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"wait, not THAT autonomous software!"

> I have doubts that this is suitable as a generalized statement like that.

I had doubts too, but it is in ALL CAPS so it must be true?

"Our pledge - for every dollar you invest, 10 cents of that goes directly to wiping out every person on the planet"

there is: https://news.ycombinator.com/

> If a system is perturbed, it may come to rest at a different equilibrium that is much less desirable.

That's exactly how we got humans rather than the objectively better rulers of the planet, the dinosaurs.

Obviously the narrative will be AI CLI impact but the quality of IntelliJ has taken such a nose dive that I was already looking for alternatives before Claude Code took over the world. IJ used to be one of my most respected pieces of software, it was solid, performant, and the new features were generally thoughtful and well done. That started changing around 2022 and the IDE has been driving the wrong way down a one way street since.

> they all have nukes in space sitting over each other's countries waiting to drop.

The Nukes of Damocles

welcome to 2024, Siri

Can I pay $1,000 and just take one of the smaller halves?

> The internet becomes an unnavigable swamp of weaponized nonsense for average humans.

turns out we didn't even need AI for that

> That's both cool and fast.

and probably a barely modified knock-off of some github project that it trained on

Me: Shoot me in the face, @cringebot

Cringebot: :salute: on it!

> no one is going to be willing to make the massive investments necessary to continue pushing the scale frontier.

that sounds great to me. anything that slows down the pace and gives us a chance to prepare for, at best, massive job displacement, and at worst, robots turning us all into paperclips.

"your mom, because she's..."

a lovely lady.

Social media and nearly all news articles covering the past decade or so have made me want to forget how to read entirely.

at least we have that in common

> This is the bed they made and now they, too, have to sleep in it.

How will they sleep at night on that giant pile money.

some vague hint about what the article is about before clicking on it would be.. nice.

"Remember the good old days of Windows 2k's UI?" is not something I thought I'd ever say.

> What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

users

It is more impactful to me to instead think of it like this: Elon Musk's net worth is roughly 1 million times the median American's. So Elon "earned" as much as the combined life savings of a city roughly the size of Houston or Phoenix.

> What's a 20% productivity gain if I constantly feel deflated by work that used to energize me?

I think it's called 'capitalism'

> I didnt read the article cause this seems like a prime example of that so someone can correct me if I’m wrong

if only there were some kind of magical universal summarizer you could use..

> today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did from 2021-2025.

strongest argument for token limits that I can think of, right here.

> I know some people who are adamantly against solar and wind

Yes, down with Big Sun

> "if he doesn't do it, another engineer will do it. Might as well take the money".

You should introduce your friend to Kant. He’s taken a situational excuse and turned it into a general principle: ‘If someone else would do it anyway, it’s okay for me to do it.’

It's kinda like.. Kant's whole 'thing'.

don't forget to let them vote.. "algorithms are people too"

sounds like you need an AsshoLLM to sit between you and Claude to translate.

> Maybe some money to be made?

In the same way that there is money to be made by entering a poker tournament, yes.

> As long as he didn't place any bets, I think what he did is totally fine.

you might need to take your imagination and critical thinking out for a spin if you can't see where this leads.