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yeah weird. Same goes for the "ATMs increased demand for tellers" strange idea suggested earlier in the article, which was automatically disproven right there by actually attributing the growth in tellers to deregulation. Which one is it?

that's kind of an ad hominem, but also beside the point: most bank apps (and websites) are actually absolute garbage, especially the top ones, just one example: the Citi app (on different phones) for a very long time refused to allow me to make a payment or change my password, so i had no choice but to use desktop. Somehow still, top banks' ugly websites seem to allow more functionality/fewer bugs than their mobile apps, which are very often just dumbed-down webviews or simplifications of their websites.

With so much hype it's a valid question: "is this useful/practical, or just a fun rabbit hole/productivity porn". Money is the most obvious metric, feel free to inquire the parent about other possible metrics that might be useful to others instead of asking rhetorical questions.

the obvious problem with replacing the algorithm is that people actually crave that shit, after all there have been tens of thousands of highly trained engineers making it as addictive as possible. So, no chance.

> It’s not anymore (actually google is awful now) and people are still using it

if people are still using it, then it's really one of the few things, right?

* you are wrong and it's not awful

* it _is_ awful but good enough for normal people to never care about alternatives, which are anyway not even very easy to find given the absolute stranglehold google has on that slice

either way not quite the same as choice of llms today.

do they use facebook or instagram? meta jammed their LLM into the search box there. Do they use google at all? the AI summary produced by Gemini leads you to click on "more details" with gemini.

so while this is technically true: > My nontechnical friends only know about ChatGPT

they may actually use a ton of other LLMs without knowing

lol you can call it crap if it makes you feel better, but McDonalds was replaced by the same vendors, making the same stuff sourced mostly locally as before, using the same processes that McDonalds used, they just don't send their revenue to the US anymore. Same for Ikea (majority of stuff sold at Ikea was sourced locally and continues under local brands), same for Starbucks - Shokoladnitsa is subjectively better and keeps all the $$ locally, but whatever. The level of myths and delusions people confidently post here on this topic is truly impressive.

yeah that was weird, it was like a cult and some coworkers of mine were religiously hunting down every comment in other people's MR's, just kinda assumed that "no comments" is a hard rule. Very strange, i had to fight many battles for my sanity. There are many cases where you may want to explain why this is coded the way this is coded, not just how.

I found my love for programming in high school, dreaming of helping the world with my beautiful craftsmanship, but now i really really need the fokken money. Both are true!

So if my corporate overlords will have me talk to the soul-less Claude robot all day long in a Severance-style setting, and fix its stupid bugs, but I get to keep my good salary, then I'll shed a small tear for my craft and get back to it. If not... well, then I'll be shedding a lot more tears ... i guess

> many went into this field for money

I went into this field for both! what do i do now, i'm screwed

mostly if the founders are dickheads. That happens often, but may not be the case here.

yeah, and Zuckerberg said that everyone on planet Earth will buy his VR helmet, and renamed his whole company after a stupid game which i don't think even exists anymore. Being a contrarian doesn't mean you are right, and sometimes seemingly stupid money-losing things turn out... stupid.

don't get the hate, cheap tix to Vegas were great, now it's less competition, if their plane config was not to your liking you can pay whatever you want for any other airline, don't get the schadenfreude.

pretty fucked up if it runs into an asteroid or a comet!

Is this is a joke? Of course it's not going to kill ad-funded anything, ads will still be there 100% in some form, except now all the ad money will go to 1-2 companies instead of the whole world of web publishers. Very smart cheering that on!

> Handing your codebase to an AI company is not nothing.

it's a battle that's already lost a long time ago. Every crappy little service by now indexes everything. If you ever touch Github, Jira, Datadog, Glean (god forbid), Upwork, etc etc they each have their own shitty little "AI" thing which means what? Your project has been indexed, bagged and tagged. So unless you code from a cave without using any saas tools, you will be indexed no matter what.

backend has many traps but no one totally dominating "load the slow bundle once, near-native subsequent page loads" narrative which is (for whatever the reason!!) a non-existent illusion on most average daily websites.

> When it is worth the pain to load a large bundle in exchange for having really small network requests after the load

...and yet, i keep running into web (and even mobile apps) that load the bundle, and subsequent navigation is just as slow, or _even slower_. Many banking websites, checking T-Mobile balance... you wait for the bundle to load on their super-slow website, ok, React, Angular, hundreds of megs, whatever. Click then to check the balance, just one number pulled in as tiny JSON, right? No, the website starts flashing another skeleton forever, why? You could say, no true SPA that is properly built would do that, but I run into this daily, many websites and apps made by companies with thousands of developers each.

> I'm able to quickly stop it and fix any mistake it makes

I would think that's the process too, but according to the article the dude is almost completely hands off:

> You come back to ten thousand lines of code. You spend 5 minutes reading. One sentence of feedback. Another ten thousand lines appear while you're making lunch.

You can't humanly review 10 thousand lines of code in 5 minutes. This is either complete bullshit or it really writes flawless code for them and never makes any mistakes.

why is this so surprising? every place i worked at, going back probably 6 jobs, was using an ORM (django, hibernate, or even a self-built one), they went on to get acquired by Twitter, Microsoft, Uber etc, so not completely stupid or obscure. Even if you have a personal dislike of ORMs, if you ever work with/for another team with an exiting codebase and a DB, chances are you will have to work with one.

what do you mean remember? it didn't go anywhere. I try to understand how to make this useful for my daily programming, and every credible-looking advice begins with "tell LLM to program in style ABC and avoid antipatterns like XYZ", sometimes pages and pages long. It seems like without this prompt sourcery you cannot produce good code using an LLM it will make the same stupid mistakes over and over unless you try to pre-empt them with a carefully engineered upfront prompt. Aside from stupid "influencers" who bullshit that they produced a live commercial app with a one-liner English sentence, it seems that getting anything useful really requires a lot of prompt work, whatever you want to call it.

> “AI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don’t.” – Ginni Rometty

wait, i thought it was Watson that was supposed to replace me

> it is like having a team of 20 Junior Engineers

lol sounds like a true nightmare. Code is a liability. Faster junior coding = more crap code = more liability.

well, unlike say linux it's not just the code, but training data which of course never has been and never will be shared, and compute. So keeping the whole thing (training data, compute, and the code) private seems quite doable, even if one or two parts of this get leaked you still can't build on top of the whole thing.

> Current policy lead directly to that one fellow to lock the cockpit door and slam the plane into a hillside

While obviously the incidents are terrible, do you really think he would self-report, voluntarily endure 6+ months of therapy and come back like new, if only the current policy didn't lead him to do what he did?

Totally armchair, but I think people like the German dude and allegedly (but who knows) the Malaysian Zaharie are far gone. The only thing that can help is mandatory health checks, and even then who knows if it's possible to screen for everything.

> peoples' complaints about javascript type coercion is that they simply never bothered to learn how it works

soo.... if the pesky people keep complaining, maybe it really doesn't make any sense? i for the life of me could never figure out why a bunch of mainstream languages a couple of decades ago decided that typing is no longer necessary and should be abolished. Is there any benefit of removing type checking (and relying on bizarre implicit coercion rules when ambiguity ensues)?

this is what he's going to push on all of us... terrifying

the parent asked for moronity OR fraud, kind of a low bar lol

> a special order, 350 gallons, and had it shipped from Los Angeles. A few days after the order arrived, Hughes announced he was tired of banana nut and wanted only French vanilla ice cream

yes, there are plenty

more recent example, every single person who touched epstein

past performance does not guarantee future results

also, great for the Wall Street, mixed bag for us the people