The OED defines prejudice as a "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience."
My day to day work involves: full stack web dev, distributed systems, embedded systems, and machine learning. In addition to using AI tooling for dev tasks, we also use agents in production for various workflows and we also train/finetune models (some LLMs, but also other types of neural networks for anomaly detection, fault localization, time series forecasting, etc). I am basing my original commentary in this thread on all of that cumulative experience.
It has been my observation over the last almost 30 years of being a professional SWE that full stack web dev has been much easier and simpler than the other domains I work in. And even further, I find that models are much better at that domain on average than the other domains, measured by pass@k scores on private evals representing each domain. Anecdotal experience also tends to match the evals.
This tracks with all the other information we have pertaining to benchmark saturation, the "we need harder evals" crowd has been ringing this bell for the last 8-12 months. Models are getting very good at the less complex tasks.
I don't believe it will remain that way forever, but at present its far more common to see someone one shot a full stack web app from a single prompt than something like kernel driver for a NIC. One class of devs is seeing a massive performance jump, another class is not.
I don't see how that can be perceived as prejudice, it just may be an opinion you don't agree with or an observation that doesn't match your own experience (both of which are totally valid and understandable).
That's a lie, people will eventually find a way out, it was always like that, being it open source or by innovating and eventually leave the unable to innovate tech giants dying. We have Linux and this year will be the most exciting for the Linux desktop given how bad the Windows situation is
Only been hearing that for twenty years and these tech giants are bigger than they’ve ever been.
I remember when people said Open Office was going to be the default because it was open source, etc etc etc. It never happened. Got forked. Still irrelevant.
I said "being it open source or by innovating" eg Google innovated and killed many, also contributed a lot to open source. Android is a Linux success, ChromeOS too. Now Google stinks and it is not innovating anymore, except for when other companies, like OpenAI, come for their lunch. Google was caught off guard but eventually catching up. Sooner or later, big tech gets eaten by next big tech. I agree if we stop innovating that would never happen, like Open Office is the worst example you could have picked
Not at all. Just trying to understand a POV I think I see here, and in other discussions that I can't quite place / relate to.
The person I replied to seemed to be saying that there is no role for experience, beyond knowing the language, tools, and the codebase. There is no real difference between someone with 5 years of experience and 15 years. This may not be what the think, or meant to say, I'm extrapolating a bit (which is why I asked for clarification)
That attitude (which I have run into in other places) seems totally alien to me, my experience, and that of my friends and colleagues. So, I think there must be some aspect that I'm missing or not understanding.
Chicken and rice is anything but bland. I haven't had Hainanese style but the Thai style khao man gai that Nong's serves in Portland is a flavor that I still remember more than a decade later.
chicken and rice has oil and some savoriness but it's not jacked to the tits with spice like an indian curry or any thai food - in that regard, compared to other asian cuisines, yes it is bland. compared to midwest mac & cheese, sure, maybe it's less bland but even then I bet a midwesterner could pleasantly eat the dish where they would be on the struggle bus eating indian food
The chicken is indeed bland, although the non-canonical roasted version is more flavorful than the traditional poached one. The rice, which is cooked in chicken stock and spices, is anything but, but it's the fresh chili sauce that really makes it zing, in the same way that wasabi makes "bland" sushi work.
Tian Tian is overrated and not worth the lines though. Every Singaporean has their favorite but I like Loy Kee, partly thanks to their amazing slogan, "Chicken Lickin' Good".
Although a westerner transplated back 1000 years would be utterly shocked by the level of disease, childhood death, and complete lack of modern medical care or basic germ theory.
No, I don't think they would, because we already know that. I think they'd be more surprised at what hygiene there was, e.g. the extensive bathing customs.
Our react/react-native monorepo has been a pleasure to work with and has massively reduced the overhead for development with a limited number of staff.
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