That AI and search engines use a lot of cheap labor. On systems like Mechanical Turk, or hiring third world quality raters to check results. It is particularly obvious.
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#22The placebo effect of useless dashbords.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a huge cope
It is real. In the end you and I and everyone else will be using AI for work and personal use. No amount of shaming others using AI would stop it. The bigger cope will be engineers losing their jobs by not adapting to the change that is happening in front of them.
I will never use LLM's. Never. Your cope for your own faults is very sad.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is real. In the end you and I and everyone else will be using AI for work and personal use. No amount of shaming others using AI would stop it. The bigger cope will be engineers losing their jobs by not adapting to the change that is happening in front of them.
I will never use LLM's. Never. Your cope for your own faults is very sad.
You might not, but your children and grandchildren will use LLMs and AI.
These technologies aren’t just going to go away just because you choose not to use them, or if you change careers, retire or whatever.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a huge cope
It is real. In the end you and I and everyone else will be using AI for work and personal use. No amount of shaming others using AI would stop it. The bigger cope will be engineers losing their jobs by not adapting to the change that is happening in front of them.
That's a different point from your original comment.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is real. In the end you and I and everyone else will be using AI for work and personal use. No amount of shaming others using AI would stop it. The bigger cope will be engineers losing their jobs by not adapting to the change that is happening in front of them.
That's a different point from your original comment.
Two supporting arguments can be true at the same time.
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#27Computer security is a solved problem, and has been since the 1980s.
Unfortunately adopting it requires us to abandon the ambient authority model of application development and our operating systems that support it. Currently when you tell an application to open a file, it can actually do almost anything. There are operating systems that enforce your choices, not many, they're very niche, for now.
We're at the point where the power grid would be if nobody ever used fuses or circuit breakers. All power could rush to any fault. The same is true with any application a user might run under Linux, Windows, etc.
To save a lot of grief: I'm not suggesting we use Windows UAC, AppArmor, or any other administratively driven security measures. Think power boxes[1] that replace file dialog boxes, and the give file capabilities to the application per the users will, in a secure, transparent and easy to understand manner.
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#28Most of software should be solved by now. And we shouldn't be reinventing wheel each time we make anything. But that would be just too boring.
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#29120 hours of leetcode prep to get a job centering divs with claude
120 hours of leetcode prep to get a job writing design documents
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#30Most of software should be solved by now. And we shouldn't be reinventing wheel each time we make anything. But that would be just too boring.
> Most of software should be solved by now.
what does solved even mean? If I don't own the wheel, I'm not reinventing it. Paying rent for Microsoft's or Google's wheels don't solve my software needs.