What’s communicated is an imperfect projection of what is understood - fine. It doesn’t matter they’re not the same.
Take whatever the senior engineer concluded after that hour and document that for the next time something like this happens.
either you didn’t get the idea, or you don’t know what’s identity theft
I’ve recently changed dozens of accounts to use Mozilla email masks. Most websites accept them, and the ones that don’t I think twice if I actually need that service. I have Simple Login and 3 custom domains if I really want to, before I give out a personally identifiable name. I’ve only seen one service that was super strict and only allowed gmail, outlook/hotmail, and yahoo.
I’ve been thinking about this essay for a few hours now, and I can’t shake the feeling that, if we’re using “tacit knowledge” as an argument for retaining seniors engineers, it’ll fail miserably.
The examples have that “I don’t like it, but I can’t tell you why yet. Give me an hour.” pattern to them. The author says this knowledge can’t be extracted or transcribed, but isn’t that exactly what that senior engineer does after that hour has passed?
That kind of work is impossible for an AI. It’s also impossible to prompt an AI into doing, because the input my colleague used — a constellation of subtle features, a year-long history of similar bugs, a half-conscious memory of “where pain has come from before” — isn’t anywhere it can be fed in. It lived in him. He’d built it the slow way, over a decade.
Well, it’s “impossible” in the same way that it’s impossible to a newcomer: because it’s unwritten; it requires knowledge from other sources. Currently. There’s nothing inherent about this kind of knowledge that prevents it from being written in the first place. The fact this knowledge is missing only tells us that someone has never bothered writing it down before. Perhaps they didn’t see the need, perhaps that wasn’t a priority. With automated systems writing code and documentation, well-managed projects will also be better at tracking this kind of knowledge and - finally - writing it down.
You’re the one who can look at a PR and say “this fits us” or “this doesn’t.” That sentence is mostly tacit.
If you’re a senior engineer and can’t argue why something is or isn’t a good fit, and yet you are locked on either one of those… I don’t know what to tell you other than that, maybe, you lack communication skills.
I do think that projects have this sort of tacit knowledge to them, I’m not questioning that. But:
I don’t believe this is an argument in favor of senior engineers because it may be misinterpreted as ignorance (“If you can’t explain something to a first year student, then you haven’t really understood.” - Richard Feynman);
I’m not convinced this kind of knowledge would be required for a project to succeed;
I’m not convinced AI itself isn’t able to extract patterns from the project that we would call tacit knowledge. Pattern recognition is kind of their thing, after all.
yup, it helps reducing wrist pain from typing
tbh I’d rather have a 5% chance of being rickrolled for each link I click for the rest of my life than having this stupid invasive captcha everywhere
crosspost it to c/actually_infuriating
the original comment says “We should be able to retrain local models so they can develop an actual experience without prefilling the context.” - it turns out we can. Not sure why you’re trying to attach labels of user vs creator, when the premise already mentions retraining.
Btrfs is usually last in perf benchmarks, so I wouldn’t do it myself
in fact, I have regretted using btrfs because it made my laptop noticeably slower
the phoronix benchmark posted in this thread uses artificial loads and doesn’t compare performance against other file systems, just compression on vs off for btrfs
I keep reading this argument that “it’s incredibly powerful” with no concrete examples. I don’t want a powerful browser, I want it to get out of my way.
see, that’s the thing, I don’t care about workspaces and I don’t want yet another concept to manage when basic windows already do that job.
Tab syncing + workspaces force a different workflow to solve problems I don’t have.
I use multiple windows specifically because I want different tabs in them. With this “feature”, we have the clutter of all tabs in all windows which makes it harder to find the one you’re looking for. Screen sharing can leak tabs you didn’t mean to show during presentations; videos playing on another screen would switch screens as you try to find the right tab; and those of us who never cared about workspaces were forced to use them.
But again, the main issue is this was an extremely opinionated change that forces people to change their workflow and was pushed to all users with no way to disable it. I had been using Zen for almost a year at that point, and, what was supposed to be a minor update made it extremely frustrating to use.
but you can, as long as it’s open weight. Fine tuning and training are pretty much the same process
lol how do you think LLMs are trained in the first place?
what’s your definition of a system’s language?
I don’t see the probulent here
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