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Interference with an election is so in line with the current president's character that nobody has any reason to think otherwise.

The political atmosphere in the USA, and worldwide let's be honest, has become so cynical that people aligned with the American president don't really see any issue with doing morally wrong things or downright illegal acts if that means a political victory for them.

That's a real issue in my opinion.

A lot of people get involved in open source because of the sense of community or because they like the idea of giving something to the world.

What's the point in contributing to opensource if your work gets violated by vibecoders and corps that disrespect your licensing and give you no credit while simultaneously clamiing your work is useless and you're going to be replaced by a LLM model?

Any ecosystem declines when there are too many cynical grifters compared to well meaning hard working people.

I once read the criticism that science is already moving too fast and that wrong results get published and accepted as true because nobody reaps any laurels for verifying or reproducing results, even if that's an indispensable part of the scientific method.

Now in the age of AI this problem will be heavily accentuated. Who's going to review the quality and validity of dozens and dozens of papers being generated by a researcher who used to publish sporadically?

It's not hard to see science going through a "slop crisis" in the next few years, in the same way that now projects are getting inundated with PRs.

In my experience, most people are overworked, stressed and exhausted.

I don't find it surprising at all that social activities have been declining. It sounds like normal mammal behavior in fact.

>But a lot of it is also just culture / parenting. Every parent wants their kid to become a software engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor. There's basically zero pride in being a machinist.

I disagree.

A lot of people, nerds (and me) included, would see no problem in taking an operational role inside manufacturing if it paid a livable wage and offered a career.

But somehow people still act shocked when nobody wants to work a job that pays retail wages.

Welcome to the age of monopolistic capitalism, they know you have nowhere to run and all the competitors charge the same price.

For each service you feel that's enshittified, ask yourself how many real competitors they have.

I honestly didn't read the whole article, but I think that this kind of experiment leads to a misleading way of seeing things.

I met a few architects/team leaders who wouldn't write almost any code and just technically oversaw things before LLMs got popular, obviously they were very experiencied.

What you have to ask yourself is whether you could oversee a swarm of bots(or people) if you didn't have any coding experience in the first place.

A lot of HN users seem to be, in my opinion, too dismissive about the complexity of creating software. It's true that we don't have to develop in assembly anymore to be a good developer and with time the general level of the entry abstractions that we deal with rises, but, in my opinion once again, it will never change the fact that you need a high number of hours of exposure to something in order to be truly competent to a professional level.

It's hard to explain my relationship with Emacs, but starting it is the first thing I do when I turn on my computer.

I don't use it much for development these days, but I always have a bunch of buffers open and I do a lot of residual work on it.

If I install Linux on my computer, the first thing I always do is install Emacs, it's like a kind of default environment for doing everything text related, and it feels incredibly unfamiliar not to have it open all the time.

How could this be anti-ethical? You're just running a very complex algorithm in your machine.

Would we be able to have a "digital human" when we reach the level of creating this kind of brain mapping for the human brain?

Honestly I think we're still discovering how powerful neural networks are and certainly they can do computations that sound very close to intelligence in some contexts, but I still find it hard to think that we can simplify the whole reality of an incredibly complex chemical machinery down to a bunch of matrices multiplications.

>rust programs are a lot of times faster [...] than C and C++ counterparts

Troll post? Or has fanboyism really gone this far?

I agree with you, it doesn't take long to identify the itemized style that LLMs use and it's always incredibly annoying.

I would rather read the original thoughts of the engineer, grammar mistakes and stylistic imperfections included, than prompt generated AI slop.

I don't know about the cost-of-living reality in the flyover states, but are you sure you're taking into account the 5x multiplier that kids represent for that specific example?

I think that just in terms of food expenses, having to feed five children + one spouse might be pretty challenging. Let alone if we factor in things like healthcare plans, among other things.

Another thing: the GP's grandfather was a blue collar worker, you're talking about a white collar remote worker who by definition is a high earner and not somebody average.

This talking point that things are not harder today and everybody would be able to have the same affluence of 60's people if at least they were not so demanding sounds completely unrealistic.

This article itself is AI slop, of course this is not surprising coming from a website called "ai-updates.net" which I get the impression that might be entirely vibe coded too.

I feel that maybe in the future HN will have to implement a "low quality AI" flag or something(if it has aleady I'm not aware).