Trains quickly and classifies speedily on modern hardware.

Had a lot of fun doing stuff like this years ago, before LLMs were a thing.

My team has gained a reputation of being some sort of firefighting crew.

We are being called by PMs when projects are failing, usually engineering-data and engineering-adjacent stuff. (Mechanical/Electrical).

We automate the heck out the processes, using a mix of AI processing, RAGs, and AI assisted coding.

We rescue the projects. Finish ahead of schedule. Make fewer mistakes. We gain additional scope. We win new projects. We bring new clients.

But when higher ups ask the people we helped about productivity gains, the most generous will say stuff like "it takes as long to review as it takes to do things manually", "They really helped on {inconsequential part of the deliverable}"

If the that is the takeaway these people were taking, they would incredibly misled. Luckily for me, I have people who deal with the politics, while my team can focus on delivery.

Our reputation keeps growing, and we keep delivering faster. The heads of the departments we work with love us, the middle rank who were doing the laborious crap, maybe not so much.

I envy a bit those , who, like you, had such exposures. It's such a fascinating world, which I used to scoff at when I was younger. But it's a healthy envy. I feel happy for those who choose to developed such capacities, and it inspires me to try to develop them for myself.

I think I've still got the time.

Thanks for your reply.

His stories are such a strange read. The plot, the characters, the mentions, all feel almost secondary to the feeling they evoke.

That is hours reading. D must have spent so much more time writing, and doing it so very clearly and in such an organized, and even entertaining way.

And then there is the time figuring this crap out and making it work. I just... D is on league of his own, he is like a one-man hardware company. Having that level of skill must be so gratifying. He is a virtuoso of his craft.

Dude casually mentions stuff like... (paraphrasing) Palm OS expect this and that behavior that most kernels don't implement. So I wrote my own.

However; their azure offerings are somewhat decent. AI Search is getting quite decent, access to Open AI models served through foundry is quite the differentiator (although the rate limits are an issue), their reference architectures are very helpful and their ancillary services, like document intelligence integrate well.

I'm a bit worried that their marketing dept has gotten their crappifying and obfuscating eyes set on those services though, given the recent rebranding of Foundry and what not, but the underlying services are decent.

Great little engine that powered my first car, a 2005 Fiat Uno, made for the Argentinean market in Brazil: 1.4 (1.345L), 8v of reliability.

And that is the sad part, when that unstated assumption, that one may not lie, is broken past a threshold, it increases the transaction cost for everyone.

I wonder if these feelings are what scribes and amanuenses felt when the printing press arrived.

I do enjoy programming, I like my job and take pride on it, but I actively try for it not to be the life-mean giving activity. I'm a just mercenary of my trade.

https://x.com/dmitrygr/status/1980508960538099856

(Dmitry is something else)

The one thing that baffles me is energy prices. We haven't seen this oil/gold ratio since the pandemic, when demand for oil plummeted.

Nowadays, there is a more mature ecosystem, with specialized drone mapping cameras tailored for the purpose.

For our use case, the micasense rededge would have been perfect.

Edit after down votes: The paragraph above was meant on why would one expect conflicting narratives not from different sources, as the Parent Comment stated, but rather from supposedly official sources or propaganda outlets. My bad, must have read the comment on a hurry.