So, hypothetically, if I were to say that the Israeli government is committing genocide and Trump is a fascist, would they not let me in? Well, I don't want to travel to the US while it's reigned by a fascist government anyways, so let's go: The Israeli government is committing genocide and Trump is a fascist.
Readit Newsshafyy commented on US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/neversaydie
shafyy commented on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros cnbc.com/2025/12/08/param... · Posted by u/gniting
How can all this consolidation in media even be justified?
Greed, power and corruption.
shafyy commented on X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/pogue
I don't know anyone who supports this censorship agenda. These obtuse bureaucrats need to get fresh air.
Me, I do support it. Now you know somebody. And you should go look up the definition of censorship.
shafyy commented on Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways) db.jobs/de-de/esports-110... · Posted by u/schaum
No, public money is going into road infrastructure.
Rail is a lost cause in Germany.
I know Germans like to complain, but the ICE network is still one of the best in Europe, especially given its size.
That does not mean that we shouldn't invest more money into improving it. But I would not count it as a lost cause.
Hopefully, when the current government is replaced by a more progressive one at some point (let a man dream), we see more political will.
shafyy commented on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy github.com/karpathy/nanoc... · Posted by u/huseyinkeles
I've always thought about the best way to contribute to humanity: number of people you help x how much you help them. I think what Karpathy is doing is one of the highest leverage ways to achieve that.
Our current world is build on top of open source projects. This is possible because there are a lot of free resources to learn to code so anyone from anywhere in the world can learn and make a great piece of software.
I just hope the same will happen with the AI/LLM wave.
If it only were so easy
I am baffled by this take that I've been seeing all over the internet recently. A CEO is a person. He is human. Can't a human be on the wrong side of history on various matters, and what does it matter if he is? Can't he still do a decent job (whatever it is that CEOs do)? Why do we expect random entrepreneurs, celebrities, engineers, and so on to also be moral authorities or role models?
This is always the same age-old discussion: Can you separate the art from the arists? And unsurprisingly, different people have different views on it. Even if you disagree, you should be able to understand why people don't want to use a product if their usage of that product makes the owner and CEO more powerful (and they think them being more powerful is a bad thing for humanity).
Edit to add a simple example:
Musk's wealth is mostly tied up in Tesla -> You think Musk uses his wealth to wield political power, political power that makes the world a worse place -> You still think Teslas are good cars -> Even though you think that, you don't want to spend your money on buying a Tesla, because this will make Musk more wealthly -> Start at the beginning
Well said! Reading this I feel reminded of the early protests against industrialization and automation in other fields. Checks all the same boxes - insecurity and fear about the future, alienation towards the new tools, ...
Not saying AI is similar in impact to the loom or something, it just occured to me how close this is to early Luddite texts.
This is true, but it started way earlier than AI with software development though. A lot of software developers' job is just being ticket monkies, adding small things or fixing bugs for a huge company that nobody cares about. The alienation is real.
This is, of course, an attribute of capitalism.
Like carpenters, gardeners and farmers, there are very few software developers who truly have the luxury to treat their work as a craft and not a factory output.
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but for myself, I'm not depressed because my skills are less valuable. I enjoyed the money but it was never about that for me. I'm depressed because I don't like the way this new coding feels in my brain. My focus and attention are my most precious resources and vibe coding just shatters them. I want to be absorbed in a coding flow where I see all the levels of the system and can elegantly bend the system to my will. Instead I'm stuck reviewing someone/something else's code which is always a grind, never a flow. And I can feel something terrible happening in my brain, which at best can be described as demotivation, and at worst just utter disinterest.
It's like if I were a gardener and I enjoyed touching dirt and singing to plants, and you're here on Gardener News extolling the virtues of these newfangled tractors and saying they'll accelerate my impact as a gardener. But they're so loud and unpleasant and frankly grotesque and even if I refrain from using one myself, all my neighbors are using them and are producing all their own vegetables, so they don't even care to trade produce anymore--with me or anyone else. So I look out at my garden with sadness, when it gave me such joy for so many decades, and try to figure out where I should move so I can at least avoid the fumes from all the tractors.
How beautifully put, and I couldn't agree more. I feel exactly the same way.
However, I am still unconvinced that software development will go down this way. But if woking as a software developer will require managing multiple agents at the same time instead of crafting your own code — you can count me out, too.
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Sounds like something John Oliver should buy on his show