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Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @06:53PM (#49529380)
The until Anthropic et al IPO to the tune of trillions Ed is more right than he is wrong.
Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @06:50PM (#49529350)
A person savvy enough to understand the indirect financial benefit to Dario promising that Claude is so dangerously smart it must be regulated understands Zitron’s schtick
YMMV but I found the style very helpful
Damn the USA seems really powerful, I’m assuming handling a country like Iran shouldn’t give them any trouble
Maduro operation wasn’t a war my good man and the other two you reference were 20 and 30 years ago.
Well, then and the millennials
Re:The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:00PM (#48652059)
There might be a requirement for these drivers but it’s uh…nontechnical, so to speak
Re:Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @08:13AM (#48382964)
The Corrections and Freedom were both amazing but nothing he’s written since has come close.
Re:Checkmate in Iran on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:29AM (#48095488)
I mean what’s there to say but, well…FAFO.
Re:Rotten Dot Com on Sunday May 10, 2026 @06:28AM (#48082650)
One of the rare sane comments on this thread.
Re:Rotten Dot Com on Sunday May 10, 2026 @06:27AM (#48082647)
Just because it can’t be easily measured doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Re:Cursor Camp on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @08:06PM (#47956322)
Found the manager
Re:Cursor Camp on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @08:05PM (#47956319)
He's done it again folks
Re:The Quiet Resurgence of RF Engineering on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:36AM (#47936015)
Couldn’t finish because of the AI. Write by yourself, cmon.
The time to solve that resource problem is before AI concentrates power, not after. It’s LESS likely to happen when a tiny elite increases their already huge amount of power.
Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:53PM (#47883287)
If you make 900,000 but your rent and healthcare are 850000, how rich are you?
Re:Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design on Saturday April 18, 2026 @08:50PM (#47820878)
Scaling and edge cases with real users are the difficulty. Feel like this isn’t even that controversial.
Re:Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:24PM (#47819649)
If it’s used by < 1000 people, it’s not a complicated app
Re:Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:23PM (#47819644)
This isn’t meant to be sarcastic: have you ever worked for a real company?
Re:Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:23PM (#47819639)
I would ask this: which is the worse failure mode —- design not quite right, or users can’t access the app?
Re:Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:20PM (#47819624)
That’s what CEOs think lol. Let’s see if it pans out!
You mean the brilliant mathematician with the correct insights into the modern American condition?
Yes, a billionaire and substitute teacher have the same political power in America. Couldn’t have put it better myself.

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The terms are defined by the AI dealers!
Well said. It’s striking to me how many adults can’t conceive of “violence” as an abstraction that results in certain effects and fall back on “violence is dealing direct physical injury to a person’s body or building.”
If you think that software isn't meaningfully different than avocados then maybe we are living in different realities.
Yeah I’m sure the savings will be passed onto the consumer, genius
What enemies?
Re:NIMBYs Aren't Just Shutting Down Housing on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:03PM (#46915315)
Cool

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