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by sublinear 2mo ago
So... basically an autocomplete to help you type faster and spot check if you did something unusual in the parts you wrote by hand?
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by sublinear 2mo ago
CGP Grey is never coming back
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I'd like to see an honest attempt at that. What's more interesting are the types of humans that might fail the Turing test. Maybe to discourage the failure of real humans, there could be consequences outside the context of the t
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> The results suggest that negative performance effects of exogenous melatonin may outweigh any benefits for healthy young adults Not surprising at all. The vast majority of people taking supplements are avoiding either the doctor, eatin
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> You'd think that LLMs fulfill this, but I do wonder if a clever human could still discern between them given their particularities. You don't even have to be that clever. We've all tried using it for work. They fail. In
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by sublinear 2mo ago
And you think YouTube represents the average user of q-tips? Even when YouTube has videos uploaded by doctors having to put up with this kind of stupidity, it doesn't change the fact that hardly anyone does that. The vast majority of s
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I'm really disappointed when these blog posts insist on political navelgazing. There's no political angle worth discussing because none of them touch the ground. We have to look at what we have with sober eyes and ignore the grift
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by sublinear 2mo ago
You're assuming at least two things that I disagree with. First about behavior in old age. I'm pretty sure the majority of adults today don't want to live and think like their grandparents, so we can't say "less&quo
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Of course, the SWEs making that much (over 200k) are not representative of the broader field. That's the point. Pay hits a ceiling, and that ceiling is moving lower regardless of experience. That has nothing to do with AI, but what the
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> software production has become a mass-produced commodity For who? The public? The public has never liked buying software at any price. Businesses? Businesses need higher quality software when it's relevant to their core competenci
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Keeping things up to date and holding critical infrastructure to higher standards than consumer tech is not a bad idea. Taking things offline and properly airgapped can also work, but wouldn't the cost of that exceed making specialized
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by sublinear 2mo ago
A language model does language model things? That might actually be... an appropriate use of the technology!
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Judgment was all there ever was to begin with. It's why it's what God himself does, although I'd be curious if there are deities that don't involve judgment in some form. Anyway, I completely agree and the past several y
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> It could be a while before the boost comes. ... There is another problem. If the productivity boost from AI is large enough to change any country’s fiscal arithmetic profoundly, vast job disruption is probably coming too, meaning more
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by sublinear 2mo ago
It might also be the design of the blog post. It's a wall of text and human made diagrams might have actually helped. I kind of don't like the font used for the body text either. That's more subjective, but sans-serif text te
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by sublinear 2mo ago
This blog post is so rambly that I don't think this discussion will go anywhere beyond the usual AI good/bad arguments. This is exactly the sort of thing that frustrates HN. Since we're not banning these submissions outright,
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Yes, the value of TPS reports diminishes with throughput. That's why Jevon's Paradox is the dumbest meme we've had this year. The parent concept of marginal utility describes why AI isn't that useful.
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by sublinear 2mo ago
To be fair, "confidence" and knowing "who you are" in college is largely an illusion. I would argue that "success" at that age is more a matter of being interesting and entertaining in a nonthreatening way. It
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by sublinear 2mo ago
You forgot to add "coordination" to that pipeline. That is easily far and away the biggest source of delays. That includes talking to vendors, meetings with every layer of stakeholder when just one person digs their heels, etc. Th
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> That lag creates a perverse choice every vendor of validated modules eventually faces: ship the security fix now and fall off the validated list for a year or more, or keep shipping the validated build with the known flaw. Customers wh
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> Now, it’s hard to justify having a lot of those easy ticket solver developers around. This is such a flawed, but common take. Are you seriously going to claim you were never a junior dev that nobody trusted with "hard tickets&quot
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Why does the tone have to be ragebait? This is just a basic overview of what compliance looks like.
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by sublinear 2mo ago
It's OpenAI still trying to maintain control of the narrative while they burn to the ground. For years they haven't really delivered while bullying anyone who doesn't have an "AI strategy". The media is happy to sto
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by sublinear 2mo ago
It's the state of junior devs who shouldn't have been hired over someone better qualified for the role. I can easily see a ton of cases of nepotism and EEOC violations being brought to court when the AI is taken away.
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by sublinear 2mo ago
All usage of AI is fraud
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by sublinear 2mo ago
The acceptance of the slop is the problem. We've had low effort fraud for all of human history. We absolutely need to revise our definition of fraud to include AI slop. People need to wake the fuck up. Nobody would accept a low quality
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I still don't understand why there's such a race to the bottom. If they don't want to make a movie properly, why make it at all? The corner cutting across the board has become so bad that these movies are unwatchable. This is
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by sublinear 2mo ago
The propaganda against Google Gemini is wild, but no thanks. We know how this will play out soon.
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Why did you make this comment? It's completely off topic. Your appeals to authority do not apply when the author is clearly telling you not to use it for that. We're well past the point where this kind of software eventually ends
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by sublinear 2mo ago
The audience will go on witch hunts. They will doxx anyone even tangentially related to a crime and commit Luigi-style assassinations. The police are very aware of the "street justice" they're encouraging. Just because they k

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