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The story is clearly fictional. It is full of factual errors. Freeing a heap-allocated block of expert weights does not magically result in a dangling pointer referencing the progr…

I'm a slow reader. It took 9 minutes! Foul, I say!

It depends on what is to be analyzed. How many requests per second are being served? How many error codes were delivered to clients? How quickly the service responded? Service logs…

It's safe to say that most people romanticize their past experience. Anyone's "golden age" is someone else's "end times". Software has always sucked [1]. "Software crisis" was coin…

> It can come up with something novel, but only by combining whatever present That's what artists do. Long before LLMs, Kirby Ferguson made this observation in "Everything is a Rem…

> Rather show me the engineers who want to become management. You're talking to one. Wanting agency and responsibility and having the drive to put in the work (for potentially brut…

Taking out the trash is not populist slop. If you have a bad product org, the right thing to do is replace it. If you have a bad engineering org, the right thing to do is replace i…

I don't know if that's what agile was supposed to do, but replacing management with "anyone but leading engineers" is exactly opposite of what GP proposed.

I love opinioned software. If an idea of what the software is supposed to do conflicts with what the software does or intends to do, then the idea is wrong. What product people do …

It's a get-what-you-pay-for thing. If coding is cheap, you get a low-effort, likely low-quality product. The conclusion is that coding is not cheap, only managers and business-mind…

Coding is anything but cheap. You speak like someone who has completely forgotten how difficult it was to learn everything you now know by heart.

> The solution is to gut your product org, replace management with leading engineers, and hire some of your most fanatic users. They don't need to do anything other than give their…

FWIW, San Francisco was one of only three counties that voted against Prop 13.

It can, but you don't want to hear about it: Hand writing recognition is an application of AI.

Or pay publishers for textbooks?

> Your right to 3d print whatever you want is about to be taken away (in California). What are they going to do? Fine me for not updating my printer's firmware?

> but it's much easier to kill 10 people with a gun than it is with the other instruments - well except perhaps a car. Or explosives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disa…

> It's not just the time it takes to make the feature, you also have to consider documenting the feature, making sure it works well with the other features, making sure it's someth…

Discovering bugs and exploiting them is anything but laziness. We used to call that property cleverness. Being too clever has always had a negative connotation. My best guess is th…

Disobeying the rules makes perfect sense when the rules cannot or will not be enforced. If that isn't motivation enough to shore up problems in the evaluation environment, nothing …

Between the elimination of the fairness doctrine, the rampant sensationalism (a phenomenon so common it has its own derogatory name: clickbait), the corporate ownership of media ou…

> they're all lumped into the same bucket, even when they shouldn't. Why should they be separate? The same technology generates text, images, video, audio, 3D models, actuator and …

I’ll admit, at first, I thought the human vs machine comparison was about humanoid machines. But that’s too narrowly defined to be a useful comparison. Most machines in use today a…

Yes, and I've also personally been responsible for cutting about a million dollars per year in AWS expenditure, and never saw a single cent in bonus payouts or equity. It just got …

It's an absurd scenario because Big AI is simply not in the Big AI Law business. They are also not in the Big AI Accounting business, the Big AI Pharmaceutical business, or the Big…