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> majority of meat is used purely for entertainment

Source of that inane statement?

yeah people should just accept starting to feed on AI slop for sustenance instead of actual food! How dare they have a preference
Not OP but for me it comes down to "asking a person" ≠ "asking a device". Besides just to be pedantic one of the thing you've described is not something an llm would be able to do, and for the second one... That's what watches and clocks are for. You don't need to have a datacenter running smwh in the world or a beefy PC to take a glance at the time. If you think you do, I personally wouldn't call others "a little strange" if I were you.
Asinine comments such at these is the reason why we have countries having to sound an alarm in the first place
Re:OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill on Sunday February 22, 2026 @05:11AM (#47109829)
Agree. Also what upsets me the most is that to a great extent, all of these antics he pulls out are largely ignored by its userbase, meaning that most of the people using OpenAI products are either ignoring or ignorant altogether of what he truly thinks of them. I'm not advocating for stopping GenAI usage because of this, but considering there are several equivalent competitors out there, it'd be mostly warranted to boycott OpenAI for these exact reason.

Otherwise the message that remains in the eye of these ghouls is that no matter how much you treat the world population as annoying cattle, they'll gobble it up in exchange for restaurant suggestions and rageslop

Re:Ask HN: Transition away from embedded SWE due to AI? on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:47AM (#46527725)
Yep that's true, on the other hand the trend I've been seeing in the last months is worrying me, in that the company I'm working for and other adjacent ones, the focus is to hand off the development to "managed agents" or whatever, relegating embedded engineers to basically just V&V or QA. The increase in crap code has been duly reported by employees such as me and promptly discarded, considered just FUD by upper management

Ask HN: Transition away from embedded SWE due to AI?

Hi all,as the title suggests, I've been increasingly worried about the current trends in replacing all sorts of SWE with agentic coding, and would like to shield myself (as I'm sure everyone would...) from the upcoming changes in my career field.I do mainly embedded work, so microcontrollers and -processors with RTOSes and baremetal. I've always been very passionate about this field, so much so...

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Re:I'm Just Having Fun on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:35AM (#46353348)
oh okay, I shouldn't have judged that so haphazardly. thx for the references
Re:I'm Just Having Fun on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:55AM (#46352737)
imho it was definitely popular before and altman adopted it to fit in with the online crowd
Re:America's Semiconductor Boom is Real [video] on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:03AM (#45614942)
he's started making videos way before LLMs were able to aid in researching content. He's just good at doing what he does, no tricks there.
They just know it's not going to happen
Re:Made for People, Not Cars: Reclaiming European Cities on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:07AM (#45197927)
Not the best counterpoint to the argument IMHO, especially considering there are tens/hundred of thousand of people that do the same as you, and that has only driven rent cost up in the extended Milan metropolitan area, even 30-40 km further away from the city, and with roads that are not nearly capable enough to carry commuters' traffic, it just transforms the underlying issues into massive, daily traffic jams anywhere in the immediate area
Re:Disaster awaits if we don't secure IoT now on Monday June 02, 2025 @02:37PM (#44161703)
What about EU's CRA?
Re:A Research Preview of Codex on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:09AM (#44030120)
If that someone then takes that work that you're providing for free to other people to build on it, makes a closed source product out of it and gives you no attribution, then you can be darn well sure I want to protect it.
Re:Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @08:42AM (#43914904)
that does not answer at all OP's question.
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash on Friday April 18, 2025 @03:35AM (#43725883)
that is not what OP was talking about though.
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash on Friday April 18, 2025 @02:43AM (#43725614)
I hope you're being sarcastic. SPC is necessary because mechanical parts have physical tolerances and manufacturing processes are affected by unavoidable statistical variations; it is beyond idiotic to be provided with a machine that can execute deterministic, repeatable processes and then throw that all into the gutter for mere convenience, justifying that simply because "the time is ripe for SWE to learn statistics"
Re:Googler... ex-Googler on Monday April 14, 2025 @01:56AM (#43678451)
Nor is sticking your head in the sand.
not just the members states but also all the other behemoths stakeholders like Airbus, Thales, OHB and so on, which need to make sure that new missions are as easy to adapt to their preexisting flight heritage as possible
lol you don't know the half of it. Working with ESA for anything but the most trivial project is beyond frustrating; it's basically 99% about producing swathes of documentation, which in itself is more akin to philosophy and semantic dissertations over obscure standards than actual technical work.

ESA is so risk averse that it's even weird for a space company

Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured on Friday April 11, 2025 @04:36AM (#43651626)
Lol, i hadn't even checked the status (or existence, even) of ST's US factories. I've just known the company for a good amount of years having worked with their products for several projects and thus already knew that the biggest portion of their factories and offices is spread across France and Italy (whence their venture originally started from), so to present it as a Swiss company just underlined a very poor knowledge of the topic IMHO
Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured on Friday April 11, 2025 @02:51AM (#43651166)
"[...] chip sets that are like ST Micro [a Swiss company with American factories]"

I guess that if Ford moved their HQ in DRC, it would be called a Congolese company with American factories, too?

Thanks I suppose
Yeah sucks and that's why I'm so reluctant to risk staying, because in the worst case I'll be having to stay a full year where I would have otherwise just stayed 6 months and a day
> Are they organized enough to have good oversight and fire people who aren't keeping up with their work?

In that there exists a CEO, CTO, and a manager above me who all can get reports from my peers? Yes. Do they care about the project or my role in it? No they have bigger fishes to fry. PM and project leader couldn't care less about my satisfaction but they sure as hell won't like it when they ask my team to provide statements that make no sense or technical decisions which we know are senseless but that will make their life easier. Can we refuse to comply? No.

> Why not? Who's stopping you and what's the consequence of doing this?

PM that asks me to do A in way X is sure as hell not going to like me doing B as Y, and it doesn't matter whether B>A in terms of quality/performance/whatever or Y>X in terms of efficiency/scalability/whatever, because they had A|X in mind and need to check some boxes.

Mind you everyone in my team is aware of that; they simply can't do otherwise, because ownership of these kind of decisions is discouraged and when it isn't, everything is thrown to the gutter for the nth time that PM changes and requirements have to be remade from scratch.

I don't think I can do either in my current position.

> either get by doing hardly anything

I have no interest in doing that, plus it would be unfair to those who may depending on whatever (little) work of interest I can accomplish as of now and would antagonize my team members.

> you can do anything you want

Lack of supervisors != lack of project and organizational perimeters in this case. I can't just start working on whatever I want by leaving the daily responsibilities behind, despite how clueless everyone seems to be regarding those, nor can I just take any decision I'm confronted with on a whim.

> Are you sure that you would be "forced" to wait 6 months?

You're right, I'm still not sure about that. It's just been my experience so far (i.e. that of the employer requesting to oblige the notice period in full when leaving past jobs).

> I understand that feeling, I started with a messy startup and followed into a toxic one. Now I am in a healthy environment that I didn't know could exist! I just want to tell you that there is hope, it exists! Keep looking.

Pretty close to my own experience then, except for an extremely messy corp in between :P I'm glad it worked out for you!! Gives me hope to find something better myself :)

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