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What's with this current trend of grouping GenX with Boomers? I am GenX and the difference between us and Boomers is wild. My GenX friends are on here. Boomers I know are afraid of self-checkout machines.

Imagine a program that generates the digits of pi, one after the other and stops when it is finished. A general purpose program analysing this program to decide if it stops or not would have to know about pi. And about every other possible algorithm.

That’s a lot of brands. You might have to buy a chicken.

I get really bad motion sickness, I tried reading hacker news in the car with these on when the feature first appeared. It didn't help.

The recent post on ripping DVDs reminded me of the DeCSS prime number. Fascinating topic to think about.

What if the language model writes a story about a character who is conscious and that story is written live about how the character interacts with the world.

I have been very successfully ignoring Windows on Arm since it first appeared :)

We might well be the most advanced species in the universe. Seems unlikely, but we really don’t have anything else to measure against at the moment.

I wish these posts that talk about non-human mistakes that agents make would post some examples. They would be interesting to see.

It’s the annoying thing about AI. If it works, the AI is magic. If it doesn’t work, you’re using it wrong.

This is me. Different music, same deal. Finding you’re not as alone as you thought you were is what the internet is for.

Anybody know how much ram you would need in a Mac to run the Pro model?

I respectfully disagree, I think code has always been more of an art than a science. It's an odd one, I'll grant you, as you need to do a lot of work to really appreciate it.

Code is my art and is how I express myself. I agree that nothing that AI does is art.

I don’t think that’s completely true, there is an art to code beyond it just being correct. There are a great many correct implementations of a program, but only some of them are really beautiful as well. Most people don’t see the code or appreciate this, but the difference between correct and art is clear to me when I see it.

It’s making a tiny number of people richer and a very large number of people poorer. It isn’t going to end well.

I totally see what you're saying, but to me this feels different. Compilation is a fairly mechanical and well understood process. The large language models aren't just compiling English to assembler via your chosen language, they try and guess what you want, they add extra bits you didn't ask for, they're doing some of your solution thinking for you. That feels like more than just abstraction to me.

Requiring people to use products from one of two private American companies with a bad track record of locking people out of their accounts is more than “not great”. Some things are better not done if they can’t be done well.

+1 to these, amazing resource. Really helped me.

I read about the new age check nonsense just before 26.4 downloaded, fortunately. I turned off automatic updates and so I guess I have a little time to get out of the apple ecosystem. I'm thinking GrapheneOS on Pixel 10. This is absolutely not required by UK law, apple just seems to enjoy the taste of government boot.

I am required to maximise my use of AI at work and so I do. It's good enough at simple, common stuff. Throw up a web page, write some python, munge some data in C++, all great as long as the scale is small. If I'm working on anything cutting edge or niche (which I usually am) then it makes a huge mess and wastes my time. If you have a really big code base in the ~50million loc range then it makes a huge mess.

I really liked writing code, so this is all a big negative for me. I genuinely think we have built a really bad thing, that will take away jobs that people love and leave nothing but mediocrity. This thing is going to make the human race dumber and it's going to hold us back.

That’s disappointing. I’ll give that a miss then.

I think it’s software, despite the picture, and I think it’s their version of openclaw. Hard to tell.

I quite liked the idea of Data Breeches. USB underpants maybe. Or personal information pantaloons.

There are lots of playthroughs on YouTube, I would expect at some point you can ask it to watch them and the “generate a game like that”.

How long until this thing is good enough to clone photoshop? Or Skyrim? I think all bets are off for the software world.

I take your point, but if the re-implementation looks the same, I would say it’s a form of copying. (Which I don’t think is a problem, I don’t think you should be able to own sequences of numbers.)

If an AI can license-wash open source software like this then the licenses become meaningless. Which is fascinating. Commercial software cloning that is simple enough for an average person to drive is next and the ultimate form of piracy, see an app for $10? Don’t fancy paying? Just ask ChatGPT for a clone. Future is going to be wild.

Aseprite is absolutely worth paying for. I do game jams and it works really well.

I don’t think there is much short term danger from the cookies. It’s more the principle of the thing. I hate the bullshit language of how we and our 1500 partners respect your privacy choices. They don’t respect anything and would sell their own grandmothers for a dollar.