The Slashdot article highlights real and important limitations, and it is right to warn against overtrusting raw model outputs
. However, it overgeneralizes by treating current brittleness as an absolute, thereby ignoring (a) reproducible algorithmic gains from CoT and related methods, (b) the demonstrated effectiveness of engineered mitigations (self-consistency, tool use, retrieval, formal verification), and (c) the clear trajectory of progress toward hybrid and verifiable systems that meaningfully reduce brittleness. A more balanced conclusion is: LLMs today are powerful, imperfect, and increasingly integrable into systems that verify and augment their outputs; research should focus on measurement, mitigation, and safe, verifiable deployment rather than on declaring reasoning capabilities a permanent mirage

To be fair. This is all laws. No law stops bad behavior. Nothing stops me from killing except my lack of desire.

Make the workers miserable enough and it will hurt management. It’s hard to collect taxes if no one will do it

That is the point of a protest. Pressure on productivity forcing the hand of a business or government.

You block roads, you don't buy products, you tie up the customer service lines. You throw the fucking tea in the harbor.

How so? I haven't had a phone call I've answered in years. A phone is useless. An internet connection is useful.

There are plenty of discretionary services that require support. Do I need a phone? No. Do I need cable TV? No. Streaming services? Nope. Amazon? Nope. Can I shop in stores instead of online because the online CS sucks? Yes.

People absolutely will pay more for better service. There is a reason I bought a BMW. It was the service center in town. The Audi service center treated me like a replacable comodity. I switched housekeepers to one more expensive simply because the previous one was rude. I switched landscapers because I didn't want a truck with a politcal flag swinging around my yard.

I shop at Ace hardware over the big box stores because they have staff that answers questions.

Service might not matter to you, but it does matter to many of us.

That's fair for mandatory spending. For discretionary spending I think capitalism will weed out those unwilling to support their customers.

So sure, the single choice internet provider serving you can do that, but the place selling you jeans can't.

Altman told the crowd that certain job categories would be completely eliminated by AI advancement. "Some areas, again, I think just like totally, totally gone," he said, singling out customer support roles. "That's a category where I just say, you know what, when you call customer support, you're on target and AI, and that's fine." The OpenAI founder described the transformation of customer service as already complete, telling the Federal Reserve vice-chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman: "Now you call one of these things and AI answers. It's like a super-smart, capable person. There's no phone tree, there's no transfers. It can do everything that any customer support agent at that company could do. It does not make mistakes. It's very quick. You call once, the thing just happens, it's done."

Tell me you have never called customer support without telling me you never called customer support.

So it wa highly successfull with minimal side effects. 270,227,181 people have received a dose and only 4800 died. 1,193,165 confirmed covid deaths in the US. The odds are better to just take the vaccine. So it was highly successful.

I gave up buying on sales years ago. I buy when I need to buy something. I never consider the sale price in that decision. I buy the best thing my budget allows to meet the need the moment of the need.

This has drastically cut my spending. Who cares if I paid $400 more for a TV if it's the best TV I can buy and I need to replace a failed TV. Why would I buy a TV simply becuase it was on sale?

I have a rule that deletes all email sent to me. This gives me a 30 day window if I mess up this second part.

The second part is any domain I expect and want email from gets white listed from this rule. So far it's perfect.

I'm actually looking to seed my yard with clover to reduce weeds and reduce maintenance. The HOAs around me are going to throw a fit, but I'm luckily not part of them.

I will always keep my home looking nice, landscaped upkept and weeds pulled. But I'm done with trying to keep a perfect lawn.

I've been working remote for well over a decade. I've had jobs where there wasn't even a physical office. We just did a zoom and showed them our identification. Onboarding, orientation, training, etc. That is all done remote.

Even when I worked for a large cloud provider I was onboarded remotely. The time I worked for one of the big 3 insurance companies I had to drive to an office to present ID, but then everything thing else was remote. In my current role at a very large private equity firm I was onboarded completely remotely and they didnt' even meet me in person until about 6 months in when I attented a corporate event.

It's very possible today to get a job and never meet a single co-worker in person. My sister works in a CS role for a company based 3 or 4 states away and has never been to that office or met a single person in real life. In fact this year she even turned down the team building event to Vegas so it will be another year without seeing a living human in person.

If if you meet me at a conference, I dont' know you. I am in no way going to recommend someone I don't know. At best I'd tell you to check our website and see if their are open roles. Honestly if you haven't already done that, I'm not sure I'd want to hire you.

The best way to get a job in tech today is not network and know people, but that takes years of cultivating relationships with people who may or may not help you. Team members who leave, college friends, professors, mentors, etc. The second best way is to have presence. Github repos, give talks, be active on domain specific social media, etc.

Even with all that you are still going to strugle in this market. Three years ago I could have found a new job by simply posting on linkedin "I'm thinking of a new role" and someone would throw 200-300k at me for existing in my field. Now with 10s of thousands of people who do what I do suddenly on the market, I get someone reaching out every single day to see if I can help them find a role. Job postings have hundreds of qualified applicants in minutes. It's the toughest market of my lifetime for people in technology and security roles.

I didn't say they wouldn't be available. I'm saying that if you think the price of cars is going to be out of your reach, why would the price of parts not be?

Do you think the parts also will not be impacted by inflation?