / hosting AROUND the wordle clone might take longer) - I'm not saying you're a bad programmer or a bad person but what is the opportunity cost of using AI here? Are you optimising yourself into a local-minima?
jpamata · a year ago
they said 90% of it was spent on ideation and exploration

they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they wouldve gotten one within a few minutes of using codegen tools.

jpamata commented on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]   twitter.com/SpaceX/status... · Posted by u/alecco
tensor · a year ago
You should be glorifying Shotwell, not Musk. Yes Must helped give her room to build but she's the genius and deserves the credit.
jpamata · a year ago
Is there any source for first-hand specifics of what she does?

I used to argue in reddit (same username as my HN) basically calling Musk a fraud and Gwynne Shotwell being all the brains 6 years ago, but I've since changed my position after seeing engineers in spaceX give props to Musk at podcasts, twitter, and various interviews.

jpamata commented on Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?    · Posted by u/badrabbit
jpamata · 2 years ago
Jekyll, hosted on github pages is what I use

Currently using a theme from here https://jekyll-themes.com/free

When I'm travelling I could just edit the markdown/upload photos on the phone browser

jpamata commented on Ask HN: What are the most underrated skills in tech?    · Posted by u/alexliu518
akasakahakada · 2 years ago
Competitive programming skill. Just right click any where on Win11 and see how slow the menu will pop up. 100 of thousands Microsoft employees and NONE of them can make thing work faster.
jpamata · 2 years ago
CP just teaches some familiarity with DSA/algorithms, and there's much more to perf than DSA. Even assessing algorithmic performance requires real benchmarks and profiling, while the complexity analysis people do in CP disregards other factors like hardware, architecture, format, and other abstractions. Squeezing perf via DSA is much more easier/straightforward, people don't need to grind CP to learn that
jpamata commented on Llama3 implemented from scratch   github.com/naklecha/llama... · Posted by u/Hadi7546
hovering_nox · 2 years ago
Why can the author only write in all lowercase?
jpamata · 2 years ago
Author is probably young, that's how gen-z are these days, if they dont have autocorrect on, the whole text will be in lowercase.

Also it looks more casual and authentic, less LLM generated

jpamata commented on Happy New Year HN!    · Posted by u/thunderbong
jpamata · 2 years ago
Happy New Year hackers! Here's to the crazy ones
jpamata commented on Charlie Munger has died   berkshirehathaway.com/new... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
x86x87 · 2 years ago
Why? What does this dude have to do with Hacker News?
jpamata · 2 years ago
I guess lots of people find him interesting (see HN guidelines)

Charlie (and Buffett) are often recommended here for their mental models as their approach to investing and finance are very transferrable in startups/engineering. At the end of the day, large scale software engineering is mostly about managing risk, strategy, and corporate finance/value. Often, Poor Charlie's Almanack is recommended by my top Staff+ colleagues.

u/jpamata

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