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Oh yeah, I've certainly seen this before. I'll assess my ability to complete a project under a time frame as "reasonably confident."

In my mind, I'm thinking "so long as a meteor doesn't cause an extinction event," but the manager graciously pushes the target date back a week.

It's funny how the thankless jobs of quality assurance become so critical so quickly. And I mean that ironically of course.

To folks out there: do the important work, not the glamorous work, and you'll not only sleep well, but you might actually matter as well.

Kindness is reciprocal, IMO. But I will concede speculation is unproductive.

Do you have a blog or something where you talk about that work? I'd absolutely love to read more about it. Theory of game design is one of my favorite topics.

Personally? I'd target the musicians. But I personally find more value in working with creatives than people with money to throw away.

"What do I care, I've got nothing to hide."

It also steps right over easy optimizations. I was doing a query on some github data (tedious work) and rather than preliminarily filter down using the graphql search method, it wanted to comb through all PRs individually. This seems like something it probably should have figured out.

You and the other commenter: "Uhm AKSHUALLY" is alive and well and still in common use. I'm not talking about a dead meme here.

Is this really some new "trend"? Didn't we define this pretty funnily and sarcastically with "AKSHUALLY" like 15 years ago?

Didn't we _not_ let industries fail during that time? How about the Big 3 bailouts and the emergency infusions for banks? And these actions decidedly helped save our economy.

Whether it's good from a moral perspective or a long term perspective I guess is another matter, but I suspect if the government hadn't stepped in, we'd still be in the throes of the subprime crash even today. This is speaking as someone who is deeply anti-corporate.

I'm not sure that math makes sense over the long run. Sure, at first you scaffold together an app from scratch, but I suspect over time, the LLM's capability of maintaining it precipitously drops. At some point, you will like reach a productivity level of zero, as now your application has become too complex to fit in a context window and you have no idea how it actually works. So what is the productivity multiplier then?

> Thus, AI's best use case for me remains writing one-off scripts. Especially when I have no interest in learning deeper fundamentals for a single script, like when writing a custom ESLint rule.

Perfectly put. I've been using a lot of AI for shell scripting. Granted I should probably have better knowledge of shell but frankly I think it's a terrible language and only use it because it enjoys wide system support and is important for pipelining. I prefer TS (and will try to write scripts and such in it if I can) and for that I don't use AI almost at all.

Have some conviction. If you're doing something because you believe in it or love it, then why worry about what others think? Die without regrets.

Exactly

> decorations that a modern tattooist would find challenging to produce

Cool article but this is utter nonsense. A good modern tattoo artists is _incredible_ at their craft. Not just technically but artistically.

I've been sick so often now (thanks kids) that I can feel _immediately_ when something is coming on. Rather than be down and useless at home and work for 2 or 3 more days, I tag out, go to bed and usually knock it out in a night. I feel like that's way better for me and everyone else overall.

Do they perform adequately at their job in general? If so, who cares?

On your last point, I've noticed an uptick in folks treating their dogs in ways most people might treat their children. So while I think on paper what you say makes sense, at some point, I think people are in fact personifying their pets to a degree that they recognize them as adjacent to human beings.

Same gen (42). I feel like we have a really unique lens on all of this, too: old enough to remember being in a smoky bar, socializing (not healthy, but fun as hell), but also young enough to have had some technological exposure at a crucial time of our youth. We _leveraged_ technology for socializing in person. Our online pursuits were around organizing lighthearted social goofiness like "getting iced", LARPing, and flash mobs. All of which would probably make younger generations eye roll to death out of secondary cringe.

I guess at some point people started taking themselves way too seriously. Worrying about what others think, or something, I don't know. In a way, social interaction is kind of like a standoff in the dusty streets of an old west town. Someone has to make the first move to expose themselves, and it doesn't seem like anyone wants to be that person anymore.

That's a really cool idea. Also the inverse, where suggestions from the AI were similarly heat mapped for confidence would be extremely useful.

I would have to think personnel cost, no? I'm assuming American pay rates are higher than Taiwan's.

More cynically, perhaps the DoD is getting a sweetheart deal and TSMC is passing the cost onto customers.

> “What I really like about the AI action plan is that it’s quite actionable,” [AMD's CEO] said.

I couldn't help but laugh. And they say software engineers are replaceable by AI.

Hm that's fair.

Retroactively I'd say "obscenely resource intensive text generation." Meanwhile for me to generate text all I need is water and a banana.

Yes that's what I was getting at

In a Chinese room sort of way, sure. The problem is we understand too well how it works, so any semblance of consciousness or self awareness we know to be simple text generation.

> As such, if he really is suffering a mental health crisis related to his use of OpenAI's product, his situation could serve as an immense optical problem for the company, which has so far downplayed concerns about the mental health of its users.

Yikes. Not just an optics* problem, but one has to consider if they're pouring so much money into the company because he feels he "needs" to (whatever basis of coercion exists to support his need to get to the "truth").

I couldn't help but think, reading through this post, how similar of a mindset a person probably is when they receive spiritual awakening with religion as they seem to be when they have "profound" interactions with AI. They are _looking for something_ and there's a perfectly sized shape to fit that hole. I can really see AI becoming incredibly dangerous this way (just as religion can be).

There's a lot that went wrong with the American experiment.

1. The electoral college, which removes voting power from people who live in populated areas in favor of people who don't.

2. A system of governance that doesn't require coalitions and thus also stimulates a 2 party system.

3. No mechanism for federal legislation to occur through solely the actions of the voters. There should be a way for American voters to check the government through a legislative process that allows items to be put on the national ballots outside of congress and the president.

4. If every branch is meant to check every other branch, each branch should have an enforcement arm, so that if they're ignored, physical action can be taken.

5. citizens united

6. The first amendment protecting disinformation

There's probably more.

Of course the angle is disingenuous. "Reasonable" here implies that it's reasonably attainable for customers. This is merely choosing interpretation arbitrarily. Like me saying the sky is green because green is partly comprised of the color blue.

I think you got it backward. The morale of our administration isn't what's in danger here, and as far as I can tell, none of them have gotten a beating they deserve.