causal

7 ms·

151.
by causal 4mo ago
This makes more sense to me. The bottleneck for me is less becoming "understanding code" and more "understanding users". Validating the latter is a task non-programmers can do.
152.
by causal 4mo ago
Python is much older than Java, and Java is a big OO-first language. It's a bit like saying Python doesn't do functional as well as Erlang.
153.
by causal 5mo ago
It's not "privatising ethics enforcement" at all - it's just letting the free market put dollar amounts on the actual cost of staffing reckless officers. The actuaries won't be reading textbooks on ethics, they&#x27
154.
by causal 5mo ago
A simpler explanation is that more people are using ChatGPT
155.
by causal 5mo ago
Yeah I want them to do well. I find Cursor to be a much better tool for actually working with the code the agent writes than whatever the big vendors provide.
156.
by causal 5mo ago
Haha I can't even trust developers who know the dangers of what they're doing to vibe code responsibly
157.
by causal 5mo ago
What doesn't make sense to me here is that even on Earth, where we have an atmosphere to disperse heat into, we find that closed-loop cooling is too expensive and so use evaporative cooling. If the economics make it too expensive not t
158.
by causal 5mo ago
"manipulate the code in unprecedented ways" is pretty vague and of uncertain value, can you elaborate?
159.
by causal 5mo ago
While true, I think you're underestimating 1) how long it will take just to bring wells back online, let alone a whole new distribution network 2) how vulnerable pipelines are 3) how much cheaper and faster shipping on water is I would
160.
by causal 5mo ago
I think climate change is a compelling crisis but I find these types of “could maybe happen according to some models” type of catastrophic scenarios a little frustrating because they soak up a lot of attention with scary headlines, reinforc
161.
by causal 5mo ago
Yeah Cloudflare offering has become everything I wanted from AWS. So much simpler to deploy a basic full stack app + files. AWS has become considerably more difficult than self hosting.
162.
by causal 5mo ago
Yeah I've been saying this for a while: AI-washing any text will degrade it, compounding with each pass. "Semantic ablation" is my favorite term for it: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/02&#
163.
by causal 5mo ago
You are being pedantic to pretend you don't understand. It's tiring and unproductive. At the end of the day, people are paying money to utilize the servers within the datacenter. That money is revenue. That revenue ought to be tax
164.
by causal 5mo ago
I find LLMs make me doubt my own ability to produce quality now. I used to jump in and just write code so eagerly, letting it get messy but discovering the shape of the problem in the process. But AI can produce beautiful, complete, syntact
165.
by causal 5mo ago
For a datacenter that generates billions, that is not much.
166.
by causal 5mo ago
> In general, data centers only pay corporate income tax if they generate revenue. Not all data centers do this because many don’t sell goods or services; they simply house servers. By qualifying as business expenses rather than revenue
167.
by causal 5mo ago
So I was just Googling this, and apparently most datacenters don't pay any state tax on revenue generated by said datacenter? Huge loophole if true, no wonder capital investment in datacenters is so high. [0] [0] https://www
168.
by causal 5mo ago
As agents get better at code we trust them to produce more of it. There are still bugs to find, but the haystack gets bigger. So the number of bugs to find remains constant but the amount of code to review scales with the capability of the
169.
by causal 5mo ago
Chatgpt.com?
170.
by causal 5mo ago
The same way you test the universe for gods. Hence the irony.
171.
by causal 5mo ago
There's something richly ironic about a man who famously spent his career demanding hard evidence for the gods so quickly succumbing to AI psychosis.
172.
by causal 5mo ago
Disappointing take from Dawkins. Language is a very narrow piece of human intelligence that most animals don't even have, yet I find they seem much more holistically conscious than any LLM.
173.
by causal 5mo ago
I mean, the option is not zero productivity or some productivity: it could be negative. We doubt the productivity because we have enough experience with Claude Code to know that flooding your organization with that many tokens isn't ju
174.
by causal 5mo ago
Was the river used for transportation, or did they just put the giant pond of radioactive waste next to a river for funsies
175.
by causal 5mo ago
The problem is that your comment and the one you're responding to can both be true: Just because the rules are heavily enforced does not mean the right rules are in place, starting with the fact that Meta is collecting this data to beg
176.
by causal 5mo ago
There's also a cooldown period on some deletes (like secrets) to make sure you don't accidentally brick something
177.
by causal 6mo ago
Even their explanations are often confabulations. Best case they point to something wrong in your prompt or agents files, but usually it’s just noise.
178.
by causal 6mo ago
"How" = it can happen Without "How" = it will happen
179.
by causal 6mo ago
> there might be something else more interesting that is neither obvious nor aliens.
180.
by causal 6mo ago
Agreed, and I don't think you understood my comment.

More ›