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Comment Re:Use AI to make yourself think (Score 1) 111

by noshellswill (#66143111) Attached to: Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
Identifying <good> or <bad>  code/text/math/art  is a lower intellectual skill than generating <good> or <bad> code/text/math/art . See any "skills" hierarchy for details. Without doubt, use of code-producing *.ai  deskills coders, in a way analogous to CNC machines  deskilling  lathe-workers. If the task-at-point is repetitive and the output a commodity  then machine automation proves  doable, cheaper and perhaps higher quality. Otherwise an extended form of Godels Theorem applies. The craftsman in Ohio who hand-built  my  olive-wood curve-bladed pairing-knife set  remains secure . 

Comment Re:The Developer is dead - long live The Engineer (Score 1) 111

by noshellswill (#66142505) Attached to: Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
Who is so narrow-minded they believe language  translators are accountants? Surely not the people who translated  hieroglyphs ... Sanskrit ... cuneiform ... Linear-B etc.  Or who translate English into Russian during a nuclear confrontation ( we pray ...) .  So who then? Only  accountants ?

Comment Re:GPAs are trash, yet companies still filter on t (Score 1) 173

by noshellswill (#66141975) Attached to: Harvard Votes On Limiting 'A' Grades
You seem to believe exams have something to do with taught lecture material. Indeed:   Bloomfeld rules K-12 , but Piaget rules Uni. For high school exams you teach to the testing; at Uni exams measure combinatorial structures that almost by definition  never  were taught. So you expect  (optimistically ) only 13% of a population gets their BS.  Other than self-interest, why does Harvard ignore well documented performance constraints?  Is frustration generosity?  So what about everyone else ? Simple.  Their < Best Money = B$ = best life > comes from their doing whatever pattern-matching or sensation  they do best ... whatever it is combinatorial logic does not rule. Really you can tell over-educated people all year  ... that Steinmetz did the maths while Einstein rowed against the bow wave ... and get back nothing , but a blank stare or contempt.

Comment market (Score 1) 63

by noshellswill (#66141615) Attached to: Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets?
In-the-day, moving to a SC barrier island over-run with mosquitos I learned the trick locals used.  Somebody needs to buy Skin-So-Soft ! If you took the SSS "bath" bugs would gather like a cloud, but never land on your skin; absolute miracle ! Think of the investors.

Comment Re:Art or just Stopping to Smell the Roses (Score 2) 76

I believe your brain is always active w.r.t. sensory input. For example, round stones become "roundness"  then a 3-d metric ... yellow flowers become "yellowness"  then components of a Fourier Transform etcetc. Human  brains just "mess" with every sensory input ... and we call that "creativity".

Comment Re:META is doing this to make them quit (Score 2) 92

You're quite correct ...  employees have become optional. As numerous /. posters have observed Western industry   moved from post-modern capitalism to a Neo-feudal structure. REM// medevil surfs were not so much employees of the local lord/duke/baron , but rather part of the lands-holding itself. The peasant could not freely move from the land, and the lord rarely borrowed money to improve land/peasant production. The Lord DID borrow money to fight wars and extend castle infrastructure . The surf was not so much  enshitified  as  "turned" into topsoil ... kinda like social  media companies turn users into ad-targets.

Comment capital and labor (Score 1) 22

An entire generation of owners has matured that do not believe  the definition of markets: capital employees labor to generate products. Capitalists not only find money,  but they also judge employees. Employees are not only available, but they also build products. That capitalist  model  is no Johny-come-lately ... from 16-th Century Silesian coal miners to 21-st Century computer architects.   I believe it's fundamental. When capitalists no longer choose employees ... and employees no longer build product ... that's the new model. A dystopian future equivalent to OR --> XOR in all electronic logic circuits ! The sky is falling ... don't let the cloud-burst catch you without an umbrella.

Comment tool vs product (Score 3, Insightful) 92

Why would an employer use tool-activity as a metric, when the worker is paid to output "product" ?  Unless the worker uses only one tool ( a very low level employee ) such a metric misses the point. It encourages unproductive focus on maximizing one type of task no matter how irrelevant to market-worthy output.

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