The movie "Brazil" was right!
We do the work, you do the pleasure!
Readit News_doctor_love commented on Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition grandforksherald.com/news... · Posted by u/rectang
_doctor_love commented on Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English codespeak.dev/... · Posted by u/souvlakee
From what I was able to understand during the interview there, it's not actually a language, more like an orchestrator + pinning of individual generated chunks.
The demo I've briefly seen was very very far from being impressive.
Got rejected, perhaps for some excessive scepticism/overly sharp questions.
My scepticism remains - so far it looks like an orchestrator to me and does not add enough formalism to actually call it a language.
I think that the idea of more formal approach to assisted coding is viable (think: you define data structures and interfaces but don't write function bodies, they are generated, pinned and covered by tests automatically, LLMs can even write TLA+/formal proofs), but I'm kinda sceptical about this particular thing. I think it can be made viable but I have a strong feeling that it won't be hard to reproduce that - I was able to bake something similar in a day with Claude.
I find it weird that this comment is gray but it's the only one in the thread so far that mentions TLA+ which is highly relevant here.
_doctor_love commented on U.S. to suspend the Jones Act in a bid to curb oil prices bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/geox
if it works, will they keep it suspend even after?
That's the goal. The Jones Act guarantees a lot of American jobs and those workers are expensive. This allows US port-to-port shipping at much lower prices.
Good for the bottom line, bad for the worker.
_doctor_love commented on How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform codewall.ai/blog/how-we-h... · Posted by u/mycroft_4221
> McKinsey is trying to do software like they do their other engagements. It doesn't work.
I mean, it doesn't work for their consulting gigs either. There's a reason McKinsey has such a bad reputation.
But it does work for them? They make tons of money.
> What if Lovable's mission became: Pay out $1 billion to vibe coders.
This reframes everything. Customer success means revenue success. Platform improvements mean better monetization tools. Growth means more builders making more money.
LOL.
Companies want their revenue numbers to "line go up" and if that means success for the customers, that's a nice side-effect. It is absolutely not the goal, however.
Paying for outcomes is a nice idea but you can make WAY MORE MONEY selling picks and shovels to people who you know will never strike gold. (Plus, you can have a nice little side-hustle selling them maps of where treasure might be).
The button is now the shortcut for voice dictation.
At the moment, apps like Wisprflow or OpenWhispr are using it as their main shortcut, and I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before Apple integrates it as the default for Siri.
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_doctor_love commented on We might all be AI engineers now yasint.dev/we-might-all-b... · Posted by u/sn0wflak3s
"You can learn anything now. I mean anything." This was true before before LLMs. What's changed is how much work it is to get an "answer". If the LLM hands you that answer, you've foregone learning that you might otherwise have gotten by (painfully) working out the answer yourself. There is a trade-off: getting an answer now versus learning for the future. I recently used an LLM to translate a Linux program to Windows because I wanted the program Right Now and decided that was more important than learning those Windows APIs. But I did give up a learning opportunity.
It always comes down to economics and then the person and their attitude towards themselves.
Some things are worth learning deeply, in other cases the easy / fast solution is what the situation calls for.
I've thought recently that some kinds of 'learning' with AI are not really that different from using Cliffs Notes back in the day. Sometimes getting the Cliffs Notes summary was the way to get a paper done OR a way to quickly get through a boring/challenging book (Scarlet Letter, amirite?). And in some cases reading the summary is actually better than the book itself.
BUT - I think everyone could agree that if you ONLY read Cliffs Notes, you're just cheating yourself out of an education.
That's a different and deeper issue because some people simply do not care to invest in themselves. They want to do minimum work for maximum money and then go "enjoy themselves."
Getting a person to take an interest in themselves, in their own growth and development, to invite curiosity, that's a timeless problem.
UO was the only game that I've ever played where you had "commoner" players. A lot of players failed to scale up, or to obtain top notch equipment. But the game was fun even for underpowered players, so they kept playing. The really powerful players were famous, like celebrities.
It's very different from modern games, where each player looks like the fantasy version of a Marvel super hero.
UO was the best online game for me. All others stand in its shadow. It was the most "free" in terms of what you could do and the appeal was the non-gamification.
I loved Everquest and World of Warcraft but those didn't feel "raw" enough for me.
The Realm is my dark horse submission for best MMO. (Yea, yea, yeah Meridian 59 and Underlight too)