insane_dreamer

> if you bothered reading the thread

I did; that's why I wrote what I did

> the one hundredth 'you need a million users to judge maintainability' comment

make you should take it that there might be some truth to it then

> the fragility is inconsequential.

how many users do you have and how long has your app been out there?

unless that number is very large, then you have no idea whether your app is fragile or not

example: I own a Polestar 4. Great car, love it. I have non-deterministic SW glitches. Other people have non-deterministic SW glitches, but they're not the same ones as me. Other people never encounter any glitches. Others have tons of glitches that I don't have. Every new car that is sold, is another edge case. We had a Tesla for years, and the SW was rock solid, great stability. Why? Because their SW has been out there for over a decade with millions of experience points, and they have a large team that are aggressive about fixing and rolling out updates almost daily. Until you get to that point, you can't judge whether your vibe-coded app is stable or not.

> Is it an issue? you could think that in the long term it'll be

reminds me of all the PHP spaghetti code that would float around because it was "quick and easy" -- eventually that all becomes brittle and someone has to come in and rearchitect it from scratch

you may not pay the price, but your successor will

but then again, you could say that's your employer's problem, not yours (and you'd be right)

the biggest problem is the future, not the present. Presently, we -- you, I, others -- still have the skill and experience to look inside the box and understand it, guide the LLM to make smarter decisions, etc.

not only will those skills atrophy in ourselves, but the younger generation won't even develop them in the first place. eventually you have almost no one who understands anything about how things work, they just know how to issue high level commands. It's like if eventually everyone working at CERN just knows how to push the buttons on the LHC but doesn't understand much beyond that. That's where we are heading.

> If you architect well what you generate then it stops being slop

the problem is that the "architect well" part is also being left to the LLMs

> 2. AI writes overly complex ccode

100% this is my experience; I frequently am telling the agent 1) "this way is simpler", or 2) "why are you doing X instead of Y, which is simpler"

Like everyone else, I've seen the number of cold email pitches coming in increase in the past couple of years.

I never liked such emails, but now I avoid them completely. If I either a) don't recognize the sender, or b) determine within the first sentence that ultimately they want to sell me something, then it gets filed as junk*. I may miss some false negatives but it's a trade off I'm happy about.

* rather than marking as junk in gMail, I instead drag to the "Promotions" tab and reply "yes" when asked to classify all email from that sender as the same. I find this is a more effective filter than putting into Junk, and so Promotions is just a second Junk folder that I never look at, ever.

you missed the point; in a high risk situation like trading, you can't afford for Claude to "start going off the rails" in the first place

It's also not a problem that's limited to the context willing filling up.

I think we're going to see a significant decline in human contributions to data sets that is ultimately just vacuumed up and regurgitated by AI with fewer and fewer people visiting the original sites. There's just much less personal motivation to do it, and less ability to get resources from traffic needed to mention a site that's primarily scraped by AI bots.

Sites like WikiHow have seen a significant decline in traffic, and even more so in organic search.

I've had Claude ignore crystal clear written instructions and try commands that I told it not to run.

I agree with you in principle but not sure how it will fall legally, and what the Dems can't afford is to get bogged down in some pursuit that accomplishes nothing and in the meantime leave the matters that people really care about -- affordability, corruption -- unresolved.

they'd better keep it laser focused on stuff like bribery that is easy to demonstrate, and not stuff like "enabled ICE by hosting apps" etc. which is much less understood by the American people and harder to nail down as a crime

I wonder if this is somewhat specific to Japan or has been observed elsewhere

it's not just third-party ads, the worst is even on companies' own websites. i.e., I'll be signed into an airline for which I have the airline CC and I'll be hit with a bunch of suggestions to sign up for their credit card. That's information they already have.

if I'm using Kagi it's because I don't want AI replies. If I wanted AI, I'd use Google/Gemini (which is arguably better at this particular type of task than the open models).

would be nice to have a curated list of sane rankings

paywall is better than ads

is this a serious question? because a DC has external impacts which, say, a workshop on your property does not; that's why.

I would serious debate that it's the threat of nuclear MAD that has prevented WW3.

