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What's the long term strategy WRT getting their grubby mitts on uncontaminated training data? Now that they've erased the incentives for publishing knowledge for free, i.e. the assumption your efforts will be rewarded with a few advertising dollars from visits, and they've established disincentives for publishing knowledge for free, i.e. having your site absolutely hammered by their disrespectful scrapers, what kind of internet are these slop merchants planning to subsist on? Someone gonna tell me reddit comments and Facebook posts?

Worth keeping in mind as one reads this is that News.com.au is pretty widely considered to be trash in Australia.

>I don't understand why a team that does 1-3 deploys a week is not fully automating with "proper" CI.

They don't either apparently

Can't think of a post I've seen that was in any way dubious or critical of AI that wasn't also flagged. HN is heavily biased toward AI.

>LLM’s are inherently non-deterministic.

I'm not an ML guy but I was curious about this recently. There is some parameter that can be tuned to produce determinism but currently it also produces worse results. Big [citation needed], but worth a google if it's of interest. Otherwise in agreement with your post.

As not to take up another top-level post: I am also quite bored of people sharing anything created with AI. I remember when I first saw the AI Jerry Seinfeld video; I was genuinely surprised/amused at what AI was capable of. It's all completely uninteresting now, though. I have friends (some in IT..) sending me scores that ChatGPT awarded them based on what ChatGPT 'thinks' their moral value is. It seems some are completely taken by the appearance of intelligence.

It has at least been interesting to me to reflect on how I can still appreciate media that humans make when I find AI media so repulsive. I did not think I cared so much about what was behind the picture or video I was watching, or that someone spent real effort to make something. To be honest I still don't understand it - maybe it's none of those things.

I hate hearing about it because it triggers some anxiety about my role (SE) changing to the point where it's not something I have any interest in. Producing software in the corporate world is absolutely soul draining; endless meetings, direction from fools, overheads like mandatory compliance/learning, all of the rituals that come and go because someone with authority read some garbage on LinkedIn. Besides pay, the only redeeming quality of the job is that for some part of the day, I get to just be inside my head, working on problems and coming up with solutions. Sometimes a few of us team up and we figure things out together. The software is the fun and rewarding bit.

If AI lives up to its hype, which is a whole other subject, then I expect to see the two things I like about my job vanishing quickly - the pay, and the problem solving.

>It’s the same thing as an assembly programmer saying that OOP programmers don’t learn from OOP coding.

Not the same. Whether you are writing Assembly or Java, you have to determine and express your intent with high accuracy - that is a learned skill. Providing problem details to an LLM until it produces something that looks correct is not the same type of skill.

If that is the skill that the business world demands in 5 years, so be it, but arguing that it's simply the next step in the Assembly, C, Java progression makes no sense.

That's simply consumption and is by no means a stand-in for actual problem solving and learning.

Are you me? I am an SE in a bank and I had this exact experience this week - though it relates to authing with the online banking system.

As I see it, it's an unfortunate combination of an extremely risk-averse environment, a total lack of trust in their IT staff, and - if I can be pointed - unqualified product teams. I can explain the the inadvertent drop from 2FA to 1FA, I can back it up with NIST, OWASP and Gov references explaining why it's a bad idea, but I am simply ignored because they are bent on execution of their 'vision'. At this point, I raise my concerns just to have my biases confirmed.

It's really frustrating and obviously as a banking customer I want sensible security features too, but if I can generalise, we devs are not driving the bus. We're stuffed in the luggage compartment, wheeled out as necessary.

Relax, it's just some 24yo edgelord discovering a world exists outside what they learned at React Bootcamp and turning against The Frameworks to feel clever.

This is the exact attitude that has killed SO.

This absolutely reeks of privilege

Point out where I said "just complaining".

Kind of ironic that TFA came after their previous piece.

>I Literally Don’t Know

>TL;DR: You don’t need to pick my brain, or probably anyone’s brain, for general life advice. It won’t help.

Overall the Optimism piece is just long-form LinkedIn garbage. What insights does it present? Complaining bad, optimism good, not all complaining is bad, but complaining is mostly bad? OK..

Improvements rarely start with "I'm satisfied with this". Writing off complaining because one conflates complaining with misery is silly.

Suppose Bezos burns 80% of his net worth playing with his willy in his garage and decides to wrap it up. He goes straight back to his cushy HF job, 3 years behind in his career if he can't manage to market his experience as some kind of lofty journey landing him a better role than when he left. Let's not pretend it was brave - he had the foundations to take the risks and still come out just fine.

>If you think your workers and colleagues are too stupid to recognize good tools that will help them do their jobs better, then... you are a bad leader and should step down. Because you've created a broken culture.

This person has seemingly never worked with the kinds of tech people who are happy to point and click their way through their career, rarely taking an interest in automation or a deeper understanding of the tools they use every day. I won't say all of them are stupid, but certainly some of them are.

>What's to stop any malicious actor from posting these same comments?

Nothing, but that is missing the broader point. AI allows a malicious actor to do this at a scale and quality that multiplies the impact and damage. Your question is akin to "nukes? Who cares, guns can kill people too"

You know brand new accounts are highlighted green, right?

That's such an overtly bad characterisation of Vim editing that I can't take your reply seriously.

Here come the "[..] anyway I'm happy with VSCode" comments

Appreciate your perspective, and it makes me wish there was some kind of online 'engineers learning from their mistakes' forum (rare to see "I burned myself"). To hear hard won knowledge distilled like this is a nice reminder to spend ones complexity budget wisely.

How about: IIPTWNIRTIoSoDIQMBSNRTL

(It Is Probable That While Not Immediately Required The Implementation of Storage of Data In Question May Be Simpler Now Rather Than Later)

I've gone ahead and included additional detail in the acronym in the event that the clarity is required later, as this would be difficult to retrofit into a shorter, more-established acronym.

I'm worried about AI changing the shape of my job to the point of it being unstimulating and soul sucking. I enjoy the challenges, solving problems, achieving what others (peers) tried and failed to. Knowing that continuing to develop these skills also keeps my mind sharp is motivating, too. If I lose that, this is just a boring corporate role among dullards.

If one of the idiots in my reporting line decides AI should be mandated (e.g. Shopify dunce), that's the end for me. I have no interest in being spoonfed by a chatbot and being accountable for it.

Don't be so shallow! These robots allow them to focus more on animal care! They said so, so it's true.

Seems telling that an org had arguably the leading AI, as the planet knows it at least, and still can't exist without putting ads in front of eyes. So much for the hype.

Yes, Andrew Huberman infiltrated the World Health Organisation and convinced them to lie about safe levels of alcohol consumption.

You start by saying it's logical thinking that is a SE's value and then close by suggesting learning how to offload that logical thinking to AI is a 'skill'. Bizarre.

Can't wait to hear the inevitable slurs people will create to refer to heavy AI users and staunch AI avoiders.

It's just self congratulatory bullshit that, like you have pointed out, doesn't stand up to 8 seconds of actual thought.

"We only hire the best"

-> "I'm judging who is best"

-> "I must be pretty good then"