kamaal

>>Yeah, SO's culture meant that it was always my absolute last resort to ask a question there.

Have seen this every where, even in case of people. If people are dreading to even approach you for something, its over for you. You can't get just the good things to pass through a filter. No such thing exists.

In many ways you need to be open for everything(apart from outright wrong things, like abuse) including stupid things, to get the good things.

Similar things are happening in the competitive programming world.

Quite a lot of people are not happy they aren't elite anymore, and many have spent years to decades to arrive here.

Simply put you invest years of your life to establish a kind of distinction over others, and that goes away. That hurts.

But its not something surprising. Most of these competitive programming problems were actually English languages puzzles, because you couldn't dial up the mathematical difficulty anymore making it a fields medal problem. And in most cases in simple language weren't even that hard to begin with, and you could look up solutions to these problems in an hour of Google searching.

If a coal miner or car mechanic would say something like this, they would be called a luddite by the same science people.

Its different when your own job is on the line.

When human manual arts were being automated away it was supposed to be not only acceptable but any complain and you were told you were a progress blocking luddite.

Now that mental labor is getting automated, the response to automation is very different.

>>However, on one point I increasingly agree: virtually none of this stuff is possible with technology any normal citizen has access to.

So basically nothing changes, Math was subject to gatekeeping and policing of the worst kind.

If you were not among the geniuses, and it didn't come to you automagically, you were simply supposed to leave it to the people who did get it and go do work for people of your intelligence. Smugness was too much to take.

Math people, like chess people never made any genuine attempt to help people understand the processes and methods that made math happen.

To me it should have been a field as teachable and ubiquitous as accounting.

The net result is once these methods and processes were worked out by AI, it was over for the human mathematicians.

>>I think getting angry at or threatening a business owner for using them is a huge overreaction.

Im in India, ordered a bed from a carpenter, a week later he made a great a bed. He took pictures, and used some AI magic had it put it in more grand rooms. He posted it on his Instagram and Facebook feeds.

The next day when I went to him to have it delivered to my place, he showed me he had received lots of offers to make the same bed for other people and his order book was full for the next few months.

Until the robots actually arrive to do his work, AI in many way is going to a huge positive for him. Its going to be the same case for many many such people.

If AI can make any language do anything, why move away from React Native ?

What you could do with Kotlin/Swift you can do with React Native as well.

This just feels like internal factions wanting their own teams, and owning their respective politics, than a discussion on Merit.

I think this is how Asgard worked.

The tech got so advanced people kind of used the advanced tech, but looked pretty much like a how medieval society would. Even their politics.

>>which actually deals with the finiteness of the list of problems that a machine successfully exhausts.

This is already the case with most DevOps jobs with Claude Code. There are only that many finite issues that need fixing in production, even for very large systems.

So you don't need all that many people to run ops these days.

>>Elon firing half of Twitter just normalized layoffs to such an extent that it’s considered par for the course now

The site was broken for eternity after that, but people continued to use it as it was the only source of real time news. In many ways its not the old Twitter at all.

Now the head counts dont even matter because its all agents writing the code, reviewing the code, and deploying the code.

If you treat politics as a religion then you argue merits.

Most common people care for abundance and affluence. Any system that helps them arrive there is ok.

In short being a high agency person is now more important than ever.

I learned some Forth and played around right before the LLM trend began.

It was a mind bending experience, although I quit after a while as the programs were kind of glass sheet quality brittle as they grew.

Sometimes I feel I need to start again to keep my brain from losing thinking skills over time.