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by y0eswddl 1y ago
You don't need a coordinated disinformation campaign for employees to drink the Kool-Aid and evangelize. all it takes is significant emotional investment for someone to become a bit blind to reality.
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lolol "I still use it, so clearly everyone else still loves it and thinks it's amazing"
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
...except a significant number of us programmers also think it's BS. The pullback also includes less use in development automation lately as well.
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
Because too many people are just as sycophant towards AI as it is towards us...
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
I'm sure the decline in openly identifying as some form of queer has nothing to do with how dangerous society has made things for them lately... it's similar to how almost all states have relatively consistently percentages of peo
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
the same way they add facial features and clothing detail to minfigs
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
that's just capitalism 101 - privatize profits, socialize failures
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
...have you seen the funding numbers for AI startups versus non-AI? it's not even remotely close rn... A major problem of the way we have built our society in a way such that the wrong people end up with the most power and authority. t
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
all the recent studies (that are constantly posted here) that say so.
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
disabling JavaScript also works for the Atlantic
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
Yeah, there are almost as many variations on grade point breakdown as there are teachers coming up with them... i had one class where homework was 20% of the grade and tests were 80%, i skipped all my homework and got an 80% from getting al
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
and soon/now triple as surveillance.
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
look for ad-blocking vpns like Mullvad or Proton. if you were in Android, I'd also recommend Brave browser and uBlock. there's also DNS blockers like Rethink app or custom DNS servers I don't understand how anyone browses the
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
the real reason is that adding friction to returns decreases them in general - even legitimate ones.
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
it was an account with almost 20 years of purchase history, how does that even apply?
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
Ahh the old "I'm going to pretend my utterly ridiculous suggestion is a reasonable and rational and expectation of the average human"
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
I'm sorry... I'm supposed to listen to... a tech CEO (of an AV company, no less)... about the concept of "intelligence"??
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
well, for one, there's 6 different formulas for unemployment/jobs numbers... and they don't count ppl who stopped looking for work for whatever reason nor do they count underemployed ppl who are working, but still don't
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
There's literally a study out the shows when developers think LLMs are making them 20% faster, it turned out to be making them 20% less productive: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
Huh? Can you explain this?
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
That wasn't LLMs, that's the incredibly vast amounts of personal data that companies collect on us and correlate to other shoppers' habits. There was nothing involved like what we refer to as "AI" today.
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
It's comments like these that motivate me to work to get to 500 on HN
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
Maybe you mean it'd be cheaper for companies to host centralized internal(ly trained) models... That seems to me more likely, more efficient to manage and more cost effective than individual laptop-local models. IMO, domain specific tr
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
I think the reason ads are so prolific now is because the pay-to-play model doesn't work well at such large scales... Ads seem to be there only way to make the kind of big money LLM investors will demand. I don't think you're
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
That's because it isn't. What's happening now is mostly executive fomo. No one wants to be left behind just in case AI beans turn out to be magic afterall... As much as we like to tell a story that says otherwise, most busine
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
Maybe not government, but much public resource was not driven by profit. The entire software industry relies on a foundation of free and open source software. The profit model wouldn't even exist without the work of people who do it pu
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
And you haven't proven government is worse
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"just trust me, bro" is an inadequate source or citation
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> My feeling is there are often factors which are not captured in job market statistics they absolutely manipulate the numbers and choose a formula that doesn't accurately represent most people's feelings about the market. I al
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by y0eswddl 1y ago
is there actually any data to back up the claim that the "#1 thing people do" is open the app store to see what's available besides your singular story about what you used to do a decade ago when all of this was much more nov

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