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by oytis 5mo ago
I don't understand it. The time-limited career would work if we were born with innate ability for software engineering and would lose it over time by using AI. Most people are not born with that ability though, it needs to be developed
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by oytis 5mo ago
What is the business model of open weight AI? I don't think there is any. At best it can serve as an advertisement for the more advanced models you sell. The huge difference to open source is that you can't just train an LLM with
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by oytis 5mo ago
Becase no one has written it. You can't ask the guy who has written it, not because this guy has left, but because he does not exist. Also, it often reads weirdly.
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by oytis 5mo ago
Yeah, that's my issue with llm code. If we imagine a future without human programmers - sure, go ahead, we are not there yet, but maybe it's possible. But if you want it to coexist with humans, then it doesn't seem to work we
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by oytis 5mo ago
But what is the purpose? When you rewrite a project in another language, it's for engineers to be able to maintain and further develop the project better on some metrics due to advantages of the language. It doesn't hold when LLM
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by oytis 5mo ago
What is that? Does he let openclaw post for him? Wikipedia article on the same topic is more informative
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by oytis 5mo ago
I dunno, you have experience being a kid, right? Young kids are just not interested enough to look for porn, not to say figure out how to use VPN to access it. Lax restrictions like we have today are enough to stop porn from being forced on
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by oytis 5mo ago
These dimwits (and I don't just mean those in EU) seriously want to stop adolescents from watching porn, and are ready to mess with internet infrastructure for that. That's a depressing manifestation of aging society
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by oytis 5mo ago
The old saying of Tony Hoare about no obvious bugs vs obviously no bugs holds in the age of LLMs more than ever
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by oytis 5mo ago
It went down on poor earnings call. Layoffs were probably an attempt to soften the blow. Hard to tell what was the effect, because the two happened simultaneously
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by oytis 5mo ago
That's the thing. There is no surplus labour capacity, neither they have any ideas for moonshot projects that could pay off left
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by oytis 5mo ago
Why does "the future" in corporate announcements always mean layoffs?
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by oytis 5mo ago
I think antirez mentioned somewhere he considered it particularly good at systems programming.
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by oytis 5mo ago
I have recently learned Kubernetes without AI and one week is more than enough to understand most of it.
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by oytis 5mo ago
They seem to have changed the headline. The one in the archived article the post quotes is "Is AI the next phase of evolution? Claude appears to be conscious". Again, "appears to be" is not exactly the same as "is&
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by oytis 5mo ago
If I had to draw moral conclusions here, I'd say that looking for scientific evidence of consciousness is a waste of time, but ascribing it to a bunch of matrices can be as detrimental to one's thinking as denying it in other peop
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by oytis 5mo ago
Its in the headline. Also he talks about the persona he assigned to his chat like "she" was conscious (e.g. "she was pleased")
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by oytis 5mo ago
Because it's a philosophical category, not something you can measure. You can experience it in yourself, but not prove its existence in others
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by oytis 5mo ago
I am less sure about his argument about democratising software indeed. The only problem in my own life that I solve with software is a problem of getting paid, so what do I know. If someone can generate a piece of code for their needs, and
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by oytis 5mo ago
The article addresses exactly this objection. Most importantly, it quotes that AI coding tools have a detrimental effect on software stability - which is basically raison d'etre for our profession. When it produces more robust software
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by oytis 5mo ago
That gotta be a joke right? It's like running agents to write agent ochestrators to write orchestrators for orchestrators just for clean code
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by oytis 5mo ago
Well, ease is one incentive, yes :) Another is the complexity of the language when it comes to low-level programming. E.g. bytemuck I've mentioned before solves a problem that is hard to even explain to a C developer.
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by oytis 5mo ago
There is a difference in C and Rust culture. Embedded C projects rarely have external dependencies, and in rare cases when there are dependencies (e.g. most projects use vendor SDKs nowadays), they are pinned and there is an expectation of
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by oytis 5mo ago
I only tried Rust for small hobby projects, but I did experience weird code rot when you just leave the code there and after a while it does not compile. Might have something to do with how Cargo manages dependencies
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by oytis 5mo ago
I have yet to see the monumental acceleration tbh. For people who never tried writing code themselves a semi-formal spec is definitely a step in the right direction though
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by oytis 5mo ago
That's what the article is about - overcoming problems with AI cooding tools using specs in Yaml. If we've got that far, it might be better to write specs in a proper programming language instead and skip the AI layer altogether
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by oytis 6mo ago
That makes sense to me. "Write me a good CV" and "find me CVs in this pile" are kind of two queries for the same underlying data.
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by oytis 6mo ago
Why is it news? Why grown up people in charge of tech businesses assume it's not going to happen? It's a slot machine - sometimes you get a jackpot, sometimes you lose. Make sure losing is cheap by implementing actual technical gu
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by oytis 6mo ago
Universal basic income is not an adequate replacement for a good career. Universal unconditional prosperity might be one, but it's not clear whether AI can really do that.
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by oytis 6mo ago
What's the context for that, I don't get it

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