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Invading Ukraine is not productive either, yet they are still at it murdering Ukrainians for four years and counting.
The politburo in the Soviet Union was stacked with engineers and it didn't work out that well.
Inflation brings higher interest rates, which is bad for stocks.
Also, why do OpenAI and Anthropic have employees? The Machine God is supposed to replace employees, especially programmers, yet these companies continue employ thousands of programmers.
One does wonder why Anthropic and OpenAI have employees, when HN knows the superintelligence can do all jobs already.
> Which makes me wonder: weren't there phonebooks in US cities and in other countries before? Were they incomplete/opt-in?
In some places you had to pay to be listed in the phonebook.
Holding them accountable is viewed as deciding not to invent the light bulb right now. Or even worse, letting China invent it.
AI needs to be above the law or we will get left behind.
Doing drugs sounds both more rewarding and productive.
The company is doing very well now and they know that it is all thanks to the AI data center build out. Their manager and leadership want them to use it. If the bubble pops, their stock based compensation becomes worthless. Their colleagues are in the same situation and some are tokenmaxxing.
These things are what the pressure consists of. Some probably do feel pressured against their will. For some the encouragement changes their will. Some want to use it regardless of anything.
But whether you call it pressure, encouragement, or incentives, its there and it does affect how people think and act.
I just wanted to bring up that it's AI companies (which all computer hardware companies are now) that develop the kernel. In that light 17.25% is actually a tiny share of commits to be written by the Machine God.
The pressure to use LLMs is high in the companies that sell shovels in this gold rush. It would look bad if they did not use them. Linux developers work at those companies.
Who cares? AI gives me lots of text and it's not like it's ever going to go away. Any time in my life in the future when I need text, I can just have AI generate it. Thinking is solved.
One thing about that site is that it is owned by a Russian and Finnish IPs are blocked from accessing it. Here's some context
https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-...Edit: I did a web search and it seems to go even further back. There are discussions online about archive.is blocking Finland already 10 years ago. But the block was definitely off between then when it was put back on earlier this year.
It's an insult to the superintelligence. The basilisk will not look kindly on this!
Yeah, it's interesting how the current thing is always the end of programming, but then when a new thing comes it turns into absolute trash that can't be used for anything.
All those programmers who could not write fizzbuzz can ship something now.
What do you say to your boss if they ask why your colleague is producing 10-100x the kloc as you?
No you can't say that! It's the superintelligence. You will be left behind.
Stay in school, get good grades.
Maybe if you only use the LLM to proof read or something? I don't know if LLMs are actually any good for this purpose, but it's something I came to think of when trying to answer your question.
I do think that it is very difficult to not be a meat proxy when you utilize an LLM for writing tasks. These tools are computer programs that generate text, so what else would you do with it than have it write for you? This is being a meat proxy.
Trying to avoid being a meat proxy can quickly eat the supposed productivity gains of using an LLM in the first place.
Like say I need to write an article about some subject and it would take me the entire day to complete this task without an LLM. I can get some sort of article out of an LLM by simply asking, I don't need to think about the subject myself at all. The LLM productivity promise is also fulfilled, because I did an entire days work in a minute or so.
Now if I also need to read and understand the work, and be able to defend it or explain it to others as if I produced it myself, then this will take a lot of time. If on top of this I need to edit the text to sound like me rather than an LLM, then I probably still need the whole day for this task and I have lost all the productivity increase that I sought from using the LLM.
It's the thinking that takes time when you write, not typing. But you can't do the thinking and avoid doing it at the same time.
The same idea applies to coding too. Doing code review and requiring the author and reviewer to read and understand the code basically eliminates all the productivity gains that using the LLM was supposed to provide. Throw out the reviewing, reading, and understanding and we can have each developer producing a thousand kloc per day, over 1000x productivity. If we don't throw those out, we are comparatively in the exact same spot as not using LLMs at all.
If you're going to be reading the code you might as well write it by hand instead of using AI.
EU bourgeoisie invests in US tech
Crypto guys are in the business of grifting magic beans to rubes. They are mostly interested in the aesthetics of these technologies. Using an academic programming language gives these scientific magical vibes and such that make people believe these guys are high tech and know their shit and so on. This is the reason many crypto projects do use Haskell too, it's known as an academic research language that is difficult to use and "if it compiles it works." They come at it from the perspective of "What would sound the best when I try to sell the space money of the future?"
> Are expectations way too high in the near term for tech companies and all of the crap that they’re talking? 100% totally agree.
This is what people mean when they say it's a bubble.
You are going to get left behind and so is Nikhil Suresh.
Why would you need any of those listed capabilities these days? Just generate them with 100x AGI
Well, yeah, most social media posts that contain a list or a table these days are ai slop.
I believe a lot of the enthusiasm we had at the start of the smartphone age is also now gone. The phone is now a boring device made for scrolling and running apps that are mandatory to participate in modern society.
Where would those European customers go? China? Africa?
Programmers do woodworking in their free time and programming at the assembly line in the crud factory.