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811.
by overgard 1y ago
We could be spending that money on real problems instead of trying to automate away half the population
812.
by overgard 1y ago
I think there's a lot of people that would find saying "the entire approach here is unacceptable" to be "mean" though. But I generally agree with your point of not making it a personal insult.
813.
by overgard 1y ago
When I first read this, back in 2012, I thought Linus' was kind of a dick for being so insulting about it. With more experience I have more empathy for Linus' though -- sometimes developers will get hell bent on getting their PR t
814.
by overgard 1y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by deflationary, but in general deflation in an economy is a very bad thing. The most significant period of economic deflation in the US was 1930-1933, ie, the great depression, and the most recent pe
815.
by overgard 1y ago
Ok, but who benefits from these efficiencies? Hint: not the people losing their jobs. The main people that stand to benefit from this don't even need to work. Producing things cheaper sounds great, but just because its produced cheaper
816.
by overgard 1y ago
We need to stop calling what we have AI. LLMs can't reliably reason. Until they can the progress is far from unstoppable.
817.
by overgard 1y ago
I find it weird and uncomfortable too. Like, why are there a bunch of people excited about mass unemployment?
818.
by overgard 1y ago
>I think this is both right and wrong. There was a good book that came out probably 15 years ago about how technology never stops in aggregate, but individual technologies tend to grow quickly and then stall. Airplane jets were one examp
819.
by overgard 1y ago
AI didn't eat code.
820.
by overgard 1y ago
So far what I've seen from LLMs writing code is insecure bug ridden slop. They are changing the industry in that now I have to code review messes from developers and non developers being careless. AI image and video generation isn&#x27
821.
by overgard 1y ago
LLM's can't really reason, in my opinion (and in a lot of researchers), so, being a little harsh here but given that I'm pretty sure these things are trained on vast swaths of open source software I generally feel like what t
822.
by overgard 1y ago
I think as a culture we've fetishized formal schooling way past its value. I mean, how much of what you "learned" in school do you actually use or remember? I'm not against education , education is very important, but I
823.
by overgard 1y ago
You might appreciate this article since the email curating zealot and "business idiot" (in Ed's phrasing) are basically the same: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/ My suspicion h
824.
by overgard 1y ago
I think for any given job there's a tool thats likely best. If you hire me to paint your car and I show up with a paint brush you're probably not amused, because you know that it needs to be spray painted. If I hire you to program
825.
by overgard 1y ago
I don't normally comment on my score since thats a downvote brigade waiting to happen, but the amount people are offended by the idea that choosing tools has more to do with the project than personal taste is amusing!
826.
by overgard 1y ago
Or, here me out on this crazy idea, you could choose tools suited to the task at hand not on your own preferences but on what solves the job.
827.
by overgard 1y ago
If you care about the results you have to care about the craft, full stop.
828.
by overgard 1y ago
I mean, I'm not a mathematician but I don't expect that I should be able to write a proof. You talk of memorizing syntax like its a challenge but excluding a small number of advanced languages no programmer thinks syntax is hard.
829.
by overgard 1y ago
This might be a harsh thing to say, but I don't think the talent at Amazon is top notch because (from everything I've heard anyway) Amazon is such a nightmarishly dystopian place to work that, well, if you have a choice you probab
830.
by overgard 1y ago
I know I'm making an improvement by features I've shipped to customers. Bugs prevent me from shipping more features until they're fixed. I do not enjoy bugs.
831.
by overgard 1y ago
I spend all day fixing bugs and that's why they pay me -- because for most people it's not an enjoyable task. I'm not denying your experience but I will tell you I think you're an outlier. For most people, fixing bugs th
832.
by overgard 1y ago
You know, the point of AI in coding seems to be so that you can code in English, instead of a formal language. (And for some reason we're pretending like these formalisms are hard and the people that understand them evil gatekeepers, t
833.
by overgard 1y ago
At least the refurbished power plants needed for AI to talk to itself in bulk will create some jobs
834.
by overgard 1y ago
Ethics would be interesting if they thought. Which they don't. They predict tokens. And since when is blackmailing people ethical?
835.
by overgard 1y ago
I am definitely not giving these things access to "tools" that can reach outside a sandbox. Incidentally why is email inbox management always touted as some use case for these things? I'm not trusting any LLM to speak on my b
836.
by overgard 1y ago
I think another reason might just be: simplicity. A lot of these older games are much easier to pick up and grok. I remember I used to play a ton of Battlefield 1942 back in the day (like, in a competitive clan, going to LAN parties, that k
837.
by overgard 1y ago
Reason about what they're working on without hallucinating, as a small example.
838.
by overgard 1y ago
I wouldn't be shocked if Rick had AI generate this monstrosity.
839.
by overgard 1y ago
Ugh. I'm sick of vibe coding being called the wave of the future. There are people out there working on genuinely hard problems using real knowledge and skill. The idea that they're going to be replaced by people telling a chatbot
840.
by overgard 1y ago
Microsoft really seems out of control. Yesterday I noticed that OneDrive was turned on automatically (I've always been very clear about not turning it on). Which was incredibly shocking to me, that they'd just turn on uploading my

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