AlienRobot

I guess this is the new normal.

The tests aren't reliable if the entire codebase was rewritten, including the tests, and then nobody read the tests.

A browser does not send 10k requests per minute to open a webpage. Even in the most and modern bloated webpages. And even if it did it wouldn't be to a single website.

A user operating a scraper or a crawler IS operating a scraper or a crawler.

Google overview frequently cites webpages that don't include the keywords of a query.

This is Google, the most used search engine in the world, made by a company that is at the forefront of AI development.

ChatGPT, Claude, etc,. constantly generate answers without sources and rarely cite anything verbatim. I'm not sure if they could cite something verbatim even if they wanted.

Essentially none of these tools are appropriate for information.

To put things in perspective, I used to dunk on crypto because of how dysfunctional and how people kept losing money in scams, hacks, or even by accident.

I no longer dunk on crypto.

Not because crypto got better, but because the joke got old. I got tired of dunking on it.

The words you are using are very confusing.

You can't "move money into an offline crypto wallet that is not online at all."

If "money" i.e. crypto "currency" is in a crypto "wallet" then it is online. Anyone with the key and an Internet connection can transfer it at any time.

The wording is confusing because to someone who doesn't know how cryptocurrencies work it sounds like you can simply "take the crypto offline and put it into a physical device" as if it was a file. But that's not how it works. The physical key merely contains the actual key for the always-online wallet.

You are wrong. Search is already profitable. It doesn't need to become more profitable. The profits can simply be used to improve the profitability of other offerings like Google Cloud.

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

s/time/effort

Everyone already uses Google, so every quarter the revenue goes up it's definitely not because of a higher market share...

Why does it even need to keep going up anyway? Is 60 billion not enough?

I had forgotten about that. I also had some of my questions rewritten by other users. That felt so ridiculous. If there is something to add, add in a comment? Why is anyone even able to rewrite what others wrote? Who thought this was a good idea?

But who is reading those tests? Tests to code LOC was 0.15:1 because humans only tested that 0.15. Now you are assuming that the test the machine wrote actually covers the features that should be tested.

Depending on machine-generated tests that nobody reads isn't better than having poorer coverage. The only thing that is guaranteed is that that mass of code returns "true" with the current implementation and "false" if the implementation changes in some ways. Unless people actually read the LLM-generated code, it's impossible to know if it tests anything that actually matters or just tests the same code path that would never be actually used in production in 5 different ways.

That's just your opinion.

I wonder why would anyone write a book if an LLM company can just buy 1 copy and reproduce it forever?

>Just because these businesses don't charge you a fee doesn't mean they shouldn't be customer support

Isn't there customer support for their actual customers, who buy ads?

I think that is a misleading way to put it.

Someone who makes youtube videos about Foo belongs to the Foo community, but they can't post on /r/Foo. Why? Because /r/Foo isn't the community of "Foo."

The "community" in this case refers specifically to a group of people on Reddit.

That is, the guy will never belong to the "community" because he is busy making videos on Youtube instead of posting comments on Reddit. And you can replace that with anything else. Someone who writes their own blog, or own books, or has an Instagram, TikTok, or even a Facebook page.

He would be considered a "high effort" OC creator in /r/foo if his videos were hosted on Reddit instead of on Youtube. That's how silly this whole thing is. This is not about "the community." This is about someone's personal Reddit group that they're moderator of.