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I dont understand the point the OP is trying to make. And the distinction between white and blue collars is unclear in this context.
Are mathematicians also blue collar since it seems they are being replaced as well? Are electricians white collars then since they are not?
Is knowledge work the hallmark of the white collar? It doesn't seem to stand to scrutiny: being an electrician seems to require a lot of knowledge, whereas some managerial roles do not in some cases.
All in all this seems like a pretty pointless discussion to be having. One of those language games people like to play (are we stochastic parrots as well?) and that dont bring anything of substance to the debate of ideas.
I am surpised that a lof of folks are surprised that neural networks work that well. I mean, did they really expect that we wouldnt approximate the brain cognitive capabilities at some point as we scale up compute??
This is rather obvious to me, but apparently not to everyone. My guess is that a lot of tech people have an immature model of the universe, have not read a lot of scientific, philosophical and cognitive literature. Or have not really taken the time to think or are not interested on such topics because they would rather spend time thinking about the nitty gritty and mundane workings of the framework du jour.
You dont seem to understand what proof means. Human brain is made of matter, matter can be arranged to make a thing that reproduces human brain properties. What's the confusion here? I say its unscientific because it places the human brain beyond the scope of what can be operated on. Not having the knowledge or tech yet to achieve that is irrelevant since we have an existence proof.
Or you deeply suffer from normalcy bias. Not believing that AGI is possible is irrational and unscientific imo, the human brain exists, it is not made of magic, it can reproduced. It is as simple as that.
We can debate about timelines, architectures that may lead us there, etc... You can even talk all day long about definitions of AGI, and people waste their time doing that.
But saying that the human brain cognitive capabilities cannot be reproduced on other types of substrates is stupid at this point.
Who cares seriously? Its obvious in the repo that claude code is a contributor.
I dont have time to play these ego games and prefix everything with "AI wrote 90% of this codebase" instead "I built". I just thought this would be useful to share. If you dont think this is useful then dont use it, it's that simple...
Wow that was pretty passive agressive lol, sure you're probably right
Thank you, glad you liked it! Any suggestions for improvement welcome
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trebaud on Thursday June 11, 2026 @06:19PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/trebaud/diffcat
Built this github style git diff TUI, hope others find it useful. Very focused in scope compared to other existing tools. Includes a stats view showing contributors rank, AI agent usage and other useful stuff.
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trebaud on Friday December 15, 2023 @08:00PM
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trebaud on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @05:37PM
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