Rather, after WW2 the idea of millions of people dying in a war became anathema -- countries would simply revolt against the idea.

Also, an estimated 20-40 million people have died in wars since WW2 (depending on how you do the counting), so it's not like wars have stopped.

That's good. And I'm glad for you. But honestly, you're an outlier, or at the very least on the long tail of the distribution.

> Hinton, 78, said that within a decade and possibly sooner, humanity will know whether it can manage the technology’s risks and enable what he called “radical abundance” or whether “we fail to manage the risks and … have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart”.

lifting people's standards of living -- is _not_ a technological problem. So I don't understand why people think that AI might solve this, even more so because AI is not primarily being developed or used to solve human or social problems, because there is little financial incentive to doing so (not much ROI in developing something that's cheap or free).

The Earth isn't lacking in resources, they're just distributed highly unevenly -- and correcting that distribution is a social and political problem, not a technological one. In fact, AI is more likely to exacerbate inequality than reduce it.

Let's say that AI allows us to crack the code to nuclear fusion. That would be amazing from a technological point of view. But the idea that this will lead to free, or even cheap, energy for all is rather naive -- all we have to do is look at whether the invention of efficient solar power (a limitless resource that is now relatively inexpensive to develop) has lowered energy costs for the average American [0]

[0] https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/h...

> "Our electrical bills will go up" - They're generating their own electricity and excess power will be put back into the grid

I don't buy this. they're generating electricity for free? the electricity generation comes from somewhere and it has a cost due to any resource used being finite; who is bearing that cost?

> This is going to bring a LOT of money to my county

in what ways, concretely, once the DC has been built (likely with outside contractors)? it doesn't take much to run one. typically DCs have large tax breaks and so don't actually bring in "a LOT of money to the local county" -- that's one of the problems that people are upset about; your DC might be an exception

future economic activity is fine;

the questions are 1) who is footing the bill and 2) who is benefiting from that economic activity

if it's not the local community, then why should they agree to it much less pay for some of it

didn't specify the eng's role but oh the irony if the assignment was for a SecOps job :)

you mean like Alexa and Google Assistant devices have done for years?

At least Apple's features are opt-in, unlike most others which are opt-out

Wild to see the Trump Admin actively trying to protect Kalshi by going after Utah.

I'm sure Trump Jr's role/stake in both Kalshi and Polymarket has nothing to do with it.

I disagree. I lived in Russia for a couple of years in the early 90s right after the fall of the USSR and found the average person to be quite well educated, not only in math, but also science and literature (Russian literature of course), more so than I found the average person in the US to be. The level of education in Russia post-USSR has declined substantially--one factor being brain-drain that began once the doors for emigration were cast open.

This isn't to say that the USSR had a better system than the West--it did not, and its collapse is testament to that. But strictly in terms of education in math, literature, science, it did quite well. Similarly, Cuba did a _much_ better job at educating its population than its Caribbean neighbors.

the truth is not what you think is the truth

Search is off; if you want it back on, you get Gemini summaries with it. you can't get Search _without_ Gemini

Scummy wording makes it looks like google is giving more control, but it's really the opposite.

My high schooler is prohibited from using AI in his homework (and pretty good about sticking to that, at least for now).

Probably time to switch him to Kagi. Google Search is pretty bad anyway.

>I've yet to see an actual premium EV akin to the ICE cars from Lexus, Acura, or Genesis.

I drive a Polestar 4, which stands up very nicely to any Lexus/Genesis/Acura. So does the Lucid.

Not to mention the Porsche Taycan. And the Macan EV is essentially the same as their ICE Macan.

Maybe you don't like EVs - that's fine. Everyone has their taste. After switching to an EV I'm never going back to an ICE car again.

just because something was generated using AI doesn't make it slop

the page is basically a bunch of tables with data from the Fed; I don't see any problem with that sort of thing being put together using AI, any more than if a human had hand rolled a script to generate the tables, or had typed out the numbers manually in plain html

if the numbers are problematic, then take exception with that, but otherwise, it doesn't matter how the page was generated -- this isn't an opinion piece