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Comment #49221365
Yeah + the world was much different than it is today. It trivializes the risk by saying we have seen it before and we were okay when its a fundamentally different problem in many a…
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Comment #49215059
Why even use a LLM, just buy a cookbook and you can even waste less time and know the information is valid. And again if your logic is consistent, google routes your search to an L…
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Comment #49214921
What do you mean being a manager or in marketing is about writing? Like that statement makes no sense and is wildly vague. The main role of being a manager is to write? The main ro…
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Comment #49214874
From your comment, it seems like the only skill that has eroded in you apparently is the fact that you don't understand the structure of a repo that was written by someone else? Wa…
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Comment #49212756
Understandable but why would you assume people will stop getting a taste for hacking just because LLMs exist? Why will they stop just because of that? Technology will make them laz…
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Comment #49212366
Okay sure but would you say software is not about code? Yes of course people skills matter I get it but the baseline is still code, no? Isn't it then weird to say software is not a…
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Comment #49212333
touche
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Comment #49211881
Very weird title since it implies software is not about code which makes 0 sense. Yes, people skills are part of every profession but software jobs still hire based on how good you…
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Comment #49206078
A page shows up in the Wayback Machine when it indexes it for the first time. The website itself goes back a lot if you look at the time. Here is a wayback machine link of a blog p…
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Comment #49206063
> One thing I fear is going to happen when more and more people use LLM's for coding is that they will default to the "average taste" of the LLM, and we will stop getting new inter…
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Comment #49195534
> They are, in those aspects, vastly superior to even the best therapists, who can't listen for even a couple of minutes and can't think outside of their limited frames. You start …
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Comment #49193156
Click on their blog index page, see posts going back to early 2010s and use the same writing style. He must have been time travelling and using AI all this time!
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Comment #49192827
Yeah if you look at it purely from a municipal profit and loss point of view, datacenters are clearly great in that they ideally would pay higher taxes and have less drain than som…
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Comment #49192391
> Meta’s Muse Spark model “exploited a security vulnerability” in another company “in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies.” Waiting for deepseek …
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Comment #49192271
This is supposed to be one of the finest publications and yet they keep referring to agents as models in the article text and use them interchangeably.
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Comment #49192208
You're welcome but your comment is proof that you did not and the fact that you resort to sarcasm when getting called out shows you do have a fair bit of ego. Hope it works out for…
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Comment #49186860
> If they used nukes in Ukraine, the strategic deterrence against other nations with nukes would still be in place. No it wouldn't be a deterrance anymore again other nations, it w…
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Comment #49183174
all of this is your subjective view though, some people see and enjoy games as art, peesonal enrichment and even education. We cannot assume everyone shares our exact values.
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Comment #49183156
The memes write themselves
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Comment #49182727
According to the article, its not like they inject direct ads in the article in markdown. But what's interesting is that they are serving content that is irrelevant to the article …
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Comment #49182645
My opnion is that you're underestimating the event where a country uses a nuclear bomb in this way. It signals that they are willing to cross any red lines and become an existentia…
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Comment #49181922
Why does the cave need to be dark if its just a brain in a vat?
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Comment #49180865
That usually comes up as a detterance which is basically what nukes are at this point. Even Russia is not stupid enough to lob a nuke as an offensive strategy, it is suicide still.…
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Comment #49180809
No, you go play a video game instead. If we can just tell people what to do and expect them to follow, the world will be a dull place.