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by pydry 4mo ago
The effect environmentalists have on adoption is a rounding error compared to the humongous cost of nuclear power. Most non nuclear powers have a few for the same reason Iran does: having some nuclear scientists and a developed nuclear indu
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>environmentalists have choked it to death. Those regulations you despise were written in blood. Moreover, Nuclear power enjoys free catastrophe insurance. If a Fukushima style meltdown happens, the taxpayer is always on the hook for 95%
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China and South Korea build everything more cheaply because they have a better developed industrial base. Solar and wind is still vastly cheaper for them and still much cheaper when paired with storage.
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Microsoft: and the one thing we absolutely refuse to use AI for is to flag this kind of bullshit to protect users, because it would violate the rule of "don't do anything actually useful with it".
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their PR department is probably still trying to figure out what narrative the bots should follow for this one.
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This is the core of the insanity nobody who vibe codes seems to be able to grasp. It's not even that its more fun, AI can spew endless slop boilerplate but it simply can't handle boiling an application down to its component essenc
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Tech isn't special. The value of pretty much all productivity improvements since ~1979 have been captured either via the stock market (97% owned by the top 10% in wealth) or land rents.
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I don't think that is realistic. But, it can write your child's essay for them.
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if you're trying to use sloc as a proxy for productivity in any way, shape or form you've already lost the game. i tend to find that the most productive teams make better decisions and work fewer hours. the quality of decisions is
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So you have high slop tolerance. This is fine, it just means that there's very little point if you're an IC.
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I saw a little girl reading it on public transport just yesterday.
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I've started to realize after poring over pull requests which are, frankly, slop that the devs who are the most bullish on AI are the ones who raise those PRs and don't recognize the slop. AI for sure is giving all of them existen
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i think what's really splitting it might actually be differing levels of slop tolerance.
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This is essentially how das kapital got discredited in the public consciousness. If you browse any CS career forum though, at least 60% of the complaints about "the industry" happen in most capitalist industries and typically have
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Absolute horseshit. They maintain an app and some servers and do some cursory checks on drivers. Those things are pretty easy to do. In a properly competitive market for ridesharing apps those things would be commoditized to the point that
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The Economist reflects the views and biases of economic and political elites. AI has turned into something of a religion for them because the substitution of technology for labor is a reflection of one of their deepest desires. Whatever the
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Coz just about everyone wants to be that one guy in Nebraska thanklessly maintaining this bit of digital infrastructure, apparently? Yeah me neither. I think the only thing that would convince people to move away from curl at this point wou
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Why is that relevant to what I said?
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It's also possible it's not the future of programming.
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I did some of this stuff in college and what bugged me was that the spec actually ended up more complex than the code and it had bugs. That was a long time ago and they said that formal methods were the future back then, too.
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The issue isnt that theyre overlooking new value created it's that you're overlooking the enormous power imbalance some parties are using to exploit others for material gain. Uber's profit margins are about 10% value crea
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If your tests align with the spec and the tooling is good it isnt tedious. If you find writing tests tedious enough to make using an LLM to write them seem like a good idea you're probably churning out repetitive tests, unnecessary tes
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>Automating myself out of development >I want to start by saying that I’m neither an AI-fanatic Kind of like saying you are a fanatic before saying you aren't. I don't think theres too much here (e.g. "spec driven devel
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The fossil fuel lobbies want us to believe it is a way bigger problem than it is. The people who echo that sentiment without educating themselves are giving them a helping hand.
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I've never seen a greater disconnect between what I read on social media about vibe coding and what I've seen in real life. In particular the whole "the best people are the ones who will use it the best". IME the best on
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It's more of a culture of "but everybody else does it". I like how HTMX does SPAs. It straddles the divide nicely between simple and capable.
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it's kind of like saying like you could replace a king with an AI. the position is a relationship to power more than it is a function with a productive output. a bad king and a bad CEO could be replaced with a spinning top with no loss
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oh, you mean the interest rates crisis...
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I doubt the average person gives it much thought at all. This certainly isn't a result of democratic overreach by a concerned group of citizens. No demographic is demanding this. It's one of those "create the infrastructure f
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>see nonstop "Israel bad" "Chuck Schumer is feckless" or "jews control 9 times out of 10 somebody who perceives a huge amount of anti Semitism online wrapped up in criticism of israel will absolutely categoricall

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