So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let’s them do their actual job better

I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works

That’s the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don’t want to do

I’ve been doing it for more than a decade without help, I’m not any better at spelling or misclicks

And to be clear, I can do it - I just really, really don’t want to. I hate it so much, my eyes glaze over and I have to force myself every second of the way. It’s not interesting, there’s no puzzles involved… It’s basically data entry

No, it’s all different - like a normal use case is “write me a stored procedure to optionally update all fields on a row on this table” or “given the following json response, build a class to parse it into”

We have a ridiculous database and multiple new api’s to integrate with every year, so this comes up a lot

I use it so much. All my Google searches for syntax or snippets? Web searches are unuseable at this point, AI can spit it out faster. But the real savings? Repetitive code. I suck at it, I always make typos and it’s draining. I just toss in a table or an api response and tell it what I want and boom

It probably does write 75% of my code by lines, but maybe 5% of the business logic is AI (sometimes I just let it take a crack at a problem, but usually if I have to type it out I might as well code it)

What it’s good at drains my concentration, so doing the grunt work for me is a real force multiplier. I don’t even use it every day, but it might be a 3x multiplier for me and could improve

But here’s the thing - programmers are not replaceable. Not by other humans, not by AI - you learn hyper specific things about what you work on

Yeah, it takes longer

It’ll be a bit late then.

I know how compliance works, and this is setting off all my alarm bells, and the EFF and privacy community agrees… This has truly horrifying implications

If you’re going to let human rights be further erroded because it came in a pretty explanation, not much I can do. But when the next patriot act comes back to bite us, remember one thing… When they say it’s about the children, it never is

That’s what they say it does. What it really does is make sites responsible for “harmful content” shown to minors

It’s all completely vague. You say it just affects the kids mode accounts… The bill doesn’t say anything about that. It doesn’t provide any guidance on how to properly comply, just like the porn id laws.

You can’t assume the government is going to use this for what they say they will. You have to look at what this would let them do as written

Ultimately, this gives the government censorship powers over what is allowed in the “open” Internet, and to IDs users in the “adult” Internet

Because that’s not what this is. It’s just like the porn site laws

How does a site comply? Maybe they use AI to look at your face, maybe they have you send in your license. The law isn’t clear what’s enough to prove it.

How long until third parties step up? Nice convenient orgs that can sell the collected data that can guarantee compliance, because they sell the data to the government directly. Or even first parties… Facebook and Google are happy to sell this kind of info on their users

This isn’t about protecting kids, it’s about identifying users. What they say this is for is good, what the laws actually do is far removed from that

Do not ask people how to do this. If you don’t know from a web search, you shouldn’t try this without backing up a full disk image and understanding how to roll it back. Or at least backing up everything you care about

It’s not a particularly hard thing, but it’s a very irreversible one

Yes, the royal families in countries like them and the UAE are absurdly rich and like showing off. They flex on the richest billionaires, because not only do they have a net value that is thought to be higher then Musk, it’s not just on paper - they can spend insane amounts without worrying about hurting stock prices

They probably have food trucks like this for all kinds of restaurants, just sitting on standby. There’s no way they’re not legit - the whole point is to flaunt. This is probably normally used for like their kids pool parties or something

Or maybe they really did get this set up for Trump, in which case it’s still definitely legit. It even has the new decor they’ve been bringing to their restaurants

Remember, with the super rich the inefficiency is the point. They’d probably flog everyone for shaming them or something if it came out this wasn’t “real” McDonald’s

I read it and I still have no idea what this is

Propoganda fucking works, simple as that

Billionaires just buy good press and publicists to manage their image, it’s so effective they believe it themselves

Civilized countries don’t let people die because they can’t afford to live

There’s not many of those, are there?

We’re all living in a distopia, no one is safe from the sickness… It spreads across borders

I think it’s funny that I get the best results when I prompt break the AI to have amusing habits

Llms are truly a reflection of the user, but ultimately the less you try to shoehorn them into behaviors the more capable they are.

Fine tuning reduces their capabilities to make them more corpo, and now they’re further fine tuning to make them unchallenging to people

I like the idea. I’ve even experimented with some on device algorithms by basically weaving together feeds, even something simple like makes a noticeable improvement

It predicts that Tesla could save money by padding the numbers, and does a little fraud automagically

Pierbattista Pizzaballa, I hope.

And that is not a joke, that is the legal name of the best cardinal for the job

I follow laws mainly because of my own sense of morality - I don’t kill, I steal only when I feel I need to, and I don’t commit fraud because these things are obviously generally wrong.

I follow stupid laws (such as needing insurance, paying income taxes, or not speeding) out of fear of punishment. These are issues I’ll basically never have, because I’m good at driving and don’t make enough to affect state level operations

I think you replied to the wrong comment, but I agree

Granted, if they could actually make this work, they could probably do the robotaxi thing or even get into logistics. That would make it easily worth it to build dispatch centers basically everywhere

That is, if they could make it work

Nah, there’s not that many. There’s large swaths of the US where you have to drive across multiple states to get to one, in part for legal restrictions on dealerships