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by batchfy | 2025-06-03 05:58:03+00:00
The reason is that I don't think it's a technical issue — in other words, it's the managers, not the engineers, who decide the priority here. Therefore, the right place to try to expedite this is somewhere more influential, like HN or Twitter, not GitHub.

I can anticipate that this won't be resolved for at least 3 months. Just be aware this issue has been around for over 2 years, and the last time someone promised to fix it was 6 months ago. Let's see.
by ReptileMan | 2025-06-03 06:00:07+00:00
>The emerging generation of historians will simply take it for granted that they can create their own custom research and teaching tools and deploy them at will, more or less for free.

And they will spend 12 hours trying to figure out which is the fake python library and the citation that the LLM has hallucinated from the real one. Vibe coding is just WYSIWYG on steroids in good and bad. WYSIWYG didn't go anywhere.
by darweenist | 2025-06-03 06:00:35+00:00
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by helloplanets | 2025-06-03 06:00:55+00:00
You can just attach 40k of context directly into the Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude web interfaces afaik. If someone is using an LLM as a tool to actually be of help in an area they are already professionals in, conjuring good books, research, etc, as attachments shouldn't be an issue.

But yes, the default mode of LLMs is usually a WikiHow and content farm style answer. This is also a problem with Google: The content you get back from generic searches will often be riddled with inaccuracies and massive generalizations.

Not being able / bothering to come up with relevant context and throwing the dice on the LLM being able to do this out of the box is definitely a serious issue. I really think that is where the discussion should be: Focused more on how people use these tools. Just like you can tell quite a bit about someone's expertise based on the specific way in which they interface with Google (or any information on the internet) while they work.
by spankibalt | 2025-06-03 06:00:57+00:00
> PC's had this annoying limit up until the 90s and the complexity that it introduced was mind blowing (EMM, EMS, XMS etc.).

Competent enough people on both ends, end-users and programmers alike, simply worked around that. In the end, it still allowed for a platform of industry-leading applications and games, many of them not available on Amigas or Ataris.
by jaggederest | 2025-06-03 06:01:12+00:00
I think it's going to be very interesting to see what kind of effects long term antiretrovirals for HIV treatment and prevention have. Surely they're not so tightly targeted that they only affect HIV, so it'll be interesting to see which conditions they prevent and which they cause, since we've got tons of people on them for a quarter century now or so.

I also wonder this kind of thing about other long term treatments - perhaps Prozac prevents dementia, or causes it.
by csbartus | 2025-06-03 06:01:15+00:00
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by twocentstudios | 2025-06-03 06:01:44+00:00
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by okwhateverdude | 2025-06-03 06:02:18+00:00
This was some out there singularity fiction back in the day with some really vivid imagery including being raped by a zombie, skinning the protagonist alive and dumping a mound of fire ants on them, and some incest. I re-read this occasionally and still enjoy reading it if only because it feels truthy for how various shades of humanity would deal with an immortality giving, reality altering, techno-god. The shock value of various scenes mimics the darker corners of the internet and does a good job exploring the dichotomy of behavior on and off the internet in the guise of dealing with the reality foisted upon the characters.

If you've not read it, and aren't bothered by some extreme imagery, I definitely recommend.
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by danpalmer | 2025-06-03 06:04:21+00:00
Good book, worth a read, but for me the final chapter ruined the book to a large extent.

Chapters 1..n-1 are about the rise of a super intelligence and dealing with human life post being subsumed into the intelligence. It’s a bit odd in places, but basically interesting, and a reasonable take on what could happen if a runaway intelligence is created.

The last chapter however goes completely off the rails. It has little to do with the rest of the book, and comes off as if it were poorly written fan fiction based on the authors fantasies. I recommend skipping it, it’s not necessary to the book and I think the story would have been stronger finishing without it.
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by sph | 2025-06-03 06:04:42+00:00
In the age of bots, LLMs and people that have about .5s for you to impress them with a flashy image as they scroll by endlessly, I doubt you get the same attention you would’ve in the 90s Internet.

More eyeballs, sure, but worth 1/1000th of a visitor coming straight from a webring for your own niche, or that found you in the right section on Yahoo and AltaVista.
by rtpg | 2025-06-03 06:04:46+00:00
I don't have a huge dog in this fight apart from AI advocates being annoying... but I would say that for greenfield projects the interesting thing is that I can get a skeleton of a working iOS app for something simple in like an hour of some copy/pasting stuff from ChatGPT. Instead of spending a good amount of time trying to get through learning material to do it.

It's nice to build throwaway things _so fast_, especially in the sort of fuzzy stuff like frontend where it's fine for it to be completely wrong. And then I can just use my own sense of how computers work to fix up what I care about, delete a bunch of what I don't care about... It's pretty amazing.

For existing projects I have only witnessed garbage output. I know people have success. I haven't seen it.

