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Anthropic/OpenAI should start doing mass layoffs if they want to convince other companies that this is really the human-labor killer.

No, this isn’t what you said. You said that those resistant only view this as a job and don’t love solving problems - this is a completely ridiculous opinion/propaganda.

The world isn’t so black and white. It’s possible to be excited about what AI can help accelerate and simultaneously be resistant to the idea that 100% of software engineering (from premise -> shipped and maintained) can and should be offloaded purely to AI. And more importantly, AI reminds me a lot of leverage - it amplifies the good, but possibly more importantly it really amplifies the bad.

Software engineering is much more than just writing code.

> I have a very hard time taking that offense seriously.

Empathy can be a tough skill to learn, but I think it’s worth it!

> This in particular is a really silly hill to die on,

Stating that people can't love software development or solving problems because they are resistant to AI taking over their entire job is a silly hill to die on?

I really enjoy what I do, and have done, for the past 20 years. When I first wrote code I literally thought I discovered magic. In many ways, AI has re-triggered some of those feelings!

I also really care about building quality software for our customers.

And it infuriates me to no end when I see huge amounts of objectively incorrect code being written by AI, and the developer behind it stating they have no idea what it's doing, or when people say they can't solve a problem because they are out of AI tokens, etc.

But supposedly these are the people who care about solving problems? Not just that - they are the only people who care about solving problems.

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Yeah, it's offensive.

> The ones who are most resistant to it are the ones for whom it has been "just a job", but the ones who love it are the ones who love solving problems.

Wow, what a simplistic, uncalled for view of the world. This is just so ignorantly and offensively incorrect.

Social Security is a really bad example though. It doesn’t support a living wage, and everybody depending on it would have been better off if they could have invested those taxes instead.

This is the “propaganda” sponsored by most leftists, though?

Except not equality - stepping stones. Socialism is supposed to lead to communism, per Marx. That’s not a right wing take, unless you consider Karl Marx a conservative.

I think this is my main hesitation with picking up the Duo on the first release. I have no doubt the build quality is exceptional, but the chance that the apps I use are not well optimized for this new form factor is pretty high in the first year of its release.

I don't think they won't work, but I anticipate oddities to appear for a while, especially for older applications.

Because Anthropic and OpenAI are the primary drivers of the AI space?

“We have built this thing that is so powerful that it will wipe out all jobs ever created. Therefore we are the only thing worth investing in.”

But this is marketing. This is just pre-IPO talk.

Anthropic’s goal is not anything to do with AI, it is purely to generate more profit than any other company.

Securing/lobbying to regulate their competitors through doom talk, or promising that they will bankrupt every other company because AI will “do it all, better than everyone else” is purely for investment purpose.

As long as their incentive is monetary, it’s not unreasonable to believe this is just marketing.

I am absolutely appalled that this type of marketing is allowed. It is so disingenuous.

Am I the only one starting to get annoyed by Bun just due to all the surrounding drama? I was genuinely surprised this was an actual link about an update - my gut inclination opening that was Jarred probably decided to rewrite Bun to JavaScript to stay pure or something like that.

We all are, mostly.

In my experience Sonnet is actually pretty good at coding tasks, at least with Go.