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The title of the article is misleading -- they're pretty clearly talking about philosophy PhDs here.

The implicit assumption is that these AI-company jobs were recently created and indicate the start of a trend. Chalmers is stating that there's more demand for philosophers with th…

What you're missing is that this is approximately at least a half-dozen more jobs than open tenure-track positions at research universities.

I came up an academic philosopher, before I switched careers. When you're surrounded by academic philosophers, you become very used to argument as a default form of interaction. Pe…

Given how often it's been mentioned here, it's likely that this is an urban legend that people are pretending to have first-hand knowledge of for karma. In a trade that's supposed …

Funny, I'm just doing my normal coding workflow with Claude Code, and after every change that compiles it keeps suggesting that we're at a good stopping point, and should pick up a…

Hate to be the one to drag AI into every conversation, but I recently switched to arch linux and it's been delightful -- largely because of Claude. I have leaned on Claude heavily …

Indeed you can! I don't use IntelliJ at work for [reasons], and LSP doesn't support a change signature action with defaults for new params (afaik). But it really seems like somethi…

In the case I described no code changes have been made yet. It's still just planning what to do. It's true that I could accept the plan and hope that it will realize that it can't …

Indeed! You would think it would have some kind of sense that a commit that obviously won't compile is bad! You would think. It would be one thing if it was like, ok, we'll tempora…

The version of this I encounter literally every day is: I ask my coding agent to do some tedious, extremely well-specified refactor, such as (to give a concrete real life example) …

I had a fun experience with my ISP where their chat bot couldn't help me (of course it couldn't, I don't call for "did you try turning it off and on again" problems), so it escalat…

I was a MS-DOS 2.0 user as a child. I have always preferred windows to OSX. I used WSL for years at companies where every other engineer had a MacBook. Last weekend I finally start…

VisiCalc didn't do this, though. It just recalculated once, and if there were errors you had to notice them and manually trigger another recalc.

> Since the formulas did depend on each other the order of (re)calculation made a difference. The first idea was to follow the dependency chains but this would have involved keepin…

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Indeed — the only reason I personally still use steam is that a few of the games I want to play are not available in any other (legal) way.

Alright you badgered me into reading the original and the linked post does not misinterpret it. > Previously, we could @cursor and ask it to modify the code and content, but now we…

> Lee's argument for moving to code is that agents can work with code. So do you think this is a misrepresentation of Lee's argument? Again, I couldn't be bothered to read the orig…

It seems like the argument is roughly: we used to use CMS because we had comms & marketing people who don't know git. But we plan to replace them all with ChatGPT or Claude, which …

Indeed, it's still not exactly clear what the right place of social media in society is. Perhaps we could even get rid of some of its pernicious aspects without throwing the baby o…

And the reason is that those products are (rightly) regulated. Would there be beer marketed to kids if it were legal? Would it be fine if it were the parents' sole responsibility t…

Also ironic is how the post about having a unique voice is written in one-sentence-paragraph LinkedIn clickbait style.

The idea that there is some significant, load-bearing distinction in meaning between "ethical" and "moral" is something I've encountered a few times in my life. In every case it ha…