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Been in a band of one kind of another for over 30 years at this point. Bands are a pain in the ass. I also am not happy unless I’m in one. There’s something magical that happens when the different tastes and personalities mix. It’s thrilling to be surprised and delighted by your own collective creation. Also the visceral feeling of playing live with a group is something that I can’t describe. Its something that can’t be fully replaced with technology IMO.

I'm a heavy use of this feature so I'm pissed. Can anyone recommend alternatives? I need to be able to load any books I buy into Calibre so I can convert to whatever format I need.

I'm almost 50 and doing fine. Maybe that wouldn't be the case if I was less experienced though.

Reminder to everyone reading FUD like this that tech bro's are trying _very_ hard to convince everyone that these technologies are Fundamentally Disruptive and The Most Important Advancement Since The Steam Engine. When in fact they are somewhat useful content generation machines who's output needs to be carefully vetted by the very programmers this article claims will be out of a job.

To be clear: I am not saying this article is written in bad faith and I agree that if its assertions come to pass that what it predicts would happen. I am just urging everyone to stop letting the Sam Altmans of the world tell you how disruptive this tech is. Tech is out of ideas and desperate to keep the money machine printing.

This kind of thing makes me furious. I know there’s the EFF but what can someone concerned with privacy advocacy do in the face of these kinds of things? Are there orgs and political movements that are out there already? Privacy is a human right. IMO it’s one of the big issues of our time.

Well said. Something that occurred to me after writing the parent comment is that this is also an act of protest. Really the only one at my disposal. By depriving these news outlets of my eyeballs I am no longer participating in the incentive structure that created them. Furthermore, our current president is a well-known attention seeker who doesn't care what you think as long as it's about him. The biggest middle finger I can give that asshole is my total lack of interest or attention in anything he's doing.

I appreciate the sentiment but this is totally unrealistic. I've tried to use AI several times before to help me quickly build out some personal software side projects and it took me waaaaay longer every time. It would just confidently spit out code that looked ok at first glance but if you actually know what you are looking at you'd realize it wasn't correct at all. Or worse, if it was an area I didn't fully understand such as native mobile dev, I'd burn an hour or two before realizing the problem wasn't me.

Yes build personal software. But to act like someone can leverage AI to do all the donkey work without actually understanding it is just silly.

After November I totally stopped looking at any and all news and social media with the exception of HN. My reasoning being that you are not actually getting informed by any of those sources. They are geared towards engagement which makes them entertainment. Also, I have absolutely no power to change anything happening right now so knowing about it is just going to make me upset. It's a lose lose IMO. A lot of folks have gotten upset with me about this which I find a bit baffling. Like, what does knowing every minute detail do for me?

The net effect of my news/social media fast has been fairly dramatic. I suddenly have an attention span again. When a persons opinion differs from mine, I generally don't immediately assume they are part of the third reich (although if they keep talking a while I might get there lol).

To be clear I absolutely despise whats happening in the US right now. Enough information makes it to me through friends and family (and HN) that I feel a deep sense of despair. I am just not sure what minute by minute updates on the fuckery happening right now gets me.

I seem to recall reading that a lot of the self driving taxis have remote operators standing by ready to take over as well?

I'm having a hard time figuring out if you're saying that like it's a good thing. The tech will definitely get rolled out. It will cause real harm and cost real money because of that lack of regulation you speak of. I am certainly not going to trust it with anything of consequence.

> It doesn't have to be deterministic

There are cases where this could be true. I could see, say, asking it to do some research for you or something. Or maybe grab some restaurant recommendations. Really anything that brings you options that you can then make a decision on. If I do end up using this tech, thats how I would feel comfortable using it.

When it comes to things like making purchases and such on your behalf, thats where I disagree. Even with boundaries it's just not deterministic enough for most peoples risk appetite IMO. And when I say "most people" I am not talking about HN folks.

And just to be clear, I do use this technology. I just am very aware that its not this magic bullet that the AI bros want us to believe it is. I used it this morning in fact to help me write up some code I felt too lazy to deal with. It very quickly and efficiently wrote what I asked. I was pleasantly surprised and _almost_ missed the very bad bug that it dropped right into the middle of it all. I'm not giving my credit card to that lol.

I think the failure of Amazon Alexa is a better reference point here. The goal with that device was to buy stuff through it. No one did because no one trusted it to do the right thing. We just ask it to tell us the weather or play a song.

