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Comment As expected (Score 1) 47

Some investors are gamblers and fortune tellers, trying to predict an increasingly unpredictable future. They bet on long shots, knowing that most will fail. In some cases, they bet on really, really stupid ideas. This is unfortunately and really wasteful, but it seems to be the way that some think. It reminds me of poor people playing the lottery

Comment Or viewed from another perspective (Score 2, Insightful) 46

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of students, those who love to learn and slackers who hate school. Slackers have been cheating for years and slouching through school, putting in minimum effort. The only difference now is that have better cheating tools.

Those who love to learn will use the new tools to help them learn faster and better. By using AI, they are practicing the skills that will be useful in the future.

Education needs major reform that takes advantage of the new tools to better help those who want to learn. Sadly, the slackers will probably fall further behind

Comment Claude Code tool could... (Score 3, Insightful) 113

The key word is "could"
It can't do it today
It's possible to imagine that future versions might
Old COBOL code is well tested and mission critical. It's also a mess of patches and spaghetti
Accurately extracting the logic and the way it handles edge cases is nontrivial
Vibe coded slop is not a valid substitute

Comment Here's the problem (Score 1) 88

"Is the software I'm making for myself on my phone as good as handcrafted, bespoke code? No. But it's immediate and cheap"
Today's AI is just making software worse
I am hoping for future AI that can help experts make excellent, efficient, bug-free software
What we have today is just more slop

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