proofofcontempt

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Comment · 3 months ago
Every cloudflare blog post that gets posted on here shares that quality now
Comment · 4 months ago
It's a weird premise to compare the UK government actions to those of Israel and defend the sanctity of Russia and the Cameroonian shipping registry.

Also, the following line is absolutely laughable.

> Fortunately Putin is neither as war hungry nor as politically desperate as Starmer.

Comment · 4 months ago
The pursuit of everlasting growth that pg describes inevitably results in cheating. At a certain point the market reaches a saturation point and if you're capitalising on every possible opportunity to retain your high growth rate, that will include hoarding resources and circumventing consumer protections.
Comment · 4 months ago
> Although a large body of research finds that workers want to work remotely, our findings suggest that workers may not realize the costs of remote work for their well-being

Sentences like this just make my eyes roll. 'Workers' have agency to make judgement on what has a positive and what has a negative effect on their well being.

Personally not having to commute led to me being able to attend meetup groups in the evenings where I formed an amazing group of friends and met my current partner. It had such a massively positive impact on my well-being.

Comment · 5 months ago
Human review is about learning and there's an implied social contract in that someone is giving you their time to make you better. It isn't necessarily necessary but replacing it with AI shows a fundamental misunderstanding of why it is part of the process.
Comment · 5 months ago
I'm not sure the people integrating it into CI process understand what CI is.
Comment · 5 months ago
Watching this from outside the US, what gets me is not that corruption exists (shocker!) but how brazen they are with doing all of this in the open. Somehow it seems to be working in their favour as it appears to be normalising such behaviour.
Comment · 5 months ago
Governments cater to corporations rather than to people. It's an unpopular opinion on here since so many people profit from the industry, however the fact is AI and data centres are seen incredibly negatively by the majority of society and the rhetoric and lobbying practices of the companies pushing for this new age are the reason.
Comment · 5 months ago
Let's be real, we all asked Claude to summarise this because it was written by Claude
Comment · 5 months ago
What does this show that we didn't know already? LLMs cannot provide accurate answers to questions where data is not included in their training sets. This doesn't appear to have much substance
Comment · 5 months ago
This argument of "if we don't do it, someone else will" to justify theft is so tiring. The companies doing the stealing are collectively the same ones that have power to prevent it, if they were incentivised to do so.
Comment · 5 months ago
> The issue is not just whether the model can fit the context. It is whether the context given to it is useful or not.

This is why human in the loop is always going to be necessary.

Comment · 5 months ago
I'm with you on all apart from code review.

Our team has tried a couple tools. Most of the issues highlighted are either very surface level or non-issues. When it reviews code from the less competent team members, it misses deeper issues which human review has caught, such as when the wrong change has been made to solve a problem which could be solved a better way.

Our manager uses it as evidence to affirm his bias that we don't know what we're doing. It got to the point that he was using a code review tool and pasting the emoji littered output into the PR comments. When we addressed some of the minor issues (extra whitespace for example) he'd post "code review round 2". Very demoralising and some members of the team ended up giving up on reviewing altogether and just approving PRs.

I think it's ok to review your own code but I don't think it should be an enforced constraint in a process, because the entire point of code review from the start was to invest time in helping one another improve. When that is outsourced to a machine, it breaks down the social contract within the team.

Comment · 5 months ago
The CTO got fired last month, presumably for poor performance. And the director that has taken is place is now all in on AI because he's desperate to turn things around but has no idea how.

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