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sownkun

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sownkun··on AI is slowing down
How would they transform society and why haven't they yet?
sownkun··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
This is exactly what I was thinking about my current place of employment. Wouldn't all of our time be spent better working on our main product than adding all these questionably useful AI add ons? We already have a couple AI addons we built over the years that aren't being used much.
sownkun··on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
This is how I perceive a lot of the AI being rammed down our throats: questionably useful.
sownkun··on US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery
H-1B for top talent in fields like AI makes sense. But in most cases it's not being used for that. It's just being used to fill generic software jobs that can be filled by US citizens/residents.
sownkun··on US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery
Yep. I live in the same area.
sownkun··on US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery
The amount of foreign tech workers in the U.S. seems far too high right now given how bad the job market is.
sownkun··on Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt [audio]
Yep
sownkun··on “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
bit of an overstatement if you ask me
sownkun··on Procedural world generation: C++11 library with highly customizable API
slick!
sownkun··on Easystar.js - Pathfinding for HTML5 games
Seriously man what are you thinking? Have you ever made your own project? There is NOTHING wrong with trying to make a business out of something you created and I'm pretty ticked off that there are people out there writing stuff like this.