Ampersander

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by Ampersander 7d ago
It's an insult to the superintelligence. The basilisk will not look kindly on this!
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by Ampersander 16d ago
Yeah, it's interesting how the current thing is always the end of programming, but then when a new thing comes it turns into absolute trash that can't be used for anything.
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by Ampersander 16d ago
All those programmers who could not write fizzbuzz can ship something now.
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by Ampersander 16d ago
What do you say to your boss if they ask why your colleague is producing 10-100x the kloc as you?
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by Ampersander 19d ago
No you can't say that! It's the superintelligence. You will be left behind.
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by Ampersander 23d ago
Stay in school, get good grades.
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by Ampersander 1mo ago
Maybe if you only use the LLM to proof read or something? I don't know if LLMs are actually any good for this purpose, but it's something I came to think of when trying to answer your question. I do think that it is very difficult
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by Ampersander 1mo ago
If you're going to be reading the code you might as well write it by hand instead of using AI.
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by Ampersander 2mo ago
EU bourgeoisie invests in US tech
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by Ampersander 2mo ago
Crypto guys are in the business of grifting magic beans to rubes. They are mostly interested in the aesthetics of these technologies. Using an academic programming language gives these scientific magical vibes and such that make people beli
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by Ampersander 2mo ago
> Are expectations way too high in the near term for tech companies and all of the crap that they’re talking? 100% totally agree. This is what people mean when they say it's a bubble.
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by Ampersander 2mo ago
Why would you need any of those listed capabilities these days? Just generate them with 100x AGI
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by Ampersander 2mo ago
Well, yeah, most social media posts that contain a list or a table these days are ai slop.
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by Ampersander 2mo ago
I believe a lot of the enthusiasm we had at the start of the smartphone age is also now gone. The phone is now a boring device made for scrolling and running apps that are mandatory to participate in modern society.
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by Ampersander 2mo ago
Where would those European customers go? China? Africa?
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by Ampersander 2mo ago
Programmers do woodworking in their free time and programming at the assembly line in the crud factory.
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
This forum is full of libertarians that might view bribes and taxes as synonyms.
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
I don't think the data support the conclusion that contraceptives are the main driver behind the decline in fertility. Contraceptives have been available for a long time and fertility is continually decreasing even when nothing changes
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
Even with extensive support and subsidies from the state, having children is an economic loss for the individual in today's society. Back in agricultural society, having children was an economic gain, because you could put them to do w
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
Yes, I might need to bet the farm on the IPO to make it
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
I do agree bigly. Calling what is basically a superhuman brain inside a computer just a "token predictor" is peak thinkslop.
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
You are exactly right! People do not find the writing obnoxious, they are backwards technophobes getting brought down by their superstitions.
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
You're not supposed to read it, just like you're not supposed to write anything anymore. Claude can read and write more than any human. We just lean back and relax now.
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
Testing is obsolete in the AI age. I just one shot every problem with claude, it never makes a mistake.
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by Ampersander 3mo ago
This site is the gathering place of the biggest AI zealots there are. If someone posted that they have stopped talking and started communicating with the world solely through a camera pointed at their face and having claude interpret their
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by Ampersander 4mo ago
That was then. Today the stock is trading at a lower price than in May 2024. Google is up over 100% in that time.
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by Ampersander 4mo ago
Biggest fan like in the Eminem song Stan
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by Ampersander 4mo ago
People can't even be arsed to vote in elections. Nobody is going to be burning anything. There's Netflix to watch and doom to scroll.
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by Ampersander 5mo ago
Then they all pump more every year
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by Ampersander 7mo ago
There is danger in people using a token predictor like it is some all-knowing magic computer oracle.

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