Or if you like learning new stuff. Personally that has been best part of being programmer.

I love learning new stuff, but for whatever reason the AI stuff doesn’t interest me. So I learn other stuff, only so much time in the day.

I like learning new stuff, but not if it's going to be completely obsolete in 6 months.

Mainstream has been slowly adapting xp like last 20 years, devops first and now pair programming with agents and tdd.

If you have ADHD, for neurotypical people it might feel that you are performing better but results will not improve https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smart-drugs-can-decrease...

It's a small study and the "knapsack task" probably does not generalize to writing a paper or coding or something. Far from dispositive.

Utter bullshit engineered to convince students not to do drugs. Adderall doesn't make you magically better at solving the knapsack problem, it's not NZT-48 from Limitless. That's not why anyone takes it.

> it's not NZT-48 from Limitless

Yeah, that's modafinil.

(Or for social situations, bromantane.)

And same time here Finland we have super cheap electricity. It is just that you don’t build enough new capacity and nuclear power is no go.

Super cheap electricity and new built nuclear power requires absolutely insanely large subsidies to go exist.

In other words: you would pay for it with your taxes instead.

Some discord/slack spaces have kinda same feel.

Those are centralized and apparently the former at least now requires phone verification. Not even close.

SQL is beautiful when it works but when it doesn’t you end up with some abomination eg if you need some kind dynamic query.

The two most helpful things with SQL are (1) always use set-based operations (never a cursor) and (2) break up your queries into smallest possible reusable chunks (CTEs). Sprinkle in tests to taste. Without some discipline SQL can get out of hand. This is what made dbt popular.

Can you share more detail? Every pain point I've seen can be handled by a more suitable/performant/flexible DB and/or software that makes working with SQL less painful.

I would not hold my breath, Norway is kinda holding back new supply (wind + solar + nuclear) if you compare it to Finland or Sweden.

Also, even if you want to be honest, at this point, probably every public or semipublic benchmark is part of CommonCrawl.

True. And it's even worse than that, because each test probably gets "talked about" a lot in various places. And people come up with variants. And those variants get ingested. And then the whole thing becomes a mess.

This was noticeable with the early Phi models. They were originally trained fully on synthetic data (cool experiment tbh) but the downside was that GPT3 / 4 was "distilling" benchmarks "hacks" into it. It became aparent when new benchmarks were released, after the published date, and there was one that measured "contamination" of about 20+%. Just from distillation.

But if you listen to Levels' interviews, especially before his Twitter stardom, you will see that he always promotes the find your audience and build to them approach.

Amusingly enough the product that makes him the most is PhotoAI and that doesn't seem to target his audience at all.

But there's no guarantee your audience will buy what you can sell.

your audience is supposed to guide what you're selling. The fundamental belief is getting the audience is harder than building something they want. This part is probably true, while the rest of the ecosystem is garbage and scams