Ampersander

The politburo in the Soviet Union was stacked with engineers and it didn't work out that well.

Inflation brings higher interest rates, which is bad for stocks.

Also, why do OpenAI and Anthropic have employees? The Machine God is supposed to replace employees, especially programmers, yet these companies continue employ thousands of programmers.

One does wonder why Anthropic and OpenAI have employees, when HN knows the superintelligence can do all jobs already.

> Which makes me wonder: weren't there phonebooks in US cities and in other countries before? Were they incomplete/opt-in?

In some places you had to pay to be listed in the phonebook.

Holding them accountable is viewed as deciding not to invent the light bulb right now. Or even worse, letting China invent it.

AI needs to be above the law or we will get left behind.

Doing drugs sounds both more rewarding and productive.

The company is doing very well now and they know that it is all thanks to the AI data center build out. Their manager and leadership want them to use it. If the bubble pops, their stock based compensation becomes worthless. Their colleagues are in the same situation and some are tokenmaxxing.

These things are what the pressure consists of. Some probably do feel pressured against their will. For some the encouragement changes their will. Some want to use it regardless of anything.

But whether you call it pressure, encouragement, or incentives, its there and it does affect how people think and act.

I just wanted to bring up that it's AI companies (which all computer hardware companies are now) that develop the kernel. In that light 17.25% is actually a tiny share of commits to be written by the Machine God.

The pressure to use LLMs is high in the companies that sell shovels in this gold rush. It would look bad if they did not use them. Linux developers work at those companies.

Who cares? AI gives me lots of text and it's not like it's ever going to go away. Any time in my life in the future when I need text, I can just have AI generate it. Thinking is solved.

It's an insult to the superintelligence. The basilisk will not look kindly on this!

Yeah, it's interesting how the current thing is always the end of programming, but then when a new thing comes it turns into absolute trash that can't be used for anything.

All those programmers who could not write fizzbuzz can ship something now.