I have witnessed PMs taking a bullet pointed list of requirements and then use ChatGPT to generate paragraphs of text for some reason. You had the list!
by Nopoint2 | 2025-06-03 06:05:06+00:00
I don't fear people using AI for evil. The destruction comes from something far more benign. These coders won't really be able to code, and they won't teach anybody else to code. Skills will be lost. Once something breaks, nobody will be able to fix it.

It may get worse. Imagine the police using AI to interpret evidence against you, get judged by a court that uses AI to write your sentence, based on laws that were also written by AI. Nobody understands this, just listen to the AI.

The other aspect of this is the flood of inane and untrue content. It may go to such an extent that the outlook of the typical person may become incredibly local again, limited to their immediate surroundings and personal experiences, not by choice, but because there won't be any way to obtain any reliable information about the outside world, with no way to sift the real from the unreal.
by captainbland | 2025-06-03 06:05:55+00:00
A couple of thoughts:

On 'just read the code' - all well and good. Of course this implies insisting on team members who can read the code, will read the code and are empowered to read the code.

Otherwise orgs will try to hire pure vibe coders who aren't interested in that and only allow time for literally just instructing agents to generate code because it sounds cheaper and execs don't understand the nuance so long as it looks like product is shipping - until it all blows up and the one standing senior developer on hand is supposed to fix a prod issue buried in millions of lines of vibe reviewed code ASAP.

On 'but it's cheaper than a junior': cloud hosted LLM systems are currently massively subsidised to an absurd degree. The cost side of things is all smoke and mirrors geared towards accelerated market adoption at all costs. It's not a profitable enterprise at the model development level.

At some point that AI economy is going to expect to make that money back, and future (especially near-future) hardware advancements don't explain where all of that is going to come from.
by intended | 2025-06-03 06:06:10+00:00
Heck, I think the septics are easy to redefine into whatever bloc you want, because the hype they are in opposition to, is equally vague and broad.

I’m definitely not skeptical of its abilities, I’m concerned by them.

I’m also skeptical that the AI hype is going to pan out in the manner people say it is. If most engineers make average or crappy code, then how are they going to know if the code they are using is a disaster waiting to happen?

Verifying an output to be safe depends on expertise. That expertise is gained through the creation of average or bad code.

This is a conflict in process needs that will have to be resolved.
by petersellers | 2025-06-03 06:06:11+00:00
I disagree strongly with this conclusion.

I've seen firsthand what happens to large software projects that collapse under their own weight of tech debt. The software literally could not function as intended - customers were lost, the product went under. Low quality being "expected" (which isn't true in my experience, either) is irrelevant when the software doesn't work at all.

The chances of all of that happening are a lot higher with a lone inexperienced engineer at the wheel. You still need experienced engineers to maintain your software, period.

> That's what is happening in the real world without LLMs entering the picture.

The difference is that most firms have experienced software engineers to fix those defects.
by number6 | 2025-06-03 06:06:33+00:00
You are the only one mentioning it.

I think the CRA is the right step in the right direction. Companies can finally be fined when they sell a product that has known vulnerabilities.

This is something that is discussed for years - now we have a definite Law.

And we already see changes: if you install Windows, the first thing it does is to get patches and the start over.
by constantcrying | 2025-06-03 06:07:31+00:00
>Of course there's a distinction. A decimal representation is a sequence of digits, not a number

Oh and what is a real number? Might a real number be a sequence of rationals? Or more correctly an equivalence class of cauchy series.

>It boils down from the definition of the decimal representation and the limit of a geometrical sequence.

No, it doesn't. You are assuming the conclusion.
by motorest | 2025-06-03 06:09:05+00:00
> If there is some magic $10k AI that can fully replace a $200k software engineer then I'd love to see it.

I think you have multiple offers of that very AI dangling in front of you, but you might be refusing to acknowledge them. One of the problems is the way you opt to frame the issue. Does "replacing" means firing the guy hoping to replace him with a Slack webhook? Or does it mean your team decides they don't need the same headcount of medior/senior engineers because a team of junior engineers mentored by someone focusing on quality ends up being more productive?
by dzhiurgis | 2025-06-03 06:09:44+00:00
> That sounds so liberating, but I could never do it.

I did that. Few years ago work was getting tough (new boss) and owner sold our rental right when second child was born. So we decided to move back from NZ to LT. Spent nearly a year living in Japan, Fiji and Tenerife and LT. Turned out to be mistake as work was hard to come by and it turns out I don't really like my country anymore. Kids need to go to daycare/school and form their friendships.

We went back to NZ, sourced some decent contract work and in like 6 months I was able to get mortgage. Life is stable and nice.

I get to spend money on improving house - got some tools and DIY a solar, heat recovery ventilation systems. Install Japanese toilet seats and get decent beds. Induction cooktop and some cooking tools. Ebike, kayaks and camping gear. Home assistant and robot vacuum. It's definitely reaching saturation point tho.

Hardest part is with third child on a way any sort of travel across the world is at least $10k in flights, $20k lost while not working and another 5k on vacant house.

