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99.9% of people complaining about AI making the world a worse place would be fully happy with AI if they shared in the economic benefits of automation.

I think you missed the core point of my post. Writing software, like most sorts of logical and language reasoning, is diminishing in value as a skill in this world. Technology is making these skills obsolete.

For example, being able to efficiently plow a field, or harvest crops by hand, or use a scythe to trim grass all used to be skills. These skills are no longer useful to society because we do them much faster and efficient with modern technology. Is it bad that people's skills in being able to perform these manual agricultural tasks diminished? I'd argue no, it isn't bad; it's extremely good for almost everyone that we have the knowledge and means through which this labor can be automated.

A skill which is now done better by a machine is no longer a skill, it is technology. It is just a matter of time before most of our logical and language reasoning skills are replaced by frontier model-agents, which will at some point be far superior (if not already) to human capability.

So I totally disagree with this premise that human skills are being ruined by the use of AI technology. No, many human skills are being made obsolete. That's a good thing for economic productivity as a whole, but for those who only have skills that are being automated, their labor value decreases (which is usually bad for them as individuals).

Ideological capture is an often socially enforced prison

Human PR review is a process smell

Comments like these are why I don't browse HN nearly ever anymore

I just don't see why people use Python in the AI era. Statically typed languages help AI reason about code enormously during compilation.

Please say sike

Does Apple do this often? I've always wondered if iCloud is worth getting, given that it constantly spams me to use it with my iPhone

We need something other than Linux on phones.

I don't see any evidentiary basis for these claims (or narratives) in this article. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

I have a great computer, but it isn't compatible with Windows 11, so now I'm using Ubuntu on it. It's not ideal, but at least it's not a brick. I hate the requirements for Windows 11.

Those that love the work they do don't burn out, because every moment working on their projects tends to be joyful. I personally hate working with people who hate the work they do, and I look forward to them being burned out

I don't think "Benchmarks" are the right way to analyze AI-related processes, which is probably similar to the complexity surrounding human intelligence measurements and how well each human can handle real-world problems.

I don’t understand the sentiment of not wanting to learn a language. LLMs make learning and understanding trivial if the user wants that. I think many of those complaining about strongly typed languages (etc) are lazy. In this new world of AI generated code, strongly typed languages are king

Extra $250 fee for visa applications: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/big-beautif...

3.5% remittance fees on sending money out of the US: https://www.globalimmigrationblog.com/2025/06/what-are-the-i...

Also (in above source), no ACA subsidies for H-1B visa holders (and others), which likely means employers they will have to pay more for health care if they want to cover their immigrant workers

There's also H-1B (and other worker visa) restrictions/costs imposed. Overall, quite good for the American tech worker

A company's mission is not an individual's mission. I personally would never hire an engineer whose main pursuit is money or promotions. These are the laziest engineers that exist and are always a liability.

Thanks for this comment, i totally agree. Not to say this article isnt good; its great!

I hope more people read comments like these and ask themselves: "What warrants these life suggestions? Are they justified? What would make them justified? What alternatives are there?"

It's actually that life is too good for childless people

I'm not going to idly sit by and let people who have children take my hard earned money from me. If you think increasing taxes on those without children won't cause a massive retaliation by the men who are not able to find female mates to have children with, you are in for a massive surprise.

Regardless of these fields being separate departments/job titles: people are not getting promoted for doing QA, release engineering, continuing engineering, or DBA work. It's a huge cultural problem in tech.

why is this not considered a compiler optimization and/or language problem? it seems to me that compiler optimizations for expressive programming languages should be able to handle something like this

Why Python? I really don't understand this choice of language other than accessibility.

The US is in a cold war with China as long as China is open to the idea of the use of military force on its neighbors, including Taiwan. A cold war is the only alternative to surrendering the free Taiwanese people to communist rule, and a hot war.

How do you know that writing has improved the way that you think? By what metrics did you come to that conclusion? If someone else showed you that by writing their transformed thinking reduced their quality of life, would you be less prescriptive to others?

He should have donated these to the Victorville Film Archive, which exists specifically to archive and care for VHS recordings

I'm jealous that you have such flexibility at work that you can do POCs behind closed doors!

In the United States there is no way to make effective protests, you are immediately detained by the police

Pure fiction. I've been protesting for decades and have not once been arrested or detained by police.

I go with 4 for basically any study until it is verified independently. One big reason I tend to avoid science "news"