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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:46AM (#50239977)
This doesn't really make sense. If you have the specific questions of an exam in advance and study those, then your final score on the exam isn't really representative.
Re:Why I Am a Programmer on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:33PM (#50237112)
It's because he's being an asshole.
Re:Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:19AM (#50218978)
If you've been accused of cheating it is a very different scenario.
Re:Getting Banned from r/java on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:58PM (#50215930)
>Every developer needs to experience this particular flavor of ego death. Me, you, everybody.

You seem like a deeply unpleasant person.

Oh I completely agree! I think it's mostly just that if they truly had perfect AGI, it would be odd to sell it so cheaply.
But those all need expertise and openAI and anthropic are claiming to be selling expertise in anything.
Re:Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:35PM (#50213464)
But you can make the branch public without committing to maintaining an experimental branch, this doesn't make sense.
Re:Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:34PM (#50213446)
Why though?
Re:Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:17AM (#50193452)
It's really a nitpick but putting a big, obvious AI generated slop photo at the top of your post is a signal for bad quality content. I would recommend to avoid doing it.
Re:Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:14AM (#50193436)
Do you have any evidence whatsoever that that score is accurate?
Re:Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:26PM (#50187133)
Why on earth should they be the arbitrer? Do people in SF understand how much the rest of the world despises them with this attitude?
Re:Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:02PM (#50186805)
I think people can't stand anthropic's pseudo humanism, it comes across as lying and fake. Altman and Zucc don't pretend to be heroes
Why waste so much space on a chart on whether "human experts preferred distributed-agent reports over single-agent reports"? I thought we were supposed to be curing alzheimer's and cancer!
>asset owners

Why do you think those assets are valuable?

>How many high-paying jobs today actually do anything that benefits the 'common man'?

I agree there's a lot of inequality and ridiculous pointless jobs, but the average person (in the developed world) still has access to a cornucopia of goods and services which they purchase.

An economy needs demand, it's not just dead capital.
>If our economy comes to rely on RSI-enabled AI, most people will simply have no place in any industry it touches.

Then there will be no economy. If anything, if we reach this level of economic automation, more people will have to find ways to occupy themselves and sparking joy through math might be the best way to go about it for some.

This is so fundamentally divorced from what we know about cognition in humans or in animals. The idea that we are a pure tabula rasa and only shaped by our "training data" is absurd and false. Just look at the amount of data we need to be able to do things relative to ML models. Look at animals which can do complex tasks moments after birth. We're deeply, deeply shaped by instinct.
Re:I built a programming language that LLMs can't use on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:00AM (#50150441)
Why are people so upset about this? It's an interesting way of bringing about a failure case in LLMs, that's interesting no?
Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:54AM (#50119116)
I'd rather have bike lines :(
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:34AM (#50084815)
More fixes could of course be downstream from more bugs
Re:State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:28AM (#49991255)
Are you saying that sampling bias is a fallacy?
Re:Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:00PM (#49980443)
The entire comment? Do you think it's plausible that we will be able to explain space travel to whales?
Re:Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:44AM (#49979295)
Have you ever heard of Clever Hans?
Re:Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:43AM (#49979283)
Nicaraguan sign language is evidence for an innate language capacity, not that it is an invented technology and certainly not evidence for Sapir Whorf.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:40AM (#49979249)
Norwegians, Danes, Swedes and Finns all use a different currency. Finns and Sicilians do share a currency though, but all these countries have different immigration policies and regulations. I don't think you really know how the EU works.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:36AM (#49979176)
>If Opus 13.5 can one-shot a profitable company

No company would ever release such a thing

Re:Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:43AM (#49977055)
My whole point is what we could communicate would be profoundly limited. It's like how we can communicate with dogs to a certain extent, but we're not telling them bedtime stories. The comment I responded to originally is fantasising an absurd degree of complexity in communication which is profoundly unrealistic.
Re:Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:25AM (#49976532)
I think you are very naïve about how complicated language is. I'm not saying animals lack any intelligence whatsoever, but I don't see how remembering faces means you'll be able to talk. The crows could just have acted hostile to the masked people in front of each other. Communicating is not the same thing as language which is vastly more expressive than any non-human animal is capable of.

Not everyone agrees that Neanderthals possessed language like us either, although evidently they are much, much closer evolutionarily to us than crows or whales, and it is vastly more plausible that they talked. Having Neanderthal DNA doesn't mean that we talked with them though, it needn't have been even consensual, unfortunately.

Re:Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:48AM (#49975917)
That is not going to happen. I don't know how people entertain these absurd ideas about animal communication.
Re:"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry" on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:16PM (#49970883)
You mentioned both performance and apps before I did.

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