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Ah, see, if the CEO does something that hurts the company it's ok. In fact, they will pay him (or her) for making the mistake in the form of a golden parachute. It's only the rank …

> People tend to compare AI to perfection for some reasons, which is not the case with humans. Yes, because humans have intrinsic value. Even if they make mistakes, they are still …

I wouldn't say it's better , but it's certainly on par with Google in their best years. And it's light years better than what Google is now, or using an LLM.

> The bar I like to use is pretty simple: do you know who represents you in Congress (I am American so this is my bias, but substitute your country's equivalent if there is one)? A…

> Since LLMs spit out LOTS of text, a person may waste lots of valuable time simply meandering through responses, and trying to keep it all in their head. That is called "doing you…

Yes, a ton of companies don't have a valid business model. That doesn't make it a good idea for OpenAI either.

That is no excuse whatsoever. It turns out that immoral actions don't become acceptable if you go "someone else would do it if I didn't". Perhaps they would, but you're still a bad…

The reason people say "writing code isn't the hard part" is because the only thing an LLM saves effort on is typing code into the computer. You still have to know what the code sho…

Yeah, models aren't good at code any more than they are good at people. They turn it out very fast, but that isn't actually useful when the code needs to be carefully reviewed to f…

Try Gram. It's a fork of Zed which changes a few things, one of which is that all the AI stuff is disabled by default. I was interested in it because it doesn't download language s…

Ramen restaurants are definitely not cheap in the US. I hear they are in Japan, though.

> We built Electron because writing UIs using native desktop frameworks is tough. No, we built Electron because there are a huge number of people who are too lazy to learn anything…

Also, rare chicken breast is apparently pretty unpleasant to eat. Kenji Lopez-Alt did an article where he discussed how you can use sous vide to pasteurize chicken while still keep…

I mean, rare ground beef hamburgers are pretty much fine too. They have a higher risk of contamination, yes, but that does not make it a particularly high risk. I eat burgers, made…

> if you're not seeing dramatic change, I suspect you're not looking. Ironically, this is the inverse of the very thing you complained about people doing to you.

I don't think two weeks' notice is particularly unreasonable, especially considering that these are not paying customers. I think two weeks is enough time for the vast majority of …

It is, although in this case the cookie-making robot also makes 10% of its cookies with sand instead of flour. So it's still not a very good trade if you have any pride in your bus…

> Just 5 years ago we didn't have a technology that knows more about everything than even most experts. We still don't have that. LLMs have shown time and time again that they don'…

Depends on your school of ethical thought. If you're a consequentialist, sure. But I'm very much not a consequentialist, so I don't think that it's morally correct to do a bad thin…

That isn't true. Microsoft has made some genuinely good software over the years.

I disagree strongly. Yes, in terms of benefit to yourself honesty may not pay off, but that's not why you should do it. You should be honest (and I try to be honest) because it's s…

Fiber and railroads also actually accomplish useful things and aren't just a hype vehicle.

Human review is even more important for LLM-generated code, because LLMs are so much worse at writing code than humans are. You cannot under any circumstances just let them rip or …

That just isn't true. LLMs still hallucinate all the time .

You can't generate 10k LOC in a day with a coding agent either, not if you want to actually understand it and review it (which you must do if you don't want the quality of your wor…