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There have been many times throughout the past when going "downtown" elicited a "don't go" response. And yet there were times when going "downtown" was a fun thing to do. Somehow w…

> How about we never talk about rewarding management-by-breaking-things? Have you seen who we elect to run our countries?

Just because LLMs exist does not mean people stopped writing themselves. I mean, some people did, but not everyone. It's a kind of AI psychosis to think or suspect that everything …

It's as bad if not worse than the dot com bubble burst - and the current AI bubble hasn't even burst yet.

The last straw (of many last straws) was over the weekend a co-worker sent me a chat "hey can you click approve on this PR real quick?". This only makes me click "Apply" (jobs) ins…

I'm in the same boat as you... 30 years of experience writing software, and now I'm just supposed to click "approve" on PRs without reading the PR. I'm just supposed to press a but…

>what are you doing with all your time if you aren't reviewing the code and trying to make it maintainable? I was told I'm not supposed to read pull requests at my job anymore (we …

Seems like you are keeping your head in the sand about how much the AI companies are spending vs. how much they are bringing in. These companies are following the Uber model of pri…

I had great success with Claude editing and cleaning up STL files that I created by 3D scanning objects using my cellphone. The scans were very messy and the AI made the clean-up r…

I'm using AI in many ways but I'm not ignoring that it has some real costs. The code AI writes is too voluminous to fully review. I'm quite disconnected from it, and probably won't…

File browsers are probably the worst example you could use here. The actual file manipulations are handled by the OS. The rest of it is just displaying lists of files, so no real s…

> Even if LLMs get no better than they are today, we will still have valid practical applications that use them. That's only true when they are heavily, heavily subsidized . If tha…

It was aliens...

This isn't just about HIV, it's about finding new ways to approach viruses. HIV wasn't the first and won't be the last virus we don't have a way to stop. This research adds to our …

Got news for you... California now has its own laws around similar things, and the trolling lawyers are out there sending threatening letters to our clients. I manage a few thousan…

>The fact that 90% of Fortune 500 companies rely on COBOL[1] doesn’t make other languages a niche. Well that's some cherry picking. And really off-topic, because nobody here mentio…

https://www.google.com/search?q=Has+anyone+made+a+similar+re...

jQuery is still used by approximately 7.78 million of the top 10 million websites. The people touting "modern frameworks" are in a niche and they don't even realize it.

jQuery is still used by approximately 7.78 million of the top 10 million websites. That's 77%. React has about 3 to 4% of the top 10 million.

We still pay our software developers the same amount, but now an AI is the middleman taking more and more money (in the form of tokens) every day. With every new model, more tokens…

>It turns out writing actually was the bottleneck. You can understand perfectly well what you want, but writing it is long and tedious to the point where you find excuses not to do…

Mods are the death of reddit like I've been saying for at least 10 years. Shadow ban after shadow ban, the dopamine rush a bad mod gets from shadow banning someone must be amazing.…

VPN blocking is a thing now. It's always a game of whackamole, but the whacker is getting a lot better lately thanks to states and countries having new laws against accessing age r…

Quite a lot easier than they would in space. Orders of magnitude easier.