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I know we're supposed to assume good faith comments here on HN, but god damn...

It's like being a contender in the Jordan age, but this is arguably worse because of Carlson's longevity.

you couldn't have missed GP's point any more if you tried. ignoring the ad-hominems about SWE greed:

these tools have been trained on decades of people "obsessing over every last detail". what GP is arguing is that we're detaching from that: you prompt, you get something that works, it doesn't matter how it got there. we're now entering the world where the majority of code will be vibed. So whatever our foredevelopers came up with, that will be the the final chapter of craftsman-produced, understood, code. whatever the previous generation actually learned about software engineering, that's at an end too, because why bother learning when i can prompt.

there's no stopping this transition, obviously. the next generation of tools will be trained on the current generation of tools' generated code. we're passed the "termination shock" of sofwtare understanding.

What shit did he talk about the team's leader? "That project is going to fail" is talking shit? Nothing could be more objective than that.

Yuck. I don't know if it's just me, but something feels completely off about the GH issue tracker. I don't know if it's the spacing, the formatting, or what, but each time it feels like it's actively trying to shoo me away.

It's whatever the visual language equivalent of "low signal" is.

Veritassium is in a league of its own. Just take a look at their last year's videos. The production value is just second to none.

They have enough of a following now that they can dedicate 55 minutes to something and not worry about the algorithm, which usually dictates much shorter form factors

Except for the decades of experiments yielding validated predictions?

Yes, we should abandon the practice of journalism, and replace it with... checks notes... some conspiracy theories from substack.

so like 12.5 million a year? what an incredible self-own.

aside from that, this number is meaningless without context: how much do other fields of research get?

> Germans work 400 hours a year less than Americans, and they celebrate that. Good luck.

Yes, everyone everywhere should endeavor to... checks notes... work the maximum number of hours in a year.

This is my experience. For rote generation, it's great, saves me from typing out the same boilerplate unit test bootstrap, or refactoring something that exists, etc.

Any time I try to get a novel insight, it flails wildly, and nothing of value comes out. And yes, I am prompting incrementally and building up slowly.

Oh my god, I remember doing this technique on my lock, I remember doing this in the early BBS days, I remember learning this from a short text file. I'm 80% sure it was this file!

Thanks for unlocking this memory for me!

But, what about the graduating senior who, yeah started because they love the craft, but also need a way to pay the bills for a few decades of their life?

Gp is saying their primary expertise is advertising. It's hard to watch any apple announcement and not notice how utterly hyperbolic they are at touting their own achievements.

Ya sure, you can say that every company must do that, but apple are exceptional at it. Once you start noticing the unlabeled performance charts, the missing baselines, the comparing with ages old models, the disingenuous "86x" metrics, the whole show becomes cringe worthy.

Out of the loop, why not?

It's super exciting when it does happen, just from the rarity aspect. Here's one: https://youtu.be/z6jKBaVSOLw

It says that there's funding, which goes much further than hobbyists could.

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but keychron make split keyboards:

https://www.keychron.com/collections/split-keyboards

I'm not sure if they're in stock, but it's a lovely keyboard with dead simple programmability.

Alienate half your audience? That doesn't compute. Kimmel was not watched by that half already.

Recently in that exact situation.

Junior dev vibe codes some slop to solve a problem that was barely a problem. The "solution" to that not-a-problem was 2500 lines of slop. Unused variables, spaghetti logic, unit tests that were clearly write-once, read-never.

The slop at that point is the meta-problem, the real problem becomes me trying to convince (through multiple rounds of code review) that this was not maintainable code, and not a tenable development model.

All those rounds of review take TIME and mental effort. At some point, when the code review takes more effort than the code owner contributed, the value proposition is shot.

Generate the code however you want (llm, bit twiddling, whatever), but the effort and care must be there. If you can't use an llm skillfully and vouch for the output, it's gonna be a no from me dawg

Magazines had their CDs tucked inside, sometimes 2 of them! What a time.

I think the unsaid words were most important: no, I'm not gonna resign because some out of touch conman thinks I should.

> It's also the area with the most clear manipulation of information on social media. The downvotes and flagged comments in this post are clearly not "organic", and the same pattern can be seen all over the web.

Unfortunately the techno optimism that we grew up with has given way to the stark reality that it is now easier than ever to manage the truth and squash dissent.

Which, btw, is the exact opposite of what we thought the Internet would be: the democratization of truth and voices. Instead we've allowed a handful of media oligarchs to own and distort the spin landscape.

At the risk of feeding trolls: Voyager was 1969? Opportunity was 1969? Hubble was 1969? JWST was 1969?

Of all the catastrophic outcomes of this administration, what's happening at NASA is one of the saddest. The premier science and exploration institution, built over years by our most gifted, so much given back to society, gutted and disabled. And all for fucking what?

Seriously. The field is completely ripe with more mature offerings.

how does this do anything except strengthen the resolve of those thugs in power? even those against the regime will want retribution for an attack on their home land.

regime change has never worked, not with actual boots on the ground, let alone targeted air strikes.

at this point, there's no use in implanting the goal posts into the ground, they're going to be moved again in a few seconds.

You'll notice that it's always YouTube that is the target, though. People feel entitled to free YouTube as though by birthright. If someone doesn't like Netflix, they cancel and move on, they don't usually claim they deserve it free.

Maybe because it was not monetized originally, and so those who were around back then argue it must remain that way?

Why pay for clothes? Nordstrom's is already rich enough, just walk in and take something.