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"wait, not THAT autonomous software!"

> I have doubts that this is suitable as a generalized statement like that.

I had doubts too, but it is in ALL CAPS so it must be true?

"Our pledge - for every dollar you invest, 10 cents of that goes directly to wiping out every person on the planet"

> If a system is perturbed, it may come to rest at a different equilibrium that is much less desirable.

That's exactly how we got humans rather than the objectively better rulers of the planet, the dinosaurs.

Obviously the narrative will be AI CLI impact but the quality of IntelliJ has taken such a nose dive that I was already looking for alternatives before Claude Code took over the world. IJ used to be one of my most respected pieces of software, it was solid, performant, and the new features were generally thoughtful and well done. That started changing around 2022 and the IDE has been driving the wrong way down a one way street since.

> they all have nukes in space sitting over each other's countries waiting to drop.

The Nukes of Damocles

welcome to 2024, Siri

Can I pay $1,000 and just take one of the smaller halves?

> The internet becomes an unnavigable swamp of weaponized nonsense for average humans.

turns out we didn't even need AI for that

> That's both cool and fast.

and probably a barely modified knock-off of some github project that it trained on

Me: Shoot me in the face, @cringebot

Cringebot: :salute: on it!

> no one is going to be willing to make the massive investments necessary to continue pushing the scale frontier.

that sounds great to me. anything that slows down the pace and gives us a chance to prepare for, at best, massive job displacement, and at worst, robots turning us all into paperclips.