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Having managed programmers for more than 30 years, there are a LOT of programmers who just want to code. There are also a lot of programmers who went into programming because "it was a good, well paying job".

Doesn't really take much away from the article but a significant percentage of the developers who are unemployed are not losing their passion, they are worried about what job they will get to pay the bills.

My father worked for the railroad as a blacksmith but he apprenticed to an old blacksmith who was a farrier before. There are still farriers to this day.

Some of us will need to move on to other things but there will probably still be a lot of farrier type jobs around.

Check out his comments in this thread, this guy appears to be a corporate apologist.

> That’s what you think, though, you didn’t design the printer. I assume you don’t have a background in color theory or chemistry or whatever else you need to produce ink.

Do you?

Monotone printers are a thing and have been since the 60's.

This is disingenuous; a car needs both gas and oil to run. A printer should only need black ink to print black and white documents.

We saw this during the COVID crisis: declare nurses and doctors "heroes" and then it's ok that they burn out, get PTSD or die due to lack of PPE because "that's just what heroes do"

It was, it was just hard to do at scale by a lot of different people.

LLMs and other automation tools make things that used to be annoying but uncommon to a steady part of life.

I'm curious, why do you think the movie will ruin your good memories?

They mean "a faithful translation" where "original" means whatever Greek version was chosen to be the source not "original" as in the first text from Homer.

> A quick scan shows a lack of rigor that usually points towards zealotry rather than a reasoned position

You're doing the same thing:

> you imply that models are only trained on copyrighted work

Actually, they said "The technology is built off wholesale theft of protected works without compensation". The word "only" never appears here, nor is it really implied.

> you don’t address the ridiculous “copyright forever, nothing goes public domain” policies that got us to this place

This is pure "whataboutism". Both things can be bad.

I mean, you didn't address wealth inequality or global warning.

The EU shouldn't be held to bad decisions made by the US trademark office.

This is only true on HN. My parents and siblings and cousins and non-technical friends don't even know what the fuck ML or Machine Learning is ... but they all hate AI because they have seen everything AI gets pushed into now sucks and are tired of the AI slop on Facebook and in their Google searches.

> you’d probably want to get the benefit of their performance.

What performance? None of these companies have established "performance" and they are all still burning money in a race to be the industry leader.

There is no evidence these companies can be profitable without some kind of significant hardware advance.

> As for SpaceX itself? I feel the numbers involved all sound a bit unbelievable to me.

If the SEC was doing it's job, there would sanctions or jail time for those numbers.

Especially when the payoff is "AI will create exciting new jobs" and no one can come up with any jobs that are not just "AI Accountant" where the AI Accountant is just an existing Accountant replacing one of his colleagues.

> I'm trying to figure out if the bad reasons are the _actual_ reason people are generally against data centers.

The list is long and includes things like people not being able to afford AC anymore; why are you trying to figure this out?

In many places there is little excess capacity. Many protesters know that their electricity prices, like gas prices, will soar and price them out of AC.

What is the point of this reply?

I've never seen a wealth tax proposal where "wealth" was defined as ~400K in assets. They tend to start in the millions with generous carve outs for IRAs and primary residences.

Worse, the constant AI scraping is actually costing content providers additional money for no return. At least Google/Bing/Yahoo scraping would then be used to provide links back to your content.

I mean, brain drains work TOWARDS the US as well, word meanings are not an American centric thing.

I think the intent is more "we won't need coders" ... the real goal is to get to the point where Product Managers can just write specs and a working product comes out the other end.

These people HATE that developers have been necessary and highly paid and, in their view, prima donnas. I think most of the people running these companies actually despise developers.

Windows is constantly pushing my wife and inlaws to move all their files to OneDrive while Backblaze is no longer backing up OneDrive. There are similar things going on with Apple and iCloud.

What is the point of Backblaze at all at this point? If you are a consumer, all your files are probably IN OneDrive or iCloud or soon will be.

I love that when I search for an odd behaviour or bug in macos or iOS, most of the time I will find a years old bug report with some irrelevant or useless "work around".

This is not too unusual. I've completely given up on bug reports, it's almost always a complete waste of my time.

I'm currently going around in circles with a serious performance issue with two different vendors. They want logs, process lists and now real time data. It's an issue multiple people have complained about in their forums and on reddit. The fact that this exact same thing is going on with TWO different companies ...

Interesting that the author flags what is actually one of my pet peeves ...

> [Snapshots] get created automatically, often during deletion workflows, and nobody thinks to look for them.

creating random backups of things you are shutting down "just in case" that you must then remember to go back and delete. It's especially annoying if you stood up an EC2 instance or whatever, realized you messed up the configuration and immediately shut it down. Now you have a pile of poop running up your bill that you need to find and delete.

> If I wanted to read what an LLM thinks, I could just ask it.

and

> Or do I want an insightful, well-thought-out response, even if it is LLM-enhanced?

What is the difference? What's the line between these two?

The prompt: "Analyze <opinion> and respond" is pretty clearly "I would just ask it." and, the prompt: "here's my comment, please ONLY the check the grammar and spelling" would probably be ok.

What about prompt:"I disagree with using LLMs for commenting at all for <reasons>. Please expound on this and provide references and examples". That would explode the word count for this site.

> The person you’re replying to has only posted two short comments in this thread.

FYI: You can click on the user name and from there see their full comment history on hacker news.

Wild that you even mentioned this, considering the context.

> As Wittgenstein put it, we’re playing language games.

Yes.

Honest question: are you enjoying this? I looked at your comment history and you don't seem like a troll. What is going on right now?

Of course it is.

> Is it wildly uneducated to not know any of the games you mentioned? I didn’t realize education covered less known video games?

Yes. It is "wildly uneducated" to have, and express, strong opinions about ANY field of endeavour where you are unfamiliar with large parts of that field.