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barbazoo··on Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro
One must not say something is "best"?
barbazoo··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
From outside it seems that Ukraine is not really given a choice right now but to defend itself. I wish for a soon end to the war so your beautiful country can prosper again and your people can start healing.
barbazoo··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
Username checks out and thank you for writing out my own feelings better than I ever could have, even with AI.
barbazoo··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
Totally, I can't quite imagine an AI automating my use of AI tough, how it would infer what prompt I would use at any given time, the problem space is infinite. Am I adding another *arr app to my stack, are we building a SPA, a home automation plugin, whatever. These are things that I want to do and AI helps with that.

In the corporate setting I think though it won't take a lot of time to reduce the layers and number of people that are required to run a software company. Either one becomes a more general work manager or obsolete I guess.

barbazoo··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
> People who hated coding, technology, problem solving and only were in it for the money love managing a bunch of agents.

Why do they have to hate coding, technology and problem solving, that makes no sense. They just use coding agents to write the code for them to use technology and solve problem.

barbazoo··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
Let's be honest though, maybe "in the same way it's no longer feasible for tailors to spin their own yarn and weave their own cloth".
barbazoo··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
> Everyone in SWE is experiencing this.

Obviously this is not true for every SWE. A lot of people feel liberated now that the burden of actually writing the code is being replaced by molding it through the interaction with AI. I see people that struggle because they've identified with the writing code part a lot and that's gone now that the machine is doing it, I bet that's hard.

barbazoo··on How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?
Would thee agent do it in a way that's hard to trace back to the individual too maybe. That'd be helpful.
barbazoo··on British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled
Or heaven forbid even communicating with the other human directly.
barbazoo··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
I don't see this kind of behavior myself, I wonder if it's me not pushing the boundaries enough or me explicitly or implicitly framing the prompt in a way that makes it less likely for the agent to intervene.
barbazoo··on Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study
The behavior you're describing has already brought us close to the planetary boundaries of our own existence in the last century or two. Plenty of second order effects to our actions.
barbazoo··on Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study
"killing all", can't imagine anything going wrong here at all, nope.
barbazoo··on Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study
I wish us humans adapted quicker to the realization that our food systems aren't sustainable for the planet.
barbazoo··on The evolution of effective altruism
Maybe if you consider the wealth of the in group vs out group. It makes more sense to me that way. Scary how few people it might need to keep the world from moving forward.
barbazoo··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
I see a lot of myself in this.
barbazoo··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
What about before? When and why did we stop caring I wonder.
barbazoo··on Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
I'm assuming they still use AI to find vulnerabilities, just not fix them?
barbazoo··on Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo
Could this be a feedback loop problem? I gave mine a script to render the object from all sides and it makes it more likely for it to avoid attacking of mistake.
barbazoo··on Ask HN: Do you procrastinate less when coding with AI?
The empty page problem is almost gone for me. Now I can chat casually about something and get eased into solving the actual problem.

Now I often feel burned out from constantly getting everything instantly.

barbazoo··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Are you afraid to use the word "genocide"? Just curious.
barbazoo··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
I think this is temporary and related to crop failures when a lot of BC berries froze. AFAIK they grow their own grapes otherwise. Who knows for how much longer and if the climate will allow growing grapes sustainably at all in those places.
barbazoo··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
Now we know where the "rogue" AI agents got the ideas from.
barbazoo··on The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
> The code was stamped by Claude driven by a prompt. The prompt was for a ticket generated with the Atlassian AI integration. Atlassian had digested docs made with AI. The docs came from strategy memos I'm 90% sure were written entirely by Claude

Was there never a developer in the loop? I hope my org won't give up control of their business to an AI like this soon, sounds like a nightmare to figure out what's going on.

barbazoo··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Careless people, the book talks about it too.
barbazoo··on SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]
> The uploader has not made this video available in your country

Copyright is another threat to humanity.

barbazoo··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Sorry no I didn't mean to judge, it's like you said, everyone has a different requirement. One should have control which is something the billionaires don't want to give away.
barbazoo··on The Economics of Open-Weight Inference
For chat I can see, less so for LLM use in automation for example, there it makes much less of a difference I can imagine.
barbazoo··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
This and the soccer schedule internet blocking, the government just completely taken over by IP lobbyists?
barbazoo··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Funny, autoplay functionality is exactly why I don't let my kid watch those.
barbazoo··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
I'm on GrapheneOS and I will never go back to Google Android or iOS. The amount of control you get is just liberating. I hope Google doesn't crush them.
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