mikojan

How so?

> we may come to value more highly what remains uniquely human: our capacity to relate and to care for one another

...under capitalism...

Sure we will...

Clearly the high-tech plagiarism machine will successfully plagiarise one of the most plagiarised games.

Everybody and their grandmother uses their services. Are you organizing a non-profit rehearsal space? Create a mailing list there.

This is grim.

I guess this only works because those are foreign servers so freedom of speech does not apply but Italy is doing their bidding?

Yea, if those 5% are the top-5% - everybody else gets inconvenienced by Neo-Liberal policies all the time.

This works great as long as you are not doing what the parent comment cautions you to not do: Let agents decide the architecture.

The moment you do that, why even bother producing a result.md? Just let the Bot execute on its findings, you realistically won't be able to judge them anyway.

> There is a reason that books like "the staff engineer's path" cover topics such as local maximums, communication, [...]

Why would they cover programming? That's what all the books on programming are for.

Also I see no need for signal processing to make programming a hard problem. Writing correct code is hard. Writing code that makes incorrect code easy to spot and hard to write is hard.

You can be great at local maximums, communication, establishing support for executing a plan or creating alignment on big efforts, and proceeded to still create a ball of mud. Bug ridden, hard to read, hard to debug.

> I don't like the implication that there are people who join a union because they are bad at their job.

What are you talking about? I never insinuated anything like that.

What do you mean? What is the problem with that statement?

Volkswagen is perhaps the greatest counter-example. The union in Germany converted every layoff initiative in whole or in part (more often in whole) into partial retirements, backfill stops, reduced working hours, compensation freezes.

Financial equity, benefits and opportunities at other companies in my experience are not the determining factors for tech workers. Lack of or loss of self-determination and self-governance are.

The tech workers who are unionized that I know didn't join for financial gain because there is none (except for a few who are bad at bargaining). They joined to exert control over their workplaces and help build companies they can be proud of.

After watching this video I am absolutely positive that the issue is not a lack of stamina in humans. It is that humans have the capacity to realize that this is a bad idea long before they complete it.

We have been building complex software before and we continue to do so. The question is where is this mythical codebase 10 times more complex then the Linux kernel that we were previously unable to produce? Or let it just be complex software. Where is it? What are the names?

> Because using Gen AI means you're committing to codebases that go beyond individual cognitive limits.

Sure, the amount of code generated is exploding but where are these successful production applications that have "[gone] beyond individual cognitive limits"?

It's been some time now. Half a year ago I was concerned with the impact Gen AI might have on this profession. Today I am primarily tired of Gas Towns, Loops and the next fad.

Why do I have to still debug complex problems myself. Why do I have to still do detailed examinations.

Gen AI helps building big software. But the only thing it has truly replaced me in is building small software that in most cases I wouldn't have bothered building in the first place.

I too like to one-shot clone music production software, redo the whole readme in a single commit and show hacker news 6 months later

Sibling commented on organizational disadvantages that may or may not be inherent to cooperatives.

However, another explanation is that the dominant economic and legal environment - and, indeed, society itself - is structured around a single business model: the capitalist as chief, and workers with no meaningful voice in management.

Mondragon emerged in a region with strong traditions of industrial organization, communal solidarity and popular education, as well as a recent memory of workers' movements. It also arose within living memory of the large-scale worker collectivizations of the Spanish Revolution, particularly in Catalonia.

Much of the social and institutional environment that has made this possible has weakened over recent decades. This was not merely an accidental development: in much of the world, it was the result of a conscious political project that accelerated in the 1980s.

It is not a mistaken association. Socialism traditionally meant workers control over production. Work councils in Germany originally pursued direct workers control over respective businesses. Unions in Germany pursued some version of this well into the 1950s. Most socialist movements in Europe understood this to _be_ Socialism until the Soviet counter-revolution swept it all away.

And there is another forgotten truth. Before the Soviet counter-revolution, liberals advocated for this type of Socialism.

    The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.

- John Stuart Mill

Employee stock ownership is a leap forward and studies consistently highlight its economic benefits.

However, Mondragon, and co-ops like it, go further. They are industrial democracies: one worker, one vote.

A hundred times this. Why do you never hear stuff like this from google? Only from OpenAi and Anthropic! They depend on investor money like none before them and they need these marketing stunts. They are vital to their business. Don’t fall for it.

Interesting. Could you not tell it to not second-guess itself (on minor issues)?

It is beyond absurd to assume a company dependent on unprecedented sums of investor money is NOT deeply integrating its marketing department in its operations.

I want the harness to use read freely but require confirmation for write.

It won‘t..

No shit

That's what Skills are for

:^)

"Probably"? I'd hit that a thousand times just to be sure.

Don't understand how one can experience anything but infinite dread when confronted with the effects of these models on the arts.

Maybe I am getting old. But I don't think so...

Hard to believe... This activity should certainly land you in a German prison?!

> I see the same thing repeated in various front end tooling too. They all claim to be _much_ faster than their counterpart.

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> 9/10 whatever tooling you are using now will be perfectly fine

Are you working in frontend? On non-trivial webapps? Because this is entirely wrong in my experience. Performance issues are the #1 complaint of everyone on the frontend team. Be that in compiling, testing or (to a lesser extend) the actual app.

Agreed. Optimistically let it resolve merge conflicts in an old complex branch. Looked fine at first but was utter slop upon further review. Duplication, wildly unnecessary complexity and all.

The masters of mankind are yearning to replace expensive tech workers with this. With agentic versions of LLMs we are at a point now where they can (and should) certainly try and create a more hilarious world