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Drones are already vibe targeting in Ukraine/Russia.

From the article

His job was to be the AI's "accountability sink" (in the memorable phrasing of Dan Davies): he was being paid to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.

He spends most of his time trolling us. What do you expect?

Works for me.

Exactly, the LLM itself can do the migration, surely?

If AI is so great, these price rises will pay for themselves many times over.....

Have any HNer's experienced or observed any productivity increases, or even any utility increases from co pilot?

"Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job?"

Depends on whether you want to contribute to the creation of a dystopia.

You could maybe make the effort to hire someone you trust. And put any true valuables in a safe.

D. Richard Hipp is up there for me.

I love the minimalism of his programs, SQLLite and Fossil. Also involved in Tcl, my favourite language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Richard_Hipp

I quite frequently just rinse my plate or cup under the tap and put it on the drying rack. Instant!

Yes, there is a sort of blindness in science. The idea that if something hasn't been proven it's not true.

This just demonstrates that there is something wrong with the statistics.

The smart move would have been to get lower level managers to assign specific employees to experiment with applying LLMs to their processes and report back. Then incorpoate the findings into their processes.

Instead there was FOMO mass hysteria. Now there is a backlash. And a lot of time and money wasted.

Rodent populations are notoriously hard to control. But it seems that a deer cull would be easy. I am surprisec that they are not done.

If there was more diversity in predators and prey, the population cycles would have smaller amplitudes. The large swings are often symptoms of a collapsing ecosystem.

Interesting. A web form completed by the sales people would not have sufficed? I guess it's the backend interfaces to multiple systems that's the difficult part?

I tend to get very good results

How do you define the good result? Does the definition of success include clean, maintainable code? I am finding I need to be in the loop. My code ships to thousands of users, so any issues get amplified.

"It’s hard to find a good balance and it depends on the kind of business and scale of project".

Exactly. The abstraction purists are not working in the messy, dead line driven real world.

I disagree.

So... the wrong abstraction, no matter how bad, is better than code duplication?

Time travel!

In Ukraine they are using tracked autonomuous vehicles for the same tasks. Much cheaper.

It's probably because they have a lot of coal and not much natural gas.

This looks really good!

Try living in Phoenix without a car...

But you don't know why...

I think some industries have notably high quality output. Automobiles, aerospace for example.

"but we will have no choice but to march forth from there".

If you haven't seen it, I think you would appreciate the film Margin Call.

but the other half of the puzzle is you need to have good options to vote for.

No. It's always been that you get to choose the least bad option. Unless you fall for the personality cults that sometimes develop around politicians.

Democratizing propaganda.

Not really. A lot of the disinformation is generated by authoritarian state actors.

Very well said. The author was noodling around bored, generating random crap on AI. Not surprising the result is meaningless junk.

something i have seen dozens of times

Me too. But I think AI might be a much more powerful delusion generator.