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I came back from retirement for a couple reasons, one as a hedge against the stock market due to AI. Two, the camaraderie built by working with other people. Three, the opportunity to mentor young people.

AI has made the whole situation suck. Stock market is stressful due to energy and AI. AI has left people working alone managing agents. Any advice regarding development best practices I give to young people might have made sense 3 years ago, but hardly matters now. I look around at all these young people and wonder if they are going to be okay. It has only served to make me feel depressed and put a name and face to any future displacement.

It all seems so pointless.

Your comment on Russia and China is false.

We do things in response to the actions of others; I'll leave it there.

I think I am going to move into a rural area and be a glassblower. I'll never be Chihuly, but my work will be my work.

I agree with this. When people say speed, they often mean cycle time. How fast can I iterate towards a working solution to a problem? A low cycle time can hide many flaws in your staff and hiring. Experienced developers can go slower and be more deliberate because they know where they are generally headed, so they need fewer cycles to get there.

I think it is more than just money. Having a hand in steering the ship that they think will change the world is pretty attractive. I came out of retirement just to watch the spectacle.

The person who wrote the guide is more unusually interesting than the guide itself. I knew something sounded familiar.

The respect only goes as far as to listen to what they have to say. We navigate our experience based on the whims of the rich so it helps to know what they are thinking, but it certainly doesn't confer much respect. Most are completely out of touch.

I am pretty sure human level intelligence is emergent from language use. The more complex the language the higher the intelligence since language is itself a tool used to not only to communicate, but also classify the human experience. Without language, we are fairly primitive relying on instincts and more primitive communication. Feral children are an example of what a base state might be.

Looks like we may be going to go back to the geocities days of primitive websites. I use still use hugo to generate my personal site automatically from markdown upon PR approval.

Why wouldn't you? From both emerge intelligence.

Agreed. For all we know, humans are only considered intelligent locally among ourselves, not universally. Every time we learn more about the universe, we seem to also learn how insignificant and wrong we are.

It has made me stop using Google and StackOverflow. I can look most things up quickly, not rubber duck with other people, and thus I am more efficient. It also it is good at spotting bugs in a function if the APIs are known and the APIs version is something it was trained on. If I need to understand what something is doing, it can help annotate the lines.

I use it to improve my code, but I still cannot get it to do anything that is moderately complex. The paper tracks with what I've experienced.

I do think it will continue to rapidly evolve, but it probably is more of a cognitive aid than a replacement. I try to only use it when I am tight on time. or need a crutch to help me keep going.

I cannot tell you the number of times I thought I invented something new and novel only to later find out it already existed. So, while it is true that you can sometimes find paths untraveled, many things related to first principles seem already heavily explored in CS.

Looking at this thread, it is a wonder that any PRs make it through review. I started calling these kinds of debates Holographic Problems.

- Spaces vs Tabs

- Self documenting code vs documented code

- Error Codes vs Exceptions

- Monolithic vs Microservices Architectures

- etc.

Context matters and your context should probably drive your decisions, not your personal ideology. In other words, be the real kind of agile; stay flexible and change what needs to be changed as newly found information dictates.

I've taken up a new career as an AI influencer.

Maybe you'd know, but why would one choose to not sort favoring larger counts and drop the bottom half when full? It may be obvious to others, but I'd be curious.

I was taught the universe was a computer in 3 different college courses 25 years ago. Not exactly a revelation.

"According to the best physics, the universe: isnt programmable; doesn't evolve deterministically; isnt described by functions over integers; isn't electronic; doesnt transmit power through programmable operation; isn't abstract; doesnt have causal powers through mere arrangements of parts; .. and so on."

You can't say any of these things because electronic computers exist within the universe, but I get what your point is. That said, there are physicists beginning to assume the universe IS a computer and work forward from that assumption.

The problem exist for corporations as well. A teenage girl, who was a former classmate and friend of my daughter, was murdered at work because she turned down a man's advances. She made formal complaints, but the bureaucratic corporate processes made it difficult to protect her or sufficiently separate her from the harasser/murderer. Even if the state is an at-will state, corporate policies and mismanagement often handcuff those involved to rectify situations before they get out of hand.

To look and feel important. I worked for a company that moved to a building simply because the CEO wanted the sign to be seen from a major highway. My 20min commute would become 1 hour or more. I left upon hearing that rationale.

The article talks about AMD announcing a chip supporting 192GB memory.

What Amazon is missing is buyers. Actual professional buyers who evaluate products and make determinations if products meet standards and deserves to be placed in front of customers.

I am confident that prompt engineering is not a long term solution for anybody. The cost of creation is moving towards free. Anybody with an idea will increasingly be able to make whatever they want. The best one could do is to try to invest or build something that still has value, but I think Altman is right. Capitalism will collapse in a world where creation is near free.

Yep! The singularity concept people talk about relies on a feedback loop like you described. So, she isn't wrong, per se, but just telling a fragment of the story that exist today.

Why not pin your business model as the top post for awhile until it catches on?

Why do you believe that? Having been in and worked around it, its success is a function of money and will. I would not call it competent, but that is a personal opinion having worked in competent effective organizations in the commercial sector.

My exposure to the internet came via MTV in 1994. I got a call at the house one day and they offered to pay for our internet if I agreed to comment on music videos in an online chatroom. I got free CompuServe for a year and a t-shirt.

This deserves to be upvoted more. Trading your life for financial gain has diminishing returns. You'd think everybody's goal would to be free of servitude.

I did that with a potato back in the day.

I just started hearing about WASI. I think I've been living under a rock.