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by ath3nd 1y ago
Shows that they can't solve the fundamental problems as the technology, while amusing and with some utility, is also a dead end if we are going after cognition.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Cynical TLDR; We have plateaued and it has become obvious that fancy autocomplete is not and can never be close to reasoning, regardless of how many hacks and tweaks we are making.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: "Embrace AI or get out." (then proceeds to get out himself, 7 days later) https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac... https://www.t
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by ath3nd 1y ago
No, it's not. Nothing stock market is relevant or important.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
That's great news! I suggest also establishing an organization for the young recruits, because they are the future, and it will make future recruitment for adult ICE easier. Let's call the organization something like "Trump Y
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by ath3nd 1y ago
I mean, enjoy your lack of healthcare, stagnating wages, at will employment, no workers rights, no paid vacation and corporations polluting your waterways and giving you products with lead and PFAs. Hurr durr capitalism so good that our bra
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Yeah, it's terrible to have an early pension age, free Healthcare and worker rights and protections. It's much better for Amazon drivers to have to pee in bottles while Gestapo, pardon, ICE kidnaps people and throws them in jail w
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Last time Germany had a problem with Marx, it started a world war and killed a lot of people. Considering the current rise of fascist/neo-nazi parties like AfD in Germany, I am not surprised that they are trying to suppress socialist l
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> economic freedom, which is a basic freedom recognized in most modern democratic nations The freedom to work your butt till the grave for little trinkets you don't need and renting a house you can no longer buy while your feudal lo
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> For example one was interviewed later and said a lot of the time they would wait for an agent and get distracted playing with something irrelevant and then forget to go back until much later Counterpoint: the agents are the reason for
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Still, it's pretty clear Enron and OpenAI are massively different companies. They are. But there are enough parallels to me to be wary of them and their competitors. To me the amount of investments and hype doesn't match what
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> That experiment is really non significant That's been anecdotally my experience as well, I have found juniors benefitted the most so far in professional settings with lots of time spent on learning the tools. Senior devs either ne
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by ath3nd 1y ago
That's my anecdotal experience as well! Junior devs struggle with a lot of things: - syntax - iteration over an idea - breaking down the task and verifying each step Working with a tool like Claude that gets them started quick and iter
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> The (awful) truth of this is there are no realistic good options. There are. Israel stopping the genocide and building settlements in foreign territories that don't belong to them is a realistic good option. Do you have somethin
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> How do we reconcile these two comments? I think that's a core question of the industry right now. The current freshest study focusing on experienced developers showed a net negative in the productivity when using an LLM solution i
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Some articles arguing that's already the case (and why): - https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/ - https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-and-openai-have-begun-... For me, the only consol
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> As you pointed out, there are many actual bad things going on, so focus on that instead of dumb shit that doesnt matter. I am just focusing on Israel committing a genocide on the Palestinian population.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
I am sorry you experience antisemitism, this bs should have disappeared long long long ago. > As with pretty much all war I'm disgusted by what Israel is doing We are too! The same way we decried the despicable genocidal actions Ger
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by ath3nd 1y ago
It's flagged for the same reason that posts describing the genocide Israel is doing in Palestine get flagged: the absolute intolerance of those in power to any dissenting opinions.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
In the Netherlands we protested on Microsoft's roof: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/10/activists-in-n... But yeah, github has been largely unaffected.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Wait, isn't that the guy that two weeks ago said that we should be embracing AI or existing the industry? - 2-nd of Aug 2025 Github CEO delivers stark message to developers: "Embrace AI or get out of the industry" https:&#x2
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Those "experienced" actually are just senior code monkeys if u ask me, it's trivial right Well, it seems you are not open for discussion. There is no reason to disparage the senior devs that participated in the study jus
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by ath3nd 1y ago
There is a reason why maintainers of OSS tools reject AI slop PRs: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/curl_creator_mulls_ni...
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> No, it's just logical, LLM is a useful tool How open are you to the possibility that it's the other way around? Because the study suggests that it's actually junior code monkeys that benefit from LLMs, and experienced
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> I don't get it. I guess I'm getting old. "Grandpa let me write the prompt, you write it like this". It's not you getting old (although we all are), it's that you are probably already experienced and can pr
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by ath3nd 1y ago
The only study currently trying to measure productivity of experienced devs using LLMs showed they suffer a 19% decline in productivity . https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o... Since that st
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> You don't use any AI - drafting documentation, write boilerplate code, transcribing meetings, simplifying team communications, searching product documentation, alternative to Google or StackOverflow, creating presentations, as a b
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Did he consider that the LLM wouldve done it the right way after the first message if prompted correctly? Did you consider that Scrum for the Enterprise (SAFe) when used correctly (only I know how, buy my book), solves all your company
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> AI will cause senior developers to become 10 times more effective Bold statement! In the real world, senior developers were actually 19% less effective by using LLMs in the only study up to date. https://metr.org/blog&#
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by ath3nd 1y ago
You are not alone. There are plenty of us, see here: - Claude Code is a Slot Machine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702046 - GPTs and Feeling Left Behind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4485121

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