I’d say they are batting .250 like everyone else.

- AI isn't bound by need for rest, vacations, sick days, or labor laws

- AI doesn't bounce from company to company, taking your business knowledge with it (actually this isn't technically true based on the practices of AI companies, but that's not a technical requirement)

- AI doesn't join a union and stop work in demand for higher pay or workers rights

This is what CEOS and capitalists are thinking. For capital, the best outcome is to not have any labor at all. And if you can do that when your competitors can't, then you have a huge market advantage. (Slop notwithstanding)

I'm not saying this is a "good thing" but this is what drives the market. Less labor revenue in the long term and money printing machines.

A Little Brother solution: they want data, give them so much bad data the rest of their data becomes worthless. But it only works on a mass scale.

Problem is it is nowhere near as smart, so what speed I get in conversation gets killed by iteration.

Of course, it doesn't work 100% and certain sites are hostile to it and do stupid javascript tricks "for the views".

Mostly, I use it to put it on a reading list later, and to get around really, really abusive ad driven sites.

Coding has always been the easy bit.

I have a kid going thru this right now. It’s very disheartening and frustrating to see, because even with coaching and help, they don’t see the help and suggestions as solutions because they simply can’t see it. And as a parent you don’t want to have to intervene, you want them to learn how to dig their way out of it. But it’s tough to get them to dig when they don’t believe in shovels.

I might consider F1 in that case as it has gained in popularity a lot, and technically it’s owned by a U.S. company, but I’d never think of it as a U.S. league.

Just like with humans it definitely works better if you follow good naming conventions and file patterns. And even then I tend to make sure to just include the important files in the context or clue the LLM in during the prompt.

It also depends on what language you use. A LOT. During the day I use LLMs with dotnet and it’s pretty rough compared to when I’m using rails on my side projects. Dotnet requires a lot more prompting and hand holding, both due to its complexity but also due to how much more verbose it is.

Those efficiencies will eventually be driven into all parts of the system. AI will be able to run the most efficient code on the most efficiently designed processors, that can be designed with the knowledge that only AI is going to use them. And then we can remove ALL the weird abstractions and accommodations we had to make for human brains.

I’m not saying it will happen tomorrow but language choice is just a temporary concern.

And as a liberal I think “hell YES he should be prosecuted!” The government shouldn’t just go around killing citizens without due process. I don’t care what letter is by their name.

I loaded it up once and decided that I really wasn’t into games I had to study for.

You are right that it won’t be the little guys doing this, but they might be represented by very powerful organizations who take down laws professionally and are doing so for their own benefit. And with the way politics has entered everything, who knows which things will be targeted next, or what new cruelties they care to inflict.

At the same time, again due to the current political climate, it doesn’t do us any good to have all the rules thrash back and forth with each new administration. This is what we get as we get more and more polarized and laws aren’t being written with compromise. Congress and elections need serious reform.

Which is why U.S. foreign adversaries have been actively sowing chaos for a decade.

Also I live in a pretty good sized city of about 350k in our metro area, and before these delivery services only the national pizza places delivered. When I moved here from a larger city I was shocked there wasn’t a single Chinese delivery place. So I’m thinking that the costs and management were just too high.

The right model might be the Waiter on the Way model, which hires regular drivers but can offer the service turnkey. But there needs to be more of those, and there doesn’t seem to be for some reason.