I am so exhausted by reviewing the AI slop from other “developers”. For a while I was trying to be a good sport and point out where it was just wrong or doing things that were unnecessary or inefficient. I’m at the point of telling people to not bother using an AI. I don’t have the time or energy to deal with it. It’s like a missile defense system that costs a million dollars to intercept but the incoming projectile cost $10 for your adversary. It’s not sustainable.
I am amazed that people take Hal Puthoff at his word that he has worked on all these secret projects for decades even though he cannot describe in definitive terms what the actual outcomes of those programs were. But he is able to talk about them for hours in the vaguest terms possible. How is that even possible. I mean I worked for an aerospace company for 5 years and could go into great and boring detail about what I did while I was there. But all these people supposedly worked on things much more exotic and can’t remember anything. This is the greatest psyop of all time.
To me the more insidious problem is that we have juniors now that aren’t learning much because they lean on AI for everything. They are behind the curve.
I think the part that people doubt is the highly compressed timeline for approval. Hard to anticipate long term effects when something has only been tested for a short period of time. Also during this time the pitch degraded from “you won’t get sick or spread the disease” to “well I still got sick, but it probably would have been worse without the vaccine”. It is actually crazy to think about in retrospect.
The person that installed should have thought more carefully about it. But the person that printed it and sold it should face some legal repercussions. Totally irresponsible what they did.
This is super common in affluent school districts. Bulldozer parents with lots of time and resources eventually get their kid some diagnosis that confers benefits in their schooling. Be it additional time on assignments, one on one tutoring, or whatever. They carry these diagnoses, habits, and expectations to college.
To be clear I am not making light of or dismissing legitimate issues. Simply pointing out that there are some that take advantage of the systems that exist.
You actually are starting to see this in the corporate world. People with a laundry list of diagnoses and other statuses that make them very tricky to let go for performance reasons.
It is only briefly touched on in the article but most of the “best” engineers spend almost no time coding or engineering. I’ve worked at multiple Fortune 500 companies and many weeks I would be lucky to spend 4-8 hours coding. Often I would just work on things that interest me after hours or on the weekend since it would be unlikely to be bothered. Unless some other unfortunate soul happens to see you are online.
Point number two seems dubious at best. At least 50% of all offspring would need to be as fit or more fit than the parents to have any hope for the continuation of a species. And it’s probably a much higher percentage than that due to mortality before procreation.
A great tool for digging into obscure jar and class files. I used it many times to track down very obscure bugs in Java based products. Often you will have a vendor saying that your issue is not real or not reproducible on their end. But with this kind of tool you can peek behind the curtains and figure out how to trigger some condition 100% of the time.
I used to share your opinion, and in a way I still do, but after having 3 children and seeing how horrible some of these behaviors and habits can get, I completely understand why people cave in to get some relief. The stress of dealing with severe behavioral issues day after day can easily destroy a marriage and family.
This is a great example of why “small details” matter. How many times do you think an apprentice has been corrected about this? What percentage of the time does the apprentice say “yeah but it’s just a label”. Lots of things went wrong in this case, but if the person that put the label on that wire did it correctly then this whole catastrophe could have been avoided.
Some do. It would also be nice to reference by ordinal number similar to order by. Very handy for quick and dirty queries. I can see the issue though that people start to lean on it too much.
If you work with a bunch of people who “just do things” you very well may wish to spend a lot more time “thinking about things” before you do them. If those things are more complicated and nuanced than “doing the dishes” or “putting away the laundry”. Sure, in those cases, just do it.
I am always amazed at how people can put so much effort into something that will very likely be killed or made impossible by the vendor. Reminds me of that iMessage client for android. It lasted what, a couple weeks of cat and mouse?
In my professional experience the number of stickers on a laptop is generally inversely proportional to the owner’s ability to write software, or even use said computer for that matter.
The biggest issue I had with material for mkdocs was training BA type people to contribute. They had to muddle their way through python, pip, git, github, etc. just to make a one line change.