In Germany there is no VAT for solar installations - I'm not aware of any other "subsidies".
We (northern part of Germany) installed 7 KW panels with 10 KW battery for €15K in 2024. My neighbor is installing 10 KW panels with 10 KW battery for €18K this week. So it seems the total costs have not dropped any further in the last 2 years.
I can’t tell if you’re implying that those with ADHD are more likely or less likely to think and act in a childlike way. Or whether doing so or not is what causes the over representation in high level positions.
Could you please elaborate?
My understanding is that ADHD would make you more likely to behave in childlike ways as an adult, but not that that would necessarily lead to holding leadership positions.
I'm not going to argue splitting hairs about what ADHD is. Many of the most famous CEOs and startup founders have properly diagnosed ADHD and have been very vocal about it. This is also often true of any business owner you've met in real life. I didn't think this statement would get any pushback since not too long ago the front page of HN was touting this as a "superpower".
The high-functioning expression of impulsivity is impatience with processes and insistence on maximum efficiency. I guess lately this is seen as negative because of the zeitgeist around AI?
Tao is talking about this impatience.
> Prematurely putting such games to an end by immediately providing the nominal goal --- for instance, providing these children with a brief lecture on infinity and the unbounded nature of the natural numbers --- defeats the entire "purpose" of such curiosity-driven play
It's not that they don't remember playing as children, but that they resent the time spent on it as "wasteful". They do mean well by trying to squash play time, but yes of course that's harmful and naive.
Color me sceptical but I’d say that’s a bold claim.
Can you give a concrete example of that being the case? I’d love to see the prompt and harness. And understand the scale of problem you’re talking about solving with a one-shot approach.
How long will it take to write the right spec? How will you know ahead of time that the spec is correct?
Which agentic guardrails do you mean? How can they be set up?
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I’d say the job of software engineering is still firmly being able to stand by the work you present and being reasonably confident that it’s correct according to yours and others’ understanding of the problem you’re attempting to solve.
> I’d say the job of software engineering is still firmly being able to stand by the work you present and being reasonably confident that it’s correct according to yours and others’ understanding of the problem you’re attempting to solve.
Indeed. But how you came by that code has changed completely. If you still want to be able to produce at scale, at the speeds customers have come to expect now, you've got to use LLMs.
An interesting question. We (humans) care about maintainability because the codebase will be adapted by teams of us for many years, based on new feature and bug fixes.
Rewriting from scratch is basically never an option after a certain amount of time.
Maybe the machines could just start from scratch each time and come at maintainability from a totally different angle
I'm not a mathematician but to me it doesn't seem so far-fetched to think that there might exist some mathematical proof that ensures the indistinguishability
No, in that it's something inherently much more unstable than a bicycle and needs a trained human onboard to have any hope of getting anywhere without falling over spectacularly
I’m guilty of using this approach too and noticed that an (obvious?) side-effect is that I get fewer wonderful, human, “aha” moments with my colleagues.
I mentioned this at a stand-up and only then did others think about it and notice the same of themselves.
This, to me, is one of the major downsides of all this: less collaboration, more individualism
I think that's true. One caveat: If you're a solo coder like me, you almost never get to talk about implementation details with anyone who (a) understands or (b) gives a flying fuck. I'm more likely to have a meaningful convo about code structure with someone on a laptop sitting next to me at the coffeehouse. So sometimes a stand-in bot to bounce your ideas off of can illuminate corners you're missing, even if it's in some ways no operating just as a chat with yourself.
> This, to me, is one of the major downsides of all this: less collaboration, more individualism
Or put another way, it's replacing collaboration and human connection with your team with a subscription service that isolates you, makes you emotionally and cognitively dependent on the service while making your performance numbers look good. I really don't like the sound of that.
> The customer won't be able to tell you "you're going too fast", but he will tell you that stuff break
This is what the GP meant. They won’t spoon feed you the “you’re going too fast”, but they will give you other signals that you can, and would benefit from, interpreting as “you’re going too fast”
That’s the total cost including all materials and labour from scratch to a fully functioning system.
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