Quarrelsome

Having watched almost everyone in my career prefer to do what they're told instead of pushing back in order to build the right thing, I kinda agree.

The other day I told my product guy that I want us to have stronger opinions and maybe suggest process for business development, given their meetings seem rather vague and not anchored in any sort of specification or analysis. He looked at me like I'd just shot his son.

Commodities. They power the economy and they're worldwide. Ofc you want the free flow of goods. From the US's perspective who cares who runs what nation, as long as its not hostile and its stable then the commodities can flow from it. Then manufacturers can make whatever they want to create products to generate growth and wealth, the vast majority of which flows into the US and into their stock market.

As it stands the war in Iran is creating problematic issues with many petrochemicals and their derivative products making it harder for countries to generate wealth to invest in the US stock market.

> People with that level of power — because it is power — will do what they will. “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must”.

agreed and we should hate them for it.

> disagree with his politics

Its the character. Buying a global media platform to "promote free speech" and then shunt the entire thing and himself behind a particular political party. This guy uses his money and his twitter account to support neo-nazi hate groups in my country (Britain First, Patriotic Alternative, Hundred Handers, Tommy Tennames). He has no self-restraint. Its abhorrent. Its not "about politics" when the politics is about racial superiority and ethnic cleansing.

> Imagine if you couldn't post a thread about Microsoft products on HN without republicans feeling the need to jump in to talk about how much they hate Bill Gates for his donations to Kamala Harris's campaign in 2024. It's really tiresome.

and if Bill Gate was literally campaigning for the Dems, getting up on stage, handing voters cheques and THEN being employed by the government to run a department then you'd have a point.

He repeatedly crosses the line of what is appropriate. People with that level of wealth should stay the fuck away from politics and respect democracy instead of using their money and business to have excessive influence on democratic outcomes. Its unseemly and disrespects the idea of everyone getting the same amount of votes. I respect that donations have similarities but there's a difference between making a donation and being excessively public.

its not about virtue and its not even about starving. Its about making a global economy more stable so the world is richer and the US almost always profits from that.

he directed government money from strategic projects that makes the world more stable to ensure the US could waste it all fighting another dumb war. Its hard to justify, easy to criticise.

its cos he's a prick. The way he pretended to "fairly" sack devs at twitter when he was clearly just trying to cut costs. That he bought twitter to "defend free speech" and then started donating to the Republication party and promoting a very specific political position online. As a euro the Nazi salute alone is enough for me.

The qualifier matters, that guy has serious issues.

what people consider to be "intelligence" isn't about doing l33t maths, its about self-doubt. This enables us to mitigate against our cognitive biases and instinctual impulses and accept truth, which leads to more useful outcomes.

All that buying a calculator does, is allow you to do bad sums more quickly.

sure, but now if you're running an entire agentic run for an org, what's to stop you just replacing the org? Previously you didn't have the wadge to pay for all the devs.

if you're stupid then this technology just amplifies your stupidity which means you can fail faster. I also think the inverse is true.

It might be copium, but the only guaranteed thing that happens is change.

Remember its coming up millenilal time now and i have hope in this gen.

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Im low key of the opinion that these tools enhance existing attributes while displacing the advantages of unearned social or financial power.

So in the short term the tide might go out but then it might tsunami back.

Same goes for this terrifying political feeling around the world. Might simply be a boomer swansong and the reaction might snap back.

didnt the article say thay engineers still review change requests? They just switched from reviewing code to reviewing intent.

So "no direct human supervision" seems like a misunderstanding. Article even bigs up the purpose of engineers with a hilarious (to me at least) line about auto adversial reviews resulting in over engineered designs.

I mean you could have asked it to build a log classifier instead so next time it happens you either get the solution immediately or it autos into an llm giving you its answer.

You're wasting time and tokens here.

Apparently using sqlite aint learning.