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The previous comment didn't say that Starbucks doesn't suck (they probably agree that it does -- I've never met anyone who really likes coffee who doesn't agree that modern at-scal…

It's both. The US has generally resorted to propaganda rather than addressing the self-inflicted structural conditions responsible for the erosion of our dominance. China also cond…

Without weighing in on whether this is true, I'll point out that LLMs could both be better writers than most people and also be bad writers. Writing is a difficult skill that many …

The math is obvious on this one. It's super well-documented that model performance on complex tasks scales (to some asymptote) with the amount of inference-time compute allocated. …

There have been a host of civil servants purged from a litany of federal services for this reason. You don't have to look very hard to find them. Example: https://www.npr.org/2025/…

For what it's worth, I have lived in, and currently spend a lot of time in, both places. You're both very obviously wrong. There is a serious problem in the US. There is also a ser…

Anyone on earth can completely and totally ignore football and it will have zero consequences for their life. The money here (in the AI realm) is coming a handful of oligarchs who …

The sycophancy is obviously intentional. People are vulnerable to it, and addiction is profitable. It has nothing to do with the nature of LLMs and everything to do with user engag…

I am also struggling to see the difference between this and language-level support for an arena allocator with RAII.

I'd keep in mind that internet usage of 96 (I was there) bears no resemblance whatsoever to internet usage of today. The level of predatory sophistication of today's attention econ…

As opposed to taking like 30 seconds to install cargo and rust? I get that the elegant thing to do would be to bootstrap this, but in practice does this actually cost you anything,…

You have misunderstood something here. I (like a very large plurality, maybe even a majority, of devs) do not work for a consulting firm. There is no client. I've done consulting w…

"If you asked a junior developer to refactor a rust program to be more idiomatic, how long would you expect that to take? Would you expect the work to compile on the first try?" Th…

I recently tried Cursor for about a week and I was disappointed. It was useful for generating code that someone else has definitely written before (boilerplate etc), but any time I…

Another excellent point.

Without commenting on the (important) political or reputational considerations here, I want to talk a bit about the operational risk presented by this practice. There is a somewhat…

This assertion is sharply undercut by the facts. I have an incredibly hard time believing that you're engaging in good faith here. There is literally zero evidence whatsoever that …

I got a little carried away with this response and it's a little off-topic, but I figured it might be worth posting anyway. I think this has to do with the nonlinear growth in the …

Fwiw, my experience from growing up in deep red America was that anti-intellectualism was staggeringly strong there. People would actually define their beliefs in opposition to tho…