Broadly disagree but agree about a specific element.

I think there’s plenty of justice between two people of give or take equal wealth.

Money, unfortunately, does help one prepare a defense or attack better than those without money. So in that sense, justice is very unevenly served between parties of unequal wealth.

They’re working on it.

The function is deterministic, agreed. The implementation is almost always not. Hardware floating point addition is not associative. So a GPU kernel that splits a reduction differently (ie interleaving it with anything else, like running your graphics, or sharing your work with other users on the same hardware) will produce different results over different runs even at temperature 0.0.

Determinism is almost always impossible when dealing with floating point on a multi-process/multi-user system.

There are attempts to create batch invariant language models (https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab/batch_invariant_ops) but all the major ones are not.

No. Floating point arithmetic and ordering of operations won’t make 0.0 deterministic.

Exactly this. If you made an LLM that had deterministic code output then I’m all up for saying “AI is a compiler for human language”. But until then AI is most definitely not a compiler.

95% AI text agree. It reeks.

Ok, good to know. Now please relate your statement to TFA.

Also, it’s possible to have nuclear running with very little hot water discharge, you just need to build more cooling towers. Where running water exists, it isn’t seen as necessary.

Guys, guys, it’s not an OR, it’s an AND.

We need both nuclear AND renewables.

Obviously Google install their own connectivity.

I seriously doubt 75% of password strength checkers for that very reason.

To be fair, having gone through a couple of GDPR transitions, deleted in reality is often a full row in the PII table. All your actions and behaviour are still logged, there’s just longer any way to tie your ID back to PII.

I’ve worked in many large enterprises. They always cut too deep - thats the tactic: Cut more than needed to remove the “fat” (in the eyes of the decision holders) then rehire a bit where you’re not holding up.

In this case it’s two steps back and one step forward. Net, it’s still a reduction of the org size.

Lots of people leave the tag in for transparency. The world must feel like such a conspiracy for you.

Why do you think the tech bros are so busy investing ? When you don’t even need the other people to maintain your luxury, they can just die off and leave the planet to them. Clean, empty, serviced by “I have no mouth and I must scream” AI robots and rewilding. Paradise for them and death for the rest of us. The stench of death will only last 10 years and then the robots can clean up.

Cancelled a little while ago and now moved to Euro-Office. Lame title, works really well.

And before people get at me: Especially Euro-office’s sheets are so much closer to a 1:1 replacement for Excel.

Of course. And when I hear “vibe coded”, I hear someone starting with “make me a cool app” and going from there, with zero understanding of the technical architecture.

If you have a thorough, deeply thought through technical spec, then AI can write a great amount of tests up against that spec, say, and you’ve got a fantastic base for TDD.

I honestly feel like a lot of the downvotes are people thinking AI means “clueless programmer having an AI do its work for you”. Many highly productive, deeply technical developers use it every day.

What is your concern? If it’s a generic “AI”, then I can assure you tha pretty much every software has AI code in it already. Heck, Linus is accepting PRs where AI has been used.

AI is useful. It produces useful code.

Like creative writing, it won’t produce something novel. But man, 75% of code is just boiler plate. AI can do a lot for boilerplate.

That does not absolve anyone of committing crap code. Put your name to it. Own it. Take the consequence of delivering shit code or great code, no matter how it was written. Don’t let AI be a crutch. But you’d be god damn fool not to use it, where it’s right (boilerplate, test writing, tedious changes etc.)

This is what I’ve done. Crash rate is high. Performance is degraded. Windows still involved, just hiding.

Affinity.

I just need Affinity.

And then I can dump Windows.

Ultimately someone has to vouch for “yes, this person is 18+”. People can’t self-attest, except through crappy biometric, so at some point a government ID has to be involved.

I’d trust my government over a credit reference agency that literally makes revenue from selling access to your private data.