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steelkilt

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    Comment #49231597

    It might be more accurate to say that many retail investors are ignoring big tech’s debt.

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    Comment #49226383

    It’s not that coding is easy. That misses the point. The point is, coding is recurrent. Automation follows recurrence, not ease.

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    Comment #49153702

    That’s exactly what was done.

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    Comment #48538736

    FWIW nerds pre-date the internet. We used to get together in user groups, like at public libraries, and talk tech, logic and reasoning.

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    Comment #48518033

    I refactor more than 27% of my handwritten code. Always have.

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    Comment #48506180

    He was handed a gameboy before he could walk, but it didn’t lessen his humanity. He was handed a smartphone before middle school, but his humanity remained intact. He started calli…

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    Comment #48423595

    It may be surprising, but community participation isn’t a priority for all developers. Myself, I want to write reliable code and then live my life. If I can do that more efficientl…

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    Comment #48237092

    See also: California

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    Comment #48235241

    Yesterday I needed to create an SDS (material safety data sheet) for one of my products. This would usually take me a few hours, maybe half a day. An agent did it for me in 5 minut…

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    Comment #48211215

    See below. Small business owners who learn how to use the tools right are one example.

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    Comment #48211202

    I’ve been a small business (manufacturing) owner for about 25 years. AI saves me time, extends my reach and reduces my time to market. AI isn’t a threat to me; it’s a daily tool I …

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    Comment #48208544

    Disruption, by definition, has winners and losers and the losers tend to be more visible, more vocal, and more immediate than the winners.

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    Comment #48208173

    If I were an adversary of the U.S. I would encourage anti-AI sentiment among young people, to my strategic advantage.

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    Comment #48205233

    I don’t blame them for how they feel. In fact, I feel sorry for them. Covid took a few years from them, then AI comes along and invalidates their career choices. That’s a hard case…

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    Comment #48205219

    Actually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.

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    Comment #48205208

    Most of them won’t be unemployed.

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    Comment #48205200

    Of course. Multiple things can be true.

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    Comment #48205193

    Most of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.

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    Comment #48197957

    We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the pe…

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    The bounded process: agent-assisted coding

    I recently had a project owner ask me about my process using agent-assisted development. Here’s a tightened version of my response. Phase 1 I point Claude to the GitHub repo issue …

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    Comment #47906350

    An implementation of 7GUIs would help demonstrate the completeness of the framework. https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/

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    Comment #47897872

    These were nice little machines. Learned to code Pascal on one.