pablochacin.bsky.social
Technologist helping organizations to improve the reliability of their business critical systems | PhD in Distributed System | Former CTO | Mentor | Staff Engineer - K6/Grafana Labs.
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I really thought the expectations about this kid were pure hype to silence Lewis departure, but man he is a real deal.
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In my experience this is more effective to start discussing the limitations and risks of using LLMs.
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LLMs have an imperfect memory of the content they have been trained with, and no criteria to evaluate its validity. So they tend to remember things imperfectly (producing "hallucinations") and tend to remember better common content regardless of its accuracy.
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I've found it is more effective not to start with this "autocomplete" comparison because people can't conciliate it with the impressive results LLMs can produce.
I've found Andrej Karpathy's metaphor more useful.
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Do it. It will be a transformative experience.
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Chavez's path to dictatorship (completed by Maduro) started by sizing control of Venezuela's supreme court.
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My theory is that when you connect to WiFi in a hotel chain like Hilton, your TCP packages are printed and then sent by fax to the destination. As most people don't have faxes, they are dropped.
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Besides the satisfaction of seeing Madrid defeated, I enjoyed watching Arsenal playing football without speculating with the result. But what else to expect from Pep's pupil?
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Yeah. I'm liking this new format.
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After dusting Real Madrid the way you did, I'm not. Hope to see you at the finals, but Inter is going to be a hard bone to chew.
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If someone can be hired cheating in the interview then they are not hiring based on how well the person can accomplish their role but how well they perform in the interview. It is a performative interview. As most unfortunately are.
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If your pipeline only selects able bodied neurotypical cis white dudes with 110% energy and who aren’t burned out, your pipeline isn’t selecting for talent or for capability or for intelligence, it’s selecting for privilege
The worlds on fucking fire: consequently, so are the people you’re hiring
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I went one step further. I gave them the code of a basic existing service, and the architecture of the system and discussed its current issues and how to improve it. Because unless you are employee #1 you are gonna work on top of somebody's code and within some technical constraints.
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I don't think anyone is suggesting it's as simple as pushing a button. It is an iterative process to refine the software. The more you know the faster you get a result and the better the quality (efficiency, for instance). This at least is my experience.
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Assuming the first is true, why should someone pay an expensive programmer for something someone can do cheaper? Then experienced programmers need to add more value to justify their cost and using that tools can help.
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The problem is they wouldn't get a trillion valuation saying the truth.
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Kind of ironic that the sector that grows the most is the one that gives less to music creators and performers.
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As a parent of a young adult (so I've gone through many stages in my relationship with my son) I have never seen a post in LinkedIn related to parenting that makes sense.
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Chavez+Maduro 25 and counting. And Trump is following Chavez's playbook just at an accelerated pace: control of supreme court, dismantling any control in government, replacement of career staff by loyalist...
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Not to mention the 10x engineers is a myth believed only by the tech bros that think they are one of them.
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There's a problem with that plan: people prefer hearing news that confirm their own views more than the truth. That's the basics of populism.