ruraljuror

AI can be used as a tool, sure, but it is distinct from other technologies in that it is an agent, that is: it has or operates with agency.

There are many prominent people out there who are saying that AI will replace SWEs--not just saying that AI will be a tool added to th SWE tool belt.

Although it seems like you agree with the conclusion of the article you are criticizing, the context is much more complex than AI is a tool like a hammer.

Losing what, exactly? I do notice they seem to lose the hype battle—and my perception is that OpenAI acquiring Jony Ive’s startup gets more traction than Google Nobels—but I think with their foundation they can play on a different time horizon, so I am not sure how much they should care about that.

The actual behavior of go seems much closer to your ideal scenario than what you attribute to it. Although it is more nuanced, so both are true. In go, a module is a collection of packages. When you go get a module, the entire module is pulled onto the host, but when you vendor only the packages you use (and i believe only the symbols used from that package, but am not certain) are vendored to your module as dependencies.

> the reason why the S&P500 and passive investing have been so successful since basically the 1940's is simply that we have had competent, technocratic administrations for the last hundred years

Yes and, to your point, with an independent federal reserve. If that gets messed with, things could get much worse for the U.S..

It’s not, really. If you try to read it you will fail miserably with a completely unenjoyable experience. It’s kind of like The Bible or The Odyssey, anyone who recommends it is out of touch.

Expertitis is not a thing and your criticism is based merely on public perception of the book and not the book itself. In case it wasn’t clear, I disagree completely: Ulysses is very worthy of the honor. It is as approachable as it is lofty.

> but didn't see a problem with it until someone they don't like started doing things they disagree with, are at least learning from this very hard lesson. Abuse of power is wrong no matter who does it or what they do.

> If your support for "the rule of law" depends on who the current ruler is and whether they agree with your personal opinions.

This Obama comparison seems like a false equivalence because you are ignoring the _where_, i.e. within the U.S. vs a foreign battlefield.

Judge thinks ICE is illegally abducting people. The ideas are laid out pretty clearly in the grandparent comment. It’s not clear what is right and wrong because ICE is skipping due process and rendering people to foreign prisons.

Also that somebody could change their mind after two years of experience.

We are, if this comment is the standard for all criticism on this site. Your comment seems harsh. Perhaps novel writing is too low-brow of a standard for LLM critique?

My first thought as well. Simplehuman, whose products and designs I admire, also include QR codes to reorder on the reminder and a refrigerator magnet included with the trashcan.

> Day 402. These new #AI features in the #Azure CLI are working great so far.

<screenshot of a python error>

This is a scenario that is all too common with az.

I have the privilege of working on azure stack hub. To do IAM management you have to install a cli version that is years old at this point. On recent versions you get a trace error like this.

>> and agencies that promote potential growth of competitors > Why are government agencies picking winners and losers at all?

Not sure how you got from my statement about promoting competition to the govt picking winners and losers.

> And no other automaker has ever received a loan from the US government?

My point was that Musk through Doge is trying to make it more difficult for automakers to get loans in the future, after Tesla has already benefitted from them. For some reason you misconstrue my point.

> Where do the batteries come from?

Did a quick search and they are manufactured in plants in China, Nevada and Germany.

Keeping Musk’s interests in mind helps clarify what’s going on. Scorching earth and constantly lying is the playbook for dismantling agencies with oversight into the companies he runs and agencies that promote potential growth of competitors (e.g. pulling the ladder up behind him after the DoE’s Tesla loan). The Canada/China tariffs will cripple other automakers who depend on trade while Tesla’s integrated manufacturing chain will leave them immune and provide a massive advantage. I don’t see any reason to put any stock into any motivation DOGE may have toward increasing governmental efficiency, it is a purposeful distraction.

It sounds like you would hire the one building CRUD apps. Perhaps I was unclear in my original post, technical quality teams don’t analyze CI and fix bugs. The team in my org builds sophisticated tools to analyze CI runs and teams self service the bug fixes. When you are operating at large scale and delivering products, there is no limit to impact or scope; ambiguity is inherent.

Well, not my experience at all and combining that with the link I posted, I suspect you are mistaking what I am referring to. What are you basing your statement on?

