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Don't you ever merge commits that wreck CI and are too complex to fix immediately? That happens here all the time.

It's similar with AI-generated writing: AI can't transcend mediocrity, but it can elevate terrible writing or terrible code to be merely mediocre.

Well support teams are even closer to the customer than product and I think they would advocate for perf/stability over more features.

Lesson for every infra provider: physically separate your free tier infra from your paid tier infra.

Not even close. Foragers 10K years ago had better longevity and nutrition than medieval peasants.

Is the problem that pension funds wouldn't be solvent given historical index fund returns, so they're looking for something magical that promises to outperform the market?

Sorry, you're right, that was a knee-jerk response on my part.

"Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include...discussing this Code of Conduct."

There's a great anecdote about that in the book _Dealers of Lightning_, where the Xerox execs were indifferent to a demo of the Star personal computer but their wives were ecstatic about it.

Indeed, it makes it harder to block addictive sites like this one in HOSTS :)

Filling in well-known gaps like this is the kind of thing the AI companies should be doing, not trying to scoop research in progress.

Everyone seems to agree that PE is bad, but what about pension funds and other institutional investors in PE, would they be insolvent without PE?

Can't wait for the hyper-realistic customer service bots and deepfake propaganda videos.

We seem to still be a long way from an AI equivalent of Grothendieck (i.e., creative system-builder). Maybe AI is close to replacing a problem-solver like Erdos.