Well the issue is the majority of people study CS to become software engineers not academics in CS. There are only a small number of software engineering degrees at select universities, so CS is the de facto route to becoming a SWE. So it’s not unreasonable students would want a bit of practical industry education in their CS degree.
I’m actually surprised with as much money is in tech that there hasn’t been more influence towards shaping curriculum to be more industry relevant. Companies waste tons of money ramping up new grads and bridging the CS to SWE gap, surely the incentives are there for a different curriculum.
Exactly. The real speed up from AI will come when we can under specify a system and the AI uses its intelligence to make good choices on the parts we left out. If you have to spec something out with zero ambiguity you’re basically just coding in English. I suspect current ideas around formal/detailed spec driven development will be abandoned in a couple years when models are significantly better.
This is humans have traditionally done with greenfield systems. No choices have been made yet, they're all cheap decisions.
The difficulty has always arisen when the lines of code pile up AND users start requesting other things AND it is important not to break the "unintended behavior" parts of the system that arose from those initial decisions.
It would take either a sea-change in how agents work (think absorbing the whole codebase in the context window and understanding it at the level required to anticipate any surprising edge case consequences of a change, instead of doing think-search-read-think-search-read loops) or several more orders of magnitude of speed (to exhaustively chase down the huge number of combinations of logic paths+state that systems end up playing with) to get around that problem.
So yeah, hobby projects are a million times easier, as is bootstrapping larger projects. But for business works, deterministic behaviors and consistent specs are important.
For now I would be happy if it just explored the problem space and identify the choices to be made and filtered down to the non-obvious and/or more opinionated ones. Bundle these together and ask the me all at once and then it is off to the races.
> in a couple years when models are significantly better.
They aren't significantly better now than a couple of years ago. So it doesn't seem likely they will be significantly better in a couple of years than they are now.
A couple years ago we didn't even have thinking. AI could barely complete a line of code that you working on and now they are capable of long running tasks like building an entire C compiler.
Yes, 5.4 seems to have added a Billy Mays feature. But wait, there’s more! They’re clearly trying to make this thing an addictive dopamine loop similar to infinite scroll apps.
For me AirPods are one of the greatest products I’ve ever owned. I resisted them for years and recited the usual tropes about wired being better. But after being gifted a pair years ago, I realized how wrong I was.
I spend a lot of time at the gym or walking with headphones in and music, podcasts, or audiobooks on. It’s so much better not having any wires when you’re moving. I can’t imagine doing these actives anymore with wired headphones.
Battery life, pairing, charging, audio quality, and other complains are all non issues for me, but I’m also no audiophile. They work incredibly seamlessly inside the Apple ecosystem.
I've got a fairly cheap pair of Soundcores and I use an Android phone. Never really had a problem. Pair them once and they reconnect flawlessly, I only have to charge the battery case like once a month, and the earbuds themselves last more then an entire day. Mine get a lot of use, and I've never had an earbud die on me.
There are a couple of minor annoyances for sure, like the car grabbing my phone when it turns on, but that's not a huge deal. And the annoyance of having a cord dangle around while I'm walking the dog or doing dishes or whatever the hell I'm doing far outweighs it.
All of that said, if I wanted audio quality to sit and actively listen to music, I'd go wired no question. But I don't really care when 95% of my listening is audiobooks and podcasts.
Thanks for following up with a correction. This is a myth that simply refuses to die. I cannot even count the number of times I’ve heard people repeating it.
I think mainstream is mostly looking at the microbiome stuff wrong. Your microbiome is the downstream proxy of good lifestyle habits, not generally something to directly manage. Good diet, exercise, reducing stress, and sleeping well will improve digestion and all the downstream variables like microbiome, physical health, and mental health.
This is basic ecology, the bacterial population dynamics in your colon are a direct result of substrate availability. If it’s primarily fiber, polyphenols, and other indigestible plant compounds reaching the colon you’ll likely have a healthy microbiome. If instead you malabsorb food from poor lifestyle factors and have macronutrients reaching the colon they’ll probably fuel blooms of pathogens. I think microbiome researchers need to talk with ecologists more to help advance the field out of the myopia it’s in.
FMT does appear useful for special cases of infection like c-diff, but I think that’s led people to believe it’s a generally health promoting practice, when the research simply does not show it.
It certainly anecdotal, but feels like you can positively effect your gut microbiome for example by riding a horse. Ive read research about how other mammals can share their microbiomes with humans, if its not the horses biome then what is it that so satisfingly calming post ride. Would love to be enlightened. Ride a horse if you need to destress, amazing creatures.
It certainly anecdotal, but feels like you can positively effect your gut microbiome for example by riding a bicycle. If its not the bike's biome then what is it that so satisfingly calming post ride. Would love to be enlightened. Ride a bike if you need to destress, amazing machines.
im talking about impacting your microbiome through another animal, not the short term effects from aerobic exercise or BDNF and what that feels like. this experience didnt hit quite like other typical metabolic functions.
great to hear you like BDNF. we all could use more of that.
These articles talk about subtle changes to one's microbiome by cohabiting with animals and trading microbes with them. That's a process that takes place over months if not years.
Meanwhile, you suggest that such microbial influence must be reason you feel calm right after riding your horse.
I don't think I need to further explain why it's a ridiculous claim.
Washing with soap everyday unless you are very dirty is indeed negative and can dry your skin. Especially as most of what is called soap now is not soap but a very complex collection of synthetic organic chemicals.
Exactly how negative it is though is difficult to determine and probably varies from person to person.
I’m actually surprised with as much money is in tech that there hasn’t been more influence towards shaping curriculum to be more industry relevant. Companies waste tons of money ramping up new grads and bridging the CS to SWE gap, surely the incentives are there for a different curriculum.