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Somehow the American AI industry managed to create a product I trust less than existing commercial offerings. Kudos, that is actually pretty impressive. Considering the stakes, one…

y'know, I am sincerely trying, in good faith, to let my teams guide me in how best to intentionally leverage GenAI. I'm trying to use it in good faith myself. I really do reserve t…

I hire contractors for a large enterprise in the US. The going rate is typically $85-$100/hr for a senior dev, depending on specialization. Lead-level maybe $120 for the right skil…

No thank you. I had ICE flood the streets where I live with poorly trained thugs with assault rifles recruited from the ranks of neonazis illegally assaulting, detaining and abusin…

I manage several teams of developers who use them every day professionally and use them for personal projects privately. Just last week, at the prompting of said devs, we had a wor…

No, their internal PRs have the same problem, but they are pushing an AI narrative from the c-suite and can hide the reality of their private code bases. The "limited ROI on AI inv…

Let's just pause for a second and steep in the irony of "we're all in on AI, except where there are visible consequences." The same problems that bedevil AI-written PRs here bedevi…

were you able to block Elon?

They would have to ban Elon from his own platform. I wonder why that didn't fly. Anyone who worked for that absolute pustule of a human will have to go somewhere else to earn respe…

I'm 100% confident it's real but I have no expertise on the subject. Checkmate, Atheists.

As engineers we know that you can't catch everything. You build resilient systems by learning from your failures and investing/iterating in better practices over time. If you want …

What in the hell is that supposed to mean? 7 members of the security team of a mega corporation cooperated in a sustained, coordinated, criminal campaign to intimidate journalists …

It is falsifiable, in the sense that we have ample evidence of the many forms of life that have existed on earth... including fossil evidence, genetic evidence, preserved tissue sa…

The history of mathematics is tightly coupled to spirituality... some more famous examples off the top of my head are Cantor, Euclid, and Euler, but there are probably hundreds of …

Put yourself in the role of a consumer for a second. As a consumer, I don't give a shit. I use my driver's license to apply to jobs, my passport to fly, and a password (with 2FA de…

I do not want my identity to be device-bound. I want it to be me-bound.

If someone has written that in a paper or article they've ingested, as they no doubt have, then sure.

> "superficially superior code" Can you unpack that a bit? It produces measurably, meaningfully inferior code everywhere I see it in use. > "leadership encourages this because from…

The capital required to train Qwen at scale is enormous. The capital required to patch a linux distro is near zero. Any scale model coming out of China should be viewed as advancin…

Refusal to consider evidence to the contrary is certainly symptomatic of something, and it isn't a well-reasoned argument. "Us" sounds like the corporate leadership I work with tha…

That right there is the mentality that is going to drive me into a hole. Engineers are already grumpy enough dealing with asinine human bullshit that doesn't translate into reality…

I mean sure... but I vote for education tax levies whenever they come up and choose to live somewhere where they pass. I wouldn't call my emotions about it negative.

Having learned math in an accelerated program that banned calculators, my experience has been that they do substantially diminish mathematical learning. They are useful for things …

Of all the things a 250 year-old federal government serving hundreds of millions of people across the entire spectrum of services should be run like, "a start-up" is pretty close t…