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wesleywt··on Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb
This is different as you are wholesale giving over your thinking to an AI.
wesleywt··on Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb
There are a few people out there with AI psychosis that thought they developed a new mathematical theorem.
wesleywt··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
It takes two years to get up to speed on a job. It seems laying off will cost the company time even if they are saving money.
wesleywt··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
I always wonder what happens to institutional knowledge in American companies.
wesleywt··on "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
If you a tool that replaces your brain then you won't use your brain.
wesleywt··on "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
I disagree. People who use too much AI will not learn anything and will not contribute significantly to new developments.
wesleywt··on OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
Its not going to be big. There is no obvious use for them unlike email or the Iphone.
wesleywt··on EFF is leaving X
Do you really need to reach users on X. It is filter for a specific type of user who don't share the ideals of the EFF. And racists.
wesleywt··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
The US have been removing leaders for decades.
wesleywt··on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
I love how we in Africa can finally see open corruption in US. You guys can't be high and mighty anymore. You are one of us now.
wesleywt··on DOGE Track
OP then proceeds not to list the massive fraud.
wesleywt··on Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
In this case, saving the children from the toxic misinformation firehose that is social media might save our democracies.
wesleywt··on Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89
Politicians and empire-builders (Elon) is currently standing in the way of human progress and history.
wesleywt··on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
But to understand the solution from someone else, you would have to apply your mind to understand the problem yourself. Transferring the hard work of thinking to GPT will rob you of the attention you will need to understand the subject matter fully. You will be missing insights that would be applicable to your problem. This is the biggest danger of brain rot.
wesleywt··on Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
Without the engagement on the material you are studying you will not have the context to know and therefore focus on the larger problem. Deep immersion in the material allows you to make the connections. With AI spoon feeding you will not have that immersion.
wesleywt··on X For You Feed Algorithm
Nobody is competing in this loss making buisiness model.
wesleywt··on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
Why can't you do both? Why does it always have to be either or?
wesleywt··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
> Electronic music...

Your instrument is the computer and designing sound. You still have to have talent and musical ear to make this music.

wesleywt··on U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
Increase coal usage does not mean increase in coal jobs.
wesleywt··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
He promised his voters no new wars. So your statement is completely wrong.
wesleywt··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Trump gave one of the biggest drug dealers ever a pardon as well as the Silk Road guy. Time to sanitise where you get your news, you seem to be eating all the propaganda.
wesleywt··on The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia
Its an attenuated vaccine, which means it was grown to be weaker then the wildtype by growing it in non-human cells making it more specific to what it was grown in. I have never had chickenpox because i had the vaccine. If had chickenpox as a child you were extremely unlucky because its completely unnecessary.
wesleywt··on Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Humans are pretty good at edge cases.
wesleywt··on Python Data Science Handbook
Nothing, it gets the job done for most people. If you don't like it, make a better tool. Polars is not it.
wesleywt··on Python Data Science Handbook
Maybe you are just bad at pandas.
wesleywt··on Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
And yet there are licenses restricting open source use. You should absolutely stop people from using your work if it doesn't align with your values.
wesleywt··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
I don't see the problem. The market to fix these will eventually emerge.
wesleywt··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
Because Twitter doesn't pay rent. IDK?
wesleywt··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
Since Musk took over Twitter one word we could use to describe the process is "disruptive to employees"
wesleywt··on Japan chain uses AI to gauge staff smiles, speech tones in QoS push
Using smart tech to do stupid stuff. We have millions of years of developing our social interactions to know when someone is fake.
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