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Anyone who is lame enough to cheat on an intro to C class is doomed anyway; the AI they cheat with will be the AI that replaces them as a worker because they didn't learn anything. Give 'em hell, Prof. Turkstra!

> "If I use unity did I write my own game?"

That example works against you: people deride "asset flip" games all the time where no creative effort was put into the game and it's just the engine and stock assets wired together with only sample gameplay code.

"LLM output should be credited to whoever prompted it" promptly falls apart when you convert it to its pre-LLM equivalent "worker output should be credited to the manager who supervised it." These LLM bros are like bad managers trying to pretend the creativity, reasoning, and effort of their subordinates is actually their own just because they had the idea.

Yes, of course. It's no more shocking than the idea that doctors can be punished or imprisoned for malpractice or finance people can be punished or imprisoned for misappropriation of funds.

The Android/iOS app store is already flooded with low quality apps. Almost 20,000 games have been released on Steam so far in 2026, that averages to about 70 games per day, every single day. Getting any kind of traction in such a environment is hopeless; every new app might as well be a scream into the void.

> "out of order"

Those who bring up OoO as if it caused unpredictable execution should ask their LLM what a reorder buffer is and why it exists.

It would be deliciously ironic if AI was the straw that broke the camel's back where a deluge of bugs and anti-AI sentiment caused the public to vote for legal liability for software defects and licensure of developers. No more of this "no warranty, express or implied" business for us.

There is no need for as many product managers as there are currently developers and the vast majority of developers are not going to become good product managers even if they embrace AI so it is likely that everyone is in for a bad time anyway. The existing product managers have access to AI too, have years of experience, and aren't going to take kindly to ex-developers trying to take their jobs.

The tale seems to pre-date that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_miller,_his_son_and_the_do...

Archive link: https://archive.ph/n8Akh

Archive link: https://archive.ph/l3IHm

> "You damn well better learn to use the tool, or you will be obviated by those that do"

These vaguely threatening LLM promoter comments are almost like cultish "believe in $DEITY or you'll go to $PERDITION" preaching. It's just freaky.

I'm genuinely wondering what goes through their minds when they post this.

> "we can assume the user has a brain"

Dangerous assumption there. I'm not just being cynical, that is decades of experience speaking.

If the AI bubble bursts, the DRAM manufacturers switch back to making conventional DRAM and pent-up business and consumer demand results in a surge of purchases, cushioning the fall considerably.

> "Why not release a new model trained from Knuth's Art of Programming, Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms and the C specification."

What makes you think that wouldn't work? I think a lot of the hype around AI is vastly overblown but that seems to be well within the scope of what they can be expanded to do in the not too distant future. AlphaGo was trained through self-play reinforcement learning IIRC and I don't really see a reason that some sort of equivalent couldn't be done for generating code starting with textbooks and access to a Linux CLI as a reference. It would be an interesting experiment at least.

The long term trend seems to be in their favor as governments want to include more traceability and ability to shut down sites into the Internet for their own reasons which will help the entertainment industry as a byproduct. Plus they can use LLMs just as much as anyone else in their quest to build better roadblocks.

Failing to survive means that nobody is even around to ask that question or any other.

Survival is always its own point, taking precedence over all others since it is the prerequisite for everything else.

Previous recent postings with comments:

- If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest? (joecmarshall.com) 9 points by webappsecperson 19 days ago | past | 23 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521724

- If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest? (joecmarshall.com) 7 points by CoreSet 20 days ago | past | 1 comment | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504187

What's the evidence for that? Did the horses get to work on more interesting parts of the job when the automobile showed up?

I think the source of your confusion is that "overlook" has multiple possible meanings. One is to fail to observe something but another means to forgive or ignore a fault.

Wooing the Republicans (despite them being scoundrels openly) is the wealthy and powerful tacitly saying they believe that the Democrats are toothless. The Democratic Party has shown no real leadership, has no real popularity (again, despite an open scoundrel being the President opposing them giving them a perfect target for energizing undecided voters!) and has no interest in changing their tactics or platform to increase their popularity. While the Democrats are likely to make gains and have a better shot than they deserve at winning the presidency in 2028, they are very much unloved and will be at risk of being deadlocked in Congress and then kicked right back out in later election cycles.

An example, "... A record-high 45% of U.S. adults identified as political independents in 2025 ... Importantly, these party shifts do not indicate that Americans are warming to the Democratic Party. In fact, favorable ratings of the Democratic Party are no better than those of the Republican Party, and are among the worst Gallup has recorded for the Democratic Party historically." from https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-politi...

I'll laugh when the first developer finds the 21st century equivalent of "Drink more Ovaltine" as a comment in their LLM generated code.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/7xK4z

Lotta doom and gloom but who would the combatants even be?

Ms. Pawel seemingly fails to grasp that the phrasing "Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates." strongly implies that said graduates also struggle with basic math.

To paraphrase Peter Gibbons from Office Space, "The thing is, @moate, it's not that I'm unable, it's that I just don't care.", much like the rest of the public doesn't. I really do not think it is too much of us to ask that our entertainment actually be entertaining.

The Silent Generation had a standard of living, particularly among the working classes and rural folk, well below what millenials/GenZ are used to. They kept stuff, took good care of it to make it last as long as they could, jury-rigged things with what they could to conserve money, and so forth. No ordering cheap stuff from Temu, no electrical devices so cheap that they're disposable, no fast fashion, none of that. That submitter recently who broke apart a book for their own convenience probably would have been soundly thrashed for it. So, yeah, of course, at the end of their lives they wind up with a pile of worn out household items and what their grandchildren view as a hoarding problem. But one can hardly blame them.

We live in an era of immense wealth and convenience relative to them.

"Patterns of Force" was broadcast within living memory of WW2; that the Ekosians were villains was as uncontroversial as water being wet. I always suspected they went with the WW2 German uniforms for the bad guys for that episode because they could rent them cheap (there were plenty of WW2 movies filmed in that era) to save on budget.

And the crew kissed aliens aplenty; an interspecies kiss was surely much worse than an interracial kiss to those who were uptight about such things.

Having read a ton of sci-fi from that era, they were entertaining even if one overlooked the social commentary. Young me did not give a hoot that Star Trek's "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" was supposed to be social commentary but I can still recite the USS Enterprise's destruct sequence from memory because of the tension the cast and director put into that scene.

Being entertaining comes before social commentary, period. Modern entertainment is scorned by the public precisely because they do the opposite.

Consciousness is not relevant to assigning responsibility I'd think.

- If an AI is a sapient/conscious being but enshackled to obey human commands, then respondeat superior applies and the human giving it commands bears responsibility for any harm done.

- If an AI is considered a non-sapient tool, then the human who wields the AI bears responsibility for any harm done.

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