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Yes me too! I used to have back problems all the time, sometimes it would give out for no reason and I'm stuck in bed for a week. I started lifting from nothing, just the 45lb barbell, using a simple program called Stronglifts. That was probably 10 years ago, I have had some ups and downs of course, but overall my back has been solid since.

I work for a company with every AI tool imaginable. It's quite dystopian. Emails are flying back and forth with detailed AI analysis which is responded to with a copy and pasted response from another AI. And it's 95% noise. It begs the question of why people are even sending the emails anymore.

From the programming standpoint, it seems like the devs who honed their skills without AI being available to them are the most capable and productive at using it. But we are downsizing to increase spend on tokens, sales people are building apps that are nothing more than untested PoCs and asking how to deploy it into production, our executives believe the technology is some kind of magic...

I hope someday to hire some young developers again, when that day comes: thanks for your efforts getting them ready.

Absolutely, much harder to describe what I want the software to do in English than logical programming language, and then add to that the time taken to understand the code and make sure it does what was intended. Perhaps the worst part, takes the joy out of it all.

It is nice as a tool to help solve some hairy stuff sometimes.

Yep, I am surprised by this whole vibe coding phenomenon. I find it imprecise, and I have to very carefully translate what I want into English, a very imprecise language with a lot of nuance. Either I spend a lot of time coming up with a good prompt, or I iterate with the AI (both of which I find take away from the joy of programming). I joke that we need some sort of logical language which we can write for the computer to understand...

I do like AI as a tool, it's great at a lot of things, but it not the panacea that so many believe, especially CEOs unfortunately.

My favorite things about the Tabs vs. Space war is that you can't even reference it without igniting it.

he only drinks Tab.

and plywood is probably the material of choice for cabinet boxes, straight, strong, not prone to warping, etc. Actually, seems crazy to use nice wood where it won't be seen.

Elimination of the incentives is the correct solution, yet solving the problem correctly is often harder and more time consuming than just saying you solved it. These raids are public and chaotic and easy, and then you can just claim to have solved the problem, which works just fine for them. You see, politically, the incentives are not to solve the problem because we believe the lies they tell.

I agree with you, while it is complicated, news organizations should and are reporting the facts (we are discussing them here). I think some people in "media" are probably using hot-button adjectives to get at Trump, and to his discredit it seems to be working.

Dang hello, me too. I recently became tech lead at our fintech co, and the few days a month I get to code is like vacation for my mind. I still remember the good ol' days where nobody talked to me and I solved problems all day long.

Yea, it's really the opposite of the stated desired effect, small businesses will go under or not even start, while Target and Walmart afforded to pre-stock their warehouses to ride the wave as best they can. Amazon already informed suppliers they "won't be accepting price increases". So we will all just be working for the big box stores and nobody will be living the American Dream of starting their own company.

And, since this is all really just chaos without a plan, what happens when replacement suppliers don't spring up all over the USA?

2 years ago my eFile was rejected because one of my dependents was already claimed. I have 3 dependents, and they offered no way for me to figure out what happened. The internet told me to file a fraud claim with the government and send that to the IRS, which I did and received no response. I had to print and send my taxes that year. They cashed my check immediately, and about 9 months later I was able to log in and see that I owed 0. That was it. I suspect they did nothing, but future returns were eFiled just fine.

prediction: Prompt engineering will get so complicated. There will be a movement towards somehow telling the computer exactly what to do using a logical language of some sort.

I think that's a good analogy. We use on-prem co-pilot and it works pretty good. I find it more useful exploring problems or debugging than I do at using it to make code.

This is a great point. This mocked test, easy to literally click a button, look like you did something good, but potentially add massive negative value when the code fails but the tests all pass. It can be a very helpful tool, but you need to understand the code it produces, and it seems like people are missing that point.

We get to check a box on what AI we use when we close a ticket. I used to select "none" because most of the time that was the case, sometimes I would pick one if I used it to build some scaffolding or explore some performance issue.

But then we started having AI demos with the CTO where the presenters would say things like "I don't know how to code in python but now I don't need to! yay!" and the C level people would be very excited about this. That's when I realized that these poor developers who just want to brown nose and show off to big cheese are instead making an argument for their own demise.

Meanwhile I asked AI to make me a test and it mocked out everything I wanted to test, testing nothing, but passing. I wonder how much of these kinds of tests we have now...

It is saying something that Biden did not roll back some of Trump 45's tariffs (maybe related to chips?) on China when he took over in 2020. I agree with you; some thoughtful strategic tariffs could have produced good things.

Also, if fixing trade imbalances is the purpose of these tariffs, that brings into question the constitutionality of this. I know nothing matters anymore, but how quickly he forgets to say "fentanyl" when justifying these. Presumably, even if people supported this tariff strategy, they might still disagree that the president should be the one doing it.

Yes, this is what I was saying.

Remember we are imposing the tariffs on an emergency basis because of fentanyl crossing the border. Even though everyone, even our mastermind president can't even play along with his own rouse; saying things like he wants manufacturing to move to the US or Canada becoming state 51 to avoid tariffs. There are no more rules anymore.

Best source I've found for exactly what this is was reddit, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/1izjg2m/starlinkverizo... for a system called FENS here: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/cinp/fens

amazing that there's an article about it, thanks haha! Maybe we are the weird ones?

I know some guys who order water with no ice, honestly, I think it's weird, should I report them?

Interestingly my wife is offered O365 online as part of her Master's school as a way to write research papers. When she submits them in canvas, it cannot link to the document she wrote online, so it must be downloaded to her laptop which is a Mac. When that happens the only way to look at it is in our personal version of Word, locally, which distorts quite a bit of things, losing indention or adding spaces is common. It was surprising to me that a docx file is rendered so differently between the 2. This is a common problem for the professors it seems as they are asking people to download the docs to personal office apps and export them to PDF, negating the entire purpose of O365 online that they provided...

Often misattributed to Mark Twain but actually from Clarence Darrow, a lawyer I've never heard of: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasu....

I'm late in reply but live in OK. We are the top wind energy producer in the country, at least we were in the recent past. We have A LOT of wind. It's a huge boom for our state which is historically mentioned along with Oil and Gas.

I've not heard a word in opposition to this. It's sad to me that there seems to be reality on the ground and political reality, and they aren't the same thing.

Classic trick. As a recent dev turned manager, these are the kind of things I've had a hard time learning.

Thanks, I've been ignoring it since, for the most part, except for a few things just to be aware. I've been studying concepts more deeply now, no more info from tweets: "tariffs good" or "tariffs bad".

I appricate your response, don't know if you will see this. On one hand I like HN because comments do not turn into fights, but on the other hand, I check the comments every few weeks and I miss stuff like this.

Best.

I partially agree with you. There is probably a fuzzy line somewhere in between, but reasonable people on either side of it should be able to discuss their disagreements without resorting to canceling each other. However, the challenge arises when dealing with those who lie to manipulate. This isn’t about differing opinions; it’s about the integrity of the discourse. Tolerating such behavior only gives credence to falsehoods, hence "paradox".

I agree free speech must be protected, whatever it is, but it doesn’t mean we should accept manipulation and deceit. The goal should be to foster genuine dialogue, not to create echo chambers or allow harmful lies to spread unchecked.

This is called the Paradox of Tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Essentially you should be tolerant of others, unless they themselves are intolerant.