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by _zagj 8mo ago
The "Anti" stance is only tenable now if you believe LLMs are going to hit a major roadblock in the next few months around which Big AI won't be able to navigate. Something akin to the various "ghosts in the machine&quot
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> huge sea of started, maybe completed, student and open source project. Which is easy to filter out based on downloads, version numbering, issue tracker entries, and wikipedia or other external references if the project is older and arc
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> The AI can spit out the solution with no license and no attribution and somehow its legal Note that even MIT requires attribution.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Are you trying to argue that the probability of interacting with a bot or reading/seeing something algorithmically generated hasn't gone up astronomically since the 90s?
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by _zagj 8mo ago
They're delusional, but that's to be expected if you imagine them as the types for whom everything in life has always just kinda worked out. The idea that things could suddenly not work out is almost unimaginable to them, so of
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> When was the last time you reviewed the machine code produced by a compiler? ... I use Godbolt regularly, as do many C and C++ devs, for the sake of optimization, but I'm not sure that's what you mean. Checking the generated
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> After working with the latest models I think these "it's just another tool" or "another layer of abstraction" or "I'm just building at a different level" kind of arguments are wishful thinking. Y
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> Steve Yegge recently wrote about an exponential growth in AI capabilities I'm not sure that the current growth rate is exponential, but the problem is that it doesn't need to be exponential . It should have been obvious the
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by _zagj 8mo ago
It's crazy how many developers are starry-eyed optimists about all of this, just casually assuming that they'll still be highly-paid, well-respected professionals ("we'll be like pilots, mostly monitoring the autopilot&q
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> Fully AI generated code has similar artifacts. You can spot them pretty easily after a bit. For now. Though I suspect the commit history would probably still be pretty telling.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> I can't empathize with the complaint that we've "lost something" at all. We could easily approach a state of affairs where most of what you see online is AI and almost every "person" you interact with is f
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by _zagj 8mo ago
At least with physical works (for now, anyway), the methods the artisans employ leave tell-tale signs attesting to the manner of construction, so that someone at least has the choice of going the "hand made" route, and others, eve
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by _zagj 8mo ago
I'm surprised so many people are only waking up to this now . It should have been obvious as soon as ChatGPT came out that even with only incremental improvements, LLMs would kill programming as we knew it. And the fact that these utt
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by _zagj 8mo ago
VSCode is the most popular IDE right now, making it and its telemetry-free derivative (and their overlapping extension ecosystem) too juicy of a target for a supply chain attack. Over 75% of devs use VSCode, according to the SO survey. And
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by _zagj 8mo ago
The enthusiasm so many devs show for it is also quite bizarre, saying things like "AI makes me so much more productive," with the implication that they will be its primary beneficiaries, and that it won't result in a mass
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by _zagj 8mo ago
I flagged him for that, and I hate flagging, usually only ever doing it for spam, but frankly, that's almost what it is. Completely disrespectful.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
That's a great point. The restaurant business is one of the worst you could possibly go into, with razor thin margins and astronomical failure rates. If those are the future economics of SaaS (accustomed to 70-80% gross margins), than
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by _zagj 8mo ago
I'm not one to sell generative AI short at this point, but this seems at odds with the longer-term trend towards more centralized, off-the-shelf solutions, like Shopify, Salesforce, Squarespace, over the "bespoke," in-house a
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by _zagj 8mo ago
This is the nudge I needed to stop using VSCodium completely. (No offense to its devs, mind you, who seem to much better have their act together.)
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Happened to Linux Mint, famously: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/tamper...
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Peter Attia 'Ashamed' After Epstein Emails Become Public(nytimes.com)
6 points by _zagj 8mo ago|2 comments
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> In one email on Feb. 19, 2016, titled “confirmed,” Dr. Attia wrote to Mr. Epstein: “Pussy is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content, though.” Biggest hit to his reputation has been the revelation that the business
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Why the downvotes? I guess I should hope the CCP doesn't hijack this account the way they did Notepad++.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
IIRC, the author, Don Ho, is French and was born in Taiwan, and accordingly, perhaps his English is somewhat idiosyncratic?
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> That's sad. China should be more helpful with regards to open source. They should also be more helpful with not plundering the oceans, even including the territorial waters of far-flung nations, of fish.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Delaware LLCs are "cheap," but you're still looking at $300-500 a year in fees.
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Reddit post by "maxwellhill" used as FBI evidence in Ghislaine's investigation(old.reddit.com)
10 points by _zagj 8mo ago|0 comments
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Admittedly, yeah, especially the "slipping Melinda antibiotics surreptitiously" part. What did he intend to do; hide it in a canine pill pocket? And many antibiotics, like Amoxicillin/Augmentin, are extended release, and can&
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Memorial Sloan Kettering, one of the NCI(National Cancer Institute)-Designated Cancer Centers. If you're getting treated for cancer, the NCI-Designated Cancer Centers are usually your best bet.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
This sounds similar to the arc of Carpathy, who also managed to preserve his reputation despite sending Tesla down a FSD deadend and missing the initial LLM boat.

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