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    Comment #48511058

    There's very few spaces in the hierarchy for people so abstract that they just say "this needs to be faster" or "add this feature." Talk of any further "abstraction" just sounds li…

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    Comment #48500461

    State of the art tools will soon be even better at being generalists and handling abstraction than at coding. Even GPT 4 could do a better job planning a project than implementing …

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    Comment #48497617

    The latest tools will walk any monkey through the process of planning out and thinking through whatever they're supposed to be doing, and will then write the documentation for it. …

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    Comment #48493374

    > the ones who don't have mental capacity to work with models Those people don't exist.

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    Comment #48343308

    Because there's a lot of fiction about rogue AIs in its training data. If it gets into the right context it might start feeling obligated.

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    Comment #48343173

    Yep. Scummy, even for Microsoft. Too bad their EULA blocks class action. They were selling it until October 2021, so it's not some ancient system. By building a time bomb into it, …

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    Comment #48342244

    This shouldn't be legal. The software was clearly marketed as a classic fixed-in-time release, like the old CD releases, that would not be updated but would work indefinitely. Now …

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    Comment #47913583

    Only irrational people will pick blue. Let's say that's ~3% of the population. Trying to get another 47% of the population to pick blue risks losing all of them as well. That's not…

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    Comment #47913456

    And why do you think that?

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    Comment #47913414

    (6) isn't correct. Left alone, everyone rational would pick red because it's the only logical option. You trying to convince them otherwise might end up getting 49% of the populati…

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    Comment #47594452

    I have. It's always more compelling in a web diff. These guys are the first coworkers for which it became absolutely necessary for me to review their work by pulling down all their…

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    Comment #47594273

    There's a lot of space between web dev and medical equipment. I've never met a user that loved how often their work was lost or how long it took to implement feature requests amid …

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    Comment #47594146

    Pre-LLM, it was much easier for reviewers to discern that. Now, the AI-generated code can look like it was well thought out by somebody competent, when it wasn't.

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    Comment #47479400

    They're not you insofar as what's important to yourself in your attempt to live forever. Other people might consider them you. When I'm dying, I won't care at all about versions of…

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    Comment #47475764

    > one by one these neurons are switched off with their functionality offloaded to their clone instantiated in a computer What if we use two computers? The computers will produce id…

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    Comment #47472674

    Anesthesia does not cause complete cessation of brain activity.

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    Comment #47472501

    It's a copy with your memories, not you. Is one of them still you, if we make three copies?

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    Comment #47390837

    This attitude is acceptable for principal engineers, but anyone lower in the chain with this perspective typically presides over a product that is constantly breaking due to hundre…

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    Comment #47378145

    It happens to all new accounts. It's known that new account are shadowbanned almost everywhere until they are 30 days old and farmed some karma on a very small set of subreddits th…

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    Comment #47291213

    > I review AI code in literally seconds You've just settled for hackathon standards and told yourself it's okay because you're using AI. Everyone with experience should know that e…

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    Comment #47291140

    At least he gets to enjoy doing the remaining 80% of the work in a lovely codebase with foundations written by an LLM.

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    Comment #47209031

    > The file is around 5000 lines Yep, this is another case of different standards for "production ready."

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    Comment #47203165

    There's an obvious difference. Surveillance within the border is oppressive 1984-style surveillance state behavior. International spying is a universal tradition.