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They should've done $0.01 off. Effectively the same discount, while being more outrageous.

No. I think it'll mostly cause a dip in the average intelligence of knowledge workers. We will recover when we realize the valuable workers in a field are the ones who want to be t…

> has me questioning how much longer I want to remain in the industry. It's not a bad time to take a break from it. Keep yourself from cognitive decline, then in 2 or 3 years when …

It'll only get worse unless companies start having strict policies around it, making repeat offenses fireable. Juniors should have a little more wiggle room, but there's no excuse …

> The problem is, your employer doesn’t care whether your brain is creating new neurons and connections. They care about productivity and profit. It was/is a struggle to get them t…

> that makes me wonder if the trillion dollar valuations for OpenAI and Claude are even justified. They aren't, not even if we forget about the capable Chinese models. I suspect An…

Models can be trained with seperate contexts for these things, but the companies with all the resources are so focused on racing to AGI and "scaling laws" that they don't actually …

If you look at the data 25% of the people who reported attempting a task without AI did not complete it. Seeing as the time spent on AI tasks was not that much higher than the time…

Have you looked at the raw data of the follow-up? It doesn't paint a pretty picture, many tasks attempted but not completed, refusal to attempt without AI, higher overall estimates…

> One thing I've noticed is, that coding manually is exponentially more stressful than the slow AI approach. I find the exact opposite. Typically the AI will make too many mistakes…

People pleasing is a component for some, some also like the technical challenge. The biggest factor though is that as a software engineer "No" is basically never an accepted answer…

> So their survival rests on the presumption that AI progress will fall between these two extremes. That feels like a very generous framing. There's very little opportunity between…

I dislike their practices, but the main motivation for hoping they'll crash is that I think their immense overvaluation posses too much economic risk.

Always nice to see more open-weights in the heavy model class. I can only hope this trend continues, causing OpenAI and Anthropic to crash and burn.

I wouldn't be worried so much about those examples. One could take the open weights and fine tune them to either fix the poisoning or omission of obvious topics. It's the subtle to…

I mostly agree with the prediction though maybe a bit more pessimistic about the timeline. Also I'm not sure our current usage of parameter count would make sense in this scenario,…

The Google Play store did (maybe still does?) allow installing some PWAs advertised as light versions of the apps.

On desktop or on mobile? On mobile it's rare for apps other than web browsers to allow multiple tabs/windows and the ones that do (Ex: Gmail allows a draft to be a second window) h…

No defense for not writing or reading code if want to call yourself a software engineer or programmer. However I do think there is reason to use Java or Python (as much as I loathe…

Neither is mutually exclusive. They get lock-in, and through that lock-in are more effectively able to inflate token usage.

If China is able to undercut Nvidia on high performance local AI hardware, they will pop the AI bubble in a matter of days. They wouldn't even need to make something equivalent to …

I think all 3 are pretty important for using TS in online sandboxes and IDEs.

Performance of tsc wasn't an issue for small projects, and for larger projects it could be fixed by using incremental build option, and/or TS project references. Most either didn't…

Boolean attributes are less about types and more about syntax convenience IMO, even HTML treats them as empty strings. is a shorthand for , which then in your program you can decid…