I was waiting for the steam machine and grew impatient. I instead built a PC to go behind our family room TV. I gave bazzite a chance before committing to a copy of Windows. I'm glad I did. It runs perfectly. Zero hassle, no chasing down drivers. The only thing to be aware of is that a handful of games are not compatible, generally due to their anti-cheat software (e.g. marathon won't run, but arc raiders does.)
Bazzite is incredible, I've been running it on my gaming PC for about two years now. Games just work these days, and the updates are silent so I never need to think about them.
After installation, I haven't even used a mouse and keyboard with Bazzite. Everything is controller accessible. It just feels like a console like "just works" experience.
You know what I don't understand? Rich people buying all these mega mansions. What's the point? I hardly have time to enjoy my middle class single family home. Is it just a dick measuring contest?
Where else would they park their wealth? Stock market is all imaginary money. Maybe gold/silver. But housing works as an easy way to park wealth in a tangible way that's guarded against inflation. This fact is probably also why housing prices keep going up.
1: Location saves time to do the stuff you want to be doing.
2: Space for activities, such as being able to host large parties, friends, family, etc..
3: Convenience and time saving from having a lot of things in-house: gym, pool, tennis courts, etc.
4: Security. When everyone knows who you are, they begin to make up excuses to get close to you and yours. Even if you don't want seclusion, you may be forced into it.
5: The people who you hang out with most have big mansions too - you want them to be just as comfortable visiting you as when you are when you visit them.
I used to ask myself the same question, but then I realized that for these people it doesn't matter how much they spend. When you are worth billions of dollars, the difference between spending $10M or $50M on your home Does Not Matter. You still have many other $M to spend on other things. It's perfectly rational for them to spend what seems like a large amount of money for an apparently small marginal improvement.
I don't know about Pichai in particular but whenever rich people do things that don't make sense the answer is usually tax avoidance or financial engineering.
If you have many shares concentrated in a particular company that you can't or don't want to sell for legal or tax reasons, you can borrow money to buy a house. As long as you service the interest you get a house without having to sell too many shares and trigger tax obligations.
Home loans are also nice because they are a form of leverage that is secured against an asset but is not subject to margin calls if the value of that asset falls.
I don't think so; I know a lot of them are in charge of multiple companies, which sounds like they work a lot, but I think it signals just as much that CEO really isn't that hard of a job.
Elon is the CEO of like four or five companies I think, while also ostensibly heading a government agency. If you can have four or five full time jobs, then they are not full time jobs.
Given that, I suspect that they're able to find plenty of time for themselves.
I have not heard anyone of the superrich who stays at home on the sofa; maybe there are some rich Influencers these days who are more "consumption heavy", but what I can judge is even these guys pump out stuff on a more or less professional level, meaning they cant do it as a hobby.
compare that behaviour with Warren Buffet or Charlie Munger. They wanted more money only to pursue their other interests. They succeeded in earning more money than imaginable.
have you ever been in one of these mansions? my hot take is people seriously underestimate how great being rich is, and how enjoyable some ocean side mansions are
Ah, that's why the lifetime earnings for a big tech CEO is about 50-100mm. It's enough to afford one of these mansions and a few additional properties around the world -- about as much wealth as any individual human being needs or could possibly spend in one lifetime.
Sam might be 7 beers deep, or maybe he's available. In my org, oncall is just who gets the 2am phone call. They can try to contact anyone else if needed.
Claude is there as long as you're paying,and I hope he doesn't hallucinate an answer.
Yeah but now you get an LLM to help you understand the code base 100x faster.
Remember, they're not just good for writing code. They're amazing at reading code and explaining to you how the architecture works, the main design decisions, how the files fit together, etc.
Repeating this banality does not make it true. There were tons of tech companies over the past 30 years or so who, despite solving the same problems, lost out to competitors because they had worse programmers.
I actually agree that the code is one of the most important things to get right at a software company. Still. I would argue very few companies win on code merit alone either though. Strategy, customer communication, market timing, etc on the business side; design, system architecture, dev velocity on the technical side. So many factors are important beyond the quality of the code.
If anything matches the definition of banality in this discussion, it's the puerile assertion that writing code is software development.
It isn't.
Even at FANGs the first thing they say to newjoiners and hiring prospects for entry level positions is that the workload involving writing code amounts to nearly 50% of your total workload.
And now all of a sudden are we expected to believe that optimizing the 50% solves the 100%?
Now we are shifting the goalpost. Who even claimed AI solves 100%. I would even be damned if AI can solve 50% and it would be huge. Personally I don't even think current AI solves even the 50%.
> Now we are shifting the goalpost. Who even claimed AI solves 100%.
I think you lost track of the discussion. I pointed out that in the absolute best case scenario LLMs only focus on tasks that represent a fraction of a software engineer's work.
Then, once you realize that, you will understand that the total gains of optimizing away the time taken on a fraction of a task only buys you a modest improvement on total performance. It can speed up a task, but it does not and cannot possibly eliminate the whole job.
Again, only a fraction of the tasks of a regular software engineering role involves writing code. Some high-profile roles claim their entry level positions at best spend 50% of their time writing code. If LLMs can magically get rid of said 50%,the total speedup is at best 2x speedup in delivery.
You can look at that and think to yourself "hey that's a lot". That is not what's being discussed here. I mean, read the blog post you are commenting on. What's being discussed is that LLMs reduce time spent on a fraction of the software development tasks, but work on other software engineering activities increases as it's no longer blocked by this bottleneck.
As others have wrote, the so-called AI doesn't reduce work: it intensifies it.
The difference is a real engineer will say "hey I need more information to give you decent output." And when the AI does do that, congrats, the time you spend identifying and explaining the complexity _is_ the hard time consuming work. The code is trivial once you figure out the rest. The time savings are fake.
Engineers that have the audacity to think they can context switch between a dozen different lines of work deserve every ounce of burnout they feel. You're the tech equivalent of wanting to be a Kardashian and you're complicit in the damage being caused to society. No, this isn't hyperbole.
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