>> Notice how you deflected from the main point

The main point was your claim that schoolkids are "exposed to curriculums based on these books". Obvious lie.

>> Tose are fairly widely reported problems

Have you actually used it yourself? AI has written many thousands of lines of rock solid code for me, complete with unit tests and extensive documentation. And it isn't just me, AI assistance is standard procedure for professional software developers these days.

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/...
"According to GitHub’s 2024 report, 92% of developers in the U.S. already use AI coding tools in some form. Stack Overflow’s 2024 Developer Survey showed over 70% of developers rely on AI for coding tasks weekly."

>> not hallucinate functions or even entire libraries which do not exist at all

It never does that in my experience. But hey, don't use AI. Who cares?

>> This does not appear to be holding up in practice

That article is about a study of "experienced developers from large open-source repositories (averaging 22k+ stars and 1M+ lines of code) that they’ve contributed to for multiple years". I can assure you that 1M+ lines of legacy code which the developer is intimately familiar with is not a typical programming scenario. Also the study did not state that the developers had previous experience working with LLM's, which is critical.

>> Again, not my experience. I'm inveterately lazy, and have tried it repeatedly.

Maybe you just suck at it. Coding with AI assistance is a learned skill, and if you don't know how to do it you may very well get bad results.

In my experience the machines are very clever indeed at programming, far better at it than the average person who does know how to write software. And constantly improving, I am seeing this just month over month. You can get a huge amount of good code out of LLM 's if you know what you're doing. An experienced programmer can just fly. There's no sense in whining about it. That train has left the station.

Uses way too much energy and resources? I totally agree. "the data theft impact, the treatment and exploitation of data workers", I'm not sure that applies for software development. They will have scoured every open source repository out there to train on, plus stack overflow etc. That might be all it takes.

Clearly the value being generated is very large. Not just my perception but in the opinion of the most wealthy investors. The machines are already able to do most coding and in some cases all of it. I realize this challenges traditional CS education but there's no going back.

>> exposing other people’s children to extremely adult material

So you're going to take away their cellphones too?

>> no right to slip them to other folks’ children

Where's the "curriculum", lieboy? Keep on running.

So where's the "curriculum", lieboy? And what makes you think you get to decide what other people's children are allowed to read.

"Meta's dev server wasn't set up to handle the flood of traffic from the other glasses in the building"

So a few glasses generate a "flood of traffic". It makes me wonder what kind of compute load these glasses impose on a server, and how much WiFi bandwidth they require in order to operate.

It's entirely possible that most of the functionality is implemented on the server side, and the glasses are just a dumb peripheral. All the video and audio from the glasses are sent upstream to Meta servers, which then tell the glasses what to do.

>> It seems you rather agree

Don't tell me what I think. Your brainless censorship would make books you don't like unavailable for everyone. People who don't want their kids to read certain books can just tell them to not check those books out of the library.

Meanwhile "it seems" you admit you lied; "he’s exposed to curriculums based on these books"

>> curriculums based on these books

Your cite doesn't support that at all, its just some books that were in some libraries. No mention of them being in the curriculum, you lied.

Basically a crap opinion piece and this part made me laugh.
"Because, as of 2023, access to porn at school is the civil rights issue of our time."

Maybe you could try their service before deciding what they do? It's basically the same as a local version of Amazon. You order what you want on their website. Some poor schmuck picks it out of the store, another person with few options delivers it to your door using their private vehicle. No tip is required. I do hand them a few bucks though, it doesn't look like a fun gig.

>> I flat out do not believe you

I don't care what you mindlessly choose to believe, but here's the proof;

"Get your order delivered to your kitchen, garage, or doorstep—wherever you want! Tips are included, plus, you’ll enjoy no delivery fees, and no item markups."\]
"Annually - $98 plus applicable tax"
https://www.walmart.com/help/a...

"when states and local communities are empowered to tailor solutions to meet the unique needs of students, innovation follows."

No it doesn't follow. School boards in the local community are just as politicized as anything else these days and you are likely to get a set of bible thumpers setting the curriculum.

I live in Texas too. For about $100/year Walmart will deliver groceries or anything else they sell at the local store to my house with no additional service charge. Some poor schmuck drives up in their personal car, hauls bags with my order to my front door. I can order in the morning and it will arrive in time to cook the food for dinner. It's great because I hate to set foot in a Walmart.

HEB does something similar but they don't have near as much different merchandise.

>> GPU's are a fake product

Hilarious!

>> chatbots that no one wants

over 700 million users, or "nearly 10% of the world’s adult population,"
https://arstechnica.com/ai/202...