He sent me all these articles geared toward that end as well. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral...https://substack.com/@cattelainf/note/c-135021342https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06177https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-2027-scenario-how-r...https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/25-ai-predictions-for-2025...
Anyone who is actually in the industry knows that this is the opposite of the truth. There are more layoffs than ever. Yea maybe it's being propped up for the richest of the rich taking advantage of leverage over speculation. Everyone else? It's just getting worse and worse. And that's what actually matters.
How about we don't? Where's the hacker news post of a GitHub repo with easy ways to bypass age verification and multiple mirrors and such so that it can't be wiped away. It'd be a new arms race.
Parents should just be responsible for their kids.
Really sick of the enshittification epidemic.
Maybe some of them could make money, with more polish and marketing. Who knows! I have never tried.
I just make whatever I feel like.
Librewolf is the way to go now.
We are entering a new era of gamification of programming, where the power users force their imaginary strategies on innocent people by selling them to the equally clueless and gaming-addicted management.
People are using their thinking caps and modelling data.
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