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Isn’t it fascinating how all of a sudden we swap energy saving and data protection for convenience. We won’t solve climate change but we will have elaborate essays why we failed.
I think for the majority of the population, solving climate change is a non-goal. Even people who ostensibly care about it aren't willing to sacrifice anything for it.
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New Jersey gas stations still do this, and here is napkin cost calculation https://www.sciotoanalysis.com/news/2024/7/12/how-much-do-yo...
Just a bizarre pedantry that isn't even true-- he said clean your windows, not pump your gas.
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They don't need to, any more than syntax writers need to understand byte code. They need to understand what the code does.
I have a hard time believing any of these natural language only prompters are being hired as developers if they don't understand the syntax. Part of the issue is LLMs are indeterministic and hallucinate. They also don't recognize every bug they generate.
I don't agree with the vibe coding methodology (or lack thereof) myself but here's a direct lowest common denominator counterexample of a natural language programming job position.
In practice, we are seeing and will continue to see developer adjacent positions submitting PRs. Not on a whim but after having understood the codebase or parts of it using the AI to translate syntax to English.
You guys are lying if you don’t use ChatGPT instead of Google now
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I think for the majority of the population, solving climate change is a non-goal. Even people who ostensibly care about it aren't willing to sacrifice anything for it.
How long will that remain true though? The effects of climate change will only get worse.
Personally, I'm still optimistic, at least for the emissions due to primary energy, because renewables and storage are just so ridiculously cheap now.
Unfortunately, all the other emissions are still enough that prisoner's dilemma type defection still comes into play. But I'm hopeful for cement, and have good reason to expect electrolytic reduction of metal oxides (beyond just aluminium) to become viable soon, as the primary energy is made increasingly renewable and cheap.
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My 75 year old father uses Claude instead of google now for basically any search function. All the anti-AI people I know are in their 30s. I think there are many in this age group that got use to nothing changing and are wishing it to stay that way.
Isn’t it fascinating how all of a sudden we swap energy saving and data protection for convenience. We won’t solve climate change but we will have elaborate essays why we failed.
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Even if your company is privately owned, it has at least 1 investor (possibly just the founder), and this urge to cram AI is no doubt coming from him.
Why are investors so stupid? I mean this genuinely. Every time I hear about investors and what they want, it seems to me like they make dumb decisions that implode on themselves. I mean, you would think someone very rich who invests in companies would be somewhat smart. But, I'm convinced, a lot of them would do much better if they made no decisions at all and left everything up to entropy.
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But using it heavily has a corollary effect: engineers learn less as a result of their dependence on it.
Less learning all around equals enshittification. Really not looking forward to this.