Of sinister sounding dystopian stuff and naive optimisim.

I suppose he will be giving '110%' all the while? Will be interesting to see someone give up sleep, food, bathroom, and everything else for 20 years.

And this is supposed to ingratiate the concept with the audience?

Again, "surveillance architecture" is a pitch for some education we are supposed to want?

Seems like the fallacy that if everyone just had a billion dollars, everyone would live like billionaires do today...

But the alcohol in the 'simply don't like it' has no impact on you. If you say 'DUI', then I think people would say 'bad' easily.

Similarly, if you are partaking of a sport, but that sport is being distorted by gambling, then it's fair to call it out as 'bad', since it has impacts beyond the people actively doing the gambling.

Ok, but the survey is whether people think it's bad. If something negatively impacts you, won't you describe it as 'bad' if you are asked about it?

LLM usage is hardly a demanding talent in and of itself. Being able to judge and make the use/salvage/discard choice when the LLM presents the material it does is more about coding and less about 'talented with LLMs'. Anyone good at coding can add LLM without a huge challenge, so you don't *need* to find someone with 'LLM' experience and lack of it doesn't make you unemployable.

The whole damn point of LLM is, to the extent that it works, it's easy. Just the hiccup is that 'to the extent it works'.

It is common knowledge that the planets Albedo (Level of light reflection) has been dropping. The mean reasons are less snow and ice (a large portion of Albedo loss) and fever overall clouds. It's one of the runaway cascading effects of man-made global warming. This really isn't news anymore. Well, perhaps for some, I guess. ... Errrm, nevermind, carry on.

Well, note that it says 'big' and 'compared to other technological breakthroughs'.

So even if they see small, or corresponding with hiring, or even big but they think it can be correlated with macroeconomic conditions that would have prevailed even without AI, they can kind of wave it away.

About the only thing they can say is that it hasn't been so extreme as to completely eliminate whole categories of the workforce. The data is too noisy in general, and as companies claim to layoff thanks to AI, it's hard to know when they actually mean it or if that's a rationale to mitigate worries that investors might have. Investors love layoffs generally, but there's always a bit of a worry as to what the layoffs might mean in terms of the future, and AI is a nice bandaid to make investors think 'all upside'

There are food additives that are "legal" to use in the US that are classified as 'effing bona-fide Toxic Waste in the EU and can't even be legally disposed of in regular landfills. There are literally thousands of additives that are flat-out _illegal_ in the EU that can be used in food in the US.

To me there is no wonder that you guys have cancer rates rising.

Well, not TX. If Houston had been picked for this one shuttle in the first place, then his statement would be right.

I think it's a waste to move now, but Houston would have made more sense. On top of the NASA significance, it's also more geographically fair. If NY lost theirs, they still have one within a 3 hour train ride. Meanwhile Houston currently is a lot further away, a couple of days of driving or train.

That was only one of the concerns, also that it'd get an admission fee and that there's a high risk of damage is also listed.

But why should we ignore cost because there's some alternate universe with a private party that would cover the cost instead? It's a pointless waste of money.

... towards the poles. It's clearly noticable here in Europe and the pace has picked up notably in recent years. I'm mentally preparing to relocate to Scandinavia if the need should arise in the future. 3 Years ago I took an extended summer trip to Portugal. The heat was unbearable during the day, I only could go out in the early morning or late afternoon and evening. Desertification of the Iberean peninsula is in full swing as is the water table dropping in more northern parts of Europe. The German Harz mountain region has abandoned winter tourism because there is no snow anymore to speak of. At the same time the dutch have fewer and fewer hours in which low-tide allows for water to be let out into the ocean again through those massive flood-gates they built. It is likely that we're going to have to look where we put the dutch during my lifetime. We're pretty screwed. How hard is still largely up to us but time is running out fast and my reluctant optimism is fading.

Probably didn't help that in the craziness of post-pandemic recovery a fair number of software developers managed to swing 100% raises when the flood of covid recovery cash went into play...

No, you don't need to absolutely break your lifestyle in unhealthy ways to become a great developer. Yes you need a bit more grounded experience than what universities offer, but that doesn't mean absurd lifestyle choices.

I remember back in the day "real developers" bragging about how they needed Jolt Cola and because they drank so much Jolt, you *know* they must be good... I had hoped we had gotten over that mindset..

I think a part of it is that many of those programming hires never really made any sense in the first place.

A great chunk of the programming hires were done with no good idea on how to actually utilize those people. It was more performative for the sake of investors and clients than a good use of peoples' time. So you end up with horrible bureaucracies of developers that in aggregate never got anywhere real, but to some extent that's ok because they didn't have any real idea in the first place and they can still brag about their headcount to the people that will give them money.

Now the performative thing to do is say AI over and over again. Bad news for the humans, but probably neutral for many of these companies that weren't really doing that much useful stuff with the people anyway.

To the extent things have substantially improved, it's been about convenient access to the models and better prompt stuffing to have a better shot. The models themselves are pretty underwhelming, particularly given how much had been put into trying to make them better.

The end really is that it takes me less time to get LLM generated content because I don't have to manually feed it as much of the stuff anymore, but the suggestions are still pretty garbage once I get there.

LLMs are good at generating a few lines of code sometimes, but you have to watch it like a hawk. The automatic prompt stuffing has been pretty good in reducing the effort to get to that result, which would have otherwise been more trouble than it's worth.

It can more effectively tear through material you'd find in tutorials and courses, but it's far less useful for real coding problems.

I thought I had a vibe coding scenario last week that it could do but it botched it horribly. I did use it's mess of a suggestion as some reference material to guide my reading of docs as I went about lately doing it by hand (though still using LLM code completion and tiny little prompts)

TFTFY.