mikojan

> we may come to value more highly what remains uniquely human: our capacity to relate and to care for one another

...under capitalism...

Sure we will...

Clearly the high-tech plagiarism machine will successfully plagiarise one of the most plagiarised games.

Everybody and their grandmother uses their services. Are you organizing a non-profit rehearsal space? Create a mailing list there.

This is grim.

I guess this only works because those are foreign servers so freedom of speech does not apply but Italy is doing their bidding?

Yea, if those 5% are the top-5% - everybody else gets inconvenienced by Neo-Liberal policies all the time.

This works great as long as you are not doing what the parent comment cautions you to not do: Let agents decide the architecture.

The moment you do that, why even bother producing a result.md? Just let the Bot execute on its findings, you realistically won't be able to judge them anyway.

> There is a reason that books like "the staff engineer's path" cover topics such as local maximums, communication, [...]

Why would they cover programming? That's what all the books on programming are for.

Also I see no need for signal processing to make programming a hard problem. Writing correct code is hard. Writing code that makes incorrect code easy to spot and hard to write is hard.

You can be great at local maximums, communication, establishing support for executing a plan or creating alignment on big efforts, and proceeded to still create a ball of mud. Bug ridden, hard to read, hard to debug.

> I don't like the implication that there are people who join a union because they are bad at their job.

What are you talking about? I never insinuated anything like that.

What do you mean? What is the problem with that statement?

Volkswagen is perhaps the greatest counter-example. The union in Germany converted every layoff initiative in whole or in part (more often in whole) into partial retirements, backfill stops, reduced working hours, compensation freezes.

Financial equity, benefits and opportunities at other companies in my experience are not the determining factors for tech workers. Lack of or loss of self-determination and self-governance are.

The tech workers who are unionized that I know didn't join for financial gain because there is none (except for a few who are bad at bargaining). They joined to exert control over their workplaces and help build companies they can be proud of.

After watching this video I am absolutely positive that the issue is not a lack of stamina in humans. It is that humans have the capacity to realize that this is a bad idea long before they complete it.

We have been building complex software before and we continue to do so. The question is where is this mythical codebase 10 times more complex then the Linux kernel that we were previously unable to produce? Or let it just be complex software. Where is it? What are the names?

> Because using Gen AI means you're committing to codebases that go beyond individual cognitive limits.

Sure, the amount of code generated is exploding but where are these successful production applications that have "[gone] beyond individual cognitive limits"?

It's been some time now. Half a year ago I was concerned with the impact Gen AI might have on this profession. Today I am primarily tired of Gas Towns, Loops and the next fad.

Why do I have to still debug complex problems myself. Why do I have to still do detailed examinations.

Gen AI helps building big software. But the only thing it has truly replaced me in is building small software that in most cases I wouldn't have bothered building in the first place.

I too like to one-shot clone music production software, redo the whole readme in a single commit and show hacker news 6 months later

Sibling commented on organizational disadvantages that may or may not be inherent to cooperatives.

However, another explanation is that the dominant economic and legal environment - and, indeed, society itself - is structured around a single business model: the capitalist as chief, and workers with no meaningful voice in management.

Mondragon emerged in a region with strong traditions of industrial organization, communal solidarity and popular education, as well as a recent memory of workers' movements. It also arose within living memory of the large-scale worker collectivizations of the Spanish Revolution, particularly in Catalonia.

Much of the social and institutional environment that has made this possible has weakened over recent decades. This was not merely an accidental development: in much of the world, it was the result of a conscious political project that accelerated in the 1980s.