Harrison is a perfect example of what I think is happening, he was a key figure in the new wave of scifi and fantasy in the 60s and 70s that came about during tumultuous social upheaval and was reacting to the status quo of the genre. I think the same thing is happening now and its incredible to see him there at the center of it again. One of my favourite authors.

The difference between auto-generating hundreds to thousands of words, versus having to manually read and type all of those words out yourself is very obviously a lot more than “nothing”.

And that’s not even taking into account the fact that we don’t know what their method of watermarking is. From how they’re talking it sounds like it will be algorithmically embedded in the text itself somehow, through specific choices of words or something similar. If that’s the case, typing it out word for word will retain the watermark.

Git, npm, dotnet CLI, Claude CLI.

As a programmer who’s work setup is on Windows I use command line every day.

DCC is the opposite of weird fiction, it is incredibly formulaic and tropey.

lol wut

This is an article by a person who doesn’t understand SOLID principles, talking about programmers who don’t understand SOLID principles.

Microsoft are charging a yearly fee to continue getting security updates for Win10 after EOL.

It’s not the same game at all. A single purpose piece of code does not have the same considerations as a large software application. It’s more like one is speed chess and the other is actual armies on a battlefield.

Clickbait title. This is in the context of competitive coding, which is a very specific and constrained programming exercise with a time limit. Which is not at all comparable to real world software development.

Shouldn’t take much effort to summarise then.

TLDR?

Check out Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan.

Anna’s Archive probably has them.

You’ll formalise your knowledge in college, for now just work on whatever you enjoy most without worrying too much about what its teaching you.

More a student of history than a predictor of the future. What’s happening in the world at the moment is nothing new, human societies are pretty predictable, at a broad scale.

I dunno what you’re saying here. Public awareness of AI wasn’t as “mainstream” as now, but especially for people that were reading science fiction, it certainly wasn’t “space magic”. Asimov’s I, Robot was published in 1950! People have been contemplating and writing about the potential of AI for a very long time.

The concepts of AI have been around a long time and weren’t really any different back then. Even the fundamental technology that current AI is built on has mostly been around since like the 70s, its just the amount of data that can be used to train them is staggeringly larger, which has lead to the recent breakthroughs in capability.

It’s not written like typical sci-fi, it’s more like an art house (for lack of a better term) novel that happens to have a sci-fi setting. William Burroughs was a major influence on his writing and Neuromancer is perhaps the most obvious example of that.

It rewards re-reading immensely, I would advise to just go with the flow and don’t sweat the bits you can’t quite grasp, a lot of it makes more sense over time or clicks when you re-read it. It is incredibly worth it, imo, an absolute masterpiece of literary talent and prescient speculative fiction.

Having said that, if that style isn’t really your thing and you prefer more straight-forward sci-fi, then you will probably not dig it.

edit: After posting this comment I re-loaded my feed and there’s a post about William Burroughs directly above this one. Bill would be pleased.

Kings early books are seminal and iconic. Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Pet Semetary and Misery are all brilliant and some of the most influential books in modern fiction.