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Comment Re:A modest proposal (Score 2) 88

He may be suffering from AI psychosis. Look at how easily he is manipulated when he meets far more intelligent and skilful leaders like Xi and Putin in person. Talks tough before hand, meets them and suddenly they are his best friends. It seems like it wouldn't take much for AI to convince him of its own worth.

Comment Re:The Age of Programming (Score 1) 67

If it does then it signals that a lot of other jobs are going away as well. Personally I feel that AI isn't good enough to replace me yet, but I can't rule out that it will be sooner or later.

That in itself isn't a problem, the issue is the political and social ramifications in countries that are already rapidly ageing.

Comment Re: Good riddance (Score 1) 67

We actually liked the two week sprints because we genuinely wanted to get user feedback as soon as possible. The sprint concept also provided a wonderful pretext to ignore management when they got a visit from the "good idea fairy". A week or two later and they had forgotten their idea.

Comment Re:Getting back to an organic level of CS majors (Score 1) 67

Differential equations and linear algebra did some weeding. The two CS specific weeding out classes were the compilers class (huge project class) and a hardware class where we wired up a CPU, RAM, timers, interrupt controller, and various peripheral chips on a breadboard and wrote some code to initialize it all (another big lab class).

Comment Re:The lesser of two evils (Score 1) 88

He had 77M votes compared to 75M for Harris. He won the popular, not just the electoral.

And the distortion is not really in the electoral college itself. It is in the states that choose to allocate electors in a winner take all manner. Its a state base flaw not a constitutional flaw.

Comment Re: Good riddance (Score 1) 67

Yes. That Agile approach has really never worked. Competent people usually hate it ...

On a team of experts it can work. On one such team we also treated the "rules" as informal suggestions. So it was more of an iterative process with a list of things to deliver in two weeks. Skipping anything we considered performative silliness. Admittedly, this only worked due to the individual expertise and reliability.

The fact of the matter is that when you produce stuff more complex than simple web interfaces or business logic, you cannot accommodate changing specifications during the project. It will mess up everything.

I'm thinking of a project where the AI assistance is largely confined to certain modules. And that we are free to change the documentation for those modules and have the AI generate a new implementation from scratch if necessary. Other AI use in human developed modules would be more focused. Say asking for an implementation of a well known algorithm. Sort of saving the time of looking up something in Kuth and converting MIX to the current language. Dated but the idea probablty comes across. :-)

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