anal_reactor
I mean, if the management doesn't see value in decent engineering, then who am I to butt myself into the conversation?
This thing aside... IDK, I used to think that there's no way to manage such a mess but apparently there is. Or rather, it starts to seem plausible that models will evolve faster than this mess, and once it becomes unmanageable, you can simply ask AI "make it better, no bugs please" and it'll mostly work.
It's becoming harder and harder to justify my own existence as a software engineer. It's surreal that that I dedicated years of study to prepare myself for a job that's being automated away.
Of course the demand for human developers won't drop to 0 but it'll be limited to a handful of industries where even small mistakes are costly, like aerospace. But then let's be real - what percentage of currently employed devs are competent enough to write such code?
No.
In a healthy community people will notice crap and simply won't buy it, which discourages merchants from selling crap. If that's not the case, then it's quite likely that the community has bigger issues because they cannot distinguish crap from good items.
I mean, if someone shows up with hand-made crap then the community should also push it out, whether it's hand-made or mass-produced is pretty much besides the point.
Regarding the cons themselves, of course there are good ones and bad ones. That's how it is with everything.
Case in point: the proliferation of furcons.
kek
Talking to you feels like reddit discussions. You don't bother actually reading my point, there's just monkey brain neuron activation that if I don't join "le Trump is le stupid" club then I'm a pariah. Unless we're talking about the childish meaning of the word "stupid", because children call "stupid" everything they don't like. That would, honestly, explain a lot, because if Trump is all that evil you mentioned and got away with it, then he's "cunning", not "stupid".
Before you answer, please dump our conversation into ChatGPT and consult, I'm feeling like talking to a machine would be easier.
You also forgot the part where he organized a coup on the Capitol, scammed millions out of their funds MULTIPLE times and also became a funny meme.
My hero. I can only aspire to be such an absolute Chad.
One painful lesson of my childhood was that coherent logic doesn't win arguments, telling people what they want to hear wins arguments. Sure, 10% of people think rationally but GUESS WHAT it's the other 90% that actually puts politicians into positions of power so it's important to win THEIR votes.
Trump understands this perfectly. HN is an echo chamber "Trump is such a dum-dum" but none of you stupid pigfuckers consider the option that he simply never cared about correctly fulfilling his civil duties, he only cared about power, fame, and money, and he learned how to game the system to achieve these goals, which is an impressive skill to wield.
It's like, engineers complaining again and again about "stupid managers" while failing to see that they're the ones doing on-call while the manager is chilling on Bahamas.
Imagine a painter saying "these software engineers are profoundly stupid, I spent a whole day explaining to one how different color combinations are differently interpreted by different cultures and he still wouldn't get it".
Society hated techies until we started getting ridiculous amounts of money and women figured out that they could marry a techie and instantly go up the social hierarchy. Now that this isn't happening anymore, society is back to hating techies. Tech always attracted people who were in some ways social outcasts - I've spent my formative years being bullied and now I'm supposed to love the society? I pay taxes to maintain public infrastructure while normies vandalize and misuse it when bored and I'm supposed to love that? Truly baffling.
> low empathy
Blatantly false. Name one industry where a huge chunk of experts spend their time doing volunteer work, because that's what open source is (Linux, GCC, etc.). Have you ever seen a baker just giving out free bread on weekends and calling it a hobby? I haven't.
> "bootstraps" mentality
The expectation that everyone could just vibe through life and be perfectly happy is unrealistic. There will always be winners and losers, there will always be inherent unfairness, deal with that to your best ability.
> I'm also honestly surprised that wraparound on unsigned types is not undefined behavior.
I consider it common knowledge TBH
Second, too complicated security setups often result in trivially hackable global passwords and shit like that because turns out, there are very few people willing to daily rotate and remember 30 different cryptographically random 256-bit arrays.
Third, no matter how robust your security setup is, there will always be someone who finds a flaw in it, so a much better solution is to just do bare minimum and get insurance.
It's strange to be that so many security experts are completely detached from how humans actually act.
Buahahahaaha
I didn't literally ask people "How would you feel if you had not eaten breakfast?", but rather questions that naturally followed the conversation that at the same time were either hypotheticals, or some adjacent ideas that require similar shift of perspective. The "How would you feel if you had not eaten breakfast?" stands as a symbol of a general idea.
Your comment is prime example of grown-ass adults having reading comprehension of GPT-1, especially that you missed the word "like", which explicitly points that the following example isn't to be taken literally, but rather metaphorically.
I can already imagine you in a conversation going like:
- It hit me like a bolt from the blue!
- But a bolt from the blue did not hit you, did it?
I cannot believe I need to explain this shit to you.
Does years of domestic violence count? What about shootings I've witnessed but wasn't a part of? There's a school nearby and kids carry guns around here.
> Do you know anyone who has committed real violence?
I don't hang out with the violent types in the first place, so the question makes no sense.
You'd be shocked how many people cannot process basic hypotheticals. I've been in countless dialogues like this one:
- How would you feel now if you had not eaten breakfast?
- But I did eat breakfast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_%27round_the_flag_effect
> normal everyday people wouldn't want to be violent one day year
If the principle embedded in the culture of my manager is to do dumb shit that goes nowhere, then I'm not sure what goals we're achieving.
Life ain't perfect and it's never going to be. Just because someone has to choose between two evils it doesn't make them an evil person - the hippie idea "why don't we just all sit and join our hands around a camfire" simply doesn't work. So the next best thing is that I need to protect myself and the people dear to me from the externalities of, let me quote the most famous politician of 21st century, shithole countries.
My manager was dragging me through useless projects that went nowhere despite multiple people telling him "it ain't gonna work" while shooting down proposals that later turned out to be "high priority tasks required directly by upper management". And he's a well-paid, educated employee with years of experience. Don't even get me started on delivery guys who cannot read a simple instruction like "do not ring the bell, leave the package on the doorstep". They just follow a 50-line script and that's all they can do.
Whenever you mention that AI won't reach human intelligence, remember that this is the benchmark. Not Alexander the Great, it's the millions of people throwing their life savings ($1000 each) into Labubus. Long time ago there was a series of articles in my country about the costs of wedding receptions skyrocketing and some people taking out loans to pay that, and someone made a meme "robots will never have human intelligence!" with reply "bro, you took out a loan to pay for a wedding, I don't want your human intelligence".
Denying this reality is pure cope.