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> continues to be such a consistent source of bugs - many with serious security implications... just feel that io_uring is a questionable example.

Are you saying this as someone with experience, or is it just a feeling? Please give examples of recent bugs in io_uring that have security implications.

I guess the US's answer is going to be gas-powered robots ;-).

The document under discussion:

https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills/blob/...

I find the whole premise of writing some vague instructions, feeding them to a stochastic parrot and expecting a solid engineering process to materialize out of the blue quite ridiculous.

Any sufficiently advanced "AI" technology is indistinguishable from bullshit.

> The liquidity that flooded the tech sector didn’t just inflate valuations; it inflated teams, egos, and expectations.

Yes it's kind of obvious to anyone who's looking at the actual work being done: the constant churn of OS updates, the JS-framework-du-jour, apps being updated constantly...

It seems to me like a lot of this is just busy work, as if engineers need to justify having a job by being releasing inconsequential updates all the time. Bullshit jobs anyone?

I for one would really like things to slow down, we all deserve it!

I'm not sure but I'm guessing gray water (or treated waste water) is not suitable for cooling purposes? Particle charge in small pipes and scaling may be a problem. Also, collecting gray water or channeling treated waste water - depending on the location that might be a problem.

Not that I'm in favor of using drinking water for cooling slop factories, but I guess the reason we don't see waste water being used for cooling is cost (unless governments start mandating that...)

Lecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxPJs1EPS4

This analogy is flawed. The conversion formula between Fahrenheit and Celsius is fixed. Not so for currencies.

Meanwhile the US is all about "drill baby drill", and the EU is still hedging its bets. Say what you will about the Chinese regime but they seem to be much more pragmatic and forward thinking than western democracies.

> but I quickly concluded the writing suffered from the same uncanny valley effect as many AI-generated images: It all looks fine enough at first glance, but pay attention just a little longer, and something feels off.

My thoughts exactly. In all my interactions with gen AI it was always the same: on the surface it looks pretty convincing, but once you look more deeply it's obviously non-sense. AI is great at superficial imitation of human-created work. It fails miserably at doing anything deeper.

I think the biggest problem with AI is that most people just don't take the time or effort anymore to really look at an image, really read a text, or really listen to a piece of music, or a podcast. We've become so habituated to mindlessly consuming content that we can't even tell anymore if it's just a bunch of stochastic nonsense.

> I could easily see situations where some of these could be beneficial for the greater good.

The greater good of whom? Regardless, we have international organizations where action can be taken by a coalition is states, which provides not only legitimacy but also some level of judicial control.

This is so obviously an imperialist power play for the world's largest oil reserves. That some would portray this as acting for the greater good is beyond ridiculous.

Hmm, I'm not sure I see the value in "disposable software". In any commercial service people are looking for software solutions that are durable, dependable, extensible, maintainable. This is the exact opposite of disposable software.

The whole premise of AI bringing democratization to software development and letting any layperson produce software signals a gross misunderstanding of how software development works and the requirements it should fulfill.

I for one am not using AI, will not touch that steaming pile of manure with a 10 yard stick, and I couldn't care less about the so called magnitude 9 earthquake. When this bubble finally bursts into nothingness, I'll be still here practicing my craft and providing real value for my clients.

If they cannot be trusted, why would you use them in the first place?

> Them: We leverage automated machine learning to enhance your existing BI visualizations with more proactive insights

> Me: I sell onions on the internet

That's exactly how I feel about AI! Instead of all that useless nonsense, just keeping it real, doing something that's actually useful for individuals and for society.

I'm not a pilot, but my brother is, and I watched him a bunch of times go through these before takeoff and landing. I think it's about more than automation, these days the aircraft computer "walks" the pilots through the checklists but it's still their responsibility to verify each item. I think it's an interesting approach to automation, keeping humans in the loop and actually promoting responsibility and accountability, as in "who checked off on these?"

Producing a computer program does not require thinking, like many other human endeavors. And looking at the quality of software out there there are indeed quite a few human programmers who do not think about what they do.

> I don't use it anymore for coding

I'm curious, can you expand on this? Why did you start using coding agents, and why did you stop?

Where's the popcorn? I don't really care either way about so-called AI. I find the talk about AGI quite ridiculous, but I can imagine LLMs have their utility just like anything else. I don't vibe code because I don't find it useful. I'm fine coding by myself thank you very much.

When the AI hype is over and the bubble has burst, I'll still be here, writing quality software using my brain and my fingers, and getting paid to do it.

In 10 to 20 years, Elon Musk is going to repeat the same claim.

In a way it's comforting to know those people who hold these positions, with distinguished careers and supposedly made of better stuff than us mere mortals, are in fact just a bunch of miserable weasels, a-holes and sycophants.

We in western democracies used to regard with disdain those corrupt, ridiculous leadership figures in so-called banana republics and third-world dictatorships, with their openly corrupt dealings and amoral excesses.

Now that the moral posturing of the west is unraveling, the question is really what comes next. Fukuyama talked about western liberal democracy being the "end of history", but it is more and more evident that this is a system ripe for disruption.

These people are crazy. It all seems so senseless.

Zuid-Afrika, which means south Africa in Dutch. ZA remains the country's country code.

I've been having this idea of designing a neighborhood where the proportions of natural and built-up areas are reversed. Instead of having a basically artificial setting where trees live in little holes in the sidewalk, the basic setting is natural soil and vegetation, and the buildings are situated between and under the trees.

This brings up a lot of other questions: what about water and sewage infrastructure, electrical and fiber? What about maintenance of the vegetation? But it seems to me like a really cool idea, maybe even within the setting of a single homestead, where the basic setting is a forest, with some buildings nested within it.