Don’t have to read a book on every US president to understand what happened during the Reagan administration. And if I’m primarily interested in the Cold War, I can focus on that subject and skip out on when Reagan was governor of California, or how he met his wife.

More than that I can get information from a variety of sources, including ones that disagree with each other and have different perspectives. That has absolutely enormous value when trying to comprehend something new…and isn’t often available in a single book.

You still can’t be lazy. Laziness is antithetical to truly acquiring knowledge. But it definitely can’t only come from a book.

The reality is that before, you needed to read huge swaths of information to find/know the relevant information. Now you don’t.

The density of useful information I gather from places like Wikipedia, even long form articles is substantially higher than I got reading non-fiction.

I still read books sometimes. It’s a different experience. But it’s only a dumbing down of society, if the things you’re reading are dumb.

I can basically split it into 3 groups.

1) Pure vibe code. No software experience.

2) AI with someone who knows the software development process and some things about software, but can’t code.

3) Engineers using AI assistance, reading/reviewing code, forcing structure.

If someone can pay to replace #1 with #3 it’s very worth it. The quality between each of these tiers is enormous.

I actually got curious and asked AI to look at each module in a codebase, and tell me about who wrote it without looking at git.

It successfully profiled all 3 of these groups and correctly attached them to the right module.

Once upon a time, all server logs were basically unusable because of the amount of IIS scanners out there. There was a directory traversal that was literally just url encoding “../“ that absolutely lit the internet on fire for many months.

I love computers.

My last laptop used an audio amplifier that made the speakers not work for ~2 years, that required patching the kernel to fix. It's only recently a vanilla version of the kernel works.

We aren't completely out of the woods yet.

If so, you can’t be tied to a specific purchase but you can be so tightly grouped it’s basically the same.

Well, that’s not cute.

It says a lot that with few exceptions, the people on the ground dealing with AI closely on a day to day basis are the most skeptical about their positions.

Not knee capping AI, but acknowledging the changes that are coming and figuring out how to mitigate the damage.

So the solution to that would be “change the law”.

So how do you think a meta noai tag would be used by a hostile government?

It would be something the website owner set.

That would allow people to still let Google to access their site, but restrict its usage. Similar for open source projects on GitHub, etc.

The Democrats have had a number of pretty high quality, charismatic candidates, but for some reason they never receive the party backing on the national stage, at least not for the presidency.

The Democrats seem to lean in to almost inheriting nominations. Hillary Clinton, Biden, Kamala, etc.

“The heir apparent”.

Honestly the most unique thing about Obama Was that they broke from “the heir apparent” and ran someone who had risen up from the state level and was merely a high quality congressman for a short period of time.

It’s not purely over hiring, it’s that many of these companies are doubling down on AI spend(in terms of model creation, hardware investment, etc), and need to allocate their funds differently.

So it’s not AI efficiency causing the layoffs, it’s AI resource allocation.

And the reason they don’t have the funds to invest? Overhiring.

A lot of the companies doing layoffs (META, Microsoft, Amazon) aren’t just using AI coding tools, they’re trying to be the hardware and be the models behind the AI.

And they see the failure to do so as an existential threat.