I'm very confident in saying the majority of developers didn't get into it saying "we'll automate your job away"
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Readit NewsAllegedAlec commented on We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
While I'm on the fence about LLMs there's something funny about seeing an industry of technologists tear their own hair out about how technology is destroying their jobs. We're the industry of "we'll automate your job away". Why are we so indignant when we do it to ourselves...
AllegedAlec commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
Maybe they should try to build it in the moon. Difficult, but perhaps not as difficult?
Still a vacuum so the same heat dissipation issues, adding to it that the lunar dust makes solar panels less usable, and the lunar surface on the solar side gets really hot.
I'm trying not to get nerdsniped, but in the realm of subjective pragmatics, I personally find `allowlisting` to be drastically more clear.
My concern isn't really clarity of intention, but that 'allowlisting' just doesn't flow as well when reading as whitelisting does.
Not entirely related to the content but man 'allowlisting' reads so badly. We should just out of ease of reading return to whitelisting.
AllegedAlec commented on Claude's new constitution anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
The key being "well written", which in this instance needs to be interpreted as being convincing.
People do indeed write contradictory books like this all the time and fail to get traction, because they are not convincing.
"I disagree with this point of view so it's objectively wrong"
AllegedAlec commented on Banning Things for Other People Is Easy dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/... · Posted by u/matthewsharpe3
>It’s like studying the social impact of vaping without considering the replacement activity (smoking).
That's not how this works. If you ban vaping, not everyone - and not necessarily most people who vape - would be smoking instead.
"X isn't as bad as Y" is not a good argument in favor of X. They can both be bad.
It's the same kind of bad line of argumentation we disputed for decades with banning piracy (implicit assumption that every pirated copy was a sale lost).
AllegedAlec commented on Find a pub that needs you ismypubfucked.com/... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
You conveniently leave out that you were making minimum(?) youth wage.
In 2026, at 18y minimum wage is €7.36 per hour and at 21y it rockets up to €14.71
Not that youth wage past 18y isn't a stupid concept, but your wage being guaranteed to at least double in ~36 months time is rather relevant.
> In 2026, at 18y minimum wage is €7.36 per hour and at 21y it rockets up to €14.71
And the average house price just went past half a million. Even cheap housing is north of 350K. You can't save up against yearly price increases.
AllegedAlec commented on Garbage collection is contrarian trynova.dev/blog/garbage-... · Posted by u/aapoalas
I'm hoping for a future in which humankind looks back with embarrassment at this silly period in its history in which people used to think a leaky and bad abstractions like garbage collection was ever a good approach to deal with resource life-times.
Indeed. I also hope we stop using all of these "high-level" languages. So much overhead just so people don't have to learn how to write proper optimized machine code. It's super-trivial to write a website directly in that too, and it only takes a bit longer, but it is almost twice as fast.
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