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AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons(chesterwisniewski.com)
233 points by rakel_rakel 14d ago|275 comments
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by rakel_rakel 20d ago
I enjoyed this post. I don't know if this is the correct thread for it, but am I the only one thinking that this call for regulation is nothing but a way for the American AI companies to try and mitigate being overrun by the competitio
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by rakel_rakel 1mo ago
ha! I was happily surprised to see this article posted because it felt like it was picking up where the technical discourse was before LLM's took over. 2022 explains that perfectly, albeit leaves me less happy.
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by rakel_rakel 2mo ago
If that company only hosted projects written in assembly and you don't write assembly... then you not doing business there is the desired outcome for the both of you, what's the gotcha there?
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by rakel_rakel 2mo ago
In a recent interview the founder stated something like "we're enabling people to write software at a fraction of what it used to cost". I believe that to currently be true... maybe... if you're a single dev building som
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by rakel_rakel 3mo ago
Interesting, thanks. I don't know where "around here" is, but the signals I've seen in a lot of articles is that the demand for junior software people has taken a dive since a year or two back, with student programs etc
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by rakel_rakel 3mo ago
> I don't think researchers in math/TCS will be made obsolete, but I think it will instead no longer make sense to work on any low-hanging, or even medium-hanging (you know what I mean) fruit. We'll be needed for problems
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by rakel_rakel 3mo ago
What a great post! I would love to read more of these for other films. > Everything in the set was real. We couldn't fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. > ... > - Cory Fa
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A graph that should be front-page news(lyrebirddreaming.com)
697 points by rakel_rakel 3mo ago|449 comments
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by rakel_rakel 3mo ago
People creating things that didn't exist before is so refreshing, and Prahou is such an amazing artist. Making it look easy (or for the untrained eye like silly scribbles on old thinkpads) he created a whole world around his characters
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by rakel_rakel 3mo ago
Not going with something already widely deployed (like strlcpy), which could also be used in userland (strscpy can't, it's return value in case of failure is out of scope) is exactly what I would expect from Linux. You do you!
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by rakel_rakel 3mo ago
I read every piece like this one as: Money is moving in the vulnerability space now, when as before the LLM hype incentivized that, your best bet was that someone skilled enough would accept living with the financial insecurity of being a g
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by rakel_rakel 4mo ago
It's funny that the system config page ( https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-... ) lists pebibytes for RAM configurations... in this day and age where buying a 16GB stick
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by rakel_rakel 4mo ago
That's awesome, I'm happy for you finding such great value in it! Not sure if it's important or not, but for the sake of OP's discussion I note that your value is not necessarily tied to "speed of execution".
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by rakel_rakel 4mo ago
> Which things, specifically? Low level systems programming mostly. Embedded systems, *nix userland programs, API and library design, sometimes including writing assembly although in very small fractions.
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by rakel_rakel 4mo ago
> I’ll probably make a lot of enemies by saying this, do people realize that code is just a means to an end? You will need a lot more to make yourself my enemy, but this is the divisor between us... not that you like to use Claude and I
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by rakel_rakel 4mo ago
I agree, it's very off-putting, and I totally understand that the amount of reports are overwhelming for maintainers of popular libraries. > More reports means more fixes means more code changes means more bugs. Sounds like we'
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by rakel_rakel 4mo ago
I agree about letting AI loose on rsync is baffling, and also that how the issue was filed was incredible obnoxious. A thought crossed my mind though, with the risk of going slightly off topic. Disregarding the fact that mature software lik
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by rakel_rakel 4mo ago
> The bottom performers won’t have that self check. They are the ones producing 10x output with the agents. What do you think is happening to the average output of that organization? Nailed it! At my last place this was encouraged (by no
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by rakel_rakel 5mo ago
> Be scared when random AI companies IPO with bad ideas and no revenue. Shouldn't we at least be a little bit scared already when shoe companies pivot to AI and their stock goes up ~750%?
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by rakel_rakel 5mo ago
That's helpful, thanks! Once past IPO, I suspect the 70% -> R&D must shrink, right? I mean, to keep the stock afloat long term P/E must come down right? Public investors strike me as less willing to pour money into R&D,
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by rakel_rakel 5mo ago
The hyperbolic nature of the articles in both AI camps is very exhausting to me. I'd like to get in front of a whiteboard with someone who knows economics and the token providers businesses well enough to answer my "explain to me
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by rakel_rakel 5mo ago
; cat content.txt 3!;
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by rakel_rakel 6mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/ I recommend you go look at some of his talks on Youtube, his best five talks are probably all in my all time top-ten list!
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by rakel_rakel 6mo ago
If I understand you correctly, you're asking me if I would class this as a 20k USD (plus environmental and societal impact) bug? nope, I don't. I've not said anything else than that I think this specific bug isn't worth
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by rakel_rakel 6mo ago
Spending $20000 (and whatever other resources this thing consumes) on a denial of service vulnerability in OpenBSD seems very off balance to me. Given the tone with which the project communicates discussing other operating systems approache
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Scott Hanselman on AI-Assisted Development Tools(se-radio.net)
4 points by rakel_rakel 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rakel_rakel 6mo ago
> On the global stage, state-sponsored attacks from actors like China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have threatened to compromise the infrastructure that underpins both civilian life and military readiness. AITA for thinking that PRISM
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by rakel_rakel 6mo ago
> I'm not sure that analysis (and perhaps especially security analysis) is the biggest issue with LLMs. I was replying to the statement that "maybe code quality is really not that important for trivial things", not whether
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by rakel_rakel 6mo ago
> maybe code quality is really not that important for trivial things I hear this narrative being pushed quite a bit, and it makes my spidey senses tingle every time. Secure programs are a subset of correct programs, and to write and main

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