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> Luckily, it doesn't matter because it's a solution in search of a problem. Most consumers aren't using AI apart from google search. This is... a view. Maybe I live in a strange s…

> all the way to local models for some tasks. I think this is the key takeaway for the future of AI. Give tech a few years to catch up and we will likely have the functionally equi…

> I thought about resurrecting my old game boy advance to introduce my little boy to the tech world. Hello myopia my old friend. We will wear glasses to the end. Because my vision'…

I (software engineer) have lived with a software engineer for 14 years. We (half jokingly, somewhat seriously) refer to non-software engineers as "real persons", or human-humans.

> There seems to be a strong bias where using AI feels like you're making a lot of progress very quickly, but compared to manual coding it often seems to be significantly slower in…

From the article: > And they don’t travel very far, so only nearby microphones would “hear” the tag. That makes the devices inherently private, Deng said, because other people woul…

I'm starting to notice how those who don't use AI end up having to hand tasks over to people who can get them done quicker. It is anecdotal for sure, but it's a pattern that seems …

I'm firmly in the LLM fanbase. Not because I can't type code (was doing it for over 17 years, everywhere from low level hardware drivers in C to web frontend to robot development a…

I do a hybrid, where I keep lowest tier subscriptions but choose to watch content off of our media server setup at the highest available quality, without advertisement. I don't min…

A notification on my phone. I don't know what produced it exactly, but it was probably connected to my google account (sigh!) somehow. It's something that happens rarely enough for…

This drives me nuts. It's been going on for years that a simple "if this, do that" deal is encoded in an overly elaborate 10 minute long YouTube video where at least 9 minutes of i…

Exactly we don't, and what's worse is that the "content" is getting to the point where we need _content_ blockers. I recently got hit by an "article" that promised to tell me which…

Yeah. In these cases it's not like anyone is going to spin up their own instance and start competing with you. Government / handles society-critical things code should really be pu…

Some months back I would have agreed with you without any "but", but it really does help even if it only takes over "typing code". Once you do understand the problem deep enough to…

I've recently worked extensively with "prompt coding", and the model we're using is very good at following such instructions early on. However after deep reasoning around problems,…

Full agree on this. I (deep, deep in embedded systems) have seen this too often, that code is incredibly complex and impossible to reason around because it needs to reach into some…

I think it boils down to how companies view LLMs and their engineers. Some companies will do as you say - have (mostly clueless) engineers feed high level "wishes" to (entirely clu…

This will be a fun little evolution of botnets - AI agents running (un?)supervised on machines maintained by people who have no idea that they're even there.

This reminds me of the "if you were entirely blind, how would you tell someone that you want something to drink"-gag, where some people start gesturing rather than... just talking.…

Spread the risk and reduce the probability of extinction. We know for a fact that earth is doomed, on top of our own continuous efforts to kill ourselves off. No not recent climate…

This is the correct way. Make it unnecessary to look at and into the clever code until it's absolutely necessary to look at and into the clever code. The vast majority of those who…

It's hard to motivate high quality at high cost on subscription based platforms. We all pay the same price regardless of whether the content is barely palatable or great, and we al…

AI makes the parts of my work that I spend the least time on a whole lot quicker, but (so far / still) has negligible effects on the parts of my work that I spend the most time on.…

For me the longer I work, the worse the bugs I work with become. Nowadays, after some 17 years in the business, it's pretty much always intermittently and rarely occurring race con…

> That said, unless fixing a bug requires a significant refactor/rewrite, I can’t imagine spending more than a day on one. The longer I work as a software engineer, the rarer it is…