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They believe in the danger of out of control super-intelligence. The generous interpretation is that they believe they can contain it.

The worst part about this to me is if someone routes a response through AI, I have no idea what they, personally, are trying to tell me that they may have included specifically in …

It's not an acceptable tradeoff to allow AI code in without reviewing the code currently, if not when it comes to code structure (which will introduce long term maintenance issues …

Finally, a tool optimized for creating Git commit hash collisions

I view current LLMs as new kinds of search engines. Ones where you have to re-verify their responses, but on the other hand can answer long and vague queries. I really don't see th…

I only reached the 100s back in the day. What amazed me was that it seemed like every problem had a paper solution, when it would take any computer algorithm thousands or millions …

Keywords should definitely be highlighted. It's part of the structure of the code. Being highlighted makes it very quick to distinguish between keywords and variables and helps rea…

All of this guy's software and music seems so cool, and there's so little information on it. Can you share anything else?

Sounds lovely, I'd love to hear what it's like when the number of living cells on screen controls the length of the note so it's not just a constant rhythm, even though it is hypno…

>The discipline required to use AI tools responsibly is surprisingly difficult to maintain I don't find that this requires discipline. AI code simply requires code review the same …

Prime numbers are a pattern; take the natural numbers - starting after 2, exclude every number that isn't 2, starting after 3, exclude every number that isn't 3, etc. It repeats li…

I've often thought that this (and every problem where a manual process is required that is tough to automatically enforce) an AI code reviewer could be very useful. It's the type o…

Thank you, that was the example I needed to hear to see why this could be an issue. I will still say though, I have not actually had this happen to me yet with all the years of usi…

I don't have a problem with needing to memoize props passed to child components for their memoization to work. If your parent component doesn't need the optimization, you don't use…

In my opinion, unless if you need its ability to figure out when something should rebuild or potentially if you already use it, Make is not the right tool for the job. You should c…

I have had a lot of opportunity to estimate a lot of projects, but one thing I still can't figure out is estimate education. If a client wants to know "why is this going to take so…

I don't think it's quite the same. We live in an inbetween time - AI is not quite there yet. AI struggles with knowledge from after its training date (so it can't help very well fo…

When I went for a sleep study, I was wired awake for half the night, up in bed reading waiting for the study to be over. According to the study though, I was in sleep stage 2 the e…

I am surprised semiconductor engineers called it impossible. A cutting edge chip, sure, but a few thousand transistors?

Unfortunate, thank you

Will it have support for "VARIABLE=${VARIABLE:-default}"?

I had the privilege of interacting with Bram a few times through Github and he was always fast, thoughtful, and pragmatic. I know others who would say the same thing. His software …

What I tell people who get into software because they need a job is always that the industry also needs people with quality assurance and management skills. Not because I want to o…

I would just expect MIT, of all places, to go quite low. I suppose everything has to come to an end, and MIT can't have the most intensive course forever. I just can't help but fee…

I think the other reply to my post is on to something when they say there are many paths to mastery. I have just laid out one path. I don't know what the ideal general learning pat…