Big hope is to save enough on a sailboat big enough for weekend trips. Otherwise grind another 5-10 years, sell everything and go around the world for a proper catamaran.
by wiseowise | 2025-06-03 06:10:11+00:00
Wake up, you’re already dependent on everything, unless you stick exclusively to Python std and no outside batteries.

Maven central is gone and you have no proxy setup or your local cache is busted? Poof, you’re fucking gone, all your Springs, Daggers, Quarkuses and every third party crap that makes up your program is gone. Same applies to bazillion JS, Rust libraries.
by dlcarrier | 2025-06-03 06:10:50+00:00
You wait 20 years, then work on it once the patents have expired. This happens to lots of technologies, which aren't properly license while under patent protection, then take off once the protection expires.

Probably the most well known is animated GIFs, which had some popularity in early web pages, but quickly died off, then had a huge upsurge after the patent expired in the 2000's, when anyone could add animated GIF outputs to any program or web service, without licensing.
by atemerev | 2025-06-03 06:10:52+00:00
The only way to fight bad actors using the technology is good actors using the technology.

You can write walls of texts about ethics and social failure. Bad actors won't care.

You can tell everyone that some technology is bad and everyone should stop using it. Some good people will listen to you and stop. Bad actors won't stop, and they will have technological edge.

You can ask politicians for regulation. However, your government might be a bad actor just as well (and recently we had a fine demonstration). They will not regulate in the interests of good people. They will regulate for what stakeholders want. Common people are never stakeholders.

If you want to stop bad actors doing bad things with AI: learn AI faster and figure out how to use AI to stop AI. This is the only way to fly.
by dcow | 2025-06-03 06:11:48+00:00
So the problem is society’s lack of any coherent ethical framework that says building powerful disruptive technology shall be done like this. If you’re tired, then go fix that problem. Find the answer. Because I’m *exhausted* hearing about how everybody is supposed to risk putting food on their table by telling the big boss they won’t make the feature because it’s unclear whether it might be a net negative for society under one contorted version of an angsty ethical framework a small minority of people have ad-hoc adopted on that orange message board… and that _scares_ them.
by Jordan-117 | 2025-06-03 06:12:00+00:00
One of my most problematic faves.

It's quite well-written, and the way the singularity unfolds is compellingly imagined. It's one of the few pieces of fiction I've ever seen that really grapples with the idea of paradise and what meaning life can have when all obstacles are removed. The streaks of graphic violence, though hard to stomach, serve to underscore this theme in a provocative way. And Caroline is fantastic.

That last chapter, though. It's so bizarre, so fetishistic, so needlessly squicky, that it just about ruins everything that came before. IMHO, it would be better if it just ended at the cliffhanger in the penultimate chapter.

That said, I'd love to read the long-awaited sequel (The Transmigration of Prime Intellect). I've also heard rumblings of a movie deal, though one likely consigned to either development hell or a rewrite that leaves it an adaptation in name only.
by simoncion | 2025-06-03 06:12:01+00:00
> The one dismissing all arguments about IP on the grounds that some software engineers are pirates?

Yeah... this was a really, incredibly horseshit argument. I'm all for a good rant, but goddamn, man, this one wasn't good. I would say "I hope the reputational damage was worth whatever he got out of it", but I figure he's been able to retire at any time for a while now, so that sort of stuff just doesn't matter anymore to him.
by dottedmag | 2025-06-03 06:13:05+00:00
Thank you, that's what I feel too.

For me switching the career, after spending more than 20 years in this as well... is very hard. I spent all my career outside of high-pay places like SV telling myself "I have all the time in the world, I don't need to grab most amount of money as soon as possible", so retiring is not an option.

So, switch to what? Any well-paid profession is going to be under pressure to be LLMized as much as possible.
by noam_k | 2025-06-03 06:14:11+00:00
This sounds like the "only following orders" argument.

_If_ developers _collectively_ were to quit jobs that don't line up with their morals and ethics, we _might_ see a change. I'm not saying this is an easy decision to make, and I definitely don't want to judge someone who decides to take a higher paying job, but there's potential here to shift the direction AI is taking.
by roughly | 2025-06-03 06:15:57+00:00
Looking past the gender in art issue, the approach is really interesting - they note in the article that early on members of the collective went to a protest and noted how ineffectual it seemed, and so they leaned into a style much closer to modern advertising. Take a look at the imagery and iconography of their work in the articles in the picture - there’s really a packaged look. I don’t know how impactful they were (although getting a write up 40 years later suggests they made a mark on someone, at least), but in an era where it sure doesn’t feel like protesting’s gotten any more effective, it’s an interesting read.
by simoncion | 2025-06-03 06:16:04+00:00
> I'm a little ... concerned that this will accelerate the adoption of languages and frameworks based on their popularity and bury away interesting new abstractions and approaches...

I'd argue that the Web development world has been choosing tooling based largely on popularity for like at least a decade now. I can't see how tooling selection could possibly get any worse for that section of the profession.