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proofofcontempt

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    Comment #48834593

    Every cloudflare blog post that gets posted on here shares that quality now

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    Comment #48540905

    It's a weird premise to compare the UK government actions to those of Israel and defend the sanctity of Russia and the Cameroonian shipping registry. Also, the following line is ab…

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    Comment #48526751

    The pursuit of everlasting growth that pg describes inevitably results in cheating. At a certain point the market reaches a saturation point and if you're capitalising on every pos…

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    Comment #48429919

    > Although a large body of research finds that workers want to work remotely, our findings suggest that workers may not realize the costs of remote work for their well-being Senten…

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    Comment #48322024

    Human review is about learning and there's an implied social contract in that someone is giving you their time to make you better. It isn't necessarily necessary but replacing it w…

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    Comment #48321400

    I'm not sure the people integrating it into CI process understand what CI is.

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    Comment #48321103

    Watching this from outside the US, what gets me is not that corruption exists (shocker!) but how brazen they are with doing all of this in the open. Somehow it seems to be working …

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    Comment #48308995

    Governments cater to corporations rather than to people. It's an unpopular opinion on here since so many people profit from the industry, however the fact is AI and data centres ar…

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    Comment #48308338

    Let's be real, we all asked Claude to summarise this because it was written by Claude

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    Comment #48308304

    What does this show that we didn't know already? LLMs cannot provide accurate answers to questions where data is not included in their training sets. This doesn't appear to have mu…

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    Comment #48227618

    This argument of "if we don't do it, someone else will" to justify theft is so tiring. The companies doing the stealing are collectively the same ones that have power to prevent it…

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    Comment #48210127

    > The issue is not just whether the model can fit the context. It is whether the context given to it is useful or not. This is why human in the loop is always going to be necessary…

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    Comment #48041673

    I'm with you on all apart from code review. Our team has tried a couple tools. Most of the issues highlighted are either very surface level or non-issues. When it reviews code from…

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    Comment #48039770

    The CTO got fired last month, presumably for poor performance. And the director that has taken is place is now all in on AI because he's desperate to turn things around but has no …

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    Comment #48039711

    Pretty much this. It's like a cult mentality. Those who critique the approach or push back get sidelined. There are demos every week of essentially Claude loops and MCP integration…

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    Comment #48039225

    What is described here closely resembles my experience too. My company is full of managers who haven't written code in years. They hired an architect 18 months ago who used AI to a…