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Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:11AM (#50313918)
> "but humans also sometimes fail to load because of network issues"

They do. It's called "stuck in traffic."

Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:55PM (#50309316)
Humans hallucinate much more, but they're not that good at making the hallucinations convincing.
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:54PM (#50283062)
It doesn't matter. Even if it were the most friendly community ever, as long as their core value were the same - answering programming questions that with clear answers - it would have been replaced by today's AI completely. It's irrelevant today how bad GPT3.5 once was.
Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:40AM (#50259160)
I don't think it has anything to do with AI. Wikipedia has been like that for at least a decade for me.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:37AM (#50243464)
Top 5 models on openrouter. It means nothing.
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:26PM (#50237448)
Yeah because each kid is different? Kids are not factory products that you can just quality control. Germany even has a law specifically allowing kid noises[0].

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/16/germany-childr...

Human hallucination. It's the equivalent of seeing Jesus portrait in toasted bread.
Re:ThinkRail from JetBrains on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:46AM (#50220000)
> to follow the path a branch takes

But vscode and vim do this just as well (in my experience). JetBrains products' advantages over the most lightweight solutions for me are:

- Faster intellisense at least for C# and Java

- Faster syntax errors and other linting-warnings

- Refactor tools

- Debugger and stack state viewer

I still use Rider, but I just don't think faster intellisense/linting matters to me nowadays. Refactor tools feel like something that should come with harnesses. The debugger still helps, but to be honest LLMs are better at debugging than me if you let them dump whatever information they need.

Plus, even with LLMs' help, making and managing a plugin for Rider is a much heavier process than the counterparts for vim/vscode.

Re:ThinkRail from JetBrains on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:12AM (#50219777)
I can't imagine JetBrains keep existing in the following years. Every programmer I talked to in the past year (myself included) said their job was mostly reviewing generated code. I can imagine why people still use IDE to review code, but I can't name a reason to use something as heavy as JetBrains products just to review things written by others, AI or not.

I have been a paying user for about a decade. Ironically, when I recommended their products to vim/emacs users, they usually were like "thanks, but I know vim/emacs will always exist", and now I realize they really had a point.

Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:21AM (#50191494)
They just haven't released a successful game for years. If you feel the need to attribute their situation to ideologies then it sounds like you are the one who invested in ideologies too much, not Saudi Investment Fund.
Do I believe this is the correct thing to do (as a government)? Yes.

Will I install an app from a third party store? Hell no lol.

Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:36AM (#50179193)
Correct title: Do (web development) frameworks still make sense despite LLMs?

The article barely has anything to do with RoR.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:31AM (#50179143)
Historical fact: the developed world is developed mostly via industrial revolution, a.k.a. they find out how to turn coal into wealth first

Current situation: the developed world emits much more than the developing side per capita. Even France, a country powered by nuclear, emits twice as much as India per capita

Yeah, good luck convincing the developing countries to limit their emission. "Bro please stay poor" and "you have too much population" aren't very nice things to say.

Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:10PM (#50175227)
These days I find it's my own fault to spend time reading anything on a .ai top domain.
Re:2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me) on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:55PM (#50175119)
> I don't think rust is the future

Yeah because it's the present. Rust is everywhere now.

Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:21PM (#50172857)
> My economically valuable skillset – programming – suddenly feels less valuable. What shall I teach my son

Did the author get their programming skill from their parents? I feel it's a quite weird question.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:38AM (#50165433)
That's exactly what people said when Deepseek V3 was released. Two years later the valuations roughly have quadrupled.
Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:29PM (#50135778)
The answer is no. When talking about gold reserve that means U.S. Treasury-Owned Gold. Of which the volume hasn't changed much for decades.
Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:27PM (#50135770)
Gold repatriation doesn't count as export. So the answer to "how much" is zero.
Re:BB(10) > Graham's Number on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:25PM (#50075380)
TREE(3) is interesting as it's not very intuitive that it's even a finite number. Graham's Number is obviously finite.
Re:BB(10) > Graham's Number on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:39AM (#50073451)
No, it's not an obvious result. There is a BB(N) > Graham's Number, but in no way N=10 is obvious.
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:03PM (#50063033)
> how the automobile age made it unnecessary to walk

It made it unnecessary to ride a horse.

> Amazon obsoleted brick and mortar stores

Pretty much did.

> payment cards made cash disappear

Pretty much did in China. A good example how something seems essential for someone is just completely replaceable for the others.

Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:59PM (#50047761)
> Before injecting this cocktail into your bloodstream, would you find it reassuring to know that there is at least one human cancer expert who understands– even partially the mechanism behind this cure

I mean... yes, most people will find it reassuring, but history has proven that's not necessary. People have been using medicines of which the mechanism wasn't understood for a very long time and greatly enjoyed their benefits. Even widely used one (e.g. Paracetamol).

Re:Programming Isn't Special on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:55AM (#50017878)
> what it’s doing to our industry, but we are using it anyway

Other industries are using it too. It's quite delusional to assume that just because people hate something they won't use it.

> I actually have a fairly simple answer to that: if it doesn't come up in the list of LLMs that Cursor supports, it effectively doesn't exist.

You make Cursor sound like one thousand times more important than it is. It's a product in deep water.

Re:Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:19PM (#49998241)
From documents, and source code. I find it quite crazy that you imply that Stackoverflow is the sole information source for the SOTA LLMs. As a matter of fact, Opus 5.5 and Sol 5.6 both write acceptable zig code now and there are only ~400 questions about zig on SO. SO is just that obsolete.
Why would they? The governments themselves want to censor. It'd be weird if they punish payment processors for doing the hard work for them.
Re:Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:42PM (#49995282)
In 2021 maybe.

Today LLMs have completely replaced the original role of StackOverflow.

Re:AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:46AM (#49994484)
It takes less time for you to try to read about the question than to type this comment. I know the link doesn't contain visualization, but... come on.
Re:Why don't more developers "use the platform"? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:52AM (#49953075)
> full download

Like 50kb. Roughly the same size as Amazon website's icon sheet.

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