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by pbw 1y ago
Yes, GPT-5's response above was not shortening because there was nothing in the OP about Plato's Cave. I agree that Plato's cave analogy was confusing here. Here's a better one from GPT-5, which is deeply ironic: A New Y
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by pbw 1y ago
LLM's can shorten and maybe tend to if you just say "summarize this" but you can trivially ask them to do more. I asked for a summary of Jenson's post and then offer a reflection, GPT-5 said, "It's similar to t
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by pbw 1y ago
We need to get the male’s genetic material into the female’s body. How many redundant copies should we send. 100? 1000? A voice in back of the room: 50 million.
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by pbw 1y ago
This is cool but I feel like typing speed and vim skills are going to play less of a role in overall development speed as AI use increases. But certainly it won’t hurt to type fast, even if it’s mostly typing prompts.
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by pbw 1y ago
Another datapoint is working earlier eras sound bad to me: punchcards, assembly, COBOL, FORTRAN. Yes I suspect those people had a blast.
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by pbw 1y ago
I also started in the 1990’s and agree the evolution has been as you describe it. It does highly depend on where you work, but the tightly managed JIRA-driven development seems awfully popular. But I fall short of declaring the 1990s or 200
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by pbw 1y ago
By all means “organize together to place demands on your employers”. I didn’t say don’t do that. But there are 24 hours in a day — maybe strive to be good at your job AND organize instead of doing just one or the other?
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by pbw 1y ago
“I'm 100% sure nothing will ever improve.” Nothing? Ever? Brainwashed?
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by pbw 1y ago
Companies will always try to capture the productivity gains from a new tool or technique, and then quickly establish it as the new standard for everyone. This is frustrating and feels Sisyphean: it seems like you simply cannot get ahead. Th
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by pbw 1y ago
Is there a similar feature available for SQLite? Will there need to be a totally new extension for every DB, or is there a shared portion?
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by pbw 2y ago
I'm the OP, and I think of it as more "completely and utterly inevitable" than "needed." Given our personalities and history, the promise of curing all diseases, along with many other promises, will compel us forwar
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Five Things AI Will Not Change(metastable.org)
14 points by pbw 2y ago|4 comments
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We Won't Be Ants(metastable.org)
2 points by pbw 2y ago|0 comments
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We Won't Be Ants: Five Things AI Will Not Change(metastable.org)
1 points by pbw 2y ago|0 comments
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We Won't Be Ants(metastable.org)
3 points by pbw 2y ago|0 comments
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We Will Not Be Ants(metastable.org)
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by pbw 2y ago
Their experiments started in 2021 and the change was made in 2025? This makes me think AI writing code for us will only speed things up so much.
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We Won't Be Ants: What AI Will Not Change(metastable.org)
3 points by pbw 2y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 2y ago
The board can and should be friendly with the p-corp owner. Almost all the time they are going to be green light everything. They are really just a "sanity check" (literally). Now you could say how do we "make sure" the
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by pbw 2y ago
In the post, I say private individuals can own assets in two ways, as individuals (up to a cap) or through a personal corporation (no cap). So, if you start a company that becomes huge and your slice is worth $100 billion, or even $10 trill
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by pbw 2y ago
I wrote this in 2021: Billionaires: Our Single Point of Failure https://metastable.org/billionaires/
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What Won't Change with Powerful AI(metastable.org)
2 points by pbw 2y ago|0 comments
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What Won't Change: Powerful AI won't change everything(metastable.org)
2 points by pbw 2y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 2y ago
I don't think using AI to write code precludes learning deeply about the problem domain and even the solution. However, it could lead to those problems depending on how it's done. But done well you can still have a very knowledgea
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by pbw 2y ago
I always heard it as "software development is an exercise in knowledge acquisition."
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by pbw 2y ago
I wrote this to probe the question of why “slow” languages are popular and valid when used in conduction with fast ones: https://tobeva.com/articles/beyond/
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by pbw 2y ago
I don't love the analogy, but I 100% agree that we are putting AI tools into people's hands that they are not yet able to wield safely. I think this is mostly because of how quickly AI has been developed. New technologies can take
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by pbw 2y ago
Everything is physics at the bottom.
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ChatGPT acts out Truman Show scene [video](youtube.com)
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by pbw 2y ago
I really enjoy these. I’ve listened to them while driving —- blog posts by Astral Codex Ten or Paul Graham that I had never bothered to read. There are millions of real podcasts, but now there are an infinite number of AI generated ones. Th

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