“Everyone else, I would say, was more of a ChatGPT person, and again, using it for small secretarial tasks or consumer fun use cases. But I didn’t meet a lot of people who suggested to me that AI was essential or important to their work.”

If we want to hear from an LLM, we can ask it ourselves. What are you bringing to the conversation?

I was skeptical of this claim, so I looked it up. You’re right. Globally, about 9x as many people die due to cold-related causes than heat-related causes. It’s not freezing, though, but longer-term effects like kidney failure in elderly people. [1]

I’m still dubious about the argument that weather events could save lives, though, partially because climate change makes weather more extreme, not simply “more pleasant for people in colder climates.”

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/part-one-how-many-people-die-from...

https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global...

What the F is this thing going on about? I got several screens in before closing it as slop, still none the wiser as to what it actually is.

Edit: The submitter is a new account plumping their own website, as far as I can tell. Which makes me rather suspicious of the upvotes that pushed this slop onto the second page of results.

Edit 2: Oh, it’s an SEO thing. Yes, a true bastion of honorable behavior. I’m sure those upvotes are legit.

Maybe I’m pissy because I just read about the BMW in-car advertising thing. I swear, the normalization of lying and cheating—excuse me, “advertising” and “growth hacking” is a modern plague.

10 PRINT “Hello World”

Beautifully simple and readable. But it’s not a good language by modern standards.

In your example, I see a lot of complexity being surfaced: output streams, locals instead of globals, error handling. I don’t know Zig but all of those are things that are important to address, and I like that the example doesn’t sweep them under the rug in pursuit of a false readability.

All the reports of productivity since then are self-reported, or using questionable measures such as SLOC and PRs, so it’s reasonable to say that productivity improvements are still unknown.

Unfortunately, METR hasn’t been able to replicate the study because they couldn’t find enough willing participants.

Or, yes, you can take the presence of the free version as a sign that the professional service is freeloading, and take your business elsewhere.