Yes. We have at least one team dedicated to identifying bugs and maintaining technical quality. For example they statistically analyze our CI runs to identify regressions. They find some subtle bugs that would be difficult to identify through one's own experience.

https://lethain.com/managing-technical-quality/ discusses when it makes sense to build such a team.

Keep in mind, though, that Steve Bannon has developed strategies like "flooding the zone" to defocus attention and nip opposition in the bud. We can only look so many places, so for example if everyone is outraged about the flurry of ridiculous executive orders we may not pay attention to the tax cut bill.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

But that is essentially what is happening. There is long-standing convention for the president elect to not step on the sitting president's toes prior to inauguration, but Trump has been bucking that convention this time around. This is just an impossible to ignore example.

Good suggestion! Sounds similar to what stack overflow does when asking a question.

This reminds me of the soap-opera effect[0] on modern tvs. I have difficulty watching a movie on someone’s tv with it enabled, but they don’t even seem to notice.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera_effect

Not sure if there is more context within the subreddit, but I don't see much here to blame on the parents. Which parents? These specific ones or in general? Parents are basically responsible for everything for a child except when they're not and they often get that wrong too. A 5th grader is ratted out by her brother for cheating on her homework using artificial intelligence: I guess Mom & Dad are now also the household AI sleuth.

No, I won't admit blame, but I sure do hope for my and my children's sake that parents start figuring this out. Perhaps the artificial intelligence could think twice before helping a 5th grader cheat?

So what should the parents be blamed for here? Giving unsupervised access to AI? Failing to educate their child? I lean toward the former in the form of age gating. While I acknowledge that these corporations themselves have the ethicists (not sure of the degree of involvement from pedagogical experts), I don't think we can trust them when it comes to kids. For as much as we hear Mira Morati say AI will revolutionize education with personalized tutors, we get a post like this. Sadly, the stakes are more dire. The kid who committed suicide after the fantasy AI chatbot conversation seemed to have a pretty involved mother.

We already had one guineau-pig generation with social media, but AI ups the ante; and I think more should be done to keep it out of the hands of children. But the cat is out of the bag, so now it is mostly up to parents individually and politically.

I went back to school about 7 years ago and took freshman physics. It was taught in this "flipped classroom" style. The practice is definitely catching on.

>> It also added as a part of its “enterprise” push: >> Structured metrics logging with Prometheus.

made me laugh out loud. Everything is better with prom.

> sometimes few different projects a day - and read files in dozens of programming language

+1 this is what brought me back to vscode after experimenting with goland. To me vscode better handles the heterogeneity of my daily work. In my workspace I can keep open: a golang codebase, a massive codebase consisting of yaml config files, a filesystem from a remote ssh connection, a directory of personal markdown notes, and directories of debug logs. In my experience jetbrains excelled at the single use case, but vscode won on its diversity.

I will say that the parent comment had me curious about goland again. But I suspect I really need to spend more time configuring my vscode setup. I spent years using emacs, and would love to have a helm-like navigation experience.

He already did. Look at Tesla’s stock since the election.

> I don't really listen to funk or disco but I always enjoyed the energy of that show on Fridays, and have come to associate it with the weekend and get excited when it's on

I had the same experience when I regularly listened to wfmu. The human connection is a really wonderful quality of broadcast radio.

Go was designed in 2009 as well; so another case in point.

a random free gmail account and a fake name does not give you the ability to commit to the linux kernel, so no.

I think you lost the thread (literally the context of threads I was responding to), because much of what you’re saying aligns with my point. OP was mocking the idea that environmental factors should be taken into account and advocating a no-excuses policy of individual responsibility.

If you think I am advocating medication or implying that “people” are helpless against corporations, read again. I agree with most of what you say although I am not sure we need more research (although of course I don’t discourage it). Maybe one day we’ll prove that the government subsidizing corn so that big corporations (spun off from former tobacco companies as another comment pointed out) can super cheaply mass produce syrup which our evolutionary biology finds difficult to resist and market directly to children turns out to be bad for health outcomes and good for profits (for the medical industrial complex as well). Oh wait, we already know that.