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They sound exactly like George Bush and every other American leader who's claimed high minded ideals while they engage in interventions in direct contradiction to those ideals arou…

I am agreeing with you, LLMs can be useful for simple code generation where you're primarily plugging existing components together.

I don't think you understood my comment, I didn't say anything about how to use the tool. The parent comment was making the case that humans are as non-deterministic as the LLM is,…

If you want my opinion, I think LLMs can be pretty good at generating simple code for things you can find on stackoverflow and require minor adjustments. Even then, if you don't re…

It's not the same, LLM's are qualitatively different due to the stochastic and non-reproducible nature of their output. From the LLM's point of view, non-functional or incorrect co…

Oh, well if it can generate some simple code for your personal website, surely it can also be the "next level of abstraction" for the entirety of software engineering.

I use hickory a lot and have contributed to it. It does have a pretty robust async DNS implementation, and its helpfully split into multiple different crates so you can pick your e…

I love Rust and async Rust, but it's not true that there aren't annoying things to deal with. Anyone who's written async Rust enough has run into cancel-safety issues, the lack of …

Have you read about the process of "enshittification"?

modern american history shows how wrong this is. US has been at war almost every year since the end of WW2.

That would be the case under market conditions where buyers are making rational decisions with perfect knowledge based on all available choices. Does that sound like the system we …

I think you're confusing publicly available shares with actual ownership by the public in a way that's no consistent with the way any socialist would think about ownership. Stock m…

It's the same here. Calling what the west has a "free-market capitalist" system is also a lie. At every level there is massive state intervention. Most discoveries come from public…

In your world where jobs become "optional" because a private company has decided to fire half their workforce, and the state also does not provide some kind of support, what do all…

UBI is not a good solution because you still have to provision everything on the market, so it's a subsidy to private companies that sell the necessities of life on the market. If …

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The objectives changed all the time for domestic political reasons. If you want a great podcast series on this checkout Blowback. Season 1 does Iraq and they go back to Afghanistan…

I kinda feel this way too. Reading some of the blog posts by AI "luminaries" I'm struck by how Stalinist they sound. They hold out some utopia that exists in their minds, and they …

I don't think that's a fair comparison. Type systems don't produce probabilistic output. Their entire purpose is to reduce the scope of possible errors you can write. They kind of …

I don't find that a compelling argument, lots of people get taken in by hype cycles even when they don't profit directly from it.

I think you're missing the broader context. There is a lot of people very invested in the maximalist outcome which does create pressure for people to be boosters. You don't need a …

Ideology is at its most powerful when people think it doesn't exist.

something being a skill does not mean it is an engineering discipline. engineering is the application of science or math to solve problems. writing prompts doesn't fit that definit…

I have a degree in software engineering and I'm still critical if its inclusion as an engineering discipline, just given the level of rigour that's applied to typical software deve…