Given the right prompts and direction, AI engineered software is faster and more bug free than what a human can provide at this point.

That's a marvellous little concoction: AI is better by construction. Any time it's not, it's the human's fault for not providing the right prompts and direction.

We have moved beyond hallucinating LLM's generating slop code. Linux kernel just fixed over 2000 verified bugs just in the past few months directly related to AI.

One of those doesn't follow from the other.

I've been setting up agents for scanning for security hole at work. It's pretty good, and as someone pointed out recently AI is making us pay back 40 years of technical debt. It's also quite good at finding security holes in its own code. But also it still has a tendency to produce slop and vastly overengineer solutions to simple problems.

OpenAI on november 4th wrote a story

OpenAI say lots of things. Jut because they say it doesn't mean it's definitely not true, but also doesn't mean it's true either. They will definitely round up "done by a team of security experts with million of token credits and AI tooling with unlimited compute" to "AI did it".

When used and validated correctly, pipelines like this can be used to add features, fix vulnerabilities, find new optimizations,

I didn't find it very good at optimizations, so far. It's... OK. Well, probably better than most programmers because most programmers are allergic to profilers and will hyperfocus on std::unordered_map because they know it's slow, rewrite it and assume their work is done. AI agents will use the tools and find the hotspots and will make something a bit faster. But they don't do a great job on the whole I've found. At some point it's better to stop the agent churning for hours and repeated re-prompts and simply write the faster version by hand.

I am going to blow your mind.

Unlikey.

Manmade global warming enthusiasts

You misspelled "people with a concrete connection with reality".

say that the solution to all our problems is emissions.

They do not.

Natural cycle enthusiasts

You misspelled "deniers of objective reality".

Does it do youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Though it's only really watchable during daylight hours in Florida. It's also not an aquarium.

Aw cute! The sheep thinks it's a wolf!

The actual wolves love having people like you around. You make their lives so much easier and they don't need to give you a penny for your efforts.

Even without the silly "$minimum wage to $million dollar" game, you can still advertise a very-low-end-of-industry-standard actual day-1 salary range with a clear statement along the lines of "opportunity for very large increase after 30 days" or something like that, and get the word out that you really mean it.

You'll never get the word out well enough and this way you'll basically never entice someone from a job that pays better than your very low end salary because they won't know.

Some friends of mine were doing this sort of thing (split development) years ago, pre AI. They had a desktop client in C++ and JS client for the web, which was slow. They compiled the core of the C++ one into ASM.js (this dates it) and it ran a lot faster. After a while they scrapped the pure JS one.

I voted for Harris

Methinks the slashdotter doth protest too much.

When I said some people will never vote for her because they're racist sexists who will never vote for a black woman... why did you think I was talking about you and then get super offended? You are literally not the kind of person who (if you are telling the truth) will never vote for a black woman. So...? What's in your head?

Or is this just some sort of reflexive snowflakery where you can't bare for certain kinds of observations to land on other people who aren't even you even when they fit? I don't get it.

In other words people were faced with a binary choice between two bumbling incompetent idiots

No, enough with the juvenile both-sidesisms. They are not equal "bumbling incompetents", you know this, else why did you not vote Trump? You know full well he ha completely lost the plot and an barely even speak coherently as opposed to being somewhat uninspiring. Why the false equivalence?

"The top reasons voters gave for not supporting Harris were that inflation was too high (+24), too many immigrants crossed the border (+23), and that Harris was too focused on cultural issues rather than helping the middle class (+17). "

Well the utter fuckwits who voted Trump got the inflation an middle-class help they voted for. I hope they are enjoying it, because everyone else got it too and someone ought to like it.

Oh yeah other reaons: debt rose too much. So they voted for the party with a much much worse track record on debt and Trump delivered on that too.

And as for cultural issues? What cultural issues? This was largely a Republican thing that was completely made up. And no, the most insane person you can find on twitter is not actually a Democrat policy position.

Like what? A tactical swat team?

Yes I know you're a moron you don't have to shout. In your tiny minded world the choices are only "police" and "more police". You seem unable to grasp concept that the police aren't experts at everything. Maybe the tactical swat team can blast the fire out of your house if it starts to burn down too. Wouldn't want civic money to be diverted from the police to the fire department. That's dangerous liberal stupidthink that is.

Good question, why DO you guys do that?

Really? No u is the best you can manage? No wonder you're not smart enough to advocate for better spending of tax money.

you might be right. As they say though if you are explaining your are losing.

I hope you are right about Rubio and he can go on to have a political career. I don't know about Vance.

