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Regardless of the benefits (of which there are a few, despite what fellow detractors may say), I am completely unwilling to submit myself to mass surveillance. Once that kind of po…

I agree with your main observations, but the Costco example is a bit contrived. I expect companies to eventually figure out suitable applications for AI, and I doubt a flat subscri…

the frustration is largely because the overall substance is quite poor since it is typically imprecise by nature.

surely the supply of unified memory will rise to meet demand before this is needed

> now consumption is becoming dominated by asset owners absolutely true. I am not convinced that consumption can be wholly fueled by asset owners though.

the argument is productivity gains are increasingly driven by technological advances, which are spurred by capital investment. for example, if a company purchases software that inc…

yes, but wage growth has not tracked productivity: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1X020 household expenses have been increasing without commensurate wage growth, resulting in…

2% is average. 1-1.5% is considered a slump, while anything over 2.5% is considered a boom. for instance, the post-ww2 boom (1947-1972) averaged 2.9%. at that rate of growth, a cou…

> amount of labor being generated per person has not really changed not true, labor productivity has been steadily increasing: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB workers are…

no, he's almost certainly referring to labor productivity. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB

he's referring to labor productivity, e.g., the economic value produced per unit of labor input. it also _has_ changed significantly, as seen here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/seri…

agree, from my POV the constraints are still there but we've optimized now. still haven't solved the core problems.

eh, they're a publishing business. choicescript is part of their business model - there's nothing inherently wrong with that.

so cool! how does this compare to ChoiceScript? https://www.choiceofgames.com/make-your-own-games/choicescri...

they are forecasting $25-30B this year, so if anything they look to be neutral or even profitable.

> The TAM for robots is much, much larger than for coding or services how do you figure?

AI usage will directly impact said margins. Moreover, for the scenario you describe, companies need to have the capability to precisely estimate the cost of a given deliverable - n…

I don't know, even if AI allows two engineers to do the work of six, companies will likely just use that efficiency to expand their scope. I think we'll see short-term layoffs and …

tests are an important signal of course, but the use case you describe doesn't necessarily mean you need to follow TDD. the data suggests that creating the tests after the code is …

this is not really backed by any empirical evidence. there are simply more efficient means of verifying outputs than TDD.

for LLMs, TDD amounts to little more than ceremony. there is a study on this exact topic: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07900

not necessarily, TDD has little bearing on output quality

I was a big proponent of encoding TDD red-green-refactor methodology into my agent workflows until recently when I made the same realization after reading this study: https://arxiv…

agreed but depends on then language. for instance, the .NET equivalent (MemoryCache) is pretty poor.

not really true, SQLite supports WAL mode which allows concurrent writes (technically write _attempts_, but these writes are exceptionally fast and are serialized to the file-syste…