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I don't think these things start out looking like a weapons. Wrong reflector shape? It could just be proving out other aspects. It could also be completely innocent too, but I don't think this is quite conspiracy level thinking.

Yes, think about how this can be weaponized. Illuminate an area? Or, focus that energy on a single point and you've got sun powered space lasers?

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?

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I think the problem with "AI assisted" is that it triggers the same alarm bells as AI slop, justified or not, so many readers just turn off. I personally rather read "shitty" writing than AI assisted writing.

I've worked at companies that don't outright require it, but they utilize a few workaholic employees to set an expectation sane people can't live up to. It creates a stressful environment where expectations are unclear. Combine that with the current job market and you effectively hold your employees hostage.

I am protected

Refreshing to read something not in the voice of an llm.

No mention of if it actually improved outcomes.

The rug pull is coming

This is the most frustrating problem I have. I do my 40 hours per week, play with my kids, relax with the wife, and play some video games. I don't really have any other problems besides not enough time in the day. And yet when I learn about some domain specific problem, it is blindingly obvious.

I was waiting for the steam machine and grew impatient. I instead built a PC to go behind our family room TV. I gave bazzite a chance before committing to a copy of Windows. I'm glad I did. It runs perfectly. Zero hassle, no chasing down drivers. The only thing to be aware of is that a handful of games are not compatible, generally due to their anti-cheat software (e.g. marathon won't run, but arc raiders does.)

lmao almost got me. scary times...

dead internet theory is really taking grip

I can't tell if this is real or a joke.

I always got the impression these ultra rich are workaholics that barely see their family.

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Sam might be 7 beers deep, or maybe he's available. In my org, oncall is just who gets the 2am phone call. They can try to contact anyone else if needed.

Claude is there as long as you're paying,and I hope he doesn't hallucinate an answer.

Yeah it happens, and it's not ideal, and now instead of a risk, it's a guarantee.

"hey coworker, I know your team wrote this, can you help?" Except there is no coworker, just Claude

But the code is the easy part. Solving the right problem is the hard part.

I miss human writing. I miss the different voices.

The difference is a real engineer will say "hey I need more information to give you decent output." And when the AI does do that, congrats, the time you spend identifying and explaining the complexity _is_ the hard time consuming work. The code is trivial once you figure out the rest. The time savings are fake.

Engineers that have the audacity to think they can context switch between a dozen different lines of work deserve every ounce of burnout they feel. You're the tech equivalent of wanting to be a Kardashian and you're complicit in the damage being caused to society. No, this isn't hyperbole.

Who knew managing a team of ten occasionally brilliant but generally unreliable engineers would be so draining.

All this disruption to every facet of society. For what? So you can roleplay as the next billionaire startup founder with your weekend project? All while the actual tech billionaires have a giant dick measuring contest.

I appreciate the author making that the first sentence.

It's not that our identity is grounded in being competent, it's that we're tired of cleaning up messes left by people taking shortcuts.

Writing the code is where I discover the complexity I missed while planning. I don't truly understand my creation until I've gone through a few iterations of this. Maybe I'm just bad at planning.

My tinfoil guess is archive.today is compromised by a state actor. Simply shutting it down would cause too much drama. Instead turn it into villain, and then take it down.