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Honest question from an enthusiastic AI user: "using AI consists of sending a message a waiting a long time (often an hour or more) before the AI finishes a task." >>> What on eart…

Time Zones factor into that. They want to be able to operate 24/7 "follow the sun"-style, so they want to get people half way around the globe - who obviously can't come to the off…

Huh, now THAT adresses a real need: An off-work day between Saturday (aka "catch up with chores you had to neglect because you were working") and "have to dread/mentally prepare fo…

In my line of work (IT Operations for a large international bank), we came up with a classification framework that tried to gauge information along two axes: Importance and Frequen…

It does, thank you for your view on this!

Part of the answer to this conundrum might be the "lightswitch effect": Lightswitches are ubiquitous and easy to use, so you stop thinking about them, take them completely for gran…

Agreed, but with one caveat: That is the book detailling the history of future science!

"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan - that book was a life changer for me and has been with me ever since.

If I may ask: In what areas have you found the most acceleration in productivity? For me as an enthusiastic amateur programmer (whose enthusiasm is, arguably, greater than my techn…

I wouldn't consider myself an SWE, just an amateur programmer, so this is an honest question: In your opinion, is there such a case where the usage of AI in software engineering ha…

I started using LLMs in 2022, quickly turned away because the things obivously made up stuff I am a certified expert it. Back to Stack Overflow. Came around to LLMs in late 2025 ag…

Seems like the need for a support group depends on whether the recent advent of LLMs in your specific workplace has led you to become a Centaur ("I'm now a 10x SWE") or a Reverse C…

Seems to me that both music and language fall into the same category of "patterns whose consumption will trigger a highly subjective experience (pleasurable or repulsive)". AIs as …

"...when a claim passes through five AI agents, how should trust propagate from one step to the next? I spent months trying to solve it." Maybe I am naive here, but wouldn't a sane…

The waterfall graph in the middle of this article is worth looking this up.

tl;dr Instead of solving textbook-style hard problems, "find the easiest problem whose solution would be useful".

"The company said the most likely explanation is that one of its transport partners sold the vehicle without removing K Group branding, despite contractual obligations requiring de…

"He's not wrong. He's rarely wrong, which is the annoying thing about Gareth."

Hopefully it will fare better in its ecological and economical impact than the Assuan dam - which, I will never tire to say, has to put almost its entire electricity output to the …

This is a stunning idea and execution! I am glad I clicked on that link and spent a couple of minutes on it. Serious kudos, good Sir/Ma'am/[respectful appellation of your choosing]…

Not sure if I fully qualify as a dev but I, for one, are rather confident in conversation. But with code, there is only two modes: Either I am the biggest idiot whoever disgraced E…

Pretty sure their strategy is "hype it up, stuff it down EVERYONE's throat, once everyone is hooked and the tool is indispensable, make them pay for it. And rachet up the prices ev…

You're most welcome, Good Sir/Ma'am/[respectful appellation of your choosing]! ;)

I apologize, I did not mean to rain on your parade - maybe I am a kind of "half empty" person. Please, keep your enthusiasm up! In a world full of cynics (me included), it's refres…

You mention two very specific aspects of AI producing code: - "It hyper-focuses on the current task and couldn't care less if its changes break other parts of the system." - "Long …