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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
this is changing soon
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
The parent comment referred to AI as a bubble, and what you're describing I would not call a bubble.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
Teaching systems is useful. The worst vibe coding I've seen has been bad system design choices. But I agree that we should also still look at the code.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
Prediction markets have a positive externality, the public gets information sooner. I never bet on kalshi or polymarket but I look at the markets because it's information. But I don't care about sports.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
How can something be both a bubble and also eradicate the middle class's ability to make a living? There are reasonable people making the case for both of these things, that investment in AI will fall flat and that AI will be too power
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
custom software has traditionally been out of reach for everyone but large enterprises who can afford to pay 7-8 figure checks
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
We can have 2 out of 3: * artisanal, handmade products * affordable products, not just for the rich * well-paid workers This was true of clothing, agriculture, and will also be true of SaaS. I choose affordable products and well-paid worker
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
This is the first time the general public has cared about any AI industry cycle.
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
Just because tractors are here doesn't mean you can't garden as a hobby. I'm also tired of the slop, but this is a culture and management problem. Every software job I've had there was tension between speed and maintaina
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
Joe Sixpack from Montana is thinking about whether he wants a data center in his town, and increasingly they are saying no https://www.wsj.com/us-news/maine-governor-vetoes-bill-to-te...
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
This is a problem of misaligned incentives that echoes other waves of new technology. The arrival of the washing machine was not resisted, because it directly benefited people who could now move up to higher value and less difficult work. A
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
You are now a manager. If your minions are out sick, project is delayed, not the end of the world.
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
I used to think being an engineer meant learning many languages. Turns out most of them solve the same problems — the returns diminish quickly. Depth across the stack (UX, CI/CD, model internals) compounds in a way that a sixth languag
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
Maybe my comment came off wrong. This wiki article made me like him a lot more, it was relatable.
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
Fair point
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
Safety and quality have increased.
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
I currently work as a software engineer, but I've worked in the past in restaurants (dishwasher/prep cook), doordashing, as a musician, as moving help. If AI automates software I'll just do something else.
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
If robotics progress starts to pick up, I'll take this more seriously. Right now, there's practically infinite demand for labor in construction, manufacturing, agriculture and many other industries. All kinds us good projects that
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by bwhiting2356 6mo ago
I was reading Martin Luther's wiki article the other day: "Johann von Staupitz, his superior and frustrated confessor, concluded that Luther needed more work to distract him from excessive introspection and ordered him to pursue a
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by bwhiting2356 7mo ago
The amount of work left to do is massive if you stack up all the unsolved problems and potential R&D, like diseases with no cure of that we don't even begin to understand. We could choose to simply stop new R&D, but as long as
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by bwhiting2356 7mo ago
Are childcare and kindergarten teachers really exposed to AI? In theory, we could put a class of 30 children in front of chatbots with one supervisor. But I doubt we would chose to do this as a society. If office work becomes more automated
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by bwhiting2356 7mo ago
> Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing. CI is for preventing regressions. Agents.md is for avoiding wasted CI cycles.
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by bwhiting2356 8mo ago
We need contingency plans. Most waves of automation have come in S-curves, where they eventually hit diminishing returns. This time might be different, and we should be prepared for it to happen. But we should also be prepared for it not to
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by bwhiting2356 9mo ago
ever played 'spin the bottle'?
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by bwhiting2356 10mo ago
If someone actually is the target of a conspiracy, how do we expect the model to respond?
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by bwhiting2356 10mo ago
I agree with this. 100% test coverage for front end is harder, I don't know if I'm going to reach for that yet. So far I've been making my linting rules stricter.
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by bwhiting2356 10mo ago
Adding lanes may not cut congestion in the long term, but it can increase throughput and overall utility by moving more people and goods.
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by bwhiting2356 11mo ago
You should render it, show an image to the model and allow it to iterate. No person has to one-shot code without seeing what it looks like.
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by bwhiting2356 11mo ago
am i misreading the article? > I have a van that is falling apart. It needs a lot of work that we cannot afford to do. In the mindset that poor people are unskilled, it appears that I should watch some YouTube videos, get the parts, and
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by bwhiting2356 11mo ago
> But, I absolutely hated working in an office. I also hated what digital marketing has done to people’s privacy. I had to get out. So, after 10 years I left and went back to my roots. I founded a sprinkler contracting business with my b

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