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What’s wrong with Toyota?

I don’t care about HN the same way I care about my development platform. If I want to show someone my life’s work I don’t send then to HackerNews.

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Okay this is kinda random and maybe off topic but can someone please explain?

When I tell an LLM to count to 10 with a 2 second pause between each count all it does is generate Python code with a sleep function. Why is that?

A 3 year old can understand that question and follow those instructions. An LLM doesn’t have an innate understanding of time it seems.

Can we really call it AGI if that’s the case?

That’s just one example.

This thread reads like sour grapes to me. When people can’t compete but instead start throwing unfounded allegations is not a good look.

Even OpenAI itself hasn’t resorted to these wild conspiracy theories.

Unless you’re an insider in these companies, you’re just like the rest of us, you know nothing.

Does anyone know what CMS this website uses?

> week, they would be artists, parents, lovers, researchers

And who would 1. Pave your roads 2. Keep you safe 3. Care for you when you’re old 4. Keep the electric grid running 5. Etc

Modern society works because there’s a bunch of people who do things they don’t like.

The alternative is that we all go back to being hunter gatherers.

> That’s more than what French government pays its rocket scientists.

I was about to call bullshit but then looked up the average salary for an aeronautical engineer in France and it was… bleak.

There are two reasons I can think of:

1. The most popular front-end frameworks (e.g. React and Angular) are created by large orgs which naturally leads to extensive codebases as they’ll need to have many use cases.

2. Every new and shiny front-end framework is good for job security since having it on a resume makes you more hireable. I suspect it’s also why some developers practically force startups to switch their front-end codebase to the next shiny framework - resume padding.

As a solo dev I wasted a few years using (and hating) these new frameworks for my Django projects because it’s what everyone was recommending.

Then it hit me when I realized that they were meant for large dedicated front-end teams to increase their productivity. If you’re a solo developer, they actually hurt your productivity.

That’s why I’m so happy with htmx. I can get my sanity back!

Well, many open source developers are quite content with making their software freely accessible without expectation of monetary gain. In fact some are strongly opposed to it (see uBlock Origin maintainer). And that’s ok too!

Honest question: how valuable is the current mode of testing (based rote memorization) if much of that can be done by AI anyway? Maybe it’s time for new testing methodologies?

All great points. To add: As someone who's worked blue collar jobs, it is all too common for unions to protect assholes from getting fired. This leads to a hostile work environment created by the "high seniority" workers.

Something I don't like whenever these discussions come up is the condescending tone, from white collar workers. "Don't these poor people know what's good for them????"

Working class people are capable of thinking for themselves and it's not that uncommon for people to move from a union shop to a non-union shop due to the reasons outlined above.

> eventually we'll land on something similar to medicine or other engineering areas where accreditation is prerequisite

You are saying people will need to be certified to be programmers?

This is just gate keeping and considering how accessible computing is, it would never work anyway.