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Which, IMO, is better than having swarms of cheap bombs flying around.

Taken to the extreme, I also prefer the current status quo vs. everyone having a nuclear-tipped ICBM, and would welcome a countermeasure if cheap ICBMs became a thing.

Browsing OpenAI's careers page, I'm seeing at most $275k for most positions, so I'm assuming the median is much lower than an average being pulled up by a few rockstar positions.

A lot of comments decrying new weapons tech, but I think drone defense tech is particularly critical right now and going to save a lot of lives. Put another way, I don't think we would be against new clothing that made bullets less effective, even if it remains terrible that such clothing is needed.

Especially as AI becomes better and cheaper and suicide drones become more nimble and autonomous. If you have seen any of the horrifying footage out of Ukraine you will understand how badly we need more effective and cheaper drone defense as soon as possible.

Not sure how to address this without just restating TFA. Not all change builds on existing knowledge, and sometimes it is so rapid that keeping up is difficult.

If anything I'd expect all these tools to be easier for new engineers to adopt, unburdened by how things were before.

I can sympathize with what the author is saying but I agree that "LLMs are not fun" is a pretty coarse statement that invites disagreement.

Yeah for anyone else (especially Mac and Linux users) who recently had this frustration thrust upon you: Go into VSCode settings and search for terminal integration > uncheck.

It would be justified if AI were actually the cause, but this article does nothing to prove that. The only "tech jobs" that can even demonstrate direct replacement are call-center type roles. Everything else is just loosely blamed on AI, which is a convenient scapegoat as billions of dollars of investment are redirected from hiring to building data centers.

No it's not. There is no shortage of tech problems to solve and there are no tech jobs that AI can do alone.

AI is sucking up investment and AI hype is making executives stupid. Hundreds of billions of dollars that used to go towards hiring is now going towards data centers. But AI is not doing tech jobs.

These headlines do nothing but increase the hype by pointing towards the wrong cause entirely.

Edit: You cannot square these headlines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289160

I love the idea of educating students on the math behind AI to demystify them. But I think it's a little weird to assert "AI is not magic and AI systems do not think. It’s just maths." Equivalent statements could be made about how human brains are not magic, just biology - yet I think we still think.

That ARC AGI score is a little suspicious. That's a really tough for AI benchmark. Curious if there were improvements to the test harness because that's a wild jump in general problem solving ability for an incremental update.

Well yeah? It's not about the font, it's about the pettiness of the declared reasons for the reversal

Yeah I mean... I take a lot of joy in the random yet specific faces in those places I visited long ago. It's an important part of the memory for me.

Okay maybe this one isn't an exaggeration when they say leap forward

IMO Google struggles to productize things, so they sit on great ideas a while or do the wrong thing with them, but OpenAI really showed the way and Google can probably take it from here.

So this has to be a meaningful PR for the open source repository? You can't just invent arbitrary coding challenges?

This seems like trying to get free code contributions with a weird sort of gambling mechanic attached.

It's not, just try it. You'll likely be underwhelmed because Cursor has more features, really.

Yeah I kind of agree. I think there's demand for an connector ecosystem because it's something we can understand and market, but I think it's the wrong paradigm

Booking.com is also just a terrible service. Their search is one of the better hotel search tools, but I stopped using them after they "lost" a booking but continued to charge me for it anyway. They denied it existed when I finally reached someone on the phone, despite the very real credit card charge. Only after I got my CC company to chargeback did they send me a cancellation notice.

Incompetence at that level feels like malice.

Yeah, there is definitely a huge gulf in subjective experiences, and even within the same user experience. There are days when Claude makes so many mistakes I can't believe I ever found it useful. Strange.

I've certainly seen Claude Code get into bad loops and make terrible decisions too, but usually it's a poor architectural decision or completely forgetting important context; not "let's rewrite V8 from scratch" level of absurdity.

> Codex will rewrite the entire V8 engine to break arithmetic.

This isn't an exaggeration either. Codex acts as if it is the last programmer on Earth and must accomplish its task at all costs. This is great for anyone content to treat it like a black box, but I am not content to do that. I want a collaborator with common sense, even if it means making mistakes or bad assumptions now and then.

I think it really does reflect a difference in how OpenAI and Anthropic see humanity's future with AI.

Or you can have a model with some semblance of common sense that will stop and say "Hey I can I have access to the network to do X?"

Codex feels like a tool designed to run after all the humans are gone.

Sigh. Time to try it again I guess. I give OpenAI way more chances than it deserves.

Absolutely contradictory. The long-running tendency for Codex is why I cannot understand the hype around it: if you bother to watch what it does and read its code the approaches it takes are absolutely horrifying. It would rather rewrite a TLS library from scratch than bother to ask you if the network is available.

It's manipulation that closed communities recognize and call out and will ultimately expel people for doing. But if you happen to be born into extreme wealth you have something people need and normal social consequences no longer have the same potence.

A recurring theme in reading about Thiel, Karp and their supporters is a sort of "kill or be killed" mentality - implied if not stated outright. Likewise I've seen people say things like "well the other side was doing X anyway, so we should do it to them". It's disturbing to watch how easily fear and anger can be wielded to justify anything. Future generations, if they are lucky enough to learn from us, may well identify our addiction to anger as the great sin of our time.

It's a revolution in subtle humor. Well done.

Thanks for this - it expresses something I've felt for a while. Solve too hard and you end up back at midnight.

> This is not just a ...

Dead giveaway