xantronix

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by xantronix 3mo ago
I am of a particular disposition that makes it difficult for me to do lie about my work, especially if I were in a firm where people are reading my chat transcripts. As much as I want to stick it to The Man, it feels a lot better for me to
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by xantronix 3mo ago
It wasn't meant to be a literal statement, more just a reflection that the situation is so bleak that I cannot imagine a better future; anybody expressing even a little bit of it seems to me like a somebody who has not been crushed int
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by xantronix 3mo ago
The wisdom to understand that velocity is not equal to value; and the optimism that this will all end at some point.
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by xantronix 3mo ago
You seem like a person who works at a place that doesn't have an AI mandate. That sounds nice. I miss when we had nice things in the world like that. I will never take that for granted again.
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by xantronix 3mo ago
I'm happy to endure HN if it means I get to see hopeful, reasonable observations like yours.
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by xantronix 3mo ago
It's an old NeXTism!
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by xantronix 3mo ago
A lot of responses pointing out various flaws with this question, including the fact that it can be used as a proxy for ageism, the fact that the grading scale has not been consistent over time, or that most foreigners will not have gone th
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by xantronix 3mo ago
Did the entire history of computing prior to 2023 disappear? Are we really that boned?
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by xantronix 3mo ago
GitHub is so close to becoming SourceForge. In order to become the scum-infested cesspool it truly longs to be, Microsoft needs to relentlessly serve ads on GitHub. Then, the cycle will once again be complete. I can't wait to discove
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by xantronix 3mo ago
Would you work in such a facility?
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by xantronix 4mo ago
I don't really see the problem of proliferating a message one finds sufficiently important to as many places as one has reach.
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by xantronix 4mo ago
One thing I've noticed is that LLMs have allowed middle managers trapped inside the role of a developer to finally self actualise.
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by xantronix 4mo ago
Generative AI has and their providers have become an implicitly political subject. It shouldn't come as a surprise.
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by xantronix 4mo ago
What makes an appeal to experience, subjective or otherwise, an expression of Main Character Syndrome? Just because somebody pushes back against the tides doesn't mean they fancy themself more important than others. Further, they'
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by xantronix 4mo ago
A lot of this discourse is intended for a wider audience than just us technical folk, and so the vocabulary used mirrors that of news headlines. If I were to guess, I would say it distracts from the discourse of the sociopolitical and soci
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by xantronix 4mo ago
I think it should be fairly obvious by now which form of AI people refer to when they talk specifically about theft. It gets a bit old and repetitive to expand the shorthand in every conversation possible. If people are genuinely curious
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by xantronix 4mo ago
Who would be payrolling this astroturfing in group #1?
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by xantronix 4mo ago
> Anti-AI propaganda is false-flag. Why would AI providers benefit from anti-AI propaganda?
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by xantronix 4mo ago
One could say "that's a great point, we should take more direct ideological action to address this issue!", but expounding upon the finer details would likely get one banned here.
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by xantronix 4mo ago
Because of the concerns you cite, I think working out the basic economic systems and incentives for paying people is a much more pressing concern than building magnificent machinery that we don't even own. There has been no effort on
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by xantronix 4mo ago
Ever since I was a small child it was my sincerest wish to build so much value for others by becoming a human-in-the-loop. I am so happy my wish has finally come true.
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by xantronix 4mo ago
It's hard not to make that leap when so many layoffs are (according to PR releases anyway) attributed to AI adoption. Even if the reality on the ground is that many of these workforce reductions are to make the balance sheets look bet
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by xantronix 4mo ago
Most people in uni have compulsory humanities courses, so I imagine it's not too hard for them to attribute actions by moneyed interests to boost AI to the furtherance of capital, surveillance, and a widening of the economic gap. The
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by xantronix 4mo ago
Was this aided with LLMs or purely for the love of the game? I don't see an AGENTS.md or anything similar in the repo.
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by xantronix 4mo ago
> One of the things I’ve come to appreciate about coding with LLMs is I have greater control over how I want the code to work and be designed. I don't get it. Writing code yourself is the best way to control how the code functions
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by xantronix 4mo ago
That's a pretty good encapsulation of the parallels between the political and the technological: One necessarily thrives upon the other and are inextricable. This moment is a culmination of all the disenfranchisement the bodypolitik h
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by xantronix 4mo ago
They're part of the circular AI finance economy, I'm sure they can figure it out.
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by xantronix 4mo ago
So you're not actually writing code by hand? I'm very confused by the difference between the title and the conclusion here.
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by xantronix 4mo ago
Don't you think Microsoft ought to have thought a bit more about scale? They're not just innocent bystanders here. GitHub Copilot is a first class citizen of GitHub and so of course a lot of private enterprises are going to be u
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by xantronix 4mo ago
I know one way to get their "buy-in", if you catch my drift.

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