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I am of a particular disposition that makes it difficult for me to do lie about my work, especially if I were in a firm where people are reading my chat transcripts. As much as I w…

It wasn't meant to be a literal statement, more just a reflection that the situation is so bleak that I cannot imagine a better future; anybody expressing even a little bit of it s…

The wisdom to understand that velocity is not equal to value; and the optimism that this will all end at some point.

You seem like a person who works at a place that doesn't have an AI mandate. That sounds nice. I miss when we had nice things in the world like that. I will never take that for gra…

I'm happy to endure HN if it means I get to see hopeful, reasonable observations like yours.

It's an old NeXTism!

A lot of responses pointing out various flaws with this question, including the fact that it can be used as a proxy for ageism, the fact that the grading scale has not been consist…

Did the entire history of computing prior to 2023 disappear? Are we really that boned?

GitHub is so close to becoming SourceForge. In order to become the scum-infested cesspool it truly longs to be, Microsoft needs to relentlessly serve ads on GitHub. Then, the cycle…

Would you work in such a facility?

I don't really see the problem of proliferating a message one finds sufficiently important to as many places as one has reach.

One thing I've noticed is that LLMs have allowed middle managers trapped inside the role of a developer to finally self actualise.

Generative AI has and their providers have become an implicitly political subject. It shouldn't come as a surprise.

What makes an appeal to experience, subjective or otherwise, an expression of Main Character Syndrome? Just because somebody pushes back against the tides doesn't mean they fancy t…

A lot of this discourse is intended for a wider audience than just us technical folk, and so the vocabulary used mirrors that of news headlines. If I were to guess, I would say it …

I think it should be fairly obvious by now which form of AI people refer to when they talk specifically about theft. It gets a bit old and repetitive to expand the shorthand in eve…

Who would be payrolling this astroturfing in group #1?

> Anti-AI propaganda is false-flag. Why would AI providers benefit from anti-AI propaganda?

One could say "that's a great point, we should take more direct ideological action to address this issue!", but expounding upon the finer details would likely get one banned here.

Because of the concerns you cite, I think working out the basic economic systems and incentives for paying people is a much more pressing concern than building magnificent machiner…

Ever since I was a small child it was my sincerest wish to build so much value for others by becoming a human-in-the-loop. I am so happy my wish has finally come true.

It's hard not to make that leap when so many layoffs are (according to PR releases anyway) attributed to AI adoption. Even if the reality on the ground is that many of these workfo…