senordevnyc

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by senordevnyc 5d ago
Probably because it's utterly pointless to try and convince someone in 2026 that LLMs are useful for coding. Why waste time trying to talk to someone with their head in the sand?
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by senordevnyc 5d ago
lol, yeah, you clearly don’t care at all
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by senordevnyc 5d ago
It seems obvious then that the answer is supporting the much smaller displaced people, not stopping progress for the entire population (and future generations).
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by senordevnyc 5d ago
I live in one of those little towns now where Uber isn’t always available because no one is logged on, and it was a nightmare to get a cab pre-Uber in little towns like this. You’d call, and were lucky if anyone picked up, lucky if the wait
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by senordevnyc 5d ago
No, that would be more honest. Instead you’re asking loaded questions as if anyone owes you an explanation or proof.
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by senordevnyc 5d ago
I agree, I use LLMs all day to build my business, to run my business, etc. I follow as much AI news and developments as I can. I play with as many of the tools as I can. I listen to interviews with the leading researchers at the big labs an
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by senordevnyc 5d ago
This faux socratic method flavor of AI skepticism is so cringe at this point, and reeks of your own insecurity in your beliefs. We get it, you don't think AI is useful for the type of coding people claim it is. Why on earth would anyon
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by senordevnyc 6d ago
Nah, you still see those people posting here, saying that LLMs are useless for coding. I have no idea what they’re on about at this point.
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by senordevnyc 7d ago
For better or worse, Israel is our ally, and countries go to war on behalf of their allies being attacked. And yes, the US has a valid argument for attacking Saudi Arabia for funding terrorists that have attacked the US. That they have not
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by senordevnyc 7d ago
Uh, no, I do not remember how Twitter is massively more successful than it was as a public business. Can you enlighten me?
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by senordevnyc 7d ago
Missing this one: https://www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQpim8?si=YfuIXAI7N-zy_XTv
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by senordevnyc 8d ago
This was a stupid war to get into and it’s been prosecuted embarrassingly poorly, but Iran has been sponsoring terrorist groups all over the world for decades. They’re not some innocent country going about their business who was suddenly at
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by senordevnyc 9d ago
For what it’s worth, I suspect that right now the majority of people would agree with you. They would say that obviously ChatGPT isn’t conscious, based on their intuitions, but would struggle just like you are when pressed to explain their
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by senordevnyc 9d ago
I agree, I really do. But the reality here is that if the mathematicians want the rest of us dum-dums to pay for them to work deliberately more slowly on things that we can’t begin to understand and have no foreseeable practical benefit to
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by senordevnyc 9d ago
All true, but I’m guessing the set of people at Google who can fill out that form is about 1000x larger than the ones who have the ability to influence the underlying product decisions that led to this situation.
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by senordevnyc 9d ago
It makes a huge, huge difference. Gross criminal negligence that results in the deaths of many civilians should of course be fully investigated and prosecuted, but it’s not the kind of pure evil that would do this intentionally. And I don’t
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by senordevnyc 9d ago
Not torpedoes, but as a former enlisted member of the US Navy, most everything else here I agree with. Shameful.
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by senordevnyc 9d ago
Yeah, this Brazilian dude who has been a contributor here on HN longer than your anonymous account is shilling for a Chinese model company. Makes sense.
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by senordevnyc 10d ago
I didn't say anything about GDP. I said consumption. Specifically: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A794RX0Q048SBEA
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by senordevnyc 10d ago
People might care about this for chess, but no one really cares if an LLM can command an army or manage production of a business without any tools. If it can do those tasks reliably when given access to tools (including any tools it autonom
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by senordevnyc 10d ago
But does that matter? If the goal for buyers of AI is “replace this knowledge worker”, how much does it matter that the model in a simple loop can’t do it, but the model with a strong general purpose harness and a little time to gather reso
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by senordevnyc 10d ago
I have a similar heuristic for short HN comments.
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by senordevnyc 10d ago
Fair point, although I think it’s pretty hard to predict what immigration will look like over the next few decades. But yes, the peak could come in a couple decades, not a half century, so stipulated. Does that meaningfully change whether c
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by senordevnyc 10d ago
But in terms of real products that affect people's lives in positive ways, capitalism has a problem. There are going to be fewer real people in the future, which means a shrinking market for everything, which makes it harder to justif
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by senordevnyc 11d ago
Defianus Kogoya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Gome_torture_scandal
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by senordevnyc 11d ago
It's so ironic that your first paragraph is an example of your second.
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by senordevnyc 11d ago
I'm curious what your working definition of "actual intelligence" is.
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by senordevnyc 11d ago
Is "meaning" inherent to intelligence? Is emotion and the ability to have a subjective experience inherent to meaning? Genuine questions that I'm not sure we have good answers for yet. Your other point that humans need very f
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by senordevnyc 11d ago
Did they edit their comment? I don't see anything about "per day".
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by senordevnyc 11d ago
A few years ago I got to accompany a small group of friends to an isolated tiny village on the southern coast of SW Papua, and I swam with the jellyfish in one of the inland saltwater lakes you’re describing! That trip still remains the coo

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