The problem Rubio has is that he is Sec State, that nominally is one of the most influential positions in any administration (possibly not this one -\_0_/- ). Just like in 16 HRC was not able to run away from Obama'a foreign policy failings I am uncertain Rubio will be able to say "wasn't me" when it comes to Iran / Ukraine strategy and make the swing voters believe it.

Gotta love the presumption of ***ism

Ah yes I forgot that in right wing nutjob land one isn't allowed to use powers of observation, and find out facts that way. Tell me: how is life in special snowflake fantasy land where you're too delicate for the truth?

the simple fact she was incompetent

So like Trump, but less bad. Like I said for literally every complaint from the RWNJs about Harris, Trump was worse.

sounded like a bumbling idiot

So not as bad as Trump who sounds completely demented and rambles incoherently completely off topic when he's not just sort of grunting weird sounds because he lost the plot entirely.

Biden's excuse of advanced age

Ah yes, the RWNJs thought age was the most important thing until Trump was the senile demented octogenarian at which point it didn't matter.

Well this settles it

It does. You're clearly either lying or self-deluded about your motivations for voting because you prefer someone who is obviously worse in the areas you care about.

I think you misunderstood my comment.

My assertion is the GOP ( and by extension primary voters) have made poor choices in Paxton, Ramaswamy, and really in the last presidential primary Donald Trump. Politically Trumps broad policy positions are not wildly out of alignment with a majority of the American public....but some like Rubio (whom you seem to favor) could easily have won the '24 election too all things being equal. I would argue he would have likely over performed Trump, in the general election.

I am not in Texas I don't known all the details but I am fairly certain a lot that 12 point spread isn't people who really strongly support Talarico so much as it is people who think Paxton is a crook; and don't want him further hurting the country or the party. Had the Texas GOP thrown it weight behind someone The Bush family would not have such an easy time kneecapping even if they equally disliked him Texas might still have two GOP senators in the next session.

I got no problem with Rubio if he is the next GOP nominee. However... even though I think he'd be a fine president for a lot of people his association with the Trump administration is now a taint. If I got to sit in the cigar smoke filled back room and play king maker, I'd favor running a governor or recent governor with both real conservative bonifieds, and decent approval rates in their final term of office. Sara Sanders (her past association with Trump admin is sufficiently distant and nobody can hang policy positions around the press secretary), Ron DeSantis, perhap Glen Younkin...

All better choices than Vance now; and safer alternatives to Rubio.. who even if he succeeds in distancing himself on Iran policy etc; will be seen as having been spineless or at least painted that way by the opposition.

Kamalan Harris and AOC were themselves chanting defund the police

That's because unlike the right, the left apparently also has good fiscal sense.

Why waste money paying the police to inefficiently (and badly) do things they are bad at, when you can instead spend that money on people equipped and trained to do a better job more efficiently.

Oh yeah because that means the police hurt the right kind of people and spite is more important than fiscal prudence to the right. This is why the left is always better for the economy than the right.

So why wouldn't you just say "reform the police"?

Because the point is to take money that's inefficiently spent on making the police too generalist and spend it on more efficient specialist organisations for dealing with things the police are not good at dealing with,

It's an obvious way to save money, being more efficient. Why the fuck do right wingers absolutely despise fiscal responsibility so much? That's what I don't understand.

I think you RWNJs should make up your minds here. Are we all forcing people to use cars or trains?

Or is it buses or walking or biking in the rain? I'd like to get on with enforcing my leftist agenda but I'm not even clear what it's even meant to be anymore.

So yet again, you've chosen an allegation the Republicans are guilty of

This as far as I can tell i actually the core tenet of conservatism: scream about how the other guys are doing something you're doing. It's not a new one: Thatcher made her famous quip about "other people's money" while being busy spending other people's money on propping up failed policies, 40 years ago. We are still in a deep hole with that.

What the fuck are you talking about?

People like him don't have reason they have rationalizations. Being too old was SUPER IMPORTANT when Biden was 2 years older than Trump, but vanished in importance for Harris, for example.

She was a black woman she never stood a chance no matter what. None of the Republican complaints about her held up at the time never mind hindsight.

Quite a lot of people are exist, quite a lot of racist and quite a lot were hurting a bit and wanted someone who'd hurt someone else publicly. No campaign form Harris could ever do anything about that.

I mean this isn't to say yes, good grief Biden should have stepped down, the Dems should have kicked him out from the race a year before and had a proper primary. But nonetheless, people voted for Trump knowing exactly what he was like. Nothing excuses that.