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New comment by wesleywt in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

wesleywt — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:38:56 +0000

But you Americans hate taxes. You spend like a European country and tax like an African one.

New comment by wesleywt in "The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true"

wesleywt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:59:53 +0000

This doesn't confirm their bias.

New comment by wesleywt in "The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true"

wesleywt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:58:27 +0000

Why should the person identifying the problem provide a solution? This doesn't make sense.

New comment by wesleywt in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

wesleywt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:16:15 +0000

I don't think you can learn high level techniques or architectures without first understanding the basics first. This means boring boiler plate coding.

New comment by wesleywt in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

wesleywt — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:36:31 +0000

Does the American Dream myth still exist?

New comment by wesleywt in "Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb"

wesleywt — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:54:47 +0000

Are you writing a book with GPS? Are you creating a program with GPS? Are you creating music with GPS?

You need to think to do this, you don't need to with AI.

New comment by wesleywt in "Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb"

wesleywt — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:09:16 +0000

This is different as you are wholesale giving over your thinking to an AI.

New comment by wesleywt in "Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb"

wesleywt — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:08:07 +0000

There are a few people out there with AI psychosis that thought they developed a new mathematical theorem.

New comment by wesleywt in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

wesleywt — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:55:25 +0000

It takes two years to get up to speed on a job. It seems laying off will cost the company time even if they are saving money.

New comment by wesleywt in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

wesleywt — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:54:17 +0000

I always wonder what happens to institutional knowledge in American companies.

New comment by wesleywt in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

wesleywt — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:04:43 +0000

If you a tool that replaces your brain then you won't use your brain.

New comment by wesleywt in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

wesleywt — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:02:58 +0000

I disagree. People who use too much AI will not learn anything and will not contribute significantly to new developments.

New comment by wesleywt in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

wesleywt — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:17:49 +0000

Its not going to be big. There is no obvious use for them unlike email or the Iphone.

New comment by wesleywt in "EFF is leaving X"

wesleywt — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:20:58 +0000

Do you really need to reach users on X. It is filter for a specific type of user who don't share the ideals of the EFF. And racists.

New comment by wesleywt in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

wesleywt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:26:04 +0000

The US have been removing leaders for decades.

New comment by wesleywt in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

wesleywt — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:43:55 +0000

I love how we in Africa can finally see open corruption in US. You guys can't be high and mighty anymore. You are one of us now.

New comment by wesleywt in "DOGE Track"

wesleywt — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:29:21 +0000

OP then proceeds not to list the massive fraud.

New comment by wesleywt in "Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says"

wesleywt — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:30:17 +0000

In this case, saving the children from the toxic misinformation firehose that is social media might save our democracies.

New comment by wesleywt in "Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89"

wesleywt — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:07:41 +0000

Politicians and empire-builders (Elon) is currently standing in the way of human progress and history.

New comment by wesleywt in "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills"

wesleywt — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:26:57 +0000

But to understand the solution from someone else, you would have to apply your mind to understand the problem yourself. Transferring the hard work of thinking to GPT will rob you of the attention you will need to understand the subject matter fully. You will be missing insights that would be applicable to your problem. This is the biggest danger of brain rot.