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On a related note, and this existed before LLMs: fuck websites that claim to be free on the front, then make you jump several hoops like creating an account, only to reveal the price at the very end

So I'm my own grandpa? Whats sorcery is this?

Looking back my guess would be that infiltration is an even bigger danger. The opportunity of visibility and power, without the hassle of climbing the ranks for decades inside an established party, attracts a certain type of human.

There are multiple strings coming together here.

AI-generated code works great for me, most of the time. I'm productive, I ship, I can show stakeholders stuff in no time and and they are mostly happy.

But the development sucks. I don't even really look at the code anymore, because reading generated code is a drag. And there is no reason really to do it. There is no fulfillment of "I solved this real problem using some intricate logic that came out of my mind". I just throw tokens at it, and it works, great.

I don't really talk to coworkers anymore about the code. We don't do coding sessions together, or bang our heads together over some hard problem, because there are no hard problems. We don't learn from each other anymore. Everyone just asks their agents, and they are fine.

I feel my brain atrophying. I forget how to do things. Developing now feels like being kinda drunk.

Can this be solved? Absolutely: just do it like you used do! Just like quitting to smoke is easy, just don't do it, right? But what if all your colleagues go out to smoke all the time? Do you sit alone? Do you go with them, but just stand next to them in their fume? Or do you need to find new friends? Going back feels like going back to an Abacus after you invented the pocket calculator.

That's cool. I've dreamed of having real tiered NPCs that follow different missions (e.g. a farmer just wants to take care of his farm and crops, while a king is more concerned about preserving and extending power etc.)

I wonder how long it will take for them to figure out that they can send and receive messages from air-gapped system by somehow using their own electronics like connected cables as antennas.

If you tell a model to find flaws, it will find flaws. What qualifies as critical to you?

Question is if we even want that. Video games often are escapism, we want an illusion of reality but not actual reality. I mean there definitely is a market for that, but I don't think it's for everyone.

It's an interesting take, thank you for that.

But for the love of Linus please remove that background animation or give me the possibility to disable it, it's distracting.

The writing style is very AIy, as a feedback.

This is already happening. I've heard from people working in customer support that when in the past someone would call or send a short mail with a minor complaint they'd just find a solution quickly. Now they will send huge generated requests containing all kinds of legal trigger words that have mandatory processes following, e.g. personal data requests where all kinds of departments have to be queried first. Everything over some minor or non-existing issue.

Of course, but is was never about technical feasibility, but about distribution. People use the app that everyone else already uses. You see the problem.

Still remember when WhatsApp cost a buck a year and was just simple chat? Those were the good days, until they got offered enough billions to turn it into the same ad-selling machine every successful app will eventually become unless the founders are truly uninterested in money.

Here is another view: maybe AI will automate jobs that are overpaid anyway and this might raise the baseline for the jobs that make everyday life actually possible. Of course only if the extra revenue doesn't flow into the pockets of billionaires, which is the more probable path

Learning stuff is hard for most people. We like to avoid hard stuff. Of course you can say that it's just about having the right mindset, but so is quitting to smoke.

They too will tell you to ask the AI. Then you can go to your supervisors supervisor, which is already a big pain, because academia is also a lot about interpersonal dependence, as your supervisor can make your life easy or hard, and they might not take criticism well.

I'm glad that worked out for you and I hope that you have no pain anymore! The tricky thing with teeth is that even a small infection can develop into a serious condition, life-threatening even, if untreated and it's hard to impossible for oneself to tell.

A capable developer will at some point become a capable people manager :)

That has been my experience as well. One-shot time and budget estimates are always ridiculously off.

My biggest concern isn't actually that my job can be automated (it can), but rather that the persons who need me stop valueing being right, and start valueing >being told< that they are right by an AI.

I feel my main purpose isn't that I can technically do something my clients can't, but that I know how to interpret their needs and find the solutions that fit for them.

Now they just query some AI which spits out >some< solution and they won't know that they are wrong until it can't even be tracked back to their AI.

This will result in "but the computer said" excuses all over the place.

Reminds me of the old "I made this" meme

I think Gemini could be a great product, if they didn't decide to stuff it down my throat at every possible occasion.

Recent example: on my e-reader, tapping a word I don't now and clicking "Translate" pulls up the possible translations from a dictionary, a local file just a couple of megabytes big, near instantly, on this tiny processor.

Doing the same on my Android phone starts a Gemini-chat with the prompt "Translate the word x into y". Takes forever, internet access needed, results vary, burns who knows who much energy.

Why? Just why?

This hostile behavior has unfortunately grown over the years. Notice how often you cannot really unsubscribe from newsletters, because clicking the small link in the email will only unsubscribe you from 1 of 25 "topics" or whatever and they will gladly re-define the "topics" every 6 months and re-enable them all.

I think it's good advice. I find it a bit funny the author said to not use a single word coming out of the LLM, but they probably did just that because I never heard a human being say "load-bearing" before but now it's all over the place, also used here. Or I don't get the irony.

I recently tried out the multiplayer with two friends and must say, while I like the games vibe, the multiplayer is deeply disappointing. You don't really play together, you just happen to be roughly in the same area at the same time. Nothing is shared really, every quest you need to do for yourself, and the sync is broken to the point where two players standing next to each other have completely different weather and see different enemies. If they fixed that I would come back, but I don't really feel like doing everything by myself.

Which modern TV has good software? Seems like pretty much all TVs today come with horrible software. I'd very much like the option to only have a basic OS on there that's actually snappy like my old TVs used to be and not need to load its menu from the internet every time I start it.

Sounds like something a DeepSeek V4 Pro bot would say

They still need to choose when to do that though. When I prompt the program to e.g. alter a bash script in a specific way or to recite a longer known text it can't go round and randomly exchange tokens. It has to somehow define what is a simple repeated text from a different origin and what is a novel generation.

I've caught Fable discovering the ip to a production server in documentation and attempting to connect there on its own to run commands without explicitly being prompted to. It didn't work because I was watching it live and and also the key was password protected, but yeah, I do see some danger.

Because those islands feel special and rare to me, and using the tight land for a sport that takes a lot of space and fresh water and is open only to a minority feels like waste.

If it suits you, good for you. I said often, not all of it, of course.