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The Supreme Intelligence has entered the chat... My brain has been stuck on that same thought for decades - wouldn't it be great to have a wholly objective, impartial, and independ…

Dunno about you but I work for a "business" (large company, you've heard of it) and the concept of "High Performer" is synonymous with "best politician". Sure, a lot of theater goe…

In many cases - yes, they have gotten that bad. It's pure fantasy that we live in a free market - there are a handful of companies that own nearly everything, there is very little …

I've been using these tools for nearly a year and half on a daily basis. They've become an integral part of my tool box for solving problems. But writing code was never much more t…

Might work for you, but if I multi task too much, the quality of my output drops significantly. Where I work, that does not fly. I cannot trust any agent to handle anything without…

If anything, the AI bubble is reinforcing to me (and hopefully many more people) that the "markets" are anything but rational. None of the investments going on have followed any se…

Thing is, context management is NOT obvious to most users of these tools. I use agentic coding tools on a daily basis now and still struggle with keeping context focused and useful…

I don't care what kind or style of job - if the balance of power in any labour relationship is overwhelmingly on the employer side, collective action is the only way labour can reg…

The reports of time saved are so cooked it's not funny. Just part of the overall AI grift going on - the actual productivity gains will shake out in the next couple years, just got…

Humans (accountants) are non-deterministic, so unsure if an LLM would be better or worse if we threw more effort at the problem. But in general, I tend to side with the "lets leave…

"Let's knock down social media's walled gardens..." Links to pay wall trying to get me to pay for some subscription service I've never heard of and would never want to sign up for …

It could be argued that the emergence of the web and search engines in particular has established this as a common pattern long before AI was around. I'm not convinced that AI repr…

Same things I use it for as well - crap like "update this class to use JDK21" or "re-implement this client to use AWS SDKv2" or whatever. And it works maybe... 80% of the way and I…

I'd suggest this is a sign that most "education" or "work" is basically pointless busy work with no recognizable value. Perpetuating a broken system isn't an argument about the thr…

I think this is overestimating the impact of LLMs. Fact is, even if they are capable of fully replicating and even replacing actual human thought, at best they regurgitate what has…

Lazy management, ones that focus on "metrics" and "numbers" rather than actual engagement with their teams/business lines. I'm only 20% joking here...

Same here - seen it happen most strongly once the company switched from a growth (OrderProductSales optimization) approach to one that maximizes cashflow. Basically a switch from e…

Honestly, it's just easier to block/drop Facebook entirely and actually talk to the people I want to talk to directly. Sure I miss out on some things, but I still have friends and …

If that's the root reason, then there is zero reason that footage is open to consumption by the manufacturer (and made generally available to Tesla employees). That is owner data, …

It's already there, except the ads are baked into most content as "sponsored videos". They make it easy to skip over the ads (seriously, just fast forward 20-60 seconds depending o…

What's the alternative here? Just offer the service with minimal ads and just hope people decide to sign up for the ad-free version - a value proposition that makes little sense si…

I gave up trying to use a mouse on OSX years ago (the acceleration curve causes physical pain for me) and leaned into what Apple did right: trackpads. I got an apple trackpad for m…

I think this is a problem with any highly specialized or technical topic. I vaguely recollected what wayland was, but I didn't know why I would care about it and ended up doing sim…

Sorry, was mostly just agreeing with you and adding that gender based nonsense is endemic everywhere. It's alienating me across the whole media spectrum.

But when you meet that person who is totally into it, they are gonna be iced out the wazoo in custom made bling.