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  • the printing press didn’t unlawfully steal content and print exabytes of shit-streaked garbage.

    the printing press expanded the potential for knowledge to be shared at a higher volume and speed due to the nature of mass printing.

    it was more akin to multi-core hyperthreading than AI.

    I think what you mean is that AI is like the discovery of distribution of electricity. the story of where a self-educated immigrant attempted to sell his method of distribution that was safer and more pragmatic, was slandered and tormented by a tech oligarch that had no qualms with electrocuting elephants in public. oh and not to mention Thomas Edison didn’t even “invent” AC power, he stamped his name on it and falsely claimed he did. sounds like some other tech bro we know today…

    this is the problem with you “AI bros”, you can’t even provide a valid argument because your brain has turned to dog shit from using AI 100% of the time.



  • you’re a fool. chess has rules and is boxed into those rules. of course it’s prime for AI.

    art is subjective, I don’t see the appeal personally, but I’m more of a baroque or renaissance fan.

    I doubt you will but if you believe in what you say then this will only prove you right and me wrong.

    what is this?

    1000001583

    once you classify it, why did you classify it that way? is it because you personally have one? did you have to rule out what it isn’t before you could identify what it could be? did you compare it to other instances of similar subjects?

    now, try to classify it as someone who doesn’t have these. someone who has never seen one before. someone who hasn’t any idea what it could be used for. how would you identify what it is? how it’s used? are there more than one?

    now, how does AI classify it? does it comprehend what it is, even though it lacks a physical body? can it understand what it’s used for? how it feels to have one?

    my point is, AI is at least 100 years away from instinctively knowing what a hand is. I doubt you had to even think about it and your brain automatically identified it as a hand, the most basic and fundamentally important features of being a human.

    if AI cannot even instinctively identify a hand as a hand, it’s not possible for it to write software, because writing is based on human cognition and is entirely driven on instinct.

    like a master sculptor, we carve out the words from the ether to perform tasks that not only are required, but unseen requirements that lay beneath the surface that are only known through nuance. just like the sculptor that has to follow the veins within the marble.

    the AI you know today cannot do that, and frankly the hardware of today can’t even support AI in achieving that goal, and it never will because of people like you promoting a half baked toy as a tool to replace nuanced human skills. only for this toy to poison pill the only training data available, that’s been created through nuanced human skills.

    I’ll just add, I may be an internet rando to you but you and your source are just randos to me. I’m speaking from my personal experience in writing software for over 25 years along with cleaning up all this AI code bullshit for at least two years.

    AI cannot code. AI writes regurgitated facsimiles of software based on it’s limited dataset. it’s impossible for it to make decisions based on human nuance and can only make calculated assumptions based on the available dataset.

    I don’t know how much clearer I have to be at how limited AI is.


  • someone drank the koolaid.

    LLMs will never code for two reasons.

    one, because they only regurgitate facsimiles of code. this is because the models are trained to ingest content and provide an interpretation of the collection of their content.

    software development is more than that and requires strategic thought and conceptualization, both of which are decades away from AI at best.

    two, because the prevalence of LLM generated code is destroying the training data used to build models. think of it like making a copy of a copy of a copy, et cetera.

    the more popular it becomes the worse the training data becomes. the worse the training data becomes the weaker the model. the weaker the model, the less likely it will see any real use.

    so yeah. we’re about 100 years from the whole “it can’t draw its hands” stage because it doesn’t even know what hands are.




  • I get it. they’re just trying to show their usefulness and skills.

    I did have a talk with them after work at the bar and told them not to worry about it. the best way to show your usefulness and dedication is to do the job you were assigned to do.

    there are plenty of opportunities in your career that you can use to showcase your abilities without you needing to invent them on a whim. if anything doing that will do the opposite of what you’re intending.

    bright kid, just needed to be hit a couple times to see how the real world works.


  • I had a new dev that was tasked with changing the colors of a button. took them 3 days to do it.

    when I finally got the PR there were over 300 files changed and over 100k changes.

    they “fixed” the while space. I asked them who asked them to do that. “Nobody, it’s just maintenance on the codebase.”

    I then had an hour long call with them reviewing everywhere they “fixed” the whitespace and got through 10% of it. I asked them if they wanted to have another call tomorrow to review the rest or if they wanted to put the changes forward they were tasked with.

    they got the hint and fixed their shit.





  • second this.

    also look into HR services. they handle most HR things plus many have products that do the HR stuff like time tracking, payroll, benefits, state/country compliance/regulatory requirements, etc.

    it can be costly but the cost is higher when you factor in your time away from running your business and increased legal risk from breaking employment laws.

    once you get large enough you can hire a director of HR and reduce you reliance on your vendor.