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New comment by makerofthings in "Patrick Stewart has died"

makerofthings — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:59:16 +0000

Whenever I run into a moral or political or similar dilemma I always ask myself, if this was an episode of TNG, which side would be the baddies and who would Picard side with? Never steered me wrong. RIP Patrick Stewart.

New comment by makerofthings in "Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale"

makerofthings — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:05:32 +0000

Food? Health care? Rent?

New comment by makerofthings in "Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale"

makerofthings — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:46:13 +0000

When you get to $100 million you get a letter from the president congratulating you for winning capitalism and everything after that gets taxed at 100%.

New comment by makerofthings in "Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale"

makerofthings — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:32:02 +0000

Why don't the humans from the left 99% simple eat the humans from the right 1%?

New comment by makerofthings in "The compiler was supposed to end programming too"

makerofthings — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:53:15 +0000

If I write a novel, have someone translate it to French and publish it, that's a compiler. If I hand some brief notes to someone who writes the novel for me, that's the llm. These are fundamentally different things.

New comment by makerofthings in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

makerofthings — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:43:13 +0000

Master development with agents ,clearly they aren't learning the whole of software engineering in a few days.

New comment by makerofthings in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

makerofthings — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:10:48 +0000

We have graduates come in and master development with agents in a few days. There's really not that much to it. There are a lot of people out there trying to make it sound difficult. Maybe to make themselves feel better, maybe to try and make money?

New comment by makerofthings in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

makerofthings — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:10:24 +0000

I wonder if their SREs have a 'Drone strike' playbook.

New comment by makerofthings in "Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage"

makerofthings — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:43:54 +0000

I'd call them on that. Printing it out would be a huge pain in the ass they would regret suggesting.

New comment by makerofthings in "Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI"

makerofthings — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:53:01 +0000

I'd happily tell them what I think about AI but they want me to create an account and tell them my date of birth. Where did you get the stickers?

New comment by makerofthings in "RuneScape's Position on Gen AI"

makerofthings — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:25:06 +0000

I mean, I'd never try to tell you what to do, but as you asked, what you're talking about is the base of the pyramid, that holds up and normalizes the system that's putting artists out of work and enshittifying everything. These companies stole literally everything and used it to build a tool whose economic end goal is to put everyone out of a job. I'm not down with that, but you do you.

New comment by makerofthings in "RuneScape's Position on Gen AI"

makerofthings — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:52:58 +0000

Oh absolutely, I don't have a magic way of detecting these things, but I do what I can. I would greatly prefer the best efforts of a person, regardless of how it turns out, to anything from generative ai. Everyone else can do as they wish, I'm not out to change anyone's mind :)

New comment by makerofthings in "RuneScape's Position on Gen AI"

makerofthings — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:50:54 +0000

I'm sure there are, but for me this isn't some reactionary mistake. I understand the technology and I thought about it carefully and made a call based on how I understand the ethics of the situation.

New comment by makerofthings in "RuneScape's Position on Gen AI"

makerofthings — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:09:46 +0000

It's so obvious that I wondered if someone had done it as a joke (that obviously didn't land).

New comment by makerofthings in "RuneScape's Position on Gen AI"

makerofthings — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:08:45 +0000

I wouldn't buy a game that used generative ai and would refund one that I later discovered had. A quick straw poll of the gaming channels I'm in shows a lot of agreement amongst my friends.

New comment by makerofthings in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

makerofthings — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:29:50 +0000

You. Clearly.

New comment by makerofthings in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

makerofthings — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:17:12 +0000

That is an unnecessarily rude and mean comment.

New comment by makerofthings in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

makerofthings — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:52:42 +0000

Yes, but this time, we're the horse.

New comment by makerofthings in "Dots: Always-on agents"

makerofthings — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:54:24 +0000

> AI companies are bad at making software

They should try using agents. I hear they can write great software.

New comment by makerofthings in "Goodbye Google"

makerofthings — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:17:05 +0000

One of them is pretend and the other one probably won't be?