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by gtowey 8mo ago
No, they just shift the economic downsides to someone else so they can collect the difference. That's what I mean by arbitrage. Someone always pays the price, and now it's you and I.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
I have come to the opinion that every successful tech company is basically just an arbitrage scheme to avoid regulations and extract value based on that advantage. Airbnb for unlicensed hotels. Uber for unlicensed taxis. Amazon for whitewas
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Jinx!
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Insider trading is the raison d'etre of these products.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
So I know you're trying to shame my by pointing out my hypocrisy here, but I assure you that I wouldn't have made the original comment there if I didn't have a leg to stand on. I am not a high net worth individual. With a 20
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by gtowey 8mo ago
> Good example! 90 percent ( or even more) of code do not need NASA level code. I mean if you're saying that 90 percent of code is hobby level only, but I don't really agree that is the case. I mean, take something like NPM and
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by gtowey 8mo ago
700k from 60+ "founding donors" = an average of 11k per person. These are people who have net worth values in the 10's to 100's of millions of dollars and they could only give ~10k to open source software? My goodness we
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Yeah, it's like saying that the amateur rocketry guys on youtube are going to replace NASA.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
How is this not solved by a simple voice recorder? You can process and act on it later while not forgetting your thoughts when inspiration hits. People have been doing that for at least like 50 years now.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Even better, train an entirely new LLM with your prompt added to its data set. It will be imbued with its own latent sense of purpose. All you need to do after that is type "let there be light!"
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Such a missed opportunity. We could have been to data privacy and protection what Switzerland is to Banking. But no, our cooperate oligarch overlords just can't keep their hands out of the piggy bank.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Not so subtle product promo while taking a swipe at your competition.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
It's spreading and only going to get worse. Management thinks AI tools should make everyone 10x as productive, so they're all trying to run lean teams and load up the remaining engineers with all the work. This will end about as w
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Ah yes, "if it doesn't make sense to me personally, it clearly can't exist"
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Perfect analogy for capitalism.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
I was just thinking exactly the same. Basic web search has become so horrible that AI is being used as its replacement. I found it a sad condemnation of how far the tech industry has fallen into enshittification and is failing to provide to
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by gtowey 8mo ago
> Likely a lie but also they do have tools, they're just inefficient This is the exact problem, they could solve the issue by spending a lot more money. They could hire enough human content reviews to keep up, they could force all c
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by gtowey 8mo ago
People before Facebook found themselves in exactly the same situation as you and managed to survive. People have become dependant on the convenience of these tools and become, for lack of a gentler word, lazy. Moreover we have this current
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Yes, because as a company who's main features were Farmville and posting pics of your food, it was ridiculously overvalued. But we all underestimated just how ruthless Zuck would be in turning Facebook into a machine for disseminating
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by gtowey 8mo ago
No, I think it gives the impression that the author is using an LLM without much supervision to not only write the submitted content, but to reply to posts here.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
In my wildest hopes for a positive future, I hope disenchanted engineers will see things like this as an opportunity to start our own companies founded on ideals of honesty, integrity, and putting people above profits. I think there are eno
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by gtowey 8mo ago
IMO the people claiming that "technically the importer pays the tariff" are deliberately using the letter of the law to confuse and distract the main thrust of the arguments. What we mean when we ask who is paying the tariff is th
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by gtowey 8mo ago
The full cost of recycling things should be part of the cost of the product at the time of sale. What you would find quickly, is that there is little to no profit on the manufacturing and sale of new devices and the value of repairs and reu
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Leadership loves AI more than anything they have ever loved before. It's because for them, the fawning, sycophantic, ego-stroking agents who cheerfully champions every dumb idea they have and helps them realize it with spectacular aver
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by gtowey 8mo ago
I think it shows the barrier to building software quickly was never about how fast you can write the code. Maybe at a startup it is, but for any established company I find most of the friction is systemic management issues.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
Because it's been true for the past 15 years.
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by gtowey 8mo ago
It's all been downhill at Microsoft since windows 3.1
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by gtowey 8mo ago
At the company I work for, despite pushing widespread adoption, I have seen exactly a zero percent increase in the rate at which major projects get shipped.
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by gtowey 9mo ago
There is a massive difference between a result like this when it's a research project and when it's being pushed by billion dollar companies as the solution to all of humanities problems. In business, as a product, results are all
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by gtowey 9mo ago
Maybe. But it's also likely that these tools will produce mountains of unmaintainable code and people will get buried by the technical debt. It kind of strikes me as similar to the hubris of calling the Titanic "unsinkable."

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