I agree, knowledge is power, but someone who can design a machine is more likely to get a job then someone who knows a lot about art appreciation. Knowledge is power, but so is an in-demand skillset. Inflation is caused by printing money and deficit spending -- increases in the money supply; wages are low because of supply and demand -- unskilled or low-skilled positions are easy to fill, and therefore there are plenty of people who are willing to work for those low wages. Knowledge is something that can never be taken away from you, but the wrong kind of knowledge won't necessarily put food on the table. Art and music and philosophy are luxuries, and always have been; the working class needs skills.

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or amber!

It was trained to learn from the *language* of human nature; it's all tokens, the AI doesn't *know* anything.

If this is what you think writing software is, then you have absolutely no imagination and no understanding. The programming field has been oversaturated for a while, but that doesn't mean it isn't a creative field.

People with CS degrees don't want to work at fast food joints and convenience stores

Believe it or not, they're even worse at writing software. The only reason there haven't been more FSD accidents is because there are so few of them on the road

I take a lot of comfort in the fact that this will be a long time from now. FSD cars (in 2025) are about the same as flying cars: sure they exist, and they're a novelty, but the edge cases are just so so bad that they'll be in regulatory hell forever. And thank god for that, because have you seen how bad the average piece of software is? imagine betting your life on it every day. FSD software is incredibly complex, and people in general are not good at writing complex software.

I agree. I loved the idea of Kagi, and would be happy to pay for a decent search engine, but i am extremely turned off by kagi's insistence on using and funding AI. I don't want to support AI in any way, and therefore will not subscribe to Kagi. If only a decent alternative would come along.

Just wait a few hours for the Ada/SPARK people to go to bed, should be around 830 (they get sleepy halfway through 60 minutes)

I've been doing this long enough to know that I'm not perfect, and I'd rather my tools tell me about bugs ahead of time. Especially when the cost is small enough to be imperceptible.

Cool, so you have a tool to stop the bleeding after you've cut yourself. Wouldn't it be better to not cut yourself at all?

No, that's exactly not what I'm suggesting. What I'm suggesting is that the common use of sudo to get permissions to do whatever you want to do is a security nightmare, and amounts to lighting a cigarette with a flamethrower. If your script needs to do network things, use capset on the binary that does it and then have the binary owned and only executable by a group that allows that operation. there are very few things that definitively need root, and using sudo to get root permissions is overkill in almost every situation.

If your 20 year old scripts rely on sudo, they're already broken. Fix your permissions.

Vibe coders who aren't paying any attention are.