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by leptons 5mo ago
That table tennis robot is not conscious. That table tennis robot does one thing well. A human is capable of far more. There is far more going on for a human playing table tennis than a robot. It doesn't matter if the table tennis robo
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by leptons 5mo ago
>Machines have surpassed humans by magnitudes in many capabilities already (how many billion multiplications can you do per second?) Do you have any idea how many calculations it takes for a human to put a ball through a hoop while runni
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by leptons 5mo ago
LLMs create typos in the code they create all the time. Claude 4.7. Maybe you are using some next-gen super-AI nobody else has? Or you're just lucky.
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by leptons 5mo ago
No, but you can fire them. Can you fire an AI you're paying for? Yes, but your options are another AI that is just as bad, or worse. And it's really someone's fault for hiring a bad junior. Someone did interview them, right?
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by leptons 5mo ago
Packing 3 weeks of food for a 1 week event? That takes quite a bit more ice and coolers, storage for non-perishables, and it doesn't address other issues like sanitation. It takes a lot to have food in the desert for one week. Perishab
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by leptons 5mo ago
If they really wanted to protect children, they wouldn't give them phones, tablets, or laptops until a certain age. It's like handing a loaded gun to a kid, and saying "just don't take the safety off". Of course kid
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by leptons 5mo ago
No, I really doubt they would have food to feed 70,000 people for a week or more, especially at the end of the event.
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by leptons 5mo ago
The change is turning me from someone who writes pretty good reliable code, to someone who has to read and review pretty bad code. If you think this is an improvement, you're nuts. It is inserting a pretty unreliable middle-man know fo
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by leptons 5mo ago
>IF you did this SAME experiment with a human and had a human read an ENTIRE document and then reproduce said document with edits. The DOCUMENT would DEGRADE even more. Except that isn't how humans edit documents, and it isn't
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by leptons 5mo ago
The LLM makes typos for me all the time using AI autocomplete. It's caused a lot of frustration while coding, because it makes mistakes that I would not. When it does help, it's great, but the errors waste as much time as the LLM
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by leptons 5mo ago
My company is moving to a workflow where we only write Jira tickets, the LLM writes all the code and submits a PR. Then we are supposed to review the code the LLM wrote. I'm looking for a new job.
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by leptons 5mo ago
We're on the road to Idiocracy.
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by leptons 5mo ago
No, it wasn't close. Did vehicles sink into the mud making them unmovable when the place dried up many weeks later? No.
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by leptons 5mo ago
That's fine and dandy after a few days, but if it goes on for 2 weeks? I think you are overestimating burners. And you also may not realize that the BLM has studied this exact scenario, and would be unlikely to let 70,000 people go out
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by leptons 5mo ago
I don't know anyone that goes to Burning Man that thinks it's some kind of conservation event. It was started on a beach in SF to mourn the loss of a relationship by a man with a broken heart. Then it got too big and moved to the
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by leptons 5mo ago
I actually got to buy fuel there once. They were absolutely surly about it, too. Why didn't you plan ahead and bring enough gas??!? Well what happened was, we stopped at the gas station in Wadsworth where we usually fuel up the RV
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by leptons 5mo ago
Since experiencing a deluge the day after the event ended in 1998, I know that the end of Burning Man will be a massive rainstorm at the wrong time. Fortunately in 1998 it happened after almost everyone had left. It was Tuesday after the bu
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by leptons 5mo ago
People downvoted you, but I actually know a few of these people.
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by leptons 5mo ago
I wish I got to hallucinate at work, and just get a pat on the head for constantly doing the wrong thing.
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by leptons 5mo ago
And now they're almost forcing us to produce machine-made tech-debt at an industrial scale. The AI craze isn't going to produce the boon some people think it will. And the solution? More AI, unfortunately.
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by leptons 5mo ago
What? 640K should be enough for anyone!
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by leptons 5mo ago
I can't afford to take Ubers anymore. A trip that used to cost $7 now costs $40. AI is going to be the same to cover all the massive amounts of money already spent. You like your $200/mo plan now? How about when it's $2000&#x
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by leptons 5mo ago
You say this as though AI company debt has not followed a very clear and extremely rapid ballooning in a startlingly short amount of time. It's the "YOLO" of business strategies.
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by leptons 5mo ago
There's no such thing as a "10x" programmer, and anyone who uses it doesn't know what they're talking about. 10x relative to what exactly? It's not a statement grounded in any kind of reality.
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by leptons 5mo ago
>Nothing stopping you from iterating with the agent till the code is the exact same quality that you yourself would write Yeah, but in my experience, it takes the same amount of time or longer to cajole the AI to get it there. I'd r
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by leptons 5mo ago
May Day has been around significantly longer than the Haymarket Affair.. a couple thousands years at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
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by leptons 5mo ago
That is not true at all. No matter how "productive" a company is means nothing if people aren't buying your product. And using LLMs to be more productive will not convince anyone to buy your product. Human creativity and intu
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by leptons 6mo ago
The "holistic" picture is still crap, unless you like being trapped in a walled garden. I don't. Apple hardware and software has always been a small worldwide market share, it's just not as popular or as good as the fanb
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by leptons 6mo ago
Same here. When I was presented with a MBP at work, I promptly installed Windows on it. I'm not saying Windows is something amazing, but it's better than the toy OS that is MacOS, and Linux simply wasn't an option at work (De
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by leptons 6mo ago
Apple had to replace the motherboard in our MBP 7 times before they told us the next repair would cost us $1200. So we sued them in a class action, and we won . We own Apple stock, and I've worked as a Mac SysAdmin and we'll ne

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