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A lot of engineers underestimate the learning curve required to jump from IDE to terminal. Multiple generations of engineers were raised on IDEs. It's really hard to break that men…

It's pretty important! You could make a case that there's not much else to talk about. I don't love that fact and I wish it would go away but when billionaires are talking about tr…

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I'll be sure to remind myself of that next time I wish I had more time to spend watching my daughter grow up. Sure, I may miss some seminal moments but the raise I get at the end o…

No sense in responding, people. This person can't be saved. Move on.

What approach is that? Some people like AI. They should use it, talk about why they like it and use products that leverage it. Other people don't like it. They should avoid using i…

And I think a lot of people would agree with you.

Dehumanization might be the wrong word. It's certainly anti social technology, though, and that's bad enough.

Ok, yeah, I take the point that one illustration did not obviously precede the other but are likely the coincident result of a worldview. I don't think it changes anything but than…

https://ai-2027.com/research says that: AI 2027 relies on several key forecasts that couldn't be fully justified in the main text. Below we present the detailed research supporting…

Well, yeah. Obviously.

Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind with this shit. Am I to understand that a bunch of "experts" created a model, they surrounded the findings of that model with a fancy websi…

I did. I also had basically unlimited access to pornography and I saw more than one video of someone having their head severed off. But yeah, I played a lot of computer games. That…

The image of a bunch of children in a room gleefully playing with their computers is horror movie type stuff, but because it's in a white room with plants and not their parent's ba…

"I’m still a computer scientist, an academic, a straight-ticket Democratic voter, a liberal Zionist, a Jew, etc. (all identities, incidentally, well-enough represented at LessOnlin…

Man, you sound so young. That's not a slight or anything. It just puts into perspective who's on this site commenting so confidently.

We don't know how to use them. That's the entire problem. They were released into the wild by corporations and no one knows how to use them in a way that doesn't harm us. That's th…

"Prompt issue" is just the new "user error". Just passes the blame anywhere other than the flawed value of the tool itself.

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I left my "Insert Big Tech Company Here" job a few months ago out of sheer misery. There were just so many people working on so much Nothing that any attempt to get things to opera…