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Im one of the more mid to resistant folks and this has never been just a job to me. I did take immense satisfaction from learning, deeply understanding how things work and the consist and repeatable behavior, which is just not there with ai. Especially the consist/repeatable behavior, which to me computers that behave inconsistently aren't nearly as worthwhile.

I love how some people think the scale of a problem doesnt matter. Like yeah we has data brokerw 50 years ago, way less of them and the scope they could collect data about was significantly more limited. That matters a lot

Its going to be an uphill battle. Every story about job losses, consequences to the community from building a datacenter (real or perceived), eminent domain case that blows up, plus all the slop on every platform. Not to mention a lot of normies think techbros are obnoxious, and that is who is hyping ai.

They'll need to show their goal is to help humanity and that all the other peoole arent acceptable collateral damage. Since those other people get to vote.

When did the love of learning disappear from this field? I remember when everyone i talked to was learning something new just to better themselves?

I swap between kindle and audible daily. The syncing is generally good, byt i have had issues with some books.

This alone has caused my reading to skyrocket. I swear i do 1-2 books a week this way

They wont feel good if the product they pay for doesnt work

Then go broad. It being slightly challenging to legislation and hold people accountable as soon as the model does something.

Dont they also create and score the tests

Very much so in my recollection

Dont forget beef

Once YC companies started having a negative impact on people and communities. Airbnb and gig worker stuff seems to be the start of it.

Im 45, and i can tell you getting a cell phone absolutely destroyed my ability to memorize phone numbers. During the 90s when i was in highschool i has all my friends numbers, parents work numbers, etc... memorized, i only know my parents and wife now.

If you don't use a skill, that skill atrophies

I deleted almost every app on my phone. I use reddit a bit and hn, but that's all the social stuff i do. Hell i use a pixel and disabled YouTube. It's a bit of a challenge at fist, but much much better after you adjust

Is there a company that has been more damaging to the software industry than these jokers?

In ops we call it monitor blindness. Just constant asks get annoying and folks just want to make it stop

I read it as management only knows how to evaluate and reward change even if its just for the sake of the promotion process

Sure it does. I still nees to know the correct mathematics to type into the calculator and the calculator is deterministic. If you don't understand it without the llm explaining it, how can you be sure you actually understand it? How can you catch mistakes made due to it being non-deterministic? Ask another llm? Same problem

We have more code than we need. Proof for me is every "smart" device that worked better before we put a computer in it.

Blame goes to everyone involved. From the decision makers to the implementors

What did they actually say about some's kida?

Knocking out someones teeth would necessitate filing charges

I write code by hand every day. I do the main part of the feature implementation myself and leave comments for the code i want the agent to write. I have some skills and a command that sets the stage to get the agent to fill in the rest

Vibes are not evidence, neither is a curated demo. You need actual measured evidence that has an adversarial review to actually prove something without falling to confirmation bias.

Yep to the point where its easier without the gps.

Got any sources for those claims that show how broadly adopted ai is in those countries? I lookes at japan and china and could find a few articles, the anime one cites a single anime made with ai and nothing about its reception and similar results for china

Id say it improved until about 2016, since then the additions have generally made the software worse.

More overlays and popups More needlessly verbose navigation instructions Less predictable routes.

Thats just the start

They aren't blameless, friends and family only should be the default even if you don't engage much. Why would they default it to a bunch of junk.

I'd agree but we're closer to getting forced into the chair than making a decision that's right for us

Yes but able bodied people shouldnt decide to use a wheelchair until their legs attrophy and become useless.

I've been very happy using cdk for interacting with aws. Much better than terraform and the like.

Or how you'll get all your data out and imported into your custom system.