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Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:49PM (#50309250)
> The atrophying skill is one you don't need anymore.

of course. who needs to walk when we have cars

Yep, Dems are just the good cop to the bad cop. And their only purpose is to placate the country into thinking we’re not 100% owned by billionaires and corporate interests.
Oh they understand it. They just can’t pass up the opportunity to make massive amounts of money and increase their power by fragmenting western society
Yeah for sure very creepy. Like I stepped in some alternate HN universe
Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:47PM (#50134999)
And rolling back changes
Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:38PM (#50133172)
It’s optimized for emotional reaction instead of communication
Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:28PM (#50133085)
a cruel destiny for humanity.

Controlled by increasingly unfeeling, sociopathic masters, who grow more and more in power. And now also do not age or get sick.

The power those at the top hold far exceeds any king or emperor throughout humanities history.

Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:38AM (#50132039)
Detecting what is AI and what is good writing is easier than ever now that the AI common speech patterns are established. Reading a well written piece it’s like walking through the park on a beautiful day in comparison to dragging your legs through quicksand
They won the power also
Yeah I wouldn’t be so happy about that. He’s that dumb because he was chosen for the dumbness and plausible deniability

There are much more incidious actors behind the scenes doing corruption at levels we can’t fathom whole Donald is the blunt force tool absorbing all the attention and negative press with his goofy corruption

Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:55PM (#49997997)
That’s the plan for … capitalism

Buckle up boys

Re:I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:33PM (#49983697)
the economy has mathematically gotten better yes.

economic _hope_ is at its worst in the entire history of the human civilization. At what point did the future for the average person, look so bleak? And

that hope is what dictactes wether people have children.

Even during the great depression, people were more hopeful that the earth isnt completely hosed.

Does anyone honestly feel like _any_ improvements are possible to: our economic systems, political systems, environment? I certainly dont.

Re:I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:10PM (#49983382)
if anything modern humans' most emergent quality is their inability to deal with any serious problem.

We're just going to pretend it doesnt exist until it kills us. and some will try to profit from it.

Re:AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:06PM (#49983332)
a human has motivation and agency.

An "AI" is a box which lies dormant until a human, with motivation and agency, enters a prompt into it.

A person or company can use it in a way where it might invent something. but at the end of the day, its a tool, and its actually not doing anything on its own.

Its not solving math problems, a mathetmatician is using it to solve math problems. Just cus OpenAI is acting like its AI is solving stuff, its really not. They're just paying people to use AI to hammer problems.

Re:Accountability mechanisms can be joyful on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:15AM (#49977967)
Personally I don’t want to see any image generated by AI as it is just all fluff and adds no value. A simple text saying you did the thing would be sufficient
Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:51PM (#49862555)
US Based big tech is skewing your perception. real world economies dont revolve around social media entertainment and ad serving mechanisms.

Take those out of what US "builds" and Us doesnt look very exceptional

Re:First Principles Thinking on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:35PM (#49851501)
seriously? i truly hope this is not a common mentality in organizations these days.

I'd be sad working with someone who approached their work like this.

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:02PM (#49806415)
I imagine some terrorists in a cave with a lenovo laptop manufacturing bio weapons with some flasks and Claude
Re:Grok 4.7 on Monday September 21, 2026 @05:14PM (#49793531)
Reality cannot be reduced to tokens
Re:Don't Use AI to Write on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:31AM (#49788585)
You will NEVER be a good to great writer if you use AI to seed your writing and then edit it.

_Everything_ AI generates, is generalized slop. All of your ideas will be boring and derivative. Mediocre writers will be improved, but the best would only have their ability to think dulled.

Just think through it from the perspective that AI is generating art for you instead of writing. What would all art look like if good artists used it for ideas and "edited" it? It would look like generic, derivative shit. A perpetual crutch that the person can never abandon.

Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:55PM (#49757880)
hard to believe anyone who writes something this overwhelmingly positive.

I use a ton of AI, it writes a shit load of code for me, and I eventually get good results.

Its also goes off on ridiculous tangents, implements things i dont want, over engineers almost everything. Makes large code bases convoluted and unreadable. Yes humans also do that, LLMs do it a lot faster.

> Now, with AI coding, I can implement any decent sized feature, exactly how I want, in a few hours and it's all polished and ready, all edge cases handled.

No way a human wrote that, sounds like a late night TV advertisement.

LLMs can’t trade effectively. there is too much data and A moves too fast and there’s too much context. A small mistake would destroy an account.
Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:02AM (#49755389)
This does not get to the core of it, LLMs are not equivalent to cars.

All of your analogies (in other posts) discount that: - LLMs are not deterministic - they do not produce high quality/expert level output. - They are not easy to control consistently.

Once again, and i mean this in the nicest way possible. You do not sound like you understand how things operate at an expert level of engineering. I do not know of any senior engineer who thinks LLMs can consistently produce quality output.

You are way too invested in your argument and refusing to see other perspectives

Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:21PM (#49748088)
I dont know how you can work in this discipline, use AI, and also ask that question.

almost every developer i know is fully aware, we are degrading every aspect of our skills.

The code writing, code reviewing, code understanding.

The more "time" passes and the more the code base grows, the more disconnected we become.

Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:51PM (#49735498)
> I think it's like 2000 calories in a single burger

that would be pretty cool, you can just get your entire day's calories from one burger

Re:Neo Emacs – Emacs from the Future on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:30PM (#49703487)
I just cant imagine anything vibe coded being maintained for more than a few months.

The moment random bugs start hitting and fixing the bugs starts breaking other things, no one is going to want to contribute.

Its all going to devolve into a slop fest that takes more and more effort to make incremental progress

Re:What will our economic future look like? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:42AM (#49628412)
Class war started about 15 years ago post 2007 financial crisis.

The banks and those who control them all knew where we are headed, so they got a little head start destabilizing democracy.

Once us working class get a grasp of the actual situation, we are going to be so deep in the hole, fighting back is going to be quite difficult when the "asset owners" own and control the majority of the worlds resources, all media, forms of communication, AI, technology infrastructure, mass surveillance. You name it, and they have already made massive efforts to make sure they own it.

Re:The turbulent AI era is here on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:58PM (#49474185)
A rich people only economy.
We are in a different phase of Capitalism, real interest rates will be kept low mechanically. Nominal Inflation rate will always be lied about. Bonds holders will lose value by design.

The governments and central banks across the world have no other choice. Corporations and big money have robbed our world of capital and are now changing the game to pull up the ladder behind them

Re:Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:17PM (#49382482)
There are no "best" prompts. Its a random BS generation machine that you can at times direct enough to get stuff done for you. The output will almost always have varying levels of BS that you have to clean up with various levels of effort.

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