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“Upset” is not quite the right word - something more like “skeptical”, maybe? It does seem like AI programming tends to create the kind of problems that tend to push programmers to…

I think we’ve probably seen enough “oops, the AI did something illegal, who could have foreseen this” moments for it to now be true that, actually, we can foresee that AIs will som…

I’m pretty sure this is why the “data centers in space” idea just won’t die. Yes, it has so many disadvantages, but it does have one distinct advantage of being outside the Molotov…

Tech Company: “At long last, we have built It, from the infamous sci-fi novel If You Build It, Everyone Dies”.

Because of the negative externalities. It’s the same reason you shouldn’t do any other thing that personally benefits you but imposes a greater cost on everyone.

They’re not “drive-by yahoos”, they’re people who appreciate art, and they are necessarily and justifiably skeptical. They’re doing nothing wrong. In another world, many of them wo…

Haters are described as “losers in a very specific sense”: “some amount of talent” but “never achieved much”, “never will … do great work”. Haters as “fanboys with the sign bit fli…

“AI-generated images discourage me from reading” is a statement that’s true for me too, albeit for different reasons than offered in this post. For me, it’s the same kind of thing …

I guess there is something big about to happen and the Apple lawsuit situation needs to be visibly/publicly addressed in order to unblock it. And this thing is big enough that the …

Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Remote: yes, prefer in-office Willing to relocate: yes, within NSW Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript+React/Vue/htmx, Postgres, Rust, Zig, Lisp Ré…

Kudos to the author for teaching me a new word for the first time in over a decade. I was beginning to believe I knew them all.

Hmm. Sounds like it follows the letter of the law (although much of it is LLM-generated, and there’s obviously quite a legal cloud surrounding that), but it does feel a bit against…

So what if it is more profitable or valuable? It is still not better. Something being more profitable/valuable does not make it better, just like something being better does not ma…

I really dislike this AI programming thing of “Mr LLM, go slam your face into the problem until there’s no problem left, then call me back”. (Not sure if it’s a recent trend or a f…

I mean, we are deep into reading tea leaves at this point, but what it seems to have identified is the source file that changed such that this issue can now occur. My gut instinct …

The overflow would still overflow; the use-after-free would still use after free; a musl mask race would still race. Hilarious. Apart from the computer poetry, the conclusion seems…

If OpenAI wanted to slow down their own research and/or releases they could do that without the government telling them to do that. If Anthropic and OpenAI both genuinely want dece…

I would have them make money by selling me products, rather than selling me as a product.

Maybe I am too cynical, but this just sounds like a plea for the government to step in and save them from their investors.

So, they say, computers are not smart now, we don’t know what intelligence is, we don’t know how to make computers smart, but they certainly will be intelligent soon. There is curr…

“ Built on libghostty. Ghostty's terminal core, embedded and hosted natively by kero “ Doubtful

Agreed that people claiming “marketing stunt” need to pull their heads out the sand, but likewise Simon needs to do some of his own beach-cranium-dislodging for laying the blame of…

You never hear anyone talking about “imposter syndrome” anymore, do you?

An AI agent, 600k tokens into a feature that it just authored, understands the feature as well or better than I do. On this, we are in complete agreement.

No, the driving through Chinatown question is a question for self-driving cars. It is not a question for LLMs. There is some other question for LLMs, and the author is using the an…