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by whynotminot 1y ago
Your cost just shifts elsewhere, then. Rolling your own stack from Linux up is a big endeavor too.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Might have missed the boat on that. It’s everyone’s wet dream that Apple buys Anthropic, but I’m guessing their valuation now is already too high even for Apple. And why would Amazon let that happen? It’s a solid match but not happening unl
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Yeah, these things never happened when humans were trusted without sufficient review and oversight of changes to production.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Where did I say my yardsticks are better? I don’t even think I set out any of mine I said having to satisfy “all” the yard sticks is stupid, because one could conceive a truly infinite number of arbitrary yard sticks.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
OP said all yardsticks and I said that was infinitely arbitrary… because it literally is infinitely arbitrary. You can conjure up an infinite amount of yardsticks. As far as driving itself goes as a yardstick, I just don’t find it inter
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by whynotminot 1y ago
> Just like self-driving is going well on an empty race track. Look, a time traveler from 2019.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Good luck on your journey. I think the world is going to surprise you, and you’d be better for opening your eyes a little wider.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
I had a friend who had his Tesla drive him from his driveway in another city 3+ hrs away to my driveway with no intervention. I feel like everyone’s opinion on how self-driving is going is still rooted in 2018 or something and no one has up
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Walking is going pretty well for robotics lately. Good luck with that take
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Teslas and Waymo’s drive better than the majority of humans already. Of course there are caveats there, but is driving really the yardstick you want to use?
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by whynotminot 1y ago
That is stupid. It would be possible to be infinitely arbitrary to the point of “AGI” never being reachable by some yard sticks while still performing most viable labor.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Why would you say that when this very contract appears to extend the arrangement almost indefinitely
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by whynotminot 1y ago
There are a lot of humans that can’t drive a car (well). Part of the problem with “AGI” is everyone has their own often totally arbitrary yard sticks.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Were you getting random text? Or actual targeted spam? For some reason I find it really funny to potentially be getting printed out adverts for shady boner pills or singles near you.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Many of you don't seem to grasp that AI isn't a binary "don't use at all" or "all-in on pure slop" proposition. AI assisted development is not automatically vibe-coding. Believe it or not, you can actually
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by whynotminot 1y ago
You don’t get to gatekeep this forum.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
You still haven’t suggested anything practical to actually do. That’s a lot of words to say basically nothing.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Just chiming in to say that in this — my era of AI Anxiety — it’s pretty cool you found something new and interesting to apply your talents to at 40. It feels like we’re all going to have to have a reinvention or two ahead of us.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
I get it, but fundamentally this is a forum discussing technology, and AI is part of that. Especially as it relates to software engineering. I come here to learn, discuss, and frankly, to hang onto a good life as long as I can have it. The
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by whynotminot 1y ago
We all owe every part of everything to those who’ve come before us. That goes without saying, really. > Secondly, you are very blind if you don’t see that the AI making your job “easier” is close to replacing you entirely, if you don’t a
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Well, most of them (the hackers from the 70s) probably did do it solely for the love of the game. We’re 50 years past that now. We’re in the era of boot camps. I feel semi confident saying “most of us” meaning the current developer work for
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by whynotminot 1y ago
It’s a good thing I haven’t needed your respect so far to have a pretty successful career as a software engineer.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
Why would someone who likes solving problems choose a very lucrative career path solving problems… hmmm You can also solve problems as a local handyman but that doesn’t pad the 401K quite as well as a career in software. I feel like there’s
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by whynotminot 1y ago
I got a few paragraphs into this piece before rolling my eyes and putting it down. I consider myself an engineer — a problem solver. Like you said, code is just the means to solve the problems put before me. I’m just as content if solving t
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by whynotminot 1y ago
I wonder if that’s how we’ll eventually travel the universe. Generations living their whole lives onboard a ship migrating through space.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
> I'm still pretty happy with my 16gb M1 Air, but it would be nice to know some closer to real world differences. I’m confused — they made a comparison that is directly relevant to your situation and you don’t like it? Most people
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by whynotminot 1y ago
“We are behind NAT” just means you’ve got a router / home network like everyone else does these days right? Or am I missing something more here.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
You're not the only one. I think there's 12.
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by whynotminot 1y ago
> I'm sorry, I'm nowhere near an expert on gender theory but even I know this is BS: nobody is telling young men they're "evil for their gender." What they are told is the fact that they live in a patriarchy. Wel
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by whynotminot 1y ago
In a vacuum any added capability seems nice. And it seems so simple: "just let me go into desktop mode." In practice, the engineering effort to enable that just doesn't seem worth it. And in a zero-sum world of engineer time,

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