The p.m. is giving companies a chance to get ahead of the legislation. If you are phone manufacturer you put together a plan and a timeline and says we can't do it in 3 months but here's our plan to do it in six. And then 4 months in you go back to the government and say well we've had these setbacks and we've had these things happen that we couldn't account for and it will be eight more months before we're compliant. Eventually government's to pursue these regulations will wane.

Computer science is math. You don't need a computer science degree if your vocation is software developer. When I lived in Switzerland, software developer was a 2 year technical school degree. Computer science was a 4 year university degree.

Or OnlyOffice. Until recently I had no idea OnlyOffice existed. It's pretty great if you want to break free from MS Office.

I think you hit the nail on the head. AI writes better comments than most humans. Where everything falls apart is when the user documentation leaves behavior unspecified. When I test something I read the docs to see what it should do. It's very easy to miss subtle behavior change because something was never documented.

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"The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were well understood. It is said, by the Guide, that such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap..."

FFMPEG. The shit-show I can't live without. Sigh.

Reminds me of that time I detected an atmosphere around Uranus. It was primarily N2 and CH4, but had a surprisingly high H2S content. It lingered, then dissipated.

It's great to let AI debug something tedious, or write a script to make my day more protective, or bounce ideas off someone while I'm working at home.

AI is a game changer in our profession. I believe it is like the switch from using pencils and rulers for drafting to using AutoCAD. The drawings still had to be produced, but the people doing the work were able to get more done in the same amount of time.

It definitely seems like a bigger threat to closed source software than it does to open source software

I don't think it would be that hard to switch to a legally defensible clean room. Use models that didn't include the original source in their training. Also, treat the coding assistant as just another tool, the same way a decompiler or IDE is a tool. Can the plaintiff prove that the coding assistant is materially different from other tools? Maybe yes. Maybe no.

Ass a defendant, I would argue that lots of tools use machine learning, statistics, probability, and embed the prior knowledge of their programmers. A coding assistant that uses an LLM does those things too. Treat the engine that drives the coating assistant as an implementation detail.

That was my reaction. They used AI and it still took SIX MONTHS to make a dang protoype? That only makes sense is they worked on it for 10 minutes a day.

In the past, people saw fairyland and demons or angels. In my generation it was UFOs and aliens. What changed was the objects of the human imagination, not the world around us.

And if aliens land in New York tomorrow, I'll have to eat my words. Until then, I stand by them

You're absolutely right, this exists to reduce the amount of data that has to be sent back to a ground station. Streaming endless gigabytes of data is slow and subject interference.

Performing the analysis in situ and sending back only the results is hugely appealing.

I'm already experiencing this. l asked a code assistant to eliminate lodash. Lodash had a CVE and there was no fixed version available. I looked at the change set and it looked good. It turned out lodash wasn't doing much. I intend to use code assistants to eliminate a lot of libraries in the months to come.

We have Mennonites. And we have lots of Mormons. We also have Sasquatch. And elves, probably. We definitely have the Oregon State Fair, and I'm pretty sure everyone at the fair is on shrooms.