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Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?(mastrojs.github.io)
407 points by xyzal 5mo ago|334 comments
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by xyzal 5mo ago
Everyone laments how everyone will get "a lot" of days off in the end, but regulation is still a dirty word in here.
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by xyzal 5mo ago
Don't worry guys, if the situation gets too bad, the social contract breaks, heads will roll for a while and then it will get better. "Inevitable"
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by xyzal 5mo ago
Exactly. Regarding software, it is trained on a massive corpus of code and the feedback loop can be very fast (playing well into LLM's upsides) and results are ... mediocre. Recently I had to go through some building regulations and Cl
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by xyzal 5mo ago
"imagine you are Google circa 2002. users enter a search query and you return 10 relevant HTML links to specific, real web pages, with no commentary or any extra guff. you must literally only return a list of links. if you do anything
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by xyzal 5mo ago
Sigh. I guess there isn't any "min-release-age" for extensions ...
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'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech(theguardian.com)
76 points by xyzal 5mo ago|58 comments
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by xyzal 5mo ago
I think discussion with open registration is doomed precisely for this reason, it is too open to being influenced by bad actors. Maybe the lobste.rs invitation model would be better ...
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by xyzal 5mo ago
I work at software in a medical setting. We are piloting an integration with a startup for measuring [some bodily variable relevant in ICU setting]. They are obviously vibecoding (docs are telling) and their API is failing in unexpected way
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by xyzal 5mo ago
Love it. This needs to become a new trend, and price per token can't rise soon enough.
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by xyzal 5mo ago
This is THE ONE domain where you would want to use classical machine learning and not unreliable LLMs. Unless you want to kill yourself, that is.
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by xyzal 5mo ago
You are on a venture capital run forum. A lot of people here would approve of this business model, as long as it brings in monies ...
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by xyzal 5mo ago
Underrated comment
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by xyzal 5mo ago
https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/donate
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Utah's 'hyperscale' data center could create heat island near Great Salt Lake(sltrib.com)
2 points by xyzal 5mo ago|0 comments
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by xyzal 5mo ago
"Everyone is doing it ⇒ it must be right." See also: bloodletting, leaded gasoline and parachute pants.
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by xyzal 5mo ago
With the amount of shit code generated it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
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by xyzal 5mo ago
Not even deterministic autocomplete.
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by xyzal 5mo ago
It is. You can't tinker with someone else's machine.
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by xyzal 5mo ago
This is exactly why is legislation like the Digital Markets Act needed.
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Flaws in Kenya's AI-driven health reforms driving up costs for the poorest(theguardian.com)
1 points by xyzal 6mo ago|0 comments
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by xyzal 6mo ago
Regarding US healthcare costs, I cannot understand why people are not in the streets with pitchforks. Most of Europe has this problem solved. What is the root cause w.r.t. the current situation? Are there any obvious ways out? Do any US pol
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by xyzal 6mo ago
Probably in cognitive surrender. I have one such colleague and he is driving me crazy. "Claude sad that ..."
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World Inequality Report 2026 [pdf](wir2026.wid.world)
1 points by xyzal 6mo ago|0 comments
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by xyzal 6mo ago
I think there should be venues to speak anonymously, just not places where large-scale political discussion takes place.
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by xyzal 6mo ago
It did solve the spam/russian bot problem on https://www.lide.cz/ . You have to verify yourself using a national ID and you discuss under your citizen name. The conversation is since somehow way more thoughtful and civ
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by xyzal 6mo ago
Text generation is now cheap, so I expect this problem to worsen. I hate to write it, but I don't see any other solution on platforms, that aspire to be a modern agora, than identity verification ...
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by xyzal 6mo ago
Enjoy setting up a GoFundMe if you ever get cancer.
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by xyzal 6mo ago
Only in America, where markets magically solve all issues.
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by xyzal 6mo ago
This enforcement costs argument is wrong. The point is not to enforce such a ban, it's to signal where the collective consensus is.

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