throwawayoldie

Except if you're waiting for your turn to come up so you can vibe code, you're combining mindless trial-and-error hacking with a deranged sleep schedule. It's the worst of both worlds.

He did not, and for that matter, he never said if he was counting in base 10.

How old are you, 14?

Got to disagree. If there's one situation where a public breakdown is generally understood to be appropriate, it's a funeral. And if you're saying you don't want to because it's uncomfortable for you to be seen that way, well, the funeral isn't about you.

I wouldn't worry about it. Within two generations, the remaining humans will be mainly concerned with surviving in a wrecked ecosystem as best they can.

> Gawdat says we'll have AGI by 2026 at the absolute latest

...has he looked at a calendar lately? I just did, and it turns out that 2026 is less than five months away.

I'm not even going to touch the "alive in every possible way" bullshit.

Well yes, because getting nerd sniped is fun, and 99.99% of ideas for software are boring bullshit.

Another Onion article come true:

"Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization" (https://theonion.com/report-nations-gentrified-neighborhoods...)

Cool. Now do the idea that says AI will somehow fix the climate, while simultaneously doubling or tripling humanity's energy use.

_tumbleweeds roll past_

They also disrupted the coaster industry by constantly mailing out free ones.

> Isn't Andrew Tate wanted for rape in some country?

Several of them, if I remember correctly.

Yeah my plan was to come in _after_ the vibe coders have done their damage, fix their mess for a somewhat extortionate amount of money, then tell them not to do it again.

I think that's a little too cynical of a view: in years past, I did in fact teach non-specialists to use SQL (against a read-only replica, I'm not crazy) so I didn't have to run all their ad hoc queries for them, and many of them took well to it once they overcame their initial hesitance. The framing that made it click for them was "it's like Excel, but with words."

Sure not what it smells like though.

That was fast.

...right, I see where you're going with this, then we eat those five savants and everyone else is happy.

Same, it's like solving puzzles, except with practical benefits including getting paid for it.

> Maybe another industry of cleaning up vibe coded messes will be a thing?

I have seriously considered hanging out my shingle to do this freelance, I don't think the time is quite ripe yet but maybe in a few months.

> SQL is basically already natural language

This was actually the whole point of SQL in the first place: to be a query language close enough to natural language that non-specialists could easily learn to use it.

He didn't live in Germany.

We're not talking about said hypothetical technology. We're talking about LLMs.

Boston?

I only ever do. But I rephrased my post to make my meaning clearer. Nice discernment there.

People reading Hacker News are the target audience, and here we are, discerning.

Considering the only Finnish I think I know is "sauna" and "perkele", it'd be hard to know less.

I vote 1000 billionaires and family. Then the rest of us can get to work repairing the damage they've done.

Although I don't think the comparison is 100% fair: at least you can get some tasty beef off of a bull.

This is a shitty timeline and I would like to transfer to a better one. Hey, maybe these AIs can tell me how to do that.

And there were no "passengers", legally speaking, just "mission specialists".