Just yet another case of people seeing only the extremes and not the entire spectrum

You nailed it: in a corporate setting, code is definitely not the hardest part and it’s why companies can sometimes make do with a skeleton crew of offshore engineers who make $20-$30 bucks an hour

The way harder part is building the right thing and just designing the thing soundly to begin with

This type of software is where AI absolutely kills it - problems with tons of forum posts, writing code for systems with a ton of various kinds of quality developer documentation

On the other hand, if you’re doing something novel or sending a $10bn machine to mars, you probably don’t want to yolo it with AI

Wild to me that we see this even in what is a relatively more “sophisticated” forum

A novice writing code by hand could also write spaghetti code

If you've worked in enterprise software, you might have seen that even competent professionals can write spaghetti code

At this point AI really is just garbage in garbage out

China has zero energy concerns in terms of energy production - not literally zero, but they’d be able to prioritize other dimensions and not necessarily worry about efficiency

Here they are though releasing models that sip resources

On the other hand an engineer might take a couple hours and build this in a clean way with the right prompting

These “got ‘em” ai criticism comments are getting so old

What a fucking a joke - throw some cheap shots in there trying to stir things up by pointing out they were Asian

Everything I read about OpenAI makes me dislike them more and more - really can’t stand that company’s culture - I have “friends” who work there and it makes complete sense

Code quality is only going to get better and to be perfectly honest learning how to get the llm to generate quality output is IMO time much better spent vs some misguided attempt to do something by hand — the prompting is the better skill to develop at this point and if you’re worried about atrophy it’s probably your least developed skill

Instead I focus on reading the plan and making sure I understand it, opening up a second session for second opinions or questions if I have gem

This obviously depends on where in the stack you live but code quality is accelerating at a significant rate - decision making not as much and it’s where your value is imo

I use one but only when traveling at hotels - it’s one of the only sticks that can connect to captive WiFi networks at hotels

I’ve got barely anything on it so privacy be damned - but at this point this is why I just buy apple products

I have two apple tv’s which probably do shady things too, but I’m willing to play the probabilities and assume it’s the least bad of my options short of tinkering with flashing hardware and all that stuff that used to be fun in my teens (emphasis on used to)

Add a skill to your repo that does some basic checks at least, not that hard

Math isn’t necessarily hard, but it’s incredibly dense

A simple statement like let f(x) be a continuous function can carry a lot of definitions

In that statement, if you missed the day in class where they covered continuous functions it might not even register that it’s a well defined term

And that’s the most over simplistic example I could think of

As a math major, I remember that being one of the first lessons I learned, that every single word could be carrying a lot of weight so to look things up in detail if I was ever struggling on a problem. One of the oldest entries in my memory.md file

I finally freed myself from Google using Kagi instead

I don’t currently use OpenAI but if Claude pulls this shit too I’ll have a problem on my hands

I have a feeling this is the next…frontier of that fight

One can only hope it eventually does as well as Linux

Really curious to hear more about this

Unless all of congress is included in that 100k, I’d love to hear a plausible scenario where this is actually achievable and not merely some clever edge case you found

No problem paying taxes - my entire gripe is with what what the moneys spent on

It’s used for surveillance in the truest sense

Heaven forbid you are on someone’s watchlist, they will just track your movement across the city

This isn’t some fake CSI pop dream - this kind of tech isn’t used to catch the people breaking into your house

But the truth is it’s bullshit and this attitude that companies should be able to do whatever they want because it’s a free market is getting so tiresome

Clearly there is agreement that things can be taken too far - as soon as one single consumer protection/anti competitive/monopoly preventing law exists, you’ve admitted those types of laws are needed

So then you’re only arguing about degrees and companies shouldn’t be allowed to do shit that harms consumers this way

On the surface this seems reasonable - it’s inevitable - discs aren’t going to hang around forever

But this goes back to what it means to own something and we’re all being relegated to serfs who don’t own shit

You wanna get rid of discs? Fine, but give me an alternative so that I still own what I buy and can resell it at will

First of all, who said this is a disaster?

Second of all, OP never even said anything about no regulation - they specifically said they wanted transparency which is 100% valid and better than a world where the government baby proofs everything for you

Models are already censored - and who they are or aren't uncensored for has a lot of implications which are way worse

And the jets is a terrible example - you picked one of THE highest regulated industries where NOBODY has a problem with regulation