Nick van den Berg

senior software engineer @dpgmedianl. Before: @handoff_app, @sendcloud.

I'm that rare breed of engineers who also do UI design. ✨

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@lewiscarhart Let’s go! Afghans are very hospitable. Every home is basically a coworking space there.

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@dangc8k @afonsolfm Usually the best developers have some sort of entrepreneurial mindset. Because the mindset to get really good at smt is quite similar as skills needed to build a successful business.

I’d even go as far to say that actually, a dev with zero entrepreneurial skills is a red flag.

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@dangc8k @afonsolfm This + developers who think like entrepreneurs usually are faster in understanding business needs, thinking along with future steps, reducing tech debt etc.

Entrepreneurial + technical skillset makes you an *extremely* valuable dev to have on the team.

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@GergelyOrosz Which makes me think #3 would be: SO continues to exist because of strict regulation around AI. But thinking this’ll happen is naive because big tech is effectively holding internet hostage.

Maybe this is how capitalism eventually destroys itself? at least the internet🥲

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@GergelyOrosz This is what’s problematic with the idea of an internet that’s mainly consumed through an LLM. The lack of interaction between publisher and consumer means there’s no more incentive to share content publicly. Which sooner or later will become a bottleneck for training new models.

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@culturaltutor Interesting! This leads me wondering: who would be today’s Bel Geddes, envisioning what cities look 40 years from now?

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@marclou @Vlad_Smolyanoy Congrats! Have you thought about building a Vue/Nuxt version of Shipfast? Might be a good way to enlarge your target audience

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@Atinux @nuxt_hub Just requested Alpha access. Curious to see what you've been cooking up =)

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@GergelyOrosz Well @GergelyOrosz, I recently figured out my own dark pattern to deal with this: Update your payment method to a prepaid creditcard that doesn’t have any balance. Problem solved! Not the way I like to do business, but I guess it’s eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth here.

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@levelsio @Aidancramer @AndreyAzimov I can see this becoming really powerful when you’d be able to instruct the AI to look for subtleties, like particular tone of voice that points to certain soft skills.

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@levelsio It’s about damn time web devs are going to tinker about more complex problems than all jumping through hoops to get a nice looking button to perform a CRUD operation.

Feel guilty sometimes for what I make compared to those who are washing elderly’s butts in a retirement home.

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@Carnage4Life I’m reading all of these depressing posts of people who got laid off, and I’m wondering how much of this translates to tech in Europe? I imagine it’s less dramatic since 150K+ salaries for engineers are way less common here.

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@JoseAlvarezC97 @rauchg @ylecun @lexfridman @sama Excellent UX and integration are result of deep understanding of the niche you operate in. And it usually takes more than just a UI wrapper to get to a level of excellence. And point is that this is more feasible when using specialised models fine tuned for a specific use case.

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@MaxRovensky The staff rather threw away the last breads rather than sell it to me, which literally would’ve been a 1 minute task.

Just because it’s 2 minutes past closing time.

I wonder what the future of this content will be.

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@MaxRovensky Here’s another example in the Netherlands. Walked into a bakery at 17:32 the other day. “We close at 17:30” the staff snarks at me.

“But I just want to quickly get the last bread!” I reply, pointing at the 2 last breads on the shelf.

“Nope, sorry!”…

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@bznotes @amasad I somehow keep thinking about Lifta a lot when I try to make sense of current events. I was recommended to visit by a local on a tourist trip in 2019.

It’s a magical place. But also one that speaks history, in a way that couldn’t be more telling.

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Bullshit. Raising interest rates have led to overall decline in many freelance jobs – even those unaffected by GPT. No proof that this was actually caused by AI.

Correlation ≠ causation

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NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs

An ingenious study by @xianghui90 @oren_reshef @Zhou_Yu_AI looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year.

The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less

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@vnavondkooktben @MarcGoldwein @ImtiazMadmood Why was it denied?

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@Danna_DHT @MarcGoldwein @ImtiazMadmood And according to this logic there should have been a state of Israel on the land were Palestianians were living. And… there is one. Which is what’s causing trouble, right?

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@LouisHuberman @MarcGoldwein @ImtiazMadmood The question is, why?