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Comment · 2 days ago
It's trustworthy... most of the time. For 100% use hooks.
Comment · 4 days ago
It can be used to keep bad content away from kids. DNS over TLS can be blocked on the network router / firewall and DNS safe search enforced by forwarding lookups to something like Adguard
Comment · 23 days ago
Modern mathematics research can involve CPU intensive tools like mathlib, lean proof assistant.
Comment · 1 month ago
Having worked in another EU country, I can attest that I paid as much as 56% in taxes, so I believe a guy who says that he works in Germany and pays half in taxes. If you have other data, you are welcome to present it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Who is making this 'health care argument' you are responding to?
Comment · 1 month ago
Article 'the' is doing a lot of work. I read it as author understands code but doesn't understand THE code.
Comment · 1 month ago
Not arguing for not reading test code. A lot can be achieved by instructing agents to balance out the testing pyramid with the right amount of fast end to end tests, property based tests for the right things, parametrized example based tests. Ensuring the local and CI has the right mix of tests running at right time. On projects where I have less time to review AI generated code I channel my anxiety into setting up guardrails and processes for the agents and then force them to bump up against them. In the end I view it as creating frameworks which allow me to outsource some of my attention to the agents, so that I can claw back some of that time to go set up more guardrails for more agents who are working on something else.
Comment · 1 month ago
The "pacing the frontier" claims that they are slowing down intentionally?
Comment · 1 month ago
Effective use of frontier models involves "driving the build". They can't really do it themselves, human is still involved to tie break complicated tradeoffs and take on deployment, security, financial and other risks. The innovators are not becoming useless, they are offered a choice to 10x their output and speed and quality of execution. Execution still matters, it just became different.
Comment · 1 month ago
Good point. The other corollary is: why would you want to, if you can solve your problem by more easily finding and reusing existing building blocks with a bit of glue code.
Comment · 1 month ago
Humans will evolve. Some will keep trying to think more. Many others won't. I'm not sure this is that different from previous disruptive tech in that regard.

It could be that AI is the tool the world needs to solve problems the world governments have been deadlocked to solve in the past 50 years.

Comment · 1 month ago
While humorous and technically true, I believe this misses the point of the comment. It became a lot easier to build your own version of systems to satisfy one's own unique mix of requirements while not worrying so much about everyone else's. The SaaSocalypse is mainly caused by this. Open source software benefits from this trend because it became easier to integrate more open building blocks faster.
Comment · 1 month ago
yep, and all those fired and remaining are busy ai-native proofing their careers and tokenmaxxing everything including copy
Comment · 1 month ago
how long until someone's agent sets up a tunnel for the world to see one's most sensitive, private and embarrassing information or insecure work-in-progress app? granted, for the brew install some massive permissions are needed, so hopefully for those running their agent's in a sandbox, you should be safe.. should be..
Comment · 1 month ago
This was a kind of example, and not really the point of my comment.

Though to illustrate further, there are many examples one might find of US acting undemocratically even 40 years ago.

So, politicians will talk, governments will be in power, and the observers will discuss. My invitation was simply to discuss known facts not political rhetoric. And main facts are largely absent and unknown.

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