Draiken

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by Draiken 1y ago
I can't see that happening. Cheering these facts doesn't cost anything so people do it without issues. Any sort of revolution requires sacrifice which the vast majority is not willing to do. That's not only in the USA, it&#x2
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by Draiken 1y ago
We're talking about a developer here so this analogy does not apply. If a developer doesn't actually develop anything, what exactly is he? > We all depend on systems others built. Determining when that trade-off is worthwhile a
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by Draiken 1y ago
Dozens out of the thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands?). Even then, people successfully litigating - therefore putting their own money at risk - to get a few wins proves my point: the law is not being enforced.
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by Draiken 1y ago
> Bold conclusion, but why is it absurd? It doesn't learn anything, it simply regurgitates words based on probability. How we can compare a human learning from other humans to a machine mathematically accessing a zip file with human
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by Draiken 1y ago
Comparing teaching other humans to "teaching" a model is absurd. AI can't take their creativity but it will take their means of survival so a few companies can profit instead. Yeah, great trade-off.
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by Draiken 1y ago
Laws that are not enforced are merely suggestions.
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by Draiken 1y ago
For the sole reason that this costs money to do, not out of the goodness of their hearts.
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by Draiken 1y ago
The entire open source community disagrees.
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by Draiken 1y ago
Companies are inherently evil because they capture the surplus profit from the workers that actually do the work. I agreed with you that small companies are many times not yet taking this to the extreme and might not be as evil as a mega co
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by Draiken 1y ago
Copium. People that bet on this bubble have to keep it as big and for as long as possible.
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by Draiken 1y ago
Maybe you live in a much better place than I do. My local bakery pays workers that actually do everything to run the bakery as little as possible while the owner has a mansion, sports car and a boat. It's more likely our definitions of
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by Draiken 1y ago
Companies exist for one reason: to generate profits. There's not way around it. An ethical company will pay fairer wages, will not exploit users, apply dark patterns, stifle competition, etc. and non-ethical companies will do all of th
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by Draiken 1y ago
I'm happy that there are exceptions, but the fact is that most companies will throw ethics out of the window the second it hits profits. It's easy to be ethical when it's for free. > The idea that no company can ever be he
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by Draiken 1y ago
How is it bullshit? > but to claim that companies can't behave ethically removes responsibility from the people who are, primarily, responsible. That's literally what happens today everywhere. Companies are downright evil every
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by Draiken 1y ago
Democratically elected people? Either we as a society decide on these matters or "the market" does. Turns out the market always decides there's no such thing as too much. Who would've guessed it?
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by Draiken 1y ago
Our brains are wired to answer to stimuli but that doesn't necessarily mean we consciously want it. These platforms prey on us with every possible tactic to keep us there since every second "engaged" means profits for them. I
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by Draiken 1y ago
> Not make a buggy commit into software not used by nobody and reviewed by an intern. If it can't even make a decent commit into software nobody uses, how can it ever do it for something even more complex? And no, you don't nee
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by Draiken 1y ago
I don't know about you, but it's much more likely for me to let a bug slip when I'm reviewing someone else's code than when I'm writing it myself. This is what's happening right now: they are having to review e
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by Draiken 1y ago
You're right on the money. I've been amongst the most productive developers in every place I've worked at for the past 10 years while not using an IDE. AI is not even close to as revolutionary as it's being sold. Unfortu
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by Draiken 1y ago
> pretend that this is a meritocracy That is unfortunately all we do today. If you think our current system is a meritocratic one, do I have some bad news for you. > You might be worried for becoming communist or welfare state though.
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by Draiken 1y ago
I think that tracks with what I see: LLMs enable non-experts to do something really fast. If I want to, let's say, create some code in a language I never worked on an LLM will definitely make me more "productive" by spewing
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by Draiken 1y ago
Same here. It's extremely distracting to see the random garbage that the autocomplete keeps trying to do. I said this in another comment but I'll repeat the question: where are these 2x, 10x or even 1.5x increases in output? I don
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by Draiken 1y ago
Are you using these in your day job to complete real world tasks or in greenfield projects? I simply cannot see how I can tell an agent to implement anything I have to do in a real day job unless it's a feature so simple I could do it
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by Draiken 1y ago
Where are these amazing productivity increases? Where is this 2x, 10x or even 1.5x increase in output? I don't see more products, more features, less bugs or anything related to that since this "AI revolution". I keep seeing
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by Draiken 1y ago
> the model is not driven by "maximising eyeballs/time/purchases/etc". Do you have access to all the training data and the reinforcement learning they went through? All the system prompts? I find it impossible f
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by Draiken 1y ago
We simply can't know if there would be better alternatives because of it. Any competition is acquired or dies and it has been like this for years. But then again monopolies are the final form of capitalism so there's no real way t
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by Draiken 1y ago
On the evidence of what exactly? American healthcare is literally what you get with unregulated capitalism. Your statement makes no sense.
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by Draiken 1y ago
I don't know why but this almost made me cry. Every day I keep looking at everything that's broken and thinking I should find a way to fix it. Then I finish my work day and have zero energy to do anything useful and it all becomes
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by Draiken 1y ago
> I know exactly what happens when we just let the free market "manage" anything. This is literally how we got here right now. The "free market" allowed Apple to be anti-competitive. The way you say it makes it sound
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by Draiken 1y ago
You go where your customers are. Companies can't ignore Apple if they want to sell in the US so they're forced into their ecosystem. It's not a preference like you imply. I'll never understand how people defend blatantly

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