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by scotty79 5mo ago
Asking non-leading questions is a skill. Sometimes I feel the urge to mention something to AI (in a question or in passing), but I stop myself because I know it will stick to that thing and become dumber because of it. I usually don't
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by scotty79 5mo ago
I think AI reveals how diverse are people psychologically. I have exactly zero anger when AI makes mistakes. I don't try to point out its past mistakes. I don't expect consistency. When there are mistakes I just calmly, sometimes
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by scotty79 5mo ago
From a very brief description, very quickly, AI can build me a thing that I don't want. But I didn't know I don't want it before it was built. With this new found knowledge I can refine my description and build another thing
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by scotty79 5mo ago
The other thing that caught my eye is that M has the thickening on the opposite side to N. I thought it was for easier recognition of similar letters (same with A and R, O and Q), but U and V have the thickening on the same side. Maybe C vs
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by scotty79 5mo ago
> > It seems more likely to me that you could spend $20 to find a vulnerability in a piece of software that costed you $20k in human labor. > The topic is whether or not we have data suggesting that AI-written code is or can be sec
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by scotty79 5mo ago
You think an outbreak, in for example Belgium, would be 24/7 news in Demorcatic Republic of Congo?
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by scotty79 5mo ago
What are the numbers on how secure is human written code? We should have something to compare AI numbers to. It seems more likely to me that you could spend $20 to find a vulnerability in a piece of software that costed you $20k in human la
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by scotty79 5mo ago
Wow, the industry is only 50% in the hole during such a massive buildout that overburdens supply chains of such basic and general resources as energy and chips? This is going to be insanely profitable in less than a decade. I'd be deli
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by scotty79 5mo ago
Most business is finding the river of money, attaching yourself to it skilfully and sucking a small fraction for yourself.
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by scotty79 5mo ago
I have a weird take on income tax. In my opinion it's not a tax on the employee but on the employer and one of very few solid methods of actually taxing the rich (for as long as the rich need labor to get richer). Your income tax money
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by scotty79 5mo ago
What evidence would you expect to see if that was the case?
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by scotty79 5mo ago
> is not "their data" If they posess it, it's their data. Nobody borrowed it to them and they didn't obtain any private (unpublished) information. They only collected published data. So it's theirs. By the natura
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by scotty79 5mo ago
If you penalize and stigmatize copying, you get broken attribution.
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by scotty79 5mo ago
"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer." There's an interesting duality. If you are someone people can target with relentless online harassment, you should be mortally scared to share your honest opinion
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by scotty79 5mo ago
Agent is not someone. It is a tool. Just a one that you operate using natural language. You don't have to use software developer vocabulary, but it really helps if you want to achieve specific things regarding software development.
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by scotty79 5mo ago
You seem to think you can only be an engineer if you are holding the shovel yourself. Building software consists of many parts. I love each individually. I was always a bit dissatisfied about how they interact and how they block each other.
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by scotty79 5mo ago
AI is a new medium that's rapidly replacing the internet in similar fashion that the internet replaced TV.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
Let's hope they don't go kinetic.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
I hope somebody figures out at some point how to do roofing with large integrated panels that could be solar.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
And also create novel math proofs.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
Nothing ever was solved without reductivity.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
> remember that we all poop in the city water before they try to get it all back out and bleach it Is there any place in the developed world that treats mixing sewage into your water source as a viable strategy of providing municipal wat
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by scotty79 6mo ago
In history there were countless men that promised paradise, if only we destroyed something.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
I think it's cognitive overload. Everyone, every so often, exceeds their momentary cognitive capacity and wants everything to go away to reduce complexity. It might be that due to rapid pace of development in 2026 more people experienc
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by scotty79 6mo ago
> There is no secret sauce the US labs have that the Chinese ones don't, or won't have soon enough. Over last year it seems that the only thing US labs are ahead is money spent. At least half of technical innovations if not mor
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by scotty79 6mo ago
I tried using Rust but the development just seemed too slow. C# gets you good results form AI.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
I think AI makes writing second (or third, or fourth) implementation way easier. So it may actually happen more often with the AI. At this point Zig implementation of Bun seems like one written to throw away. And it happened only thanks to
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by scotty79 6mo ago
Just few days ago, I found myself marking a part of my screen with rectangle and pasting what's there into chatGPT to find out more about what was referenced there. This has a good utility.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
You may have very different definition of what stupid means then I do. For me, for example if somebody does something immoral, or tries to cut corners when they shouldn't this looks incredibly stupid and is ground for termination. Very
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by scotty79 6mo ago
More of a general rule I developed as a devloper. Don't work for stupid people (or even cooperate with them). As soon as somebody reveals themselves as stupid, quit, cut all ties. It's not worth it. Every benefit you can get from

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