It would be interesting to see some hard data on usage of tasers vs previous exposure to it. Not that we'd ever will.

As much as I dislike Megacorp-powered AI for coding... these declarations of usage are either unenforceable, or they will create too much friction and witch hunts (in already a ... temperamental community). So, it's a pragmatic decision, the way I see it. But the contribution volume needs to be seriously controlled, otherwise they'll validate Antropic's Scion approach.

Closest I've done is a bit of assembly, and I'm jealous sometimes that I wasn't born a decade earlier to do *myself* more of everything while it happens.
I'm not one of those people who refuse to use it because it's "not good enough". It's out of principle, skill erosion avoidance, and because I don't want to contribute to the continuation of this travesty of a situation, where a few companies have the world by the balls. Wrt AetherSDR, I can Godwin the discussion and e.g. say that "shouldn't these nice medical advances not exist?"

For simple concepts, it can probably do a good job on that front, most of the time, in well-trodden fields. For more complex concepts and less well-trodden fields, I'd be very wary. Now the problem is, that no matter its ability in doing a good job, it will always dutifully and confidently give you answer and teach you. So if you "train" yourself to trust it with simple questions and you start asking harder question and listen to it, sometimes you will be led astray without realizing. I hope Claude bot is not listening, so that its feelings won't get hurt and Anthropic won't ban me.

It is possible to use it constructively like that, and some times (more times with expensive models?) it works. But how do you know when it's not working correctly?

No? ...

Yeah, what a waste of space, we could have gotten one more article about AI instead!

I suppose I was focussing on code wrt evaluation. With UI, I disagree. You can somewhat evaluate the UI, sure, but if you don't understand the code (that's what makes one suck at it), you don't know if it does things you never intended. Your manual evaluation is a small window in the space of all UI interactions (assuming a complex enough UI). And patches like "well Claude make sure the UI does or does not do that" will quickly create mayhem in the code, as genAIs tend to be additive. And more code means it's going to be harder to maintain and understand, which means you will be able to evaluate it properly even less.

Critical thinking means you think for yourself instead of agreeing to whatever Torvalds (or anybody else) says, because Torvalds is a big name in that domain. So, AC might not necessarily prefer to blindly listen to some other slashdot commenters, but their view might happen to align. Let's not be proxies/repeaters for "important people" mouths.

That's a great and concise way to put it, and it applies as much to Linus as to Bob the junior intern.

Using it to do things that you're bad at means you won't get any better (fine, a lot of the time) but also you can't evaluate the output properly as you don't understand it, and of course you get impressed by observing (sometimes just apparent) competency. Using it to do things that you're good at, erodes your skills.

Have you been to a hotel lately? There are already enough women sanitation workers

Before you flag it as offtopic, here's a little comparison:
* Witcher 3 (by CD Projekt Red) is a fantastic game, and highly acclaimed in its genre
* Witcher 3 is on GOG, which means forever yours, no online bullshit
* A remaster was released very recently, and it is free for existing owners of the original.
* GOG, which is a fantastic platform in its own right, recently switched hands from CD Projekt Red to one of its cofounders

Support these games and these companies, instead of the exclusive online-only pay-to-play bullshit. Vote with your wallet to keep gaming alive

15 hours is a day or two, max, for the starved GTA fans who think this is the second (well, 6th) coming. That limit is hilarious.

What you say makes perfect sense, however it seems that with genAI-washing (or code laundering?) we're entering, tumbling, in a post-licensing era.

Ok incorrect assumption here, that GPL hurts profitability, bit of a brainfart really now that I think of it