Again. Different animal. That’s highly regulated and in limited markets. You also need to pay close attention so you can grab the wheel when it gets things wrong. And it does. A lot. The underlying tech is not the same either.

I think that’s a fair point although I think this is a very different animal.

When it comes to money, or really any kind of action that has consequences, you want the assurance of a deterministic outcome. That is simply not possible with this technology. Maybe it will be but I’ve seen nothing to indicate that so far.

Total click bait title. The entire premise is based on the assumption that these agents will actually do the correct task every time.

No one. And I mean NO ONE is going to delegate anything like travel or purchasing items to an AI. They just get it wrong too much.

> They are often misrepresented presented as a futile toy for “galaxy-brain people”, providing no benefit to the regular programmer

Me: Go on I am listening...

> The backend I’m writing is just a program — written in Haskell — that takes as input the internal representation of Agda programs, and outputs λ□ programs. A compiler of sorts.

Me: <Closes laptop lid>

I am sure that theres something useful happening here, but it is definitely too galaxy-brain for this guy.

Barkley has been HUGE for me in understanding myself and how to manage my symptoms. Cannot recommend him enough.

Fixed! Thanks for catching.

Disagree. Ribbon mics have a very distinct sound. The top end in particular. They also distort when pushed.

Amy Winehouse “Back to Black”. They tracked her vocals with an RCA ribbon mic.

Edit: fixed a typo

> Companies designing new products were unclear on what was right, or wrong, and uncertain about how they might put calm technology ideals into practice.

Nope. That’s not at all what the problem is. The problem is that when you implement features that respect the users attention an engagement metric dips slightly. And a shot caller notices. They roll the feature back. Because at the end of the day your calm means fuck all to the pursuit of endless growth.

A few jobs back I got “promoted” (honestly I didn’t want it but I digress) to an EM. First thing I did was ditch Jira for GH issues. I was hailed as a hero for it. Unfortunately it ended up being a disaster and we had to switch back a year or so later. These were some of the missing features so pretty exciting.

If the website is made in this framework I have low hopes for it. Animations are jank. Clicking on links and buttons takes two or three tries before it does the thing. I’m on mobile safari. Maybe just me?

> What began as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript has devolved into a complex build orchestration demanding hundreds of dependencies, even for a simple page.

I’m no react fan boy, but this is a total straw man. Vite and the like make builds dead ass easy. Also, to try to represent the days before react as some kind of utopia is total horseshit. I have been doing front end for just as long as the author (nearly 20 years) so I lived through that stuff. It was total chaos before. Just gobs of unmaintainable shit. No tests. No reusable code. Nothing. Does react have problems? Yes. Do people use it when they shouldn’t? Also yes. But the whole “it’s too complicated to get it to build” argument is tired.

Ran into this today. Took me about an hour to figure out. You have to run the script they provide (can’t find the link right now but it’s in the GH issue). But if you are like me and installed it via homebrew, you also you have to uninstall docker fully and you have to do it via homebrew. So instead of upgrading you have to `brew uninstall docker` and THEN brew update & `brew install —cask docker`. Bit of a pain but it does eventually sort itself out.

I'm effectively dead in the water here. I guess I'll go touch some grass. Thank you to the SRE's who are looking at this.

Can't pull anything from my repos which is not great.

Just so. That’s kind of my point. In order for them to be the revolution the tech industry wants us to believe they are, they need to be able to handle necessary but laborious tasks like tests for us. I don’t think it’s possible with the current approaches however

LLM’s have replaced Stack Overflow for me. Occasionally I can use them to write a simple bash script for me or some bit of terraform that I don’t feel like looking up. Useful but not exactly life changing.

What I would consider a game changer would be generating USEFUL unit and integration tests. Ideally that used the existing fixtures and utilities already in place. I’ve yet to see that happen even with code the LLM had just generated.

Let me translate some of this:

> This starts with advances and investments in world-leading American AI technology and infrastructure.

We are lighting money on fire and need more. Give us more money. Don't ask questions.

> Second, the country needs to champion skilling programs that will enable widespread AI adoption and enhanced career opportunities across the economy.

We need more of you to buy this half baked shit we keep throwing at you. Give us more money. Don't ask questions.

> Finally, the United States must focus on exporting American AI to our allies and friends, bolstering our domestic economy and ensuring that other countries benefit from AI advancements.

Politicians in this country are so fucking stupid that we can talk about AI like it's lumber or steel and how we need to export it like it's a tangible thing. Give us more money. Don't ask questions.