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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It appears that we are only now returning to normal after the 2008 horse bubble
- Comment on Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp 4 days ago:
This will fail spectacularly.
Most likely outcome: almost no one buys in. Meta keeps the service going, maintaining the features at a loss, for several years. Eventually, the end the whole experiment, cancel everyone’s subscriptions. The nicer features (eg, ad blocking) will never see the light of day again, while the dumb features (adding minion animations to text posts) will be rolled out to all users.
Less likely outcome: enough people start paying to perk up some ears. It becomes a not-uncommon subscription to have… but not very common either, similar to youtube premium. Meta makes the base product increasingly unusable in an attempt to drive more users to the paid version (and because they can now justify more ads with “well buy the subscription”). Eventually, the platforms become so unusable that everyone… stops using them.
- Comment on Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban 2 weeks ago:
How are chat bots killing people?
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 2 weeks ago:
I’m confused why you are confused.
In the past week, just prompting, and inspecting the code to provide guidance from time to time
I feel like it is pretty clear the author said “hey AI, do this thing.” The AI made an attempt, the author clarified a few things and maybe made some edits, and then was satisfied with the result.
Like your example of planning a wedding menu. I’m not sure where the ambiguity is. If someone said “I used chatgpt to plan my wedding menu”, I assume they prompted it something like “plan my wedding menu. I want something classy but cheap. No fish.” Then chatgpt spat out a few options, they provided feedback - “I dont like broccoli either” - and then they picked an option they like.
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 2 weeks ago:
From the article, literally one line above the line you quoted:
In the past week, just prompting, and inspecting the code to provide guidance from time to time, in a few hours I did the following four tasks, in hours instead of weeks:
- I modified my linenoise library to support UTF-8, and created a framework for line editing testing that uses an emulated terminal that is able to report what is getting displayed in each character cell. Something that I always wanted to do, but it was hard to justify the work needed just to test a side project of mine. But if you can just describe your idea, and it materializes in the code, things are very different.
- I fixed transient failures in the Redis test. This is very annoying work, timing related issues, TCP deadlock conditions, and so forth. Claude Code iterated for all the time needed to reproduce it, inspected the state of the processes to understand what was happening, and fixed the bugs.
- Yesterday I wanted a pure C library that would be able to do the inference of BERT like embedding models. Claude Code created it in 5 minutes. Same output and same speed (15% slower) than PyTorch. 700 lines of code. A Python tool to convert the GTE-small model.
- In the past weeks I operated changes to Redis Streams internals. I had a design document for the work I did. I tried to give it to Claude Code and it reproduced my work in, like, 20 minutes or less (mostly because I’m slow at checking and authorizing to run the commands needed).
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 2 weeks ago:
“Everyone stop using mechanical looms! They are going to steal all our weaving jobs!”
- Comment on Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users 1 month ago:
Tell me how I am wrong - how else am I to learn?
- Comment on Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users 1 month ago:
Unsurprising.
The dark web exists to serve criminals, subversives, and paranoid people. Why else would someone go to the trouble of accessing a part of the internet with a worse user interface that requires additional work to access? There is a pre-existing filter for people who are mentally unwell.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 months ago:
But not all of them get whacked.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 months ago:
I mean, it kind of works, right? With tons of small instances, the government is playing whack-a-mole
- Comment on WhatsApp rolls out 'Writing Help' AI feature to help you adjust how your messages sound 5 months ago:
I upvoted this because it is information others should know.
But god I wanted to downvote this.
- Comment on Google executive Ruth Porat calls Trump admin’s climate denialism “fantastic” and calls for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 5 months ago:
Wrong use of the word “fantastic”
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 5 months ago:
Almost certainly this is not actually due to AI. Instead, it is due to tarriffs, or unfounded optimism about AI. Smart companies can easily see the coming impact of tarriffs, and are culling their workforce in anticipation. Dumb companies hear about how “AI can do everything”, and are following suit. But telling everyone the layoffs are due to AI doesn’t scare off (most) investors. So stock prices can remain high for another quarter.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 5 months ago:
Idk, the ceo of my previous company was pretty intelligent. Taught himself software and built the company from the ground up. A bit too much into Jesus for my taste, but a good guy.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 5 months ago:
Welp, time to start self hosting a trello clone for my todos
- Comment on Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education 8 months ago:
What would an “AI Class” even entail?