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thefz commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
cheema33 · 13 hours ago
> I am still waiting to see where it increases productivity...

If you are a software engineer, and you are not using using AI to help with software development, then you are missing out. Like many other technologies, using AI agents for software dev work takes time to learn and master. You are not likely to get good results if you try it half-heartedly as a skeptic.

And no, nobody can teach you these skills in a comment in an online forum. This requires trial and error on your part. If well known devs like Linus Torvalds are saying there is value here, and you are not seeing it, then then the issue is not with the tool.

thefz · 2 hours ago
These are definitely skills I don't want to have, don't worry.
thefz commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
sigseg1v · 15 hours ago
Serious question, but have you not used it to implement anything at your job? Admittedly I was very skeptical but last sprint in 2 days I got 12 pull requests up for review by running 8 agents on my computer in parallel and about 10 more on cloud VMs. The PRs are all double reviewed and QA'd and merged. The ones that don't have PRs are larger refactors, one 40K loc and the other 30k loc and I just need actual time to go through every line myself and self-test appropriately, otherwise it would have been more stuff finished. These are all items tied to money in our backlog. It would have taken me about 5 times as long to close those items out without this tooling. I also would have not had as much time to produce and verify as many unit tests as I did. Is this not increased productivity?
thefz · 2 hours ago
So you roll a dice and call yourself a software engineer, basically.
thefz commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
lordnacho · 21 hours ago
The real question is whether the boom is, economically, a mistake.

If AI is here to stay, as a thing that permanently increases productivity, then AI buying up all the electricians and network engineers is a (correct) signal. People will take courses in those things and try to get a piece of the winnings. Same with those memory chips that they are gobbling up, it just tells everyone where to make a living.

If it's a flash in a pan, and it turns out to be empty promises, then all those people are wasting their time.

What we really want to ask ourselves is whether our economy is set up to mostly get things right, or it is wastefully searching.

thefz · 16 hours ago
> If AI is here to stay, as a thing that permanently increases productivity,

Thing is, I am still waiting to see where it increases productivity aside from some extremely small niches like speech to text and summarizing some small text very fast.

thefz commented on The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs   benshoemaker.us/writing/c... · Posted by u/straydusk
djeastm · 3 days ago
One mitigation might be to use one company's model to check the work of another company's code and depend on market competition to keep the checks and balances.
thefz · 3 days ago
What about writing the actual code yourself
thefz commented on The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs   benshoemaker.us/writing/c... · Posted by u/straydusk
thefz · 3 days ago
I have always thought that AI code generation is an irresistible attraction for those personalities who lack the technical skills or knowledge necessary for programming, but nevertheless feel undeservedly like geniuses. This post is proof of that.

Also, the generated picture in this post makes me want to kick someone in the nuts. It doesn't explain anything.

thefz commented on The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs   benshoemaker.us/writing/c... · Posted by u/straydusk
weikju · 3 days ago
Don’t read the code, test for desired behavior, miss out on all the hidden undesired behavior injected by malicious prompts or AI providers. Brave new world!
thefz · 3 days ago
You made me imagine AI companies maliciously injecting backdoors in generated code no one reads, and now I'm scared.
thefz commented on AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
thefz · 3 days ago
Can AI fix a leaking pipe? Identify a faulty power wire? Care for farm animals? Et cetera. So far it looks like a faster search engine that a human has to double check every time, so not really.
thefz commented on AI and Trust (2023)   schneier.com/blog/archive... · Posted by u/insuranceguru
thefz · 4 days ago
> Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet.
thefz commented on MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger   sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/amichail
zmmmmm · 6 days ago
> brains that looked nearly a year younger

Seems like a pretty small effect - if I'm 58 and I have the brain of a 57 year old, and to achieve that I did an entire year of exercise (as was done in this study) ... you'd have to evaluate it against many other things to decide if that was really the easiest way to achieve that result.

I'm always suspicious of small effect sizes even when they are statistically significant. It just seems like so many confounders could bring about the effect. Here I'd wonder if just the mental challenge of achieving that sustained exercise over a whole year was responsible, since generally speaking, any mental challenge you undertake on a regular bases improves overall cognition.

They try to argue their way around this:

> "Even though the difference is less than a year, prior studies suggest that each additional 'year' of brain age is associated with meaningful differences in later-life health,"

But it just begs the question, if you think that then go measure those things with your study.

Of course I'm not in any way arguing against exercise. Adding at least a baseline level of exercise into your lifestyle is the most impactful health intervention anybody can do after age 40 I believe.

thefz · 6 days ago
> Seems like a pretty small effect - if I'm 58 and I have the brain of a 57 year old, and to achieve that I did an entire year of exercise (as was done in this study) ... you'd have to evaluate it against many other things to decide if that was really the easiest way to achieve that result.

Man, this website sometimes...

thefz commented on Film students who can no longer sit through films   theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/haunter
thefz · 8 days ago
Maybe try presenting them 15 seconds at a time, in portrait mode with bouncy subtitles.

u/thefz

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