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sevenzero··on Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
See, ballxpit was a perfect example for me, for uninnovative gameplay, as you just shoot balls and the game mostly plays itself for you. I can see why people like it, I guess its just not for me.

I know the other ones, but they really do not appeal to me, except for maybe balatro.

sevenzero··on Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
Might be age and depression for me to be fair. Don't want to talk down on game devs either, a lot of games look good, but ain't for me.
sevenzero··on Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
I do enjoy Valheim and Cracktorio. Ark Raiders looks cool, but I hate PvP experiences as I suck at shooters and prefer to avoid online dick measuring contests. Also wouldn't get my friends to play it with me. Gotta check out the Shipbreaker thingy
sevenzero··on Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
I fear it'll be a slop market just like the Google Play Store. Yes there are millions of games, none of which are good.
sevenzero··on Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
The quality of games became so bad that I sit in front of the steam shop for an hour almost on a daily basis, scrolling through the catalog without finding anything I want to play...

I find myself going back to titles that are over 10 years old over and over again. Every new game I've bought in the recent years I have regretted buying shortly after.

Given I am not a story based gamer, but a gameplay focused one, I just see no true innovation anymore. I mostly play Indie games now, but even those are rarely anything special now. Back to Terraria I guess...

sevenzero··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
>The opening premise baffles me. What kind of illusion must one be under to believe that employers would ever pay you the same amount of money to do less work?

Work is about the work written down in your work contract. If you manage to fulfill your contract by doing less, you still worked according to your contract so you should be able to expect the same amount of pay.

sevenzero··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
If everything of this can be represented in Lean, with enough compute, they are low hanging fruits, yes
sevenzero··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
So again farming the low hanging fruits for marketing?
sevenzero··on The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
Any implications on what could be achieved with this information, for a non academic?
sevenzero··on Websites Should Be Printable
Well, I want to retire and not have to work for another 30+ years, but I guess we do not always get what we want :(
sevenzero··on Why I Am a Programmer
That might be true for your stack but I am employed as a Laravel Web Developer and AI can code faster and better than me. Honestly, I have no idea how I am still employed.

I did start learning Rust recently, without using AI at all, and the process of coding is very fun. But I can't help but feel like the farmer who refused to use tractors...

Personally I just wait to be laid off, so I am forced to change things.

sevenzero··on Why I Am a Programmer
And the creative, puzzle solving, game like nature of it is now completely gone. Answering architectural questions isn't fun to me. I loved the process of writing code and now I hate being a software developer.
sevenzero··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
>Exactly. Factories will be built, but you will still need workers, project engineers, and actual architects. Automation is still not there yet, despite the elaborate harnesses of frontier models.

This is what I replied to?

sevenzero··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Yall really dont see the issue about replacing workers step by step? We'll reach the point of a "saturated" job market which will cause people to fall into welfare programs. Those are saturated soon as well, so what are people going to do, if they have no food and no help? Doesn't take a genius to see the dystopic near future.

Thinking our governments will solve the issues the AI vendors created ain't going to work.

sevenzero··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Well the argument was "we still need workers" so surely there's something to train people for!
sevenzero··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
I am well aware, people need work, therefor my retrain argument. Unless companies also do not want to train workers, which is a huge issue already.
sevenzero··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Given the primary goal and promise of all these AI vendors is to replace workers I think its hilarious that "you still need workers" is an argument. Wouldn't we have an abundance of workers soonish as all the replaced people could be retrained? Or is the truth that these models can't actually replace intellectual work?
sevenzero··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
>The block is introduced because they want employees to use the services approved by the government office, including Microsoft's AI tool Copilot.

Meh

sevenzero··on Crystal 1.22
Yea but that doesnt help with companies still hiring for language specific roles. Also you gotta be able to check LLM generated code which requires proficiency in the given language.
sevenzero··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
7.x versions have patches thanks to Mr Sury. Was almost as fast as the patches with official support.
sevenzero··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
Because its way easier to verify LLM generated code for Laravel over some Rust project. Or do you just vibe it and dont look at code anymore?
sevenzero··on What shall I teach my son?
Hey Claude, can you have sex with my wife for me? Voila, your wife now has an actual lover. Having sex with your wife can be as obsolete as real intimacy, with the advent of technology.
sevenzero··on What shall I teach my son?
Reading is a life skill. Proficiency in it makes you understand things. Weren't there plenty of news articles this year about how high schoolers didn't have proficient reading capabilities? Maybe teaching your kids how to properly read a text is a good thing.
sevenzero··on There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
>Nice way to avoid the responsibility

Welcome to the tech industry. Its all about shifting responsibility in case something goes wrong. Thats the only reason companies use third party software in the first place, to have a scapegoat...

sevenzero··on Go Concurrency Distilled
Well to use Elixirs concurrency model you kinda have to use the rest of the langs ecosystem and learn a shit ton more compared to familiar feeling langs like Go. For Go I dont have to learn its execution model, some VM specifics and whatnot.
sevenzero··on Go Concurrency Distilled
Not to mention its a lot easier to learn Go concurrency over Elixirs whole ecosystem. Also Go has a job market while Elixir job market exclusively consists out of senior level job postings that get handed over from Elixir job hopper to another Elixir job hopper. There is barely any reason to learn Elixir except for being fascinated by it.
sevenzero··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
I meant it as in: I bricked all previous snapshots while also having bricked the one I had selected, so I bricked my whole system.
sevenzero··on What About Rails?
LLMs would need way more tokens using langs/frameworks that dont have native features already built in? Even with LLMs I would take 10x the amount of time/tokens until I have something I could've just done with Laravel in the first place.

A more concrete example: Laravel has a built in rate limiter, with Go I'd either have to tell Claude to install some rate limiter package from some random ass dev or implement its own which would consume tokens/time...

Also your argument about PHP/Laravel being risky is pretty funny as everything is risky and most of the internet runs on PHP...

sevenzero··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
I managed to brick my revisions/snapshots before
sevenzero··on Tech Needs Humanists More
Tech specialists ignoring human feelings about AI and the future of tech, while also looking at the amount of downright evil tech out there makes reconsider about wanting to continue to work in this profession over and over again.

Before I knew how to program I used to think software developers were smart wizards capable of creating cool stuff out of thin air but the recent years proved me differently given how many of them outright water out of their mouths at the mere thought of replacing the human in the loop with some bullshit parrot we call AI.

Especially on this website I rarely find people having human first thoughts and it makes me despise software engineers.

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