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PMs have been asking the same question about software developers for decades

Taxation is slavery

His art is bad

They don't discuss tradeoffs of every tool, just the ones that offer the most leverage

It's almost like they are either stupid or the point was never about stability

We have such short memories don't we

So basically the same cognitive debt that accrues to engineers the moment they become managers.

Eden was probably just a metaphor for life before agriculture

Fallacy.

(Wrong) Knife fight: a fight between people about knives

(Right) Knife fight: a fight between people using knives

We don't regulate, governments do.

No, Anthropic could easily call their bluff.

>We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk.

Implying other civilians can be put at risk

We are all agents now

Talk to an average college freshman that studies plato and you might be similarly disappointed

I wonder if Claude could do a good job or setting this up for someone not technically inclined

Say what you want about coding agents, when the cost of writing code goes to near-zero, the cost of wrangling tools becomes a much bigger fraction of development effort. This is an amazing opportunity to address long-standing frictions.

Life imitates art, even when that art is slop

Cringe-worthy at best

Development has always been a small fraction of B2B SaaS expenses after the first couple of years anyways

Governments prosecute violations of laws in ways that suit their interest. News at 11

It's not terrifying at all, some shops will fail and some will succeed and in the aggregate it'll be no different for the rest of us

Precision in language is important for software engineering.

Both you and the grandparent comment are correct. The implementation is slow because the API that it exposes is so leaky that implementation changes (for example a tracing garbage collector) are impossible to implement without changing the API, and the API cannot easily change because of the dependence or the ecosystem on it (e.g. numpy)

We have the unique ability for genocide but also the unique ability to invent sophisticated tools, one of which is culture, whose functions include ways to override our impulses in ways we deem valuable.

Anything no-code or low code has a data model, and an agent can manipulate it in ways that are compatible with the system design. Letting an agent loose on a problem, without a good pilot, just leads to poor designs.

Read Wittgenstein

An algorithm written in a well specified language with precise semantics might have bugs. A "logical" argument made with natural language is orders of magnitude less precise

I didn't imply it was nefarious, I meant that the causality arrow between prestige and value judgements often points in the opposite direction of what is assumed

Sounds painful. Better to distrib a separate bundle per platform and use RPATH

Reminds me of how rankings for high schools that are supposed to be objective always faithfully reproduce the wealth differences between neighborhoods. This is even true in situations where clusters of moderately well compensated high-intellect workers (of a national lab or research Park or similar) consistently rank worse than the old money neighborhoods in the same cities.