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by overgard 8mo ago
I feel bad for the guy, but.. a journalist in tech whose beat is AI should know much better. I'd be a lot more forgiving if this was like a small publication by someone that didn't follow AI.
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by overgard 8mo ago
What I don't understand is how is this agent still running? Does the author not read tech news (seems unlikely for someone running openclaw). Or is this some weird publicity stunt? (But then why is nobody walking forward to take credit
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by overgard 8mo ago
I'm not sure I agree with the Sideprocalypse idea linked in the blog. Granted, there is a lot of "hustle" content out there about how all you need to do is vibe code an existing business idea and pay for their SEO course. And
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by overgard 8mo ago
Unintentionally mean sounding statement but... From my observation, the people that are the most excited about AI are low skilled/unskilled people in that domain. If said people treated AI as a learning tool, everything would be great
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by overgard 8mo ago
What could go wrong.. I wonder if anyone in tech ever watches Black Mirror (other than the AI zealots that seem to watch it and go "SO MANY GREAT IDEAS!")
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by overgard 8mo ago
Interesting, but I'm kind of confused why you'd need lazy loads for a local file? Like, how big are these files expected to be? (Or is the lazy loading just to support lazy loading its already doing?)
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by overgard 8mo ago
I'm glad we have intelligent, mature, uncorrupted politicians who will be able to work together to make sure that this doesn't cause a depression so profound that the entire economy ceases to be viable. Oh..
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by overgard 8mo ago
What contingency plan is there exactly? At best you're just going from an automated-already job to a soon-to-be-automated job. Yay? I'm baffled that so many people think that only developers are going to be hit and that we especia
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by overgard 8mo ago
I don't think that's true, if you trust gemini at least.. "In 2025, U.S. software engineer pay is barely keeping pace with inflation, with median compensation growing 2.67% year-over-year compared to 2.7% inflation. While sal
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by overgard 8mo ago
What's going to be interesting going forward is what happens when a bot that can be traced back to a real life entity (person or company) does something like this while stating that it's on behalf of their principle (seems like it
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by overgard 8mo ago
I have mixed feelings on this (besides obviously being sad about the loss of a good person). I think one of the useful things about AI chat is that you can talk about things that are difficult to talk to another human about, whether it&#x27
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by overgard 9mo ago
I just saw a video this morning of Sam Altman talking about how in 2026 he's worried that AI is going to be used for bioweapons. I think this is just more fear mongering, I mean, you could use the internet/google to build all sort
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by overgard 9mo ago
I mean, the leaders of these companies and politicians have been framing it that way for a while, but if AGI isn't possible with LLMs (which I think is the case, and a lot of important scientists also think this), then it raises a ques
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by overgard 9mo ago
I hope they don't. These are large language models, not true intelligence, rewriting a soul.md is more likely just to cause these things to go off the rails more than they already do
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by overgard 9mo ago
They aren't truly intelligent so we shouldn't consider them to be. They're a system that, for a given stream of input tokens predicts the most likely next output token. The fact that their training dataset is so big makes th
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by overgard 9mo ago
Well, the way the language is composed reads heavily like an LLM (honestly it sounds a lot like ChatGPT), so while I think a human puppeteer is plausible to a degree I think they must have used LLMs to write the posts.
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by overgard 9mo ago
I hate when people say this. SOME engineers didn't care, a lot of us did. There's a lot of "engineers getting a taste of their own medicine" sentiment going around when most of us just like an intellectual job where we g
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by overgard 9mo ago
> Do you think companies like Anthropic and Google would have released these tools if they knew what they were capable of, though? I have no beef with either of those companies, but.. yes of course they would, 100/100 times. Large c
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by overgard 9mo ago
I'm guessing this was probably accidental/weird consequence, but it does raise a much scarier possibility. If someone wanted to set AI models out against people as a reputational attack dog (automating all sorts of vicious things
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by overgard 9mo ago
I didn't miss it, I just think it's going to be a rare outcome. I'm sure companies will become a little more bold about new products or new features, but I think there's an upper limit to the amount of change customers
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by overgard 9mo ago
Pretty sure it's illegal. You can get peptides (even GLP-1's) legally from various sources for "Research Purposes", but they're marked as "Not For Human Consumption" (even though, on the sly, I'm sure
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by overgard 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure scrapers aren't supposed to act as low key DOS attacks
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by overgard 9mo ago
"You don't need money if you just do this recklessly dangerous and uncomfortable thing." (don't worry about how to pay the ambulance bill when you hit some black ice..)
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by overgard 9mo ago
I think you're ignoring how much poor people rely on each other and relatives to get by. That's our societies "safety net". That doesn't mean they're "thriving" or even comfortable, nor is it even sus
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by overgard 9mo ago
Hard disagree on this. $26.50 sounds like a nightmare 10 years ago, let alone now. There's a lot of places in the US where having a car is essentially mandatory (actually, most places). If you can't afford a car, that limits where
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by overgard 9mo ago
Leaky abstractions have always been a problem. Sometimes people like to use them as an example of "see, you didn't understand the assembly, so why do you care about... X". The logic seems to be "see, almost all your abst
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by overgard 9mo ago
I bought Steve Yegge's "Vibe Coding" book. I think I'm about 1/4th of the way through it or so. One thing that surprised me is there's this naivete on display that workers are going to be the ones to reap the b
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by overgard 9mo ago
> "Anti-LLM sentiment" within software development is nearly non-existent. Strong disagree right there. I remember talking to a (developer) coworker a few months ago who seemed like the biggest AI proponent on our team. When we
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by overgard 9mo ago
And the subsequent youtube hype videos of "COMPILER WRITING IS OVER!"
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by overgard 9mo ago
I haven't looked at it directly, so I can speak on quality, but it's a pretty weird way to write a terminal app

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