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I understand you're trying to draw a parallel (no pun intended) between what you did with Rust and the work the author performs as a professional game developer who optimizes game …

LLMs work perfectly fine for me but I’m building web app equivalents of binder keepers, like most people. Essentially store data, display data. The novelty is in what/how we’re dis…

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His experience is completely plausible. He’s in a niche that requires highly performant code and most complex, highly performant games do nit have source available for models to tr…

Luckily, accountability does exist in most professional settings so someone accepting moral responsibility is not required. It doesn't always land on the right person but it's usua…

What I like is that this is a measurable productivity increase that can be directly linked to AI and they go over their methodology. AI-positive posts skew heavily anecdotal and hy…

This is a company selling picks and shovels for the AI bubble. Of course they're going to drip feed "AI is so awesome guys!" stories on their blog. If you strip away the hyperbolic…

Don't agree with the hyperbole in the article but I think the broad strokes are there. I'm the same as you, AI has excelled at small tasks and daily chores. Like writing a complex …

The classic arc of internal tooling is generally: * Person gets angry/frustrated/passionate about some third party tool they could build themselves. * Person builds that tool. It's…

I think it could go either way because what I consider calcification of choices because of AI. We've all seen people outsourcing their thinking to AI. "Hey Claude, I need bug track…

This isn't accurate since the main reason I'm using Claude Code instead of these other interesting sounding harnesses is the subscription service with highly discounted token usage…

Counter-anecdote. Wife had a herniated disc. It took six months to get back surgery. This happened in America in 2022. She was in bed the entire time. It was literally months of go…

Yep. Costs for healthcare in other countries have a basis in reality. Here it’s about charging as much as they can get away with. No competition or transparency.

Are you Canadian? I ask because I’ve never met someone from a Western country with free healthcare who wishes they had our healthcare system. I lived in Australia for five years an…

Preventing crime is good but there are tradeoffs that most people find unacceptable. We could track people’s movements without AI. We could implement curfews and have 24x7 police c…

In your new sci fi economy, where technocrats have a closed economy that excludes everyone else, citizens united would be dead. You can’t prevent people and governments from trying…

I was being sarcastic about business class and expensive handbags. You act like we all should be entitled to these completely unnecessary things. What you’re suggesting is a return…

I think the relevant question isn’t what can be built but the amount of effort in comparison to doing this the old fashioned way. What do you think the productivity gain was from u…

>I think this is an extremely critical misconception, and it's sending the world into an increasingly bad place. They really don't, and the assumptions that underpin this statement…

You’re just hand waving. No actual facts in your argument. Sure, if you have a desktop with 175GB of unified memory, you can run deepseek 4 locally. Not completely out of reach but…

The capital outlay is eye watering and it feels like an over extension. Neither of the two major pure AI providers are close to profitable (OpenAI, Anthropic) while having valuatio…

AI maximalism is making a lot of assumptions that I think are not a given * The curve of AI improvement will continue at the current pace * AI companies will have the capital conti…

This needs to be read after the article from Turso on how they're retiring their bug bounty program because of being inundated with useless AI slop reports. It's the top story on H…

Yes, it will take longer but all value comes from labor, so the consumption of the wealthy is literally produced by the working class. The rich can't eat money. Also, data centers,…

Yes, it was responding. One of my points was that it has nothing to do with society's expectations but people's lived experiences and observations. You seem to think I'm advocating…