Be mindful in the voting booth. While neither party is perfect, one is far more likely to promote heavy handed regulation.

I received my first AI-generated pull request recently. It was... not great. A lot of extra code that was not necessary at all, some odd naming conventions, and the size of it all made the whole change set difficult to parse. This wasn't a typical "Well, this works and it's okay, it's just not the way I would do it." Some sections were legitimately terrible.

I have been using AI tools somewhat, but mostly to examine existing structures and answer questions. It's pretty good at that. But the code? I prefer to write it myself. That way I don't forget how it all works, like the people in this article. I am hoping that I can continue to do this for the most part because telling a machine to "just kinda do the thing, y'know" and relying on non-deterministic output scares the crap out of me. Doubly so when I stop being able to understand what's being done to the system.

And one of the devs in the article is from a fintech firm? Really? Man. This isn't good. Well, for them, anyway. For the rest of us it sounds like we have a lot of cleanup work to do...

It could have been worse. They could have decided to use a camera to track your eye movement to move the mouse / focus, so when you want to activate the AI feature you look like you're having a seizure.

The reliance on words like "dreaming" are a cynical marketing ploy to try to make the product seem more human, and more capable, and more intelligent than it really is. Don't get me wrong - these tools are very cool and quite powerful - but strip away some of the layers of unicorn dust and it's still just a (very) sophisticated auto-complete word prediction engine.

It's not alive, it isn't conscious, it doesn't "dream," etc.

Thank you for your support, comrade.

I suppose he must be a strong Trump supporter, since Trump is working to remove nuclear weapon capabilities from Iran.

I am old enough to remember when buying a game with online content gave you the game client AND server software.

I can still run old Quake online if I want. Costs id Software nothing.

I know companies moved away from this to an online service model to fight piracy. But we, the gaming community, let them.

We should demand a RETVRN TO THE OLDE WAYS. I personally have been avoiding games that can turn off my purchase on a whim.

Let's not allow facts to get in the way of The Narrative of "Orange Man Bad."

The Slashdot comments section used to be a lot better than this 20 years ago. Now TDS will turn a Linux kernel update story into rabid Trump hate fest. It's ridiculous.

Both, especially when politicians are involved.

It is almost impossible to find a truck with an 8 foot bed.

It's a reasonable position, and one he can make without resorting to personal insults.

I'm old enough to remember being told that we were all going to freeze due to global cooling. Panic, oh the horror and terror!

And then we were all going to be living under water in 20 years. Be afraid!

Whatever the truth may be, the climate scientists have overplayed their hand with fear mongering. Their credibility with a large share of the population has dropped to zero and it is their fault.

We are no longer just "web scale," we are now at "hyper scale." That sounds so, like, high tech and stuff.

It's been a very long time. Slashdot is mostly just partisan bickering now.

Your completely unbiased response, full of nothing but objective observation, does much to change minds.

I miss the old Slashdot. It was a fairly libertarian place. But Silicon Valley became captured by the left and now government can do no wrong.