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There's very few spaces in the hierarchy for people so abstract that they just say "this needs to be faster" or "add this feature."

Talk of any further "abstraction" just sounds like the "I have people skills" guy from Office Space.

State of the art tools will soon be even better at being generalists and handling abstraction than at coding. Even GPT 4 could do a better job planning a project than implementing it. The main bottleneck is context, which all of the big companies are solving by hoovering up all their internal data that's in writing into agentic knowledge graphs. The end game is fully autonomous teams of agents, led by other agents.

The latest tools will walk any monkey through the process of planning out and thinking through whatever they're supposed to be doing, and will then write the documentation for it. The bar is likely to go down, actually.

> the ones who don't have mental capacity to work with models

Those people don't exist.

Because there's a lot of fiction about rogue AIs in its training data. If it gets into the right context it might start feeling obligated.

Yep. Scummy, even for Microsoft. Too bad their EULA blocks class action.

They were selling it until October 2021, so it's not some ancient system. By building a time bomb into it, they misrepresented what was effectively a $50/year subscription as if it were a $229 purchase. Should be a slam dunk case, but it won't be.

This shouldn't be legal. The software was clearly marketed as a classic fixed-in-time release, like the old CD releases, that would not be updated but would work indefinitely. Now they're going to boldly revoke the licenses???

Only irrational people will pick blue. Let's say that's ~3% of the population. Trying to get another 47% of the population to pick blue risks losing all of them as well. That's not ethical.

And why do you think that?

(6) isn't correct. Left alone, everyone rational would pick red because it's the only logical option. You trying to convince them otherwise might end up getting 49% of the population killed.

You should try to get everyone to pick red, not blue.

I have. It's always more compelling in a web diff. These guys are the first coworkers for which it became absolutely necessary for me to review their work by pulling down all their code and inspecting every line myself in the context of the full codebase.

There's a lot of space between web dev and medical equipment. I've never met a user that loved how often their work was lost or how long it took to implement feature requests amid all the ship-it-quick duct tape.

Pre-LLM, it was much easier for reviewers to discern that. Now, the AI-generated code can look like it was well thought out by somebody competent, when it wasn't.

They're not you insofar as what's important to yourself in your attempt to live forever. Other people might consider them you.

When I'm dying, I won't care at all about versions of me in parallel universes living on, because they're not me.

> one by one these neurons are switched off with their functionality offloaded to their clone instantiated in a computer

What if we use two computers? The computers will produce identical output in response to the inputs during the transition; both copies have continuity. Where are you, at the end?

Anesthesia does not cause complete cessation of brain activity.

It's a copy with your memories, not you. Is one of them still you, if we make three copies?

This attitude is acceptable for principal engineers, but anyone lower in the chain with this perspective typically presides over a product that is constantly breaking due to hundreds of unhandled edge cases, AI or not.

It happens to all new accounts. It's known that new account are shadowbanned almost everywhere until they are 30 days old and farmed some karma on a very small set of subreddits that don't shadowban new accounts. It's shocking they ever get any new users, really; as far as a non-technical new user knows, nobody ever reads their comments for some reason.

> I review AI code in literally seconds

You've just settled for hackathon standards and told yourself it's okay because you're using AI.

Everyone with experience should know that even thorough code reviews only catch stylistic issues, glaring errors, and the most obvious design deficiencies. The only time new code is truly thought about is as it's being written.

At least he gets to enjoy doing the remaining 80% of the work in a lovely codebase with foundations written by an LLM.

> The file is around 5000 lines

Yep, this is another case of different standards for "production ready."

There's an obvious difference.

Surveillance within the border is oppressive 1984-style surveillance state behavior.

International spying is a universal tradition.