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Interference with an election is so in line with the current president's character that nobody has any reason to think otherwise.

The political atmosphere in the USA, and worldwide let's be honest, has become so cynical that people aligned with the American president don't really see any issue with doing morally wrong things or downright illegal acts if that means a political victory for them.

That's a real issue in my opinion.

A lot of people get involved in open source because of the sense of community or because they like the idea of giving something to the world.

What's the point in contributing to opensource if your work gets violated by vibecoders and corps that disrespect your licensing and give you no credit while simultaneously clamiing your work is useless and you're going to be replaced by a LLM model?

Any ecosystem declines when there are too many cynical grifters compared to well meaning hard working people.

I once read the criticism that science is already moving too fast and that wrong results get published and accepted as true because nobody reaps any laurels for verifying or reproducing results, even if that's an indispensable part of the scientific method.

Now in the age of AI this problem will be heavily accentuated. Who's going to review the quality and validity of dozens and dozens of papers being generated by a researcher who used to publish sporadically?

It's not hard to see science going through a "slop crisis" in the next few years, in the same way that now projects are getting inundated with PRs.

In my experience, most people are overworked, stressed and exhausted.

I don't find it surprising at all that social activities have been declining. It sounds like normal mammal behavior in fact.

>this seems to implicitly assume that future generations of AI cannot be creative in similar ways that human mathematicians have been

It's because they can't.

It's a mathematical theorem that no algorithm that "solves mathematics" can exist.

>In mathematics and computer science, the Entscheidungsproblem is a challenge posed by David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann in 1928. It asks for an algorithm that considers an input statement and answers "yes" or "no" according to whether it is universally valid, i.e., valid in every structure. Such an algorithm was proven to be impossible by Alonzo Church and Alan Turing in 1936.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem

>But a lot of it is also just culture / parenting. Every parent wants their kid to become a software engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor. There's basically zero pride in being a machinist.

I disagree.

A lot of people, nerds (and me) included, would see no problem in taking an operational role inside manufacturing if it paid a livable wage and offered a career.

But somehow people still act shocked when nobody wants to work a job that pays retail wages.

Welcome to the age of monopolistic capitalism, they know you have nowhere to run and all the competitors charge the same price.

For each service you feel that's enshittified, ask yourself how many real competitors they have.

I honestly didn't read the whole article, but I think that this kind of experiment leads to a misleading way of seeing things.

I met a few architects/team leaders who wouldn't write almost any code and just technically oversaw things before LLMs got popular, obviously they were very experiencied.

What you have to ask yourself is whether you could oversee a swarm of bots(or people) if you didn't have any coding experience in the first place.

A lot of HN users seem to be, in my opinion, too dismissive about the complexity of creating software. It's true that we don't have to develop in assembly anymore to be a good developer and with time the general level of the entry abstractions that we deal with rises, but, in my opinion once again, it will never change the fact that you need a high number of hours of exposure to something in order to be truly competent to a professional level.

It's hard to explain my relationship with Emacs, but starting it is the first thing I do when I turn on my computer.

I don't use it much for development these days, but I always have a bunch of buffers open and I do a lot of residual work on it.

If I install Linux on my computer, the first thing I always do is install Emacs, it's like a kind of default environment for doing everything text related, and it feels incredibly unfamiliar not to have it open all the time.

How could this be anti-ethical? You're just running a very complex algorithm in your machine.

Would we be able to have a "digital human" when we reach the level of creating this kind of brain mapping for the human brain?

Honestly I think we're still discovering how powerful neural networks are and certainly they can do computations that sound very close to intelligence in some contexts, but I still find it hard to think that we can simplify the whole reality of an incredibly complex chemical machinery down to a bunch of matrices multiplications.

>rust programs are a lot of times faster [...] than C and C++ counterparts

Troll post? Or has fanboyism really gone this far?

I agree with you, it doesn't take long to identify the itemized style that LLMs use and it's always incredibly annoying.

I would rather read the original thoughts of the engineer, grammar mistakes and stylistic imperfections included, than prompt generated AI slop.

I don't know about the cost-of-living reality in the flyover states, but are you sure you're taking into account the 5x multiplier that kids represent for that specific example?

I think that just in terms of food expenses, having to feed five children + one spouse might be pretty challenging. Let alone if we factor in things like healthcare plans, among other things.

Another thing: the GP's grandfather was a blue collar worker, you're talking about a white collar remote worker who by definition is a high earner and not somebody average.

This talking point that things are not harder today and everybody would be able to have the same affluence of 60's people if at least they were not so demanding sounds completely unrealistic.

This article itself is AI slop, of course this is not surprising coming from a website called "ai-updates.net" which I get the impression that might be entirely vibe coded too.

I feel that maybe in the future HN will have to implement a "low quality AI" flag or something(if it has aleady I'm not aware).

The worst of all is that people will still argue that, in this day and age, labour has not been completely devalued and that you are wealthier than your grandfather.

That kind of story was not uncommon at all in the past, today you would have to be a literal multi-millionaire to have that lifestyle.

I have come across a lot of AI-generated youtube videos lately, most of them about trivialities and clearly aimed at a not very critical audience. A few of them also contained hallucinations.

I think a lot of people might be creating AI generated content, books, videos, etc as a kind of side hustle unfortunately.

It certainly doesn't feel like craftsmanship has gained any kind of higher social standing in our time though. The Zeitgeist of the modern times seems to be one of 'try to do the cheapest sellable thing while paying people the least possible'.

Real craftsmanship, the kind that leaves you in awe and feels like an exceptional display of human capacity, seems to be relegated, from my point of view, to a minority of well-off hobbyists who are already free from work and can do what they want without worrying about paying bills.

Regular people are somehow preparing themselves for this outcome, have you seen what has become of the fertility rate in most advanced countries?

I'd be interested to know if the same amount of leniency shown here would be applied if we were talking about ads depicting violence against elected politicians.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, right?

It seems to be the modus operandi of corporations in general: they commit any kind of infringement they want and then later they go for a settlement with a value that's, of course, not too big for a company too big to fail.

In the meantime, the average person or company gets shafted.

In my opinion, we are one step away from AI companies capturing the entirety of copyright legislation.

I'm not sure the customs official knows where you came from (unless they explicitly ask, of course), because in my experience normally you get off the airplane and join a common queue. I think your passport counts a lot more when it comes to how strict the scrutiny is going to be. I'm assuming you're American, if you had an Iraqi passport, maybe you would have to answer a few more questions.

The pessimism in the comments here is entirely the reflection of the times we're living in.

Technology got weaponized against the average citizen.

It has become a synonym for unemployment, enshittification, mass surveillance and social erosion.

If this video appeared in 60's or 70's, people would be in awe imagining the future where robots do everything.

It was the same thing with blockchain, who here remembers the peak delusion of IoT + smart contracts replacing human judicial systems and crypto making central banks useless?

LLMs are of course a form of progress, the same way blockchain was, but it has been baffling and cringy nonetheless to see people with a strong technical background pretending that at some point in the future the development of complex applications was going to be reduced to a few prompt lines written in English.

Once the AI fad dies and the next hype appears I told myself I'm going to jump on it to take financial advantage of it. At this point I believe that the technological cycle of hype is an almost entirely social/economic phenomenon and there is no reason not to make money from it given that people insist on this kind of irrational behavior.

I understand what you mean but speakers and recording equipment destroyed the economics of paying people to play music a long time ago.

It's another way of looking at the problem.

Smartphone cameras and easy-to-use professional equipment were thought to destroy the photography profession, yet photographers still exist, although we have to admit not as many as in the past.

If I had a company with a budget, I wouldn't waste my time using Claude to create art, even if it meant I could do all myself.

Certainly people who earned top dollar for doing something that AI can easily do now are going to be displaced, however the world of top dollar business has never been that big for the middle class of artists to begin with.

>They don't have Claude write assembly because there is no training corpus on people making CRUD apps in assembly.

I'm disputing this. You can have a training corpus in assembly as big as any other language: just feed the compiled result(in assembly) of the CRUD apps to the LLMs.

I'm not a Haskell developer and I hadn't heard of this company "Scarf" before.

As much as I respect this guy who tried to work and push an alternative ecosystem, it's hard for me to shake off the impression that, rather than due to Haskell compile time, he moved to python because it's easier to find developers for it and it's the de facto scripting language for LLMs.

No problem about that, of course. Running a company is hard enough, I think that passion and idealism for a language/platform/technology out of aesthetic appreciation can only go so far and after a certain age just making money and reaching your professional objectives count more.

It's been my impression that classic literature is going the same way as painting and other forms of high art.

It was certainly a great display of human intellectual prowess and artistic capacity in bygone times when the world moved at a much slower pace, but who has the time and the energy to read a long novel today?

Even cinema is dying and nobody seems to care that much.

In my opinion, no jurisdiction in the world would be able to approve AI as an inventor on patent applications.

And for a very simple reason: you could easily overwhelm any intellectual property bureau just by having your AI drown them in AI slop. Even if most of these patents get refused, just refusing a patent is a lot of work, I imagine.

Very interesting insights, thanks for this.

Indeed "be a graphics programmer" nowadays sounds like "be an assembly programmer".

A kind of time waster for a nerd with too much time in their hands.