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Electrification and carbon capture are interesting and need more investment, but beyond those you're also showing your own preferences here just as much as the motorcycle proponent…

Moving from an adversarial each-party-has-lawyers-presenting-as-extreme-a-case-as-possibly-can-be-made-for-their-side system to something more like expert arbitrators and independe…

"The student is the customer" is a stupid metaphor that only caught on because a lot of people would rather just bring in dollars than worry about "are we actually teaching anythin…

Adults don't have to prove things? As AI eats up the need for half-assed "I googled a few things and wrote something up and then slacked off for five hours" white-collar-paperwork …

Writing code doesn't have a notably higher (if at all higher, vs lower!) IQ requirement compared to some of the basic components of EE or MechE work. Programmer salaries have been …

"BYOC" deployment plans often require more than just k8s. "S3-compatible object store" is the most common one, IME. Or other sorts of scalable storage systems. ("Why does the vendo…

You don't get to play the game before you pay for it. Do you want to have to go ask for refund after refund after noticing it's yet-another-AI-slop-cookie-cutter-lookalike several …

What's the functional difference between "I can't afford it" and "I can't get it due to a shortage"? (Other than a convenient-for-some/inconvenient-for-others "let the richest get …

> This also assumes that the same application build by humans wouldn't become a "spaghetti mess". nah, it reflects on how applications built by humans usually do become spaghetti m…

Usually signing bonuses are "pay back all or a pro-rated percentage if you leave before [date]"

> (which won't consume much of my limits despite a great model and reasoning, so I may just as well keep it on Sol High) This equation significantly changes if you're paying API pr…

Well nobody is eminent domaining existing data centers, are they? Try to build as many new golf courses as there are new data centers going up and you might get a similar reaction.…

Casablanca is a famous example of this too. And LOTR, though in that case coming to it after reading Terry Pratchett was difficult for me (Pratchett didn't just copy its, or other,…

IIRC early copies of BladeRunner in the digital era, like the original DVDs of this, really suffered from the lack of detail on red, specifically, from the 4:2:0 color space encodi…

That was true early but OpenAI/Anthropic have done a ton of hiring over the past couple years at already-huge valuations, as much on the strength of big current base salary + equit…

Is it so unusual to just ... not ... load the file with a description of them all automatically, but have different files listing different ones for different situations, and manua…

> It's novel because previous rounds of automation were about automating specific tasks or well-scoped functions. There was always an implicit understanding that the white-collar w…

> also as far as I care the btc community members who chose to go with one of the few hardware wallets that wasn't open source were not doing due their diligence. Seems like part o…

I guess even when code is public nobody really reads the history very thoroughly. You'd think someone would've made stink about a company willing to show the world how they were fi…

> Remember we’re talking about compensation time versus LLM turns in this thread. Even a 10 second incremental compile is orders of magnitude faster than an LLM turn. This entirely…

> hardly influential in the way of JRRT (nobody writes poor pastiches on Narnia the way innumerable derivatives have been done on Middle Earth) Harry Potter and its own spawn bears…

> I don't see a clear demarcation of the things that only "reasoning" can accomplish and can't be approximated or imitated by other methods, and so I think the question is simply n…

What if the shape of data in the dev db doesn't stay consistent with real life? Is the harness for the AI set up with any sort of instructions to generally prefer broadly-applicabl…

> If I were to be real, my coworkers that post AI responses straight rarely had insightful comments before AI. There's never been a shortage of low-value coworkers because hiring i…

What have your or their manager said about this? About any or all of (a) slowing everyone else down with crap, (b) wasting company resources on generating crap, (c) not doing anyth…