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Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 120

Except it doesn't produce complex code if you tell it not to and review to ensure understanding. And no I'm not "special". I'm just capable of using the tool in a way that mitigates against its excesses and still makes it useful for some but not all tasks I would otherwise have to do by hand.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 120

The problem with AI generated code, whether it is Claude or not, is a person vibe coding it. If they're ignorant of coding and just prompting AI until it does what they want then the code underneath is 100% guaranteed to be unreadable garbage and probably very brittle, unpredictable, insecure and unmaintainable outside of what it appears to do.

Conversely if it is driven by somebody technically proficient where code is generated, reviewed and adequately tested to specific requirements and standards, then the result is likely as good as handwritten code, better in some ways worse than others. As a developer myself, my assumption is that AI gets dumber the further away it gets from good training data. So if I ask an AI to generate unit tests, or generate code against some popular language or framework then it works fantastically well. It also works better with good context - existing code, rules & guidelines. But if I ask it to generate something for which there is scant information then it will definitely generate garbage and need a lot of hand holding.

Comment Re:Is it actually fun for a single player? (Score 1) 27

Ive not yet played NMS, but exploration games are a thing that attracts a certain demographic.

For example, I hate the mission aspect of games like Fallout, GTA etc, but love just exploring the worlds - seeing what is over the next horizon etc. I havent played a multiplayer computer game in more than 15 years at this point,

Comment Grifter says a thing (Score 2) 165

Altman is hardly likely to come proclaim AI is a shell game with enormous potential to ruin lives. Because he's got his bank account and personal enrichment to worry about. The grift will perpetuated by his ilk until the bubble collapses or they and their company becomes criminally and financially liable for the consequences.

Comment Why does it have to be Flock or nothing (Score 2) 90

Assuming Flock were the reason for the drop in crime (it isn't), then the job could still be performed by an ANPR / ALPR system run and operated by the state with a specific, well defined and legal purpose with oversight. It would certainly be better than allowing a private company to harvest that information and use it for god knows what nefarious purpose.

Comment Re:What's new here? (Score 1) 57

Who said it was "hard"? But it isn't fast and it is a pain in the ass if you just want to run a container having to do it through some desktop shim image (Rancher and Podman use backends images just like Docker) or an Ubuntu image. If wslc makes it easy to invoke straight from a prompt it will save time, memory and effort. I expect a compose function will show up in due course too. I would also not be surprised if some of these Desktop applications support wslc directly instead of through shim images.

Comment Re:What's new here? (Score 1) 57

Docker on windows is usually done one of two ways - Docker for Desktop (a commercial product) which is basically using WSL2 as a backend and its own custom distro, or you install Ubuntu and install docker inside of it. Neither is particularly convenient if you just want to a container off the cuff for some reason and I assume Microsoft want to make it more easier, faster and more convenient for those use cases.

Comment Re:"could" (Score 1) 160

I don't have an objection to GMO per se, but I do to bullshit PR pieces that start off with an exaggerated benefit and then overlook the obvious issues that meaning that benefit will never happen. Aside from the GMO angle, if the contention is that food waste and emissions are a thing, then it would be far more effective to crack down on the way supermarkets sell stuff in quantities that people don't need, e.g. packaging & pricing certain kinds of fruit and veg including bananas in quantities that guarantee food waste.

Comment "could" (Score 3, Interesting) 160

I love press releases which are total bollocks. Such as announcing a genetically modified banana and hypothesizing the carbon savings if the entire world switched over to this banana when that is something that never happen. In fact I wonder how many plantations would be willing to switch over if they and consumers have to bear the cost of this presumably patented and controlled plant. And it's not like with some GMO products which can be produced for domestic consumption where approval is one regulatory hurdle - bananas are grown predominantly for export from tropical countries so there are multiple hurdles. And it's interesting they claim "British shoppers" will enjoy these bananas - since we all know how welcoming the UK and the EU are to genetically modified products.

Comment AI & PMCs s make handy scapegoats (Score 1) 286

As far as regimes opposed to the US are concerned, maybe they'll start poisoning AI and open source data with deliberately false and misleading information because the intelligence are too stupid to do some due diligence. Maybe that's what happened here, or the AI just hallucinated something. I doubt it would be hard to drop some poisoned information in the wild and have missiles hit targets with nothing of strategic value in them.

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