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We nearly destroyed our planet to get there. Technocrats here applaude the new technological achievements that make life a little easier (less boring?) for the top one percent while willfully ignoring the associated costs for everyone else. Manufacturing these at scale will only make things worse. We are approaching peak decadence ever faster.
I think these videos are a great way to visualize what is wrong with the "personality" of LLMs: they are shallow, unoriginal, overconfindent.
The videos convey this in a more vivid and direct way than any text answer could. I often have the thought that if Claude were a human colleague, I'd avoid having to work with them.
I don't understand the many Teenage Engineering references in this thread, this design has no soul.
There should be a global registry for books written by generative AI and sold under the name of a "real" (probably non-exisiting) author.
I was expecting a new release of the Hy language (https://hylang.org).
This is a bit of a straw man. There obviously is a huge gap between knowing the human condition from living through it versus just having "read" about it during training.
I hope this doesn't become the new norm where government becomes the bottleneck for innovation in the AI space.
I hope that not too far in the future a responsible government* will become the bottleneck for innovation in the AI space.
*obviously not the current
As the random is seeded, I would like an undo/redo button.
And creepy.
Looks dorky.
I had the same thought after reading the first few sentences. Bathrooms and kitchens especially have to be cleaned regularly, and not just superficially. Otherwise, what the author describes happens.
Take a good look at the codebase you're working on. My guess is there's plenty opportunities to clean up after others, or even yourself.
Unfortunately, the download links on those pages are broken.
I had the exact opposite reaction. Around 2006 I came across two of his OSCON Talks on the IT Conversations Network and totally loved them. I must have listened to them hundreds of times and forwarded them to a lot of friends and colleagues. They fundamentally influenced my self-conception as a software developer.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130729210111id_/http://itc.conv...
http://web.archive.org/web/20130729231533id_/http://itc.conv...
This is more Trance than Techno, but Highlight Tribe use the Didge in a very aggressive way as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvAwqi4krE
You may like Tribal Need's Genetic Modification Of Sound. Ricardo Moretti is also busking with a Roland Juno synth, looper and didgeridoo. I saw him in Berlin a couple of times in the early 2010s.
https://tribalneed.bandcamp.com/album/genetic-modification-o...
A more recent live performance:
I find his advice rather terrible to be honest. Accepting AI and integrating it deeply into your work and life so you won't be among those made obsolete by AI will accelerate exactly that replacement process even further. Looks a lot like a new variant of self-fulfilling prophecy.
There is a good chance AI will magnify the current problems, especially regarding inequality, poverty, hunger and environmental exploitation.
Also, don't forget what he said about "arrogant programmers". His plan is to make the (in his view inferior) human workers redundant, and I do not see why anyone who still has some idealism in them and is just about to enter the work force would applaud him for his tone-deaf speech:
The part of his speech that I found most offensive was:
"When someone offers you a seat on the rocketship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on. [...] Find a way to say yes."
In my understanding, that's the billionaire class telling you where your place is in their plan for the world. Nobody asks if you even want to leave the planet, figuratively speaking.
The last sentence in particular shows the contempt he has for the students in the audience, and is reminiscent of another (alleged) incident: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/tried-to-convince-me-i-...
The quoted part of the speech can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MYggR_PPRg
History shows that blindly welcoming change just because someone promises you a better future is a dangerous thing.
The problem is that we are pushed forward, not going at our own pace.
In his commencement speech that got booed by the audience, Eric Schmidt says, "When someone offers you a seat on the rocketship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on. [...] Find a way to say yes."
That's the billionaire class telling you where your place is in their plan for the world. Nobody asks if you even want to leave the planet, figuratively speaking.
The last sentence in particular shows the contempt he has for the students in the audience, and is reminiscent of another (alleged) incident:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/tried-to-convince-me-i-...
The part of the speech I quoted is not in the video linked in the article, but you can watch it here:
The worst thing about the Vision Pro is that Apple tried to unify the UI of visionOS, iOS and macOS (at least to a degree), resulting in suboptimal solutions for the latter platforms.
I wonder why this gets downvoted. The goals of EFF are not aligned with those of a platform that is owned by a neo-fascist who is in charge of the algorithm.
About time. Other platforms may not exactly be aligned with EFF’s goals, but Musk is outright endorsing the far right and neo-fascist parties in America and Europe.
Claude Code started making stupid errors around Saturday. I have been using it frequently for months, and now it feels like back in the day when I tried Gemini for the first time.
Maybe this could work for some as a general recipe for how to collaborate with AI:
- Split up the work so that you write the high-level client code, and have AI write the library/framework code.
- Write some parts of your (client) code first.
- Write a first iteration of the library/framework so that your code runs, along with tests and documentation. This gives the AI information on the desired implementation style.
- Spend time designing/defining the interface (API, DSL or some other module boundary). Discuss the design with the AI and iterate until it feels good.
- For each design increment, let AI implement, test and document its part, then adapt your client code. Or, change your code first and have AI change its interface/implementation to make it work.
- Between iterations, study at least the generated tests, and discuss the implementation.
- Keep iterations small and commit completed features before you advance to the next change.
- Keep a TODO list and don't be afraid to dismiss an earlier design if it is no longer consistent with newer decisions. (This is a variation of the one-off program, but as a design tool.)
That way, there is a clear separation of the client code and the libraries/framework layer, and you own the former and the interface to the latter, just not the low-level implementation (which is true for all 3rd party code, or all code you did not write).
Of course this will not work for you if what you prefer is writing low-level code. But in a business context, where you have the detailed domain knowledge and communicate with the product department, it is a sensible division of labour. (And you keep designing the interface to the low-level code.)
At least for me this workflow works, as I like spending time on getting the design and the boundaries right, as it results in readable and intentional (sometimes even beautiful) client code. It also keeps the creative element in the process and does not reduce the engineer to a mere manager of AI coding agents.
I found my peace with AI aided coding during the last three months. I started development of an environment for programming games and agent simulations that has its own S-expression based DSL, as a private project. Think somewhere between Processing and StarLogo, with a functional style and a unique programming model.
I am having long design sessions with Claude Code and let it implement the resulting features and changes in version controlled increments.
But I am the one who writes the example games and simulations in the DSL to get a feel for where its design needs to change to improve the user experience. This way I can work on the fun and creative parts and let Claude do the footwork.
I let Claude simultaneously write code, tests and documentation for each increment, and I read it and suggest changes or ask for clarification. I find it a lot easier to dismiss an earlier design for a better idea than when I would have implemented every detail of the system myself, and I think so far the resulting product has largely benefited from this.
To me, now more than ever it is important to keep the love for programming alive by having a side project as a creative outlet, with no time pressure and my own acceptance criteria (like beautiful code or clever solutions) that would not be acceptable in a commercial environment.
I love both my Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO and my Apple AirPods. They complement each other perfectly.
Try the UnTrap extension. It lets you configure away the things that distract you.
It used to be one time purchase, looks like they turned it into a subscription.