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Can you elaborate more, please? I'm curious.

The Dog Man series is probably the one I read the most to my kids, and the one I liked the most. The 10 first books are one whole story, read them in order. The Cat Kid Comic Club is cool as well.

The "Who would win?" series is also very popular at home.

The Owly comics are amazing for kids who are just starting to read. It's also super cute.

Junie B. Jones stuff is also something I recall reading multiple times.

I see the opposite: AI has made it so easy to reverse engineer closed source stuff, that there's no point in closed source software anymore: anybody with a good AI in their hands will be able to completely RE whatever closed source you have and do whatever they want with it: pirate or create a clone or whatever. Also, find security holes. At this point, closing the source is really not doing a whole lot for you.

> Any project that sees a semblance of success will be cloned overnight many times over

The point of open source is that if your project is really good, people will not only clone it, but contribute their changes to it. Having a million forks is not productive and does not help the community at all, and, frankly, doesn't happen when the open source software is really useful: at some point people will get together and work for one of the "copies" to become the one everybody works with.

If your open source project gets forked and everybody starts contributing to the fork, maybe you should rethink how you approach your relationship with the community.

Switch your hobby to Chess. AIs are not taking it over anymore than they already have, lol. The Chess community has reached equilibrium and lives happily with its AI overlords pointing their pitiful moves.

Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!

In my organization, the people who use AI the most are not the most productive nor the ones who generate value for the company. Some of the most productive employees, in fact, have a strict "no AI" stance. I understand how AI is helping me, and I wonder how much better these guys could get with some AI help, but I'm convinced a lot of people overestimate AI's capabilities to help them be more productive.

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> Hearing so many people say that AI-generated code is unusable and fixing it takes longer than writing it by hand, makes me wonder if they are working on a very specific field or I just have skill issues.

In my work, there are people everywhere in the "AI adoption" spectrum.

On one hand, a certain Senior engineer spent a month having an AI write him thousands of lines of code for a feature. The AI wrote a million tests, tools to visualize data, everything. But he still has not delivered the code to the main repository since he knows nobody will ever review the mess the AI wrote, and he can't even properly understand it to defend it in review. We have human reviews as part of our process, the coworker is 100% stuck on it.

I, on the other hand, don't ask AI to write code for me, but I have AI explain me concepts, track down bugs, review my patches, etc. Sometimes it shows me patch format, but I prefer it doesn't touch my filesystem. I treat it as a senior employee whose task is to be there and help me. It's been going great. I am definitely more productive, I am coding faster, and the future is sustainable for me. Having it write shit for me would definitely be faster, but I want to use AI as a tool to teach me what to do, not do it for me.

There are also employees who are still working on the pre-AI model. Whenever AI is mentioned, they automatically assume it could be hallucinating and whatnot. To these, I never mention AI, because it simply derails the conversation to a useless point.

Nice website. One problem, though: the animation goes too fast for my reading speed, so I have to click stop. Then when I click on the next thing, I have to click stop again. Very annoying. If I click stop, just make it stay stopped until I click play again (which I won't).

I may be wrong, but my personal experience is just that AIs are better at better-documented languages. By now, Rust is very well documented, perhaps significantly better than Zig (I haven't verified!).

Try asking an AI to write OpenCL shaders for you. It constantly hallucinates function calls that don't exist. I presume it is just because the language is does not have the ocean of documentation that others have.

"De-googling" is a spectrum, and I was pretty proud of being farther and farther away (Android and Youtube being the main resistance). But recently, I find myself using Gemini more and more often... I hate that I am more relying on it, but Gemini seems significantly smarter than the other free alternatives for the stuff that I do :(. But Gemini has been extremely helpful for me.

Only for the models where I'm not paying per token.

Let me tell you something that does not make money: selling fiction books as an independent author (through physical copies, Kindle ebooks and Kindle Unlimited). Family member is a good writer, has been trying to "make it" for a few years already (published multiple books, has good reviews), and the monthly profit is still not enough to buy a pizza.

Ah, c'mon! You went all the way to find out the issue and write about it, and won't do the most interesting part which is to tell us what was the remote script that would end up running!?