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you have a fixed pool of resources and more demand than there is availability. do you sort the queue by a impact on quality of life heuristic or do you sort the queue by willingness to pay money? in one system, people are more inconvenienced; in the other system, people with no money die or are saddled with debt.

anyways the crazy thing to me was recently learning that americans often still have to wait long periods of time in ERs and to see specialists. you're telling me y'all waste dozens of hours navigating insurance plans but you still have to wait an average of 50 days to see a dermatologist or wait for 6 hours in the ER?

believe it or not i don't wait that long here in canada

this strikes me as the responsible way to use AI period - test it out, see what works then clean it up until its something you understand & can feel good about.

what's there to miss? if these ever make it to market their only purpose will be conspicuous consumption for vice-signalling ding dongs

tbh to me if the AI company writes all of your code & your eng don't even review it anymore then… the AI company _controls your company_. maybe that's ok if you make widgets but less ok if you do anything in dev tooling, security, or [insert market they may suddenly decide to compete in].

Similarly, I've never understood the economics behind the constant rescraping that is flooding the internet or really what's triggering it.

It can't all be agents reacting to user queries. It's confounding how much CPU and bandwidth is getting flushed down the drain.

what if i were purely interested in archiving local community posts? does anyone have experience on scraping without getting banned?

i have no interest in juicing engagement, purely from a "20 years from now it'll be cool to know this existed at all" aspect.

i feel like ppl have magical beliefs about type systems. just because it's _probably_ (did it use unsafe?) memory-safe doesn't mean it does what you want it to do

javascript is like… unusually messy and weird, so maybe that colours most people's perspective. you don't have to worry about type coercion and weird kinds of equality and so on in python and ruby to anywhere near the same extent.

>Type systems restrict which programs can be expressed and increasing expressiveness often requires increasing type-system complexity (which, speaking from experience, both humans and agents will struggle with). Plus they are not the only mechanism to assert correctness (they only validate a subset of your program correctness and do not replace tests)

This articulates a lot of my own thinking wrt type systems, speaking as a downstream user without a lot of exposure to prog language theory, and I wish this debate were more often framed in these terms.

Another reply to this comment hinted that it might be more about giving LLMs feedback loops and that to me also seems like a more likely mechanism.

I'm not an elixir user but I've watched it from a distance over the years – thank you for your efforts and your experimentation.

not going to debate bad faith right wing cause celebres arguing the inverse.

i see it with my own two eyes when i have to yell at recruiters to stop bringing me all-male candidate slates, i see it from studies in social sciences, and i know it from having seen the progression over my own career and listening to my female colleagues. at the end of the day a lot of men don't see women and minorities as people with full agency.

there's loads of evidence, y'all just don't like engaging with it cos you don't like the answer because fixing it is work and fundamentally women and minorities are not seen as people with full agency.

i'm old enough to remember when software engineering conferences were _2%_ female. it's exhausting to be having this same conversation decades later.

>The fact that a company does not have representation that is exactly equitable with the general population

i didn't say exactly equitable, i said 80%. it's not possible to have 80% white guys and not be discriminatory.

you're making a bad faith apples to oranges comparison, to say nothing of the merit of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. your viewpoint and disinterest is very clear, i don't know why you even bother arguing about it.

the discrimination already happened! it's not possible to end up 80% white guy without discriminating. it's curious that the status quo isn't nearly as concerning.