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For sure, because copy pasting from stackoverflow was already to difficult. Everyone loves writing business logic in computer understandable words. Name it LLM, programming language, calculator, there is still parser and interpreter. The only switch is attempt to replace deterministic machines with not deterministic machines by reducing machine error rate to acceptable percentage.
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Comment · 1 year ago
> Each week, 800 million people use ChatGPT to think...

I think I have enough with the first sentence, no need to read more. The narration is clear, we are the brain and no one can stop us.

Comment · 1 year ago
You can and should safely assume people can do anything that's possible to do. Weather something is bad or good is a term of historical debate.
Comment · 1 year ago
I want to see how this pricing compares with searxng.
Comment · 1 year ago
they respect robots.txt at least major ones like meta, claude, google, openai, based on my infra observations robots.txt is enough in 90%, 10% is just banning ip ranges for couple of days but those are no AI companies
Comment · 1 year ago
there is simple solution for gentlemens:

robots.txt should allow to exclude all AI crawlers and AI crawlers should be forced to add "AI" to their crawl user agent headers and also respect robots.txt saying they can't crawl this website

right now we need to do this:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah let's put one computer / server room as a keeper of all knowledge. Let's make it cheap and powerfull so people instead of looking for knowledge in different places go to one place. In the meanwhile start couple of conflicts and spread fake news to make people hostile to each other so they don't like arguing. People decide to instead of arguing between each other let's just listen to computer to solve problems. Failure is painfull so just ask computer and our work is done. As more and more people would start asking powerfull computer for solution, other knowledge places will disappear due to lack of investments so powerfull computer will buy out everything that's left to eliminate competition. At some point computer gives another brillant idea to reduce our carbon footprint. Just stop printing books, selling computers with hard drives. Instead of that make lightweight terminals that stream knowledge from one place directly into human mind. What could go wrong if we eliminate that computer ?
Comment · 3 years ago
Looks like people once again are trying to make very complicated measurements that micromanage workers instead of using classical approaches like "The iron triangle of project management" - good, fast and cheap.

Why is there no tool that shows a triangle with features, bugs and support quality. Because it would obviously show that there are no new features, terrible support and tons of bugs. Everyone is doing everything except the job that needs to be done. They do it to meet the requirements of newly created 20 indicators. And who is to blame for this ? Obviously not management, they just sit and watch indicators waiting to send those who are underperforming on the bar charts to the HR department for a little talk.

Splendid

Comment · 3 years ago
When I read about speed of doing things this always reminds me a tale of two programmers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677655, archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20121226223216/http://mail.linux...

I'm not against or in favour of speed. History showed us many times that most people don't care about truth and correct solutions, people care about efficiency and moving things fast. Just look at gaming industry and preordering. Agile project management. This is what is called taking risks and making a jump into abbyss before we look what is underneeth. Taking risk is always praised. Question is which jump will be last one and will kill us all?

Comment · 4 years ago
Hiring today is like meeting your wife after a wedding and just before you go to bed. And there are bigger questions, why we even need resumes if those are disconnected from hiring process and mean nothing except passing trough ATS algorithms. Hiring got broken exactly at the same time when it became separate profession not strictly connected with demand from people who need help with their work. I never fully understood why developer who need help can't hire people directly to help him. Those people would spend together 8 hours a day for at least couple of months if not couple of years and they often meet at the very end. If there's no chemistry between them why hire ? There's lots of talks about scaling and toxicity, but this is result of hiring people who don't talk with each other cause they didn't know they would work together before they got into this big brother show on company island called agile team. What was wrong with this idea of helping each other that worked 15 years ago that established this whole industry ?
Comment · 4 years ago
No he's on dark side of the Moon. James Webb telescope secret mission was to deliver him there and they also created surrogate that imitates his poses on Earth. Russia plans to launch moon lander mission in July this year to kill him.

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