[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac

It's not theft unless a jury says it is, they didn't say it is.

Here’s the quote

“ “I’m going to give them probably half of that on top of [their base pay] as tokens ... because every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive.” “

It’s less of him saying it’s a bonus or a perk and more him saying expect to spend that much more on top of base salary to get enormous productivity boosts.

Now, I could see availability of these tools as an incentive to joining a place, which is no different than joining an engineering team because the use nice MacBooks.

We have cursor with essentially unlimited Opus 4.6 and it’s fundamentally changed my workflow as a senior engineer. I find I spend much more time designing and testing my software and development time is almost entirely prompting and reviewing AI changes.

I’m afraid my coding skills are atrophying, in fact I know the are, but I’m not sure if the coding was the part of my job I truly enjoyed. I enjoy thinking higher-level: architecture, connecting components, focusing on the user experience. But I think using these AI tools is a form of golden handcuffs. If I go work at a startup without the money I pay for these models, I think for the first time in my career I would be less likely to be able to successfully code a feature than I could last year.

So professionally there are pros and cons. My design and architecture skills have greatly improved as I am spending more time doing this.

Personally it’s so much fun. I’ve made several side projects I would have never done otherwise. Working with Claude code on greenfield projects is a blast.

The difference is in how abuse of the given system affects others. This AI affected this person and his actions affected himself. Nothing about the AI enhanced his ability to hurt others. Guns enhance the ability of mentally unstable people to hurt others with ruthless efficiency. That's the real gun debate -- whether they should be so easy to get given how they exponentially increase the potential damage a deranged person can do.

> Intelligence is the ability to model, predict, and influence one’s future; it can evolve in relation to other intelligences to create a larger symbiotic intelligence.

The book is worth a read. But I don't believe it limits the type of intelligence we have to humans, by definition. Then again, I'm only halfway through the book :).

[https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049955/what-is-intelligence/]

> AI hallucinations are one of the best bits of PR ever. The term reframes critical errors to anthropomorphise the machine, as that is essentially what an AI hallucination is: the machine getting it significantly and repeatedly wrong. Both MIT and METR found that the effort and cost required to look for, identify, and rectify these errors was almost always significantly larger than the effort the AI reduced.

> In other words, for AI (specifically generative AI) to be even remotely useful in the real world and have a hope in hell of generating revenue by augmenting workers at scale, let alone replacing them like it has promised to, it needs to cut “hallucinations” down to basically zero.

As someone who uses Claude 4.5 in Cursor every workday this rings extremely hollow. I am thinking to myself daily “I would have never had time to do this before.”

Have an idea for a script, you don’t have to lose a day building it. Wanna explore a feature, make a worktree and let the agent go. It’s fundamentally changed my workflow for the better and I don’t wanna go back, hallucinations and all.