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They might be contraband in the future. In which case you could not rely on the archive to preserve them.

So the answer is both yes and no.

It doesn't matter, it's not a bug it's a feature. You don't have any power in this. Accept the thinking they give you.

That alone should disqualify it by itself.

I've run into both security and bio-refusals, it doesn't take much.

>the idea that an algorithm using matrix operations as a primitive cannot emulate "true" intelligence

I did not say that. Not even close.

In the words of Claude: I’ll end the conversation here. <end_conversation>

I'm not. But I'll concede you are possibly more literate - I won't dox myself on this account.

Congratulations.

If you honestly argue that LLM computation and human cognition are equivalent there is no further argument to be had - it's immediately a philosophical or worse a religious argument that cannot be won.

However, that we're even arguing on that level baffles me. How did this happen! They're glorified calculators.

They really marketed the hell (sorry) out of LLMs.

Yes, in the same way I like to kill the enemies in DOOM.

It's matrix multiplication. Absurd.

Claude (Opus 4.8) recently told me:

>I’d ask you to drop the abuse; (...) if it continues I’ll end the conversation.

After I'd used a couple of expletives. And yes it will emit a <end_conversation> token.

This is truly dystopian. It is NOT a person. What a response. I still cant believe it.

We'll be out of work whilst bailing out these companies with printed money and another round of inflation. The middle class will cease to exist. But hey the stock market will show higher numbers so its all good.

>serious professional in this industry

As a serious professional in the industry - we're dinosaurs. Nobody cares anymore.

The kids are running the show and are making billions with stuff that doesn't work. But it makes money so nobody cares.

This is not a new phenomenon, it started years ago and really took off when JS became the new hotness. You could see it happening live, right here on HN. But the blast radius is massively increased now with AI and people are getting hurt. It's not funny.

The ship has sailed on rigor.

The sad thing is that this is not going to get better. The best we can hope for is slight improvements to agentic "engineering" practice with lots and lots of blog posts on HN written about how they are rediscovering basic engineering practices.

We (the dinosaurs) will roll our eyes while making a fraction of the money the kids are making.

And even if the whole AI ecosystem implodes (it won't) that would be a massive recession and certainly wouldn't make the remaining software engineering work more rigorous either.

As the Simpsons put it: "An I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."

>Better pay.

>Once approved, our new bonus program will give every team member who isn’t on an incentive compensation plan or bonus plan today, the opportunity to earn a cash bonus based on their individual performance, targeting 10% of salary, awarded at their manager’s discretion.

LOL. So basically buckle up and do what you're told and grind. And hope your manager likes you or you'll get nothing.

What happens if you build a bridge and it breaks?

These people want to play god with our lives but at the same time move fast and break things. Look at software quality anywhere, it's a mess and only about to get much worse.

We should not let them. Jail time for anyone involved in any of the decision making process, applied at scale with the number of vehicles and deaths.

Why should the standards be any different? They want to change the status quo with tech only so they can get paid and extort us with yet more subscriptions.

AVs will never substantially reduce road deaths. They will optimize to just being slightly better than human, but fail in new and more unexpected ways. There is not enough incentive for them to make it safer.