mupuff1234

If only Google had the technology for game streaming... Oh wait

RIP Stadia.

He didn't say "brain atrophy", he was talking about coding abilities.

> But the cost of complexity doesn't go down

But how much of current day software complexity is inherent in the problem space vs just bad design and too many (human) chefs in the kitchen? I'm guessing most of it is the latter category.

We might get more software but with less complexity overall, assuming LLMs become good enough.

His point is obviously to try and downplay what is happening in Iran, otherwise he could have just actually be a journalist and figure out what is happening in Iran to prove or disprove the reports.

There is zero journalistic integrity to be found in his post.

Just as interesting that Mehdi who never spent a second questioning the reports from Gaza is questioning the reports from Iran.

But these are profitable companies, now their cash on hand can actually earn interest.

Is your product offering anything unique to the consumer other than blasting them with more ads than the competition?

> If you can't write well, communicate well, plan and organize,

Why not ask the LLM to write for you? Same for planning, organization and written communication.

Seems like robotic ICs can "robotize" most of the work stack.

Counter point - If one person can now do the work of an entire team the level of communication skills required will actually be simplified.

So now instead of needing to manage multiple stakeholders and expectations of 10 different middle managers you'll probably just have a 1:1 with a single person.

Incoming reports are saying that they killed over 12,000 people in only a few days.

Cristian evangelicals would be a much better term.

"tools" are also a fad. It will all just converge back to being called APIs.

Couldn't you just ask it to write down what it knows about you and copy paste into another provider?

I like coming up with the system design and the low level pseudo code, but actually translating it to the specific programming language and remembering the exact syntax or whatnot I find pretty uninspiring.

Same with design docs more or less, translating my thoughts into proper and professional English adds a layer I don't really enjoy (since I'm not exactly great at it), or stuff like formatting, generating a nice looking diagram, etc.

Just today I wrote a pretty decent design doc that took me two hours instead of the usual week+ slog/procrastination, and it was actually fairly enjoyable.

I would also take those studies with a grain of salt at this point, or at least taking into consideration that a model from even a few months ago might have significant enough results from the current frontier models.

And in my personal experience it definitely helps in some tasks, and as someone who doesn't actually enjoy the actual coding part that much, it also adds some joy to the job.

Recently I've also been using it to write design docs, which is another aspect of the job that I somewhat dreaded.

Treadmills are an option. I highly recommend manual treadmills, feels much more natural imo.

Venezuela supplies less than 1% of the world's oil, basically meaningless.

You could easily say the same thing about not doing anything.

But also remember that Russia is occupied in Ukraine and couldn't even help the Assad regime which was a much closer ally, and same with Iran.

Oh yeah, I'm certain the intent behind this wasn't for the sake of the Venezuelan population, but that in itself doesn't mean it won't result in a better outcome for the population (but also not saying that it will)

Not cutting off, but it's enough that the US increases oil supply which lowers the prices to significantly hurt Russia and Iran. And then you have China which is the main consumer of Venezuelan oil so you get another point of leverage.

Also probably helps to ensure the petro dollar is here to stay for longer.

Obviously this is a very shallow analysis, and there's definitely significant risks, but I do think it's obvious that it has large potential upsides.

You don't think Venezuela having the largest oils reserves on the planet and it being a strong ally to Russia, Iran and China make the possible reward fairly significant from a US standpoint?

Russia is already doing horrible things without this pretext, so I dont think this argument holds.

It's a philosophical question, I don't think there's a single objective truth.

Regardless I'm curious as to what is inherently immoral in arresting a dictator?

Let's say best case scenario, zero innocent casualties and a democratic government takes over and Venezuela prospers - would you still consider it immoral?

Disruption to life and financial burden are serious threats if they occur on a constant basis and not just one off.

Imagine a scenario where israel doesn't need bomb shelters or sirens since rockets are destroyed almost instantly. Right now even if iron dome works it still greatly disrupts the day to day life in israel (not to mention the pure financial burden of interception)

Now I doubt the technology is anywhere close to that now, but in 10-20 years alongside other technological advancements? Who knows.

Technical solutions can lead to diplomatic solutions as it changes the power dynamics.

Will it solve the "root cause"? Probably not, but that's because there's no single "root cause", but it still might lead to some diplomatic resolution.

All those features are basically prompts in various formats, not much of a moat.

For me it's the opposite, I'm wasting less energy over debugging silly bugs and fighting/figuring out some annoying config.

But it does feel less fulfilling I suppose.

Any good hedges against a possible downfall of USD?