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Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by isaacsight »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #744
UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #724

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They should just halt development immediately and build their own operating system from scratch! You realise that there’s certainly at least one Astral dev that uses Copilot or Claude Code or whatever, right? You’re so anti-AI that you’re making nonsensical arguments. The existence of AI doesn’t mean that human effort and skill and care is worth nothing. OpenAI has never argued that. Nothing is incongruent here excep…

Not anti-AI, but I am anti-gaslighting, and you are gaslighting just as well as Sam Altman here. Altman won't shut the fuck up about AGI, swapping between "AGI is here" one day and then "AGI is coming in two weeks" the next without a hint of shame as he lies to the public, lies to the media, and lies to investors. "Completely fictionalised worldview", fuck me you're good at this, I must have been imagining the fact t…

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Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

nunez wrote: post #584
echelon wrote: post #470

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As if there will be hiring in the fullness of time. There will come a day when you can will an entire business into existence at the press of a button. Maybe it has one or two people overseeing the business logic to make sure it doesn't go off the rails, but the point is that this is a 100x reduction in labor and a 100,000x speed up in terms of delivery. They'll price this as a $1M button press. Suddenly, labor capit…

And never forget that we collectively cheered it on as the asteroid's crater got deeper and wider.

Surely they will lay off everyone except me!

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #439
tedsanders wrote: post #367

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I work at OpenAI. Software developers are not obsoleted by Codex or Claude Code, nor will they be soon. For our teams, Codex is a massive productivity booster that actually increases the value of each dev. If you check our hiring page, you’ll see we are still hiring aggressively. Our ambitions are bigger than our current workforce, and we continue to pay top dollar for talented devs who want to join us in transformin…

This seems like a reasonable take. Maybe you could inform your CEO, the media and influencer sycophants, the tech companies that are laying off tens of thousands of developers while mandating the use of your company's tool, and everyone else responsible for us being inundated with outlandish claims that software engineering is dead on a literally daily basis. Hey, while I'm asking for wishes that won't be granted, ma…

Expect no reply. This guy doesn't really engage with the comments based on his comment history.

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by conartist6 »

PaulHoule wrote: post #639
NiloCK wrote: post #67

A concern: More and more plainly, OpenAI and Anthropic are making plays to own (and lease) the "means of production" in software. OK - I'm a pretty happy renter right now. As they gobble up previously open software stacks, how viable is it that these stacks remain open? It seems perfectly sensible to me that these providers and their users alike have an interest in further centralizing the dev lifecycle - eg, if Clau…

You know until today I dismissed all those concerns about uv being a commercial product but now I am very concerned. Microsoft has been a reasonable steward of github and npm considering everything but I don't feel so good about OpenAI this makes me reconsider my use of uv and Python as a whole because uv did a lot to stop the insanity. Not least Microsoft has been around since 1975 whereas I could picture OpenAI van…

Perhaps a reasonable steward, but no more than a steward.

All the passion and vision is gone from GitHub and NPM. They're now too big and too stale not to (eventually) be replaced by projects which do still have excitement and leadership

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by conartist6 »

echelon wrote: post #470
pixelsort wrote: post #355

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In the many darker timelines that one can extrapolate, capturing essential tech stacks is just a pre-cursor to capturing hiring. Once we start seeing Open AI and Anthropic getting into the certifications and testing they'll quickly become the gold standard. They won't even need to actually test anyone. People will simply consent to having their chat interactions analyzed. The models collect more information about us…

As if there will be hiring in the fullness of time. There will come a day when you can will an entire business into existence at the press of a button. Maybe it has one or two people overseeing the business logic to make sure it doesn't go off the rails, but the point is that this is a 100x reduction in labor and a 100,000x speed up in terms of delivery. They'll price this as a $1M button press. Suddenly, labor capit…

That AI would happily turn us all into paperclips to burnish its perf numbers.

The degree to which any business is sociopathic or psychopathic towards humans will be the limiting factor.

Microsoft is already working on turning the trust of their users into as many paperclips as possible

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by duskdozer »

rtpg wrote: post #670
theptip wrote: post #616

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I agree uv is great but let’s not get carried away here. Poetry is good, pip was fine for many use-cases after they added native lock files.

Poetry and friends are so bad that many people continued just using pip -r requirements.txt despite knowing about this other stuff Poetry having users isn’t the metric for success. pip having way less users is.

>people continued just using pip -r requirements.txt

What exactly is the issue with this?

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by duskdozer »

pdntspa wrote: post #402
jitl wrote: post #304

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uv solved it, it will be the only tool people use in 2 more years. if you’re a python shop / expert then you can do pip etc but uv turned incidental python + deps from a huge PITA for the rest of us, to It Just Works simplicity on the same level or better than Golang.

Then can they please figure out some way of invoking it that doesnt require prefixing everything with 'uv'

That would defeat the purpose of creating and expanding their brand.

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by IceWreck »

NewsaHackO wrote: post #615
sschueller wrote: post #385

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MS is actively making your life using VS Codium a pain. They removed the download button the extension marketrplace making it very difficult to download extensions and installing them in VS Codium since VS Codium does not have access to the official MS extension marketplace. Many don't publish outside the marketplace for example Platformio. [1] [1] https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1...

Also, Microsoft does not allow use of their LSP for python. You have to use the barebones Jedi LSP.

basedpyright has existed for years and now we have pyrefly from meta too. I think ty is also working on one.
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