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by beej71 5mo ago
Do we really need lawyers? They're very expensive compared to LLMs.
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by beej71 5mo ago
I can imagine it plural. "The AI are attacking!" "The AIs are attacking!"
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by beej71 5mo ago
I dunno. People do this exact thing by hand (digest everything they've read and produce something indirectly derivative--what author has not been so-influenced?) and it's not a copyright violation. It's just as impossible to
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by beej71 5mo ago
I'm not even sure this is bad anymore. The web is so overrun with SEO crap that it could probably use the cleansing that comes with Google's abandonment, Usenet-style.
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by beej71 5mo ago
It's one of those interesting moments where the global humanitarian good is in conflict with the law.
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by beej71 5mo ago
Their style? What do you mean?
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by beej71 5mo ago
How is Google going to make money off this?
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by beej71 5mo ago
Every time you do not write boring api code, some of your skill atrophies there. And, perfectly honestly, maybe that's OK. I had an AI write some Vimscript for me and I lost out on that skill building. And I was fine with that. But it
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by beej71 5mo ago
I think if a good PS clone existed, Adobe wouldn't be selling so many subs. And yeah, undercut the hell out of it... How much does it cost in tokens to make the replacement?
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by beej71 5mo ago
The last time I was touching the PS world, everyone would laugh you out of the room for saying "GIMP". I had to pay for PS just so I could export art to use it in GIMP.
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by beej71 5mo ago
I think there's some low-hanging money to be made with a nearly-feature-complete PS clone.
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by beej71 5mo ago
I'd phrase it like this: every time you delegate, you're letting that skill atrophy.
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by beej71 5mo ago
I know billionaires are generally out of touch with the trials of the common citizen, but can they be so out of touch that they think the promise that AI will take your job is going to resonate?
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by beej71 5mo ago
> Then devs can copy paste this Jira ticket content into the LLM agent of choice Super glad to have gotten out when I did...
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by beej71 5mo ago
Not feeling guilty and not caring are two radically different things in this context.
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by beej71 5mo ago
I'm more curious about how much more capability they can get before the economy collapses.
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by beej71 5mo ago
As an instructor at a university, this is basically all we talk about now. We're (currently) agreed that fundamentals are still important, fundamentals being good problem solving skills delivered within the framework of classic compute
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by beej71 5mo ago
> It won't answer you questions why your database has been removed. It does apologize nicely for it, though.
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by beej71 5mo ago
One thing I tell my students is that after they've coded something up and it's working, they can give it to an LLM and get a code review. Code reviews have always been beneficial, and AI gives us a chance to get them a lot more fr
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by beej71 5mo ago
A lot of us really like solving hard problems, and the higher order problems just aren't challenging in that way. Abstracting ad infinitum, imagine you just have a button that completes the entire job. Incredible productivity gains! Bu
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by beej71 5mo ago
I'm sure it's extremely common.
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by beej71 5mo ago
More important than ever before and less market value than ever before. :(
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by beej71 5mo ago
Good job, and everything, but this ranks really, really low on my list of threats to the United States.
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by beej71 5mo ago
I guess I haven't seen neighborhoods get particularly poorer for some time, unless we're counting the tent cities.
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by beej71 5mo ago
> I'm getting old and I value my remaining time on the planet. It's an interesting sentiment. I, too, am getting old and value my remaining time on the planet, and so I code by hand every chance I get. :) Luckily I'm in a
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by beej71 5mo ago
/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal 64176 I like xfce4-terminal as a compromise. Good bang for the memory buck.
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by beej71 5mo ago
Speaking for myself, I feel a difference if I stop using AI for a week and just rely on regular web searches. And I have a fair amount of professional experience Also, speaking for academia, AI is basically all we talk about now when it com
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by beej71 5mo ago
Help me think through and analyze this [ctrl-v]
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by beej71 5mo ago
> I've never liked or trusted Canvas's gradebook, and so although I do upload grades to Canvas so students can see them, my primary gradebook is always a spreadsheet I maintain locally. That makes you one better than me. :( One
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by beej71 5mo ago
It'd be interesting to see how lobste.rs fares with all this.

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