csbrooks

That sounds like it would be a return to the status quo.

I'm not sure if it's all LLM-generated or not, but I sat up and pointed like the DiCaprio meme when I read:

"If letting go of the argument sounds like pure loss, here’s the reframe that turns it into a gain."

It's even easier to give away money when you don't have it.

commits were on pace to hit 14 billion in 2026, up from 1 billion in 2025

So AI means 14x the checkins? That's not 14x features completed, but still... wow.

Shouldn't it be necessary to run the tests multiple times on each model, since the results aren't deterministic?

I thought this was a great article. I'm frustrated to read so many commenters that purely respond to the title, but don't seem to have read it. You don't have to agree with the article, of course, but...

Is the code available somewhere?

To me, acting in good faith means saying something like "I'm not sure, but Claude says this, which sounds right: [short informative clip from Claude's wall of text]". Don't pretend it's your response, make sure it has info you think is useful, and edit it down.

I have a vague memory that when Windows was newer and idioms less solidified, maybe in the mid to late 90s, programs moving the cursor was more common. Am I mistaken?

Even in the context of game development, if you don't provide a "skip cutscene" interaction, some players get very upset. The desire to tell a story can be at odds with the player's desire for control, even there.

In my experience, you don't really want to say "I'm the lead" (it can come across insecure), but you do need to be able to confidently say "Ok, here's what we're going to do" or "Here's what I'd like you to do" once you've gathered all the relevant information and come to a decision.

I think that's an exaggeration. Here's an example I found of a British person in China who did this. Seems like he got a week in jail, then deported.

https://www.newsweek.com/english-teacher-overstayed-visa-des...

Is "vibe coding" synonymous with using AI code-generation tools now?

I thought vibe coding meant very little direct interaction with the code, mostly telling the LLM what you want and iterating using the LLM. Which is fun and worth trying, but probably not a valid professional tool.

I guess I'm not super concerned, because I stopped watching TV news a long long time ago. In general they do everything they can to spread fear, and this is just an extension of that.

All the stuff he describes after that does sound really shady to me, though. Yuck.

So then, you agree with the last paragraph of the article?

I used to live in Arizona. The traffic lights and crosswalks are an insane distance apart. There are bright streetlights basically everywhere. All the roads are straight.

It's all designed for cars, and not for pedestrians. And it's really tempting to j-walk if you're ever stuck walking somewhere.

Is it really true that the minimum wage before was JUST at the point where replacing workers wasn't worth the cost, and now it's going just over that threshold?

If they can find a way to replace workers with machines, my guess is they will. My local walmart has one worker managing about ten self-checkout stations now. Panera Bread has stations where you order your food; no cashier needed. And the wage they are paying here is well above minimum wage, anyway.

CEOs will eliminate all the employees they can, because they consider that their job. And then they'll give out executive bonuses as massive as they can get away with.

There is no reason why the minimum wage should be so low that no one could make a living off it.

I think the really difficult part might be figuring out when to take it off the table. For example, let's say bitcoin goes up 10x. Then do you decide to sell, because it might crash back down the next week? But what if you miss out on another huge increase by selling?

I can't remember where I heard this, but supposedly a surprising number of people's last words are "you wouldn't have the guts to shoot!"

I don't think that's totally accurate. That $140M could be considered preorders, basically.

Reminds me of the term Euphemism Treadmill: http://www.odlt.org/ballast/euphemism_treadmill.html

Truly an amazing million dollar investment on Thiel's part. The Trump presidency is his next unicorn.

Looking forward to America becoming a kleptocracy just like Putin's Russia, with Thiel and friends leading the charge.

There is some repercussion: if you have any sense at all, when someone on your feed consistently keeps sharing this garbage, you stop paying any attention to what they share.

"Here is a list of the 10 thoughts I kept in my head, after throwing all the others out."

When they rolled out ECoin in Mr Robot, I thought it was a stretch...

To me, it seems to refute the argument in the article: that AI has to have some kind of "will" in order to be dangerous. Because AI doesn't "desire" to take over the world, it can't harm us. I believe The paperclip example shows that isn't the case.

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

"...a paperclip maximizer is an artificial general intelligence (AGI) whose goal is to maximize the number of paperclips in its collection... It would innovate better and better techniques to maximize the number of paperclips. At some point, it might convert most of the matter in the solar system into paperclips."

Also:

"Some goals apparently serve as a proxy or measure of human welfare, so that maximizing towards these goals seems to also lead to benefit for humanity. Yet even these would produce similar outcomes unless the full complement of human values is the goal. For example, an AGI whose terminal value is to increase the number of smiles, as a proxy for human happiness, could work towards that goal by reconfiguring all human faces to produce smiles, or tiling the solar system with smiley faces (Yudkowsky 2008)."

Anecdote: My brother-in-law has worked at the same factory for 20 years now. Their efficiency has probably increased 10x in that time. They are producing more than they used to, with a lot less workers.

When you say you "work on the Prop 1 campaign", do you mean you were paid, or volunteered?

Maybe "every petition is backed by money", but never this much, or so blatantly from a single source. That's what bothered me about it. That, and the dishonest way some ads spun it so that it looked like Prop 1 was actually something you should vote for if you WANT more regulation for Uber and Lyft